Avner Kantor

About me


I study how information environments shape who takes part in online public discourse, how they engage, and when coordination happens.

I am a statistician in the Methodology Department at the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. I hold a PhD in Information and Knowledge Management from the University of Haifa, supervised by Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli.

My current work treats information design as a coordination device. How evidence is presented in a news article changes who chooses to speak, what they say, and how the discussion network forms around them. I combine game-theoretic modeling with causal identification and large-scale computational analysis of online news commenting.

More on my work in publications. For inquiries or collaborations, feel free to get in touch.