Teaching
I teach in both Digital Humanities (DH) master’s program and Library and Information Science (LIS), campus and distance based, bachelor programs at LNU. I teach, examine, and supervise students in the following courses:
- Scientific Theories and Methods
- Linked Open Data
- Ethics, politics and policies in the digital humanities
- Information, Technology, & Practices.
- Knowledge Organization and the Semantic Web
- Media and Information Literacy
- Information Seeking
- Information ethics
- Independent Bachelor Thesis/degree Project.
Research
My research specifically focuses on the role and impact of social networking sites (SNSs) as information sources in people’s everyday life, and the emerging online information practice and cultures within these sites. Myresearch is interdisciplinary, and it draws on Information Science, Communication, Informatics, and Social Computing Scholarship to shed light into a complex sociotechnical phenomenon that raises critical information and communication concerns in our contemporary society.
I have published research on various aspects related to people’s engagement in increasingly complex everyday life information practices through SNSs, concerning affordances and collaborative information seeking and sharing activities, information credibility and trust, information disclosure risks and privacy management, emergence and evolvement of new information moderation practices.
I have my research published in renowned peer-reviewed international journals such as ACM Human-Computer Interaction Journal (PACM HCI –CSCW); Journal of Documentation; Information Research Journal; and Journal of Librarianship, and Information Science.
I have completed my PhD in information science at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science at the Univeristy of Borås in 2024.
Before my PhD, I obtained a Master of Informatics and Business Development from the Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics, Linnaeus University, and a Bachelor of Information Systems from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Najah National University.
A list of recent research publications:
- Mansour A. (2024). Everyday Life Information Practice : Affordances and Strategies within a Facebook Group (PhD thesis, Högskolan i Borås). https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-31276
- Mansour A. & Francke, H. (2021). Collective Privacy Management Practices: A study of privacy strategies and risks in a private Facebook group. In PACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 5, CSCW2, Article 360, October 2021. ACM, NY, USA. 28 pages, https://doi.org/10.1145/3479504.
- Mansour, A. (2020). Shared information practices on Facebook: The formation and development of a sustainable online community. Journal of Documentation, 76(3), pp. 625-646. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-10-2018-0160
- Mansour, A. (2020). Affordances supporting mothers’ engagement in information-related activities through Facebook groups. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000620938106
- Mansour, A. & Francke, H. (2017). Credibility assessments of everyday life information on Facebook: a sociocultural investigation of a group of mothers. Information Research, 22(2), paper 750. http://www.informationr.net/ir/22-2/paper750.html
