Ameera Mansour

Senior lecturer
Department of Cultural Sciences Faculty of Arts and Humanities
amira.mansour@lnu.se
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I am a senior lecturer at the Department of Cultural Sciences at Linnaeus University. I hold a PhD degree (2024) in Library and Information Science from the Swedish School of Library and Information Science at the University of Borås.

Before my PhD, I obtained a Masters degree in Information Systems from the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Linnaeus University (2011), and a Bachelor degree in Information Systems from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Najah National University, Palestine (2003).

Teaching

I am actively involved in the campus and distance based bachelor and master programs in Library and Information Science (LIS), and occasionally teach in the Digital Humanities (DH) master's program.

In the LIS programs, I have been involved in the following courses:

  • Thesis/degree project course.
  • Scientific Theories and Methods.
  • Information, Technology, & Practices.
  • Information Seeking.
  • Media and Information Literacy.
  • Libraries in a digital world
  • Knowledge Organization and Classifications.
  • Knowledge organization in networked environments.
  • Documents in theory and practice.
  • Information and professional ethics.

In the master LIS and DH programs, I have been involved in the following courses:

  • Media and Information Literacy.
  • Linked data and information architecture
  • Ethics, politics and policies in the digital humanities

Research

My research primarliy focuses on analysing and understanding the role and transformative impact of new information technologies on people’s everyday life information practices.

In my PhD research project I examined the evolving collective everyday life information practices on social networking sites, such as Facebook groups, and the affordances of these continuously evolving technologies in enabling and constraining people's engagement with information and other people. The thesis highlights both the opportunities and risks presented by social networking sites and the strategic ways people navigate them as complex social and technical information environments.

In my research I am broadly interested in the following questions:

  1. What opportunities and risks do new information technologies offer for engagement in information related activities, and how?
  2. How do the affordances of these new information technologies facilitate or constrain peoples' opportunities to engage in information activities in their everyday life?
  3. How do people navigate the opportunities and risks of engaging in information-related activities using these tools?

My research is interdiciplinary where I employ sociocultural and sociotechnical lenses and draw on theories and concepts from Information Science, Media and Communication Studies, Informatics, and Social Computing Scholarship to explore social networking sites as complex sociotechnical phenomena that raise critical information and communication concerns in contemporary society.

I have published research on various aspects of people’s engagement in everyday life information practices via social networking sites, including social media affordances, collaborative information seeking and sharing activities online, information credibility and trust, information disclosure and privacy risks, and the emergence and evolution of new information, administrative, & moderation information practices.

My work has been 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.

My current research interests include propaganda, disinformation, information censorship, credibility, trust, privacy, and security.

Publications

Article in journal (Refereed)

Conference paper (Other academic)

Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)