Ameera Mansour

Universitetslektor
Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper Fakulteten för konst och humaniora
amira.mansour@lnu.se
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Ameera is a senior lecturer at the Department of Cultural Sciences at Linnaeus University. She holds a PhD degree in Library and Information Science from the Swedish School of Library and Information Science at the University of Borås.

Before her PhD, Ameera obtained Masters in Information Systems from the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Linnaeus University, and a Bachelor of Information Systems from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Najah National University, Palestine.

Undervisning

Ameera is actively involved in the campus and distance based bachelor programs in Library and Information Science (LIS), as well as in the Digital Humanities (DH) master's program.

In the LIS programs, she is actively 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: MIK, Social Media, & AI.
  • Knowledge Organization and Classifications.
  • Knowledge organization in networked environments.
  • Documents in theory and practice.
  • Information and professional ethics.

In the DH program, she is involved in the following courses:

  • Linked data and information architecture
  • Ethics, politics and policies in the digital humanities

Forskning

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

Her PhD research project 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.

Her research highlights both the opportunities and risks presented by social networking sites as new information sources as well as the strategic ways people navigate them as complex sociotechnical information environments. In her research she seeks to answer the following research 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?

Her research is interdciplinary where she employs sociocultural and sociotechnical lenses and draws 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.

She has 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.

Her 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.

Her current research interests include propaganda, disinformation, conspiracy theories, information credibility and trust, algorithmic bias and discrimination, information censorship, information ethics, privacy, and security.

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