Ameera Mansour

Ameera Mansour

Universitetslektor
Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper Fakulteten för konst och humaniora
amira.mansour@lnu.se
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Ameera is a lecturer at the Department of Cultural Sciences at Linnaeus University. She is also a PhD Candidate at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, and The Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society (LinCS) at the University of Borås and the University of Gothenburg. Ameera is also a visiting research fellow at the Media and Communication Department at Lund University.

Undervisning

Ameera teaches in both Digital Humanities (DH) master’s program and Library and Information Science (LIS), campus and distance based, bachelor programs at LNU. In the DH program, she currently teach in the following courses:

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

In the LIS program, she teaches and supervises students in several courses on these subjects:  

  • Scientific Theories and Methods
  • Information, Technology, & Practices.
  • Information seeking.
  • Media and Information Literacy.
  • Knowledge organization in networked environments.
  • Documents in theory and practice.
  • Information and professional ethics.
  • Independent Bachelor Thesis/degree project course.

Forskning

Currently, Ameera is completing her PhD in Information Science with a specialisation in Information studies of Social media and online cultures. Ameera’s research specifically focuses on Social Networking Sites’ (SNSs) role as information sources in people’s everyday life, and the emerging online information practice and cultures within these sites. Her research is interdisciplinary, and it draws on Information Science, Media and Communication Studies, Informatics, and Social Computing Scholarship to shed light into social media as a complex sociotechnical phenomenon that raises critical information and communication concerns in our contemporary society.

Ameera has 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, administrative, & moderation practices.

Ameera has her 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.

Before her PhD, Ameera obtained her Master of Informatics and Business Development from the Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics, Linnaeus University, and her Bachelor of Information Systems from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Najah National University.