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About Me

Sharon Haleva Amir, PhD - School of Communication PhD- Law Faculty, Haifa U;Research fellow, HCLT; Visiting Fellow, TILT. 

Research Areas

  • e- Politics; e-Democracy; Political Communication
  • Law & Technology; Law & Democracy
  • Society & Technology
  • Internet Studies Methodology
  • Qualitative Studies Methodology

My academic focus lies between new technologies and the public sphere in three different dimensions:

(1) the political - communicative dimension.

(2) the public democratic dimension. 

(3) the legal dimension; and within the interdisciplinary field of e-Politics, which studies the novelties of personal political use of new technologies.

Inter alia I study

  • Parliamentarians’ political online platforms usage for political marketing and as a means of communication;
  • electoral digital campaigns;
  • big data era’s impact on political campaigns
  • concept of elections as a democratic procedure in an age in which the concept of truth loses its essence
  • censorship practices and polarization of online political discourse
  • constituents’ management application and surveillance
  • SHABAC, state surveillance and the corona
  • Corona’s impact on public and academic libraries (online communications practices)
  • Health communication
  • Epistemological communities in health crisis situation 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, University of Haifa

Sep 2006Aug 2014

Award Date: 1 Aug 2014

Master's Degree, Bar-Ilan University

Oct 2002Nov 2005

Award Date: 1 Nov 2005

Bachelor, Tel Aviv University

Oct 1991Mar 1995

Award Date: 1 Mar 1995

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