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