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Osama Mansour

Osama Mansour is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer and Information Science with orientation on Information Systems at the School of Computer Science, Physics, and Mathematics at Linnaeus University (Lnu) in Sweden since November 2008. He holds a Masters degree in Information Systems from Lund University since 2008 as well as a Licentiate of Philosophy in Computer and Information Science from Lnu since 2011.

His Ph.D. research focuses on exploring the use of Social Media and Web 2.0 technologies in organizations. The research mainly focuses on the use of Wikis for open knowledge collaboration and sharing. It seeks to understand the interplay between openness of wikis and organizational structures by examining the evolution of social structures that might govern wiki collaboration. The research is based on case studies at two large multinational organizations which are Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) and IBM where Osama investigates the use of the wiki technology as a platform for collaboration and knowledge sharing amongst distributed employees across the globe.

He is affiliated with the Center for Learning and Knowledge Technologies (CeLeKT) where he participates in research seminars and other research activities to explore about the role of Social Media in different social and organizational contexts. He is also affiliated with the Swedish Research School of Management and Information Technology (MIT) where he attends regular MIT seminars and discusses his research with junior and senior researchers.

Key research interests: Social Media, Web 2.0, Openness (Open Collaboration; Open Knowledge Sharing) Wikis, Communities of Practice, Collaboration, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Sharing

Contact info

Email: osama.mansour(@)lnu.se
Mobile: +46 76 824 2984
Phone: +46 (0) 470 70 8089
Office: D2267
Google Map: http://bit.ly/officeaddress
Blog: http://mediasocial.posterous.com/

Website

http://www.celekt.info/profiles/index/33

Latest publications

Mansour, O. (2011). Share with Social Media - The Case of a Wiki, Licentiate Thesis, Linnaeus University Library.

Mansour, O. (2011). Wiki vs. Email - Understanding collaboration within virtual communities. Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on Collaborative Technologies, Rome, Italy, 22 - 24 July, 2011.

Mansour, O., Abusalah, M., Askenäs, L. (2011). Wiki collaboration in organizations: an exploratory study. Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2011), Helsinki, Finland, 9 - 12 June.

Mansour, O., Abusalah, M., Askenäs, L. (2011). Wiki-based Community Collaboration in Organizations. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T2011), Brisbane, Australia, 29 June - 2 July.

Mansour, O. (2009). Group Intelligence: a distributed cognition perspective. In Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS2009), IEEE Computer Society, Barcelona, Spain, 4 - 6 November, pp. 247 – 250.

Mansour, O. & Ghazawneh, A. (2009). Research in Information Systems: Implications of the constant changing nature of IT capabilities in the social computing era, in Molka-Danielsen, J. (Ed.): Proceedings of the 32nd Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia (IRIS32), Inclusive Design, Molde University College, Molde, Norway, August 9 - 12.

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Researchers

Aris Alissandrakis

Marianne Björn

Mattias Davidsson

Jorge de Sousa Pires

Andreas Kerren

Arianit Kurti

David Metcalf

Marcelo Milrad

Anita Mirijamdotter

Nuno Otero

Daniel Spikol

Simon Winter

Jane Yin-Kim Yau

PhD Students

Didac Gil de la Iglesia

Ilir Jusufi

Miranda Kajtazi

Dan Kohen-Vacs

Osama Mansour

Susanna Nordmark

Oskar Pettersson

Sadaf Salavati

Martin Svensson

Bahtijar Vogel

Jorge L. Zapico

Research Assistants

Robert Fohlin

David Johansson

Sandra Kaltofen

Katrin Lindwall

Lars Lorenz

Others

Claudio Alvarez

Richard Guilfoyle

Students

Beatrice Moltkau

Nico Reski

Former members

Lusia Erldorfer

Lisbeth Frølunde

Martin Hult

Martin Maczkowski

Magnus Persson

Flavio Ruvalcaba

Dennis Willuhn

Anna Wingkvist

Janosch Zbick

Per Flensburg

Astrid Wichmann

Andreas Jeansson

Fredrik Alserin

Jonas Gustafsson

Philipp Rossmanith

Marine Karlsson

Carina Hallqvist

Taha Taha

Gunnar Mosnik

Ola Andersson