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Dr. Mohammedwesam Amer is a associated researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut<\/span> since November 2023.<\/p>\n

Since summer 2024 he is a visiting researcher and Cara\/SRF fellow at Cambridge.<\/p>\n

Wesam Amer is the Dean of the Faculty of Communication and Languages at the University of Gaza in Palestine since 2020. During the 2022 academic year, he was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Researcher at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Prior to that, he was a Marie Curie Fellow and postdoctoral researcher at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom from 2017 to 2020.<\/p>\n

Wesam Amer completed his PhD at Universit\u00e4t Hamburg in Germany between 2011 and 2015.<\/p>\n

His teaching and research experience is in the field of mainstream and social media communication, linguistics and (critical) discourse studies.<\/p>\n

In his research projects and lectures, he deals with questions of culture, social media, religions and geopolitics in their interrelation and hyper\/interconnectivity to the Middle East region. This is done through the study of social media platforms and online media productions.<\/p>\n

Examples of his research studies include:<\/p>\n

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  1. The social media practices of the Islamic State in mobilizing young people online,<\/li>\n
  2. the self-portrayal of radicals on the internet,<\/li>\n
  3. the portrayal of social actors in the international news press and<\/li>\n
  4. the communication strategies of Hamas in the social media.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":938,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","hbi-employee","type-hbi-employee","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWesam Amer - Leibniz Institut f\u00fcr Medienforschung | Leibniz Institute for Media Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wesam Amer ist guest researcher at the HBI.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/employee\/wesam-amer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wesam Amer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wesam Amer ist guest researcher at the HBI.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/employee\/wesam-amer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Leibniz Institut f\u00fcr Medienforschung | Leibniz Institute for Media Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-03-16T15:47:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Wesam-Amer-Header.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1380\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leibniz-hbi.de\\\/en\\\/employee\\\/wesam-amer\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leibniz-hbi.de\\\/en\\\/employee\\\/wesam-amer\\\/\",\"name\":\"Wesam Amer - 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