Hassan Zamir

Associate Professor
College of Business, Information Studies, and Technology
School of Information Studies

Director of Informatics
College of Business, Information Studies, and Technology
School of Information Studies

Dr. Hassan Zamir is an Associate Professor and Director of Informatics at Dominican University's School of Information Studies. He holds a PhD in Information Science from the University of South Carolina. His research examines social media, misinformation, and AI, including TikTok's algorithms, alongside grant-funded work on generative AI in education and AI literacy training for K-12 schools. He teaches data science, cybersecurity, and information technology.

Education
PhD, Information Science, University of South Carolina, 2017
MA, Library and Information Science, University of Dhaka (Bangladesh), 2008
Selected Publications

Thompson, K. A., & Zamir, H. (2023). Not just for viral dance trends: Exploring Gen Z's motivations and methods for enacting social change using TikTok. In Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference: ALISE 2023. Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2023.1271.

Zamir, H. (2020). Cybersecurity and Social Media in Hsia-Ching Chang & Suliman Hawamdeh (Eds.), Cybersecurity for Information Professionals (pp. 153 – 171). Taylor & Francis Group. Retrieved from https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9781003042235-8/cybersecurity-social-media-hassan-zamir?context=ubx&refId=dbf126ea-248e-48bd-906c-56b14c137e68.

Liu, J., Zamir, H., Li, Y., & Hastings, S. (2018). Search Systems and Their Features: What College Students Use to Find and Save Information. Library and Information Science Research, 40(2), 118-124. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0740818817303055. 

Liu, J., Tu-Keefner, F., Zamir, H., & Hastings, S. (2017). Social Media as a Tool Connecting with Library Users in Disasters: A Case Study of the 2015 Catastrophic Flooding in South Carolina. Science & Technology Libraries, 36(3), 274-287. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0194262X.2017.1358128.

Zamir, M. H. (2014). Diffusion of protest information in Twitter during Shahbag movement of Bangladesh. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 51(1), 1-4. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/meet.2014.14505101131.

Awards and Grants
Metadata Research Center, Drexel University, Data Science Fellow, 2022. https://mrc.cci.drexel.edu/leading/fellows/2022-fellows/
ASIST, New Leader Award, 2015
The Department of Education, Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program with Weedermann, Marion (PI), 2022

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