Ahmed Elmezeny was a staff member at the Media Reality Division from 2016 to 2020. Since August 2020, he has been working as a post-doc at LMU Munich.

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Die Forschungsinteressen liegen in den Bereichen Spielkultur, Digitalkultur, Qualitative?Methoden, Mediensoziologie und?Online Kommunikation.

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Ahmed ist Mitglied der:

• European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
• (YECREA Representative of the Digital Games Research Group)
• Digital Games Research Association (DIGRA)?
• International Sociological Association (ISA)

Rothenberger, L., Elmezeny, A. & Wimmer, J. (2019). “Mediating Media Usage in Times of Migration: Family Rules and Media Repertoires of Arab Refugee Children and Teens in Germany”. MedienP?dagogik: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung.?35, 55-73.? Link.?

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Rothenberger, L., Elmezeny, A. & Wimmer, J. (2019). “Youtube Helps Us A lot” Media repertoires and social integration of Iraqi and Syrian refugees in Germany. Revue Fran?aise des Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication. 13. doi: 10.4000/rfsic.6857

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Elmezeny, A., Wimmer, J., Tribusean, I., dos Santos, M., Orlova, E., Antonova, A. (2018). Same but Different: A comparative content analysis of trolling in Russian and Brazilian gaming communities. Game Studies. 18(2).? Link

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Elmezeny, A., Wimmer, J. (2018). Games without frontiers: A framework for analyzing digital game cultures comparatively.?Media and Communication.?6(2),?S. 80-89.?? Link?

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Elmezeny, A., Edenhofer, N., Wimmer, J. (2018). Immersive Storytelling in 360 Degree-Videos: An analysis of interplay between narrative and technical immersion.?Journal of Virtual Worlds Research.?11(1).? Link

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Elmezeny, A., & Wimmer, J. (2016). Authentic Portrayals of Game Culture? A Content Analysis of the Crowd-funded ?YouTube?Documentary The Smash Brothers.?Well Played, (5)2,?63-84. Link

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Rothenberger, L., Müller, K., & Elmezeny, A. (2016, June 21). The discursive construction of terrorist group identity. Terrorism and Political Violence. Link

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Elmezeny, A., & Wimmer, J. (2015). How gaming achieves popularity: The Case of The Super Smash Brothers.?Digital Games Research Association,?12. Link

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Elmezeny, A. (2019) Defining and Differentiating Free-to-Play Game Culture. The 12th Digital Games Research Association Conference, Kyoto, 2019.

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Regnath, F. & Elmezeny, A. (2019). Me, myself and others: Connecting player identification to gaming social capital.?The 12th Digital Games Research Association Conference, Kyoto, 2019.

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Rothenberger, L., Wimmer, J., & Elmezeny, A. (2019). Integration via Smartphone? Medienrepertoires und Medienkompetenz in geflüchteten arabischsprechenden Familien. Vortrag auf der DGPuK-Jahrestagung, Münster, 10.05.2019.?

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Rothenberger, L., Elmezeny, A. & Wimmer, J. (2018). Mobile Media Usage in Times of Migration: The Media Repertoires of Arab Refugee Children and Teens in Germany. Vortrag auf der ECREA-Preconference ?Children and Adolescents in a Mobile Media World”, Lugano, Schweiz, 31.10.2018.

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Elmezeny, A. & Wimmer, J. (2018) You are what you use: How the media repertoires of German teens reflect their participation and interests. ECREA Conference, Lugano, Switzerland.02.11.2018.

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Elmezeny, A., Rothenberger, L. & Wimmer, J. (2018). Medienrepertoires in geflüchteten arabischsprechenden Familien. Vortrag beim ?Runden Tisch Flüchtlinge“ der Stadt Erlangen, Erlangen, 24.10.2018.?

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Elmezeny, A., Edenhofer, N., Wimmer, J. (2018). Two Birds With One Stone: An Explorative Analysis of the Interplay Between Narrative and Technical Immersion in 360-degree Videos. International Communication Association Annual Conference, Prague, 2018.?

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Elmezeny, A. (2017). Money Makes The World Go Round: A Look at Unique Free-to-Play Cultural Characteristics, Clash of Realities, Cologne, 2017. CGN.?

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Elmezeny, A. (2016): The cost of a second life: An Ethnographic Look at Free-to-Play Gaming. European Communication Research and Education Association PhD Pre-conference, Prague, 2016.?

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Elmezeny, A. & Wimmer, J. (2016): An international look on game cultures. Abstract at the 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology, Vienna, 2016.?

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seit 11/2016?Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Fachgebiet Medienrealit?t, Institut für Medien, Wissen und Kommunikation (imwk), Universit?t Augsburg

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09/2015 – 10/2016?Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Fachgebiet Public Relations & Technikkommunikation, Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (ifmk), TU Ilmenau

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11/2014 -?03/2015?Praktikum bei GoodGame Studios, Hamburg

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04/2013?-?11/2014?Magister Artium (M. A.) mit einer Magisterarbeit zum Thema: ?Mass Media and Social Media?Representations of Game Culture“

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04/2011?- 03/2013?Communication and Advocay Officer, Save the Children International, Kairo

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05/2010 - 04/2011?Redakteur, Media Republic, Kairo?

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10/2009 -?04/2010?Texter, Fortune Promoseven, Kairo?

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04/2005 - 07/2009?Studium Journalismus und Massenkommunikation an der American University in Kairo

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