Amber Young

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Associate Professor

University of Arkansas

Also affiliated: University of North Texas (2024); University of Auckland (2020); University of Cape Town (2020); Amherst College (2017); University of Massachusetts Amherst (2016–2018); University of Hawaii–West Oahu (2020); Walton Hospital (2023); University of Southampton (2020); University of Oklahoma (2012–2014)

11 h-index 53 pubs 731 cited

Research Areas

Links

ORCID Lab Website

OverviewAI-generated summary

Amber Young's research investigates the intersection of digital technologies and social impact, focusing on how these tools influence collective action, social movements, and marginalized groups. Her work explores the emancipatory potential of digital platforms while also critically examining their role in perpetuating hegemonic structures, particularly within online communities and the context of machine learning applications. She has published on topics such as the societal effects of media digitization, the design of emancipatory AI assistants, and the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for cultural identity restoration. Her scholarship also addresses issues of gender bias in co-creation communities and the organization of workers using digital tools for improved workplace conditions. Young has a publication record of 53 works, with 731 citations and an h-index of 11. She has collaborated with several researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Tamara Roth, Alexander Rieger, Ariel D. Wigdor, and Zachary R. Steelman.

Metrics

h-index: 11
Publications: 53
Citations: 731

Positions

Associate Professor 2023–present

University of Arkansas Department of Information Systems ORCID
Assistant Professor 2018–present

University of Arkansas Fayetteville Information Systems ORCID
Assistant Professor 2015–2018

University of Massachusetts Amherst Isenberg School of Management Operations and Information Management ORCID

Selected Publications

AI Oversight: Promoting Fairness in Microlending and Improving Outcomes for Rural Loan Seekers (2025)

Academy of Management Proceedings DOI OpenAlex
Digital Identity Wallets: A Guide to the EU’ s New Identity Model (2025)

Information Systems Journal 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Decoloniality and Information Systems: Making Local Contexts Relevant to IS Research (2024)

Information Systems Journal 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
Ethical design through grounding and evaluation: The EDGE method for designing information systems for social impact (2024)

Journal of Information Technology 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Jürgen Habermas revisited via Tim Cook's Wikipedia biography: A hermeneutic approach to critical Information Systems research (2024)

Journal of Responsible Technology DOI OpenAlex
Organizational Identity Management Policies (2024)

Journal of the Association for Information Systems 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
Introduction to the Minitrack on Social Good and Ill: Implications for Research, Practice, and Policy (2023)

Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences/Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences DOI OpenAlex
How is Affect Social Justice Tensions: A Case Study of Asylum Management (2023)

Lecture notes in business information processing DOI OpenAlex
Mechanical Turk Versus Student Samples: Comparisons and Recommendations (2023)

AIS Transactions on Replication Research 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Time, Technology, and Teams: From GSS to Collective Action (2021)

3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Organizing workers and machine learning tools for a less oppressive workplace (2021)

International Journal of Information Management 31 citations DOI OpenAlex
Avoiding an Oppressive Future of Machine Learning: A Design Theory for Emancipatory assistants (2021)

MIS Quarterly 135 citations DOI OpenAlex
Emancipation Research in Information Systems: Integrating Agency, Dialogue, Inclusion, and Rationality Research (2021)

Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences/Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 19 citations DOI OpenAlex
“Ideal Speech” on Wikipedia: Balancing Social Marginalization Risks and Social Inclusion Benefits for Individuals and Groups (2021)

Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences/Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Demarginalizing Interdisciplinarity in IS Research: Interdisciplinary Research in Marginalization (2020)

Journal of the Association for Information Systems OpenAlex