Amber Young
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Assistant Professor
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)
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Biography and Research Information
OverviewAI-generated summary
Amber Young's research focuses on critical perspectives within Information Systems (IS), particularly exploring themes of emancipation, decoloniality, and organizational identity. Her work investigates how technology, specifically machine learning, can be organized to create less oppressive workplaces, emphasizing agency, dialogue, and inclusion. Young has published on integrating emancipatory research into IS and on decolonial approaches to make local contexts relevant to IS research. She also examines organizational identity management policies and the dynamics of time and technology in collective action. Her scholarship is supported by 54 publications, with an h-index of 11 and over 700 citations. She collaborates with other researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Tamara Roth and Alexander Rieger.
Metrics
- h-index: 11
- Publications: 54
- Citations: 721
Selected Publications
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AI Oversight: Promoting Fairness in Microlending and Improving Outcomes for Rural Loan Seekers (2025)
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Digital Identity Wallets: A Guide to the <scp>EU’</scp> s New Identity Model (2025)
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Decoloniality and Information Systems: Making Local Contexts Relevant to IS Research (2024)
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Ethical design through grounding and evaluation: The EDGE method for designing information systems for social impact (2024)
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Jürgen Habermas revisited via Tim Cook's Wikipedia biography: A hermeneutic approach to critical Information Systems research (2024)
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Organizational Identity Management Policies (2024)
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Introduction to the Minitrack on Social Good and Ill: Implications for Research, Practice, and Policy (2023)
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How is Affect Social Justice Tensions: A Case Study of Asylum Management (2023)
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Mechanical Turk Versus Student Samples: Comparisons and Recommendations (2023)
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Time, Technology, and Teams: From GSS to Collective Action (2021)
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Organizing workers and machine learning tools for a less oppressive workplace (2021)
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Avoiding an Oppressive Future of Machine Learning: A Design Theory for Emancipatory assistants (2021)
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Emancipation Research in Information Systems: Integrating Agency, Dialogue, Inclusion, and Rationality Research (2021)
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“Ideal Speech” on Wikipedia: Balancing Social Marginalization Risks and Social Inclusion Benefits for Individuals and Groups (2021)
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The Gender Bias Tug-of-War in a Co-creation Community: Core-Periphery Tension on Wikipedia (2020)
Collaboration Network
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- Organizational Identity Management Policies
- Ethical design through grounding and evaluation: The EDGE method for designing information systems for social impact
- Digital Identity Wallets: A Guide to the <scp>EU’</scp> s New Identity Model
- How is Affect Social Justice Tensions: A Case Study of Asylum Management
- Organizational Identity Management Policies
- Digital Identity Wallets: A Guide to the <scp>EU’</scp> s New Identity Model
- How is Affect Social Justice Tensions: A Case Study of Asylum Management
- Organizational Identity Management Policies
- Digital Identity Wallets: A Guide to the <scp>EU’</scp> s New Identity Model
- How is Affect Social Justice Tensions: A Case Study of Asylum Management
- “Ideal Speech” on Wikipedia: Balancing Social Marginalization Risks and Social Inclusion Benefits for Individuals and Groups
- Jürgen Habermas revisited via Tim Cook's Wikipedia biography: A hermeneutic approach to critical Information Systems research
- Avoiding an Oppressive Future of Machine Learning: A Design Theory for Emancipatory assistants
- Organizing workers and machine learning tools for a less oppressive workplace
- Avoiding an Oppressive Future of Machine Learning: A Design Theory for Emancipatory assistants
- Organizing workers and machine learning tools for a less oppressive workplace
- Organizational Identity Management Policies
- Digital Identity Wallets: A Guide to the <scp>EU’</scp> s New Identity Model
- Emancipation Research in Information Systems: Integrating Agency, Dialogue, Inclusion, and Rationality Research
- Emancipation Research in Information Systems: Integrating Agency, Dialogue, Inclusion, and Rationality Research
- Avoiding an Oppressive Future of Machine Learning: A Design Theory for Emancipatory assistants
- Mechanical Turk Versus Student Samples: Comparisons and Recommendations
- Mechanical Turk Versus Student Samples: Comparisons and Recommendations
- Time, Technology, and Teams: From GSS to Collective Action
- Time, Technology, and Teams: From GSS to Collective Action
- Time, Technology, and Teams: From GSS to Collective Action