Amber Young Source Confirmed

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Researcher

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

faculty

11 h-index 57 pubs 680 cited

Research Areas

Emancipatory Design Theory Information Systems Research Organizational Identity Management Ethical Design Decoloniality in Information Systems Social Impact Technology Machine Learning Ethics Critical Information Systems

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OverviewAI-generated summary

Amber Young's research investigates the intersection of information systems, organizational identity, and emancipatory design theories. Her work focuses on developing information systems that promote social impact and reduce oppressive structures within workplaces. This includes research into decolonial approaches to information systems, aiming to make local contexts more relevant to research and practice. Young has also explored ethical design methods, such as the EDGE method, for creating systems with social impact goals.

Her publications address topics like designing emancipatory assistants for machine learning, organizing workers and technology for improved workplaces, and integrating agency, dialogue, inclusion, and rationality into information systems research. She also examines Wikipedia's balance between social marginalization risks and inclusion benefits, and organizational identity management policies. Young's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 11 and 680 total citations across 57 publications. She collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Tamara Roth and Alexander Rieger.

Metrics

  • h-index: 11
  • Publications: 57
  • Citations: 680

Selected Publications

  • AI Oversight: Promoting Fairness in Microlending and Improving Outcomes for Rural Loan Seekers (2025) DOI
  • Digital Identity Wallets: A Guide to the <scp>EU’</scp>s New Identity Model (2025) DOI
  • Decoloniality and Information Systems: Making Local Contexts Relevant to IS Research (2024) DOI
  • Ethical design through grounding and evaluation: The EDGE method for designing information systems for social impact (2024) DOI
  • Jürgen Habermas revisited via Tim Cook's Wikipedia biography: A hermeneutic approach to critical Information Systems research (2024) DOI
  • Organizational Identity Management Policies (2024) DOI
  • Introduction to the Minitrack on Social Good and Ill: Implications for Research, Practice, and Policy (2023) DOI
  • How is Affect Social Justice Tensions: A Case Study of Asylum Management (2023) DOI
  • Mechanical Turk Versus Student Samples: Comparisons and Recommendations (2023) DOI
  • Time, Technology, and Teams: From GSS to Collective Action (2021) DOI
  • Organizing workers and machine learning tools for a less oppressive workplace (2021) DOI
  • Emancipation Research in Information Systems: Integrating Agency, Dialogue, Inclusion, and Rationality Research (2021) DOI
  • “Ideal Speech” on Wikipedia: Balancing Social Marginalization Risks and Social Inclusion Benefits for Individuals and Groups (2021) DOI

Collaborators

Researchers in the database who share publications

Tamara Roth University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 4 shared publications Alexander Rieger University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 3 shared publications Ariel D. Wigdor University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 2 shared publications Zachary R. Steelman University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1 shared publication Shaila M. Miranda University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1 shared publication Syed Shuva University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 1 shared publication