Biography
Sarah Young is a postdoc in Digitalization and AI with the department of Media & Communication. Her current work explores the technical discourse and social impact of quantum communication networks.
Grounded in professional and technical communication as well as surveillance, she is a qualitative researcher also drawing from information studies, rhetoric and composition, risk communication, science and technology studies, human-computer interaction, and sustainability.
Previous research projects include a LEaDing Fellows postdoc (a Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND programme) looking at law enforcement's use of AI and technology, surveillance and technical communcation (pedagogy), organizational communication in government settings, digital superheroes and surveillance, background investigations and security clearances, and mugshots and digital vigilantism.
Most recent publication (open access): Working through Surveillance and Technical Communication: Concepts and Connections
Member of MAPS and ROCCS research clusters.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- young@eshcc.eur.nl
- Room
- M8-10
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Sarah Young (2023) - Working through Surveillance and Technical Communication:: Concepts and Connections - [link]
- Sarah Young (2021) - Organizational change and security clearance reform: From the January 2021 Capitol insurrection to a future with artificial intelligence - Journal of Information Policy, 11, 350-375 - doi: 10.5325/jinfopoli.11.2021.0350
- Sarah Young (2021) - Not too deep: Privacy, resistance, and the incorporation of social media in background checks - First Monday, 26 (9) - doi: 10.5210/fm.v26i9.11591 - [link]
- Sarah Young (2020) - More Eyes on Crime?: The Rhetoric of Mediated Mugshots - [link]
- Sarah Young (2020) - Your Digital Alter Ego – The Superhero/Villain You (Never) Wanted Transcending Space and Time - Computers and Composition: An International Journal, 55, 1-11 - doi: 10.1016/j.compcom.2020.102543
- Sarah Young (2020) - Zoombombing Your Toddler: User Experience and the Communication of Zoom’s Privacy Crisis - Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 35 (1), 147-153 - doi: 10.1177/1050651920959201 - [link]
- Sarah Young (2019) - Police-Public Engagement: Cross-cultural Use of Social Media Platforms to Mobilise Citizens - [link]
- Sarah Young (2019) - Continuous Evaluation: Background Investigations, Classified Information, and Informing in the 21st Century - doi: 10.21900/iconf.2019.103373 - [link]
- Sarah Young (2019) - Staring Back at the System: Creating a Center for Surveillance Research [Blue Sky Paper]
- Sarah Young (2019) - Performing Surveillance Pedagogy in a Writing Studies World: Go Ahead and Take my Picture, Google
- Sarah Young (2017) - Outstanding Graduate
Master Class
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CM4500
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CM5000
Privacy, Surveill. and New Media Techn.
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-3
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CM2066
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