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 (2024) - Pandemic Communications Beyond Risk and Crisis: A Change of Course for Law Enforcement During COVID-19 - Technical Communication Quarterly, 1-14 - doi: 10.1080/10572252.2024.2352102
- Pierre Marion, Etienne Lwamba, Andrea Floridi, Suvarna Pande, Megha Bhattacharyya, Sarah Young, Paul Fenton Villar & Shannon Shisler (2024) - The effects of agricultural output market access interventions on agricultural, socio-economic, food security, and nutrition outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review - Campbell Systematic Reviews, 20 (2) - doi: 10.1002/cl2.1411 - [link]
- Sarah Young & Freyja McCreery (2024) - Superheroes and Digital Perspectives: Super Data - [link]
- Sarah Young, Catherine F. Brooks & Jason Pridmore (2024) - Societal implications of quantum technologies through a technocriticism of quantum key distribution - First Monday, 29 (3) - doi: 10.5210/fm.v29i3.13571 - [link]
- Sarah Young (2023) - Working through Surveillance and Technical Communication:: Concepts and Connections - doi: 10.1353/book.115422 - [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 (2017) - Outstanding Graduate
Privacy, Ethics and Social Impacts
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM4604
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM5000
Master Thesis Project
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CM5050