Jason Young
CV Senior Research Scientist, Technology & Social Change Group youngjc2@uw.eduBloedel Hall
Phone: 206-616-6391
Affiliate Positions
- Research Fellow, Center for an Informed Public
- Affiliate Assistant Professor, UW Information School
- Affiliate Instructor, UW Jackson School of International Studies
Specializations
- Knowledge Politics and Misinformation
- Indigenous Knowledge and Digital Colonialism
- ICT and Development
Research Areas
Biography
Dr. Jason Young is a Senior Research Scientist with the Technology & Social Change Group. He is a critical human geographer who uses innovative combinations of computational analysis, participatory engagement, and traditional qualitative methodologies to ask questions about the cultural and epistemological limits of information and communication technologies (ICTs). A majority of this work has examined how digital technologies are leveraged to produce new forms of knowledge politics between Indigenous and Western knowledge systems. This interdisciplinary work draws on a wide body of work, including digital geographies, Indigenous studies, postcolonial theory, ICT and Development (ICTD), science and technology studies (STS), and more. Much of this work has occurred in partnership with communities in the Peruvian Amazon and the Canadian Arctic. More recent research has expanded these research interests. Current project include studies of the role of public libraries in driving community-defined development across sub-Saharan Africa; the impact of community-owned digital infrastructure (e.g., community cellular networks) for urban and rural communities; the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on public library programming; and the role of emotion and affect in spreading and combating mis- and disinformation. Jason received his PhD from the UW Department of Geography in 2017.
Education
- Ph D, Geography, University of Washington, 2017
- MA, Geography, University of Washington, 2012
- BA, Geography, Miami University (Ohio), 2009
Publications and Contributions
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Journal Article, Academic JournalAfrican Libraries in Development: Perceptions and Possibilities (2020)International Information & Library Review
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Journal Article, Academic JournalBenefits of Crowdsourcing for Libraries in the Global South: A Case Study from Africa (2020)IFLA Journal
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Journal Article, Academic JournalBenefits of Crowdsourcing for Libraries in the Global South: A Case Study from Africa (2020)The IFLA Journal
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Journal Article, Academic JournalData challenges for public libraries: African perspectives and the social context of knowledge (2020)Information Development
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Journal Article, Academic JournalDisinformation as the weaponization of cruel optimism: A critical intervention in misinformation studies (2020)
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Journal Article, Academic JournalEnvironmental colonialism, digital indigeneity, and the politicization of resilience (2020)Environmental Planning E: Nature and Space, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page 1-22
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Journal Article, Academic JournalThe Role of Libraries in Misinformation Programming: A Research Agenda (2020)Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
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Journal Article, Academic JournalVolunteer geographic information in the Global South: barriers to local implementation of mapping projects across Africa (2020)GEOJOURNAL, ISBN/ISSN: 0343-2521
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Journal Article, Academic Journal
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Journal Article, Academic JournalRural digital geographies and new landscapes of social resilience (2019)Journal of Rural Studies
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Journal Article, Academic JournalThe new knowledge politics of digital colonialism (2019)Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
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Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-NewKnowledge Politics (2018)Digital Geographies
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Book, Reprint in TranslationUkiuqta'qtumi-Hivuniptingun – One Arctic, One Future (2018)One Arctic: The Arctic Council and Circumpolar Governance
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Journal Article, Academic JournalCanadian Inuit, digital qanuqtuurunnarniq, and emerging geographic imaginations (2017)Geoforum, Volume 86, Page 53-62
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Journal Article, Academic JournalParticipatory Uses of Geospatial Technologies to Leverage Multiple Knowledge Systems within Development Contexts (2017)World Development, Volume 93, Page 389-401
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Journal Article, Academic JournalPolar Bear Management in a Digital Arctic: Inuit Perspectives Across the Web (2016)The Canadian Geographer, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 574-91
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Journal Article, Academic JournalSubaltern empowerment in the Geoweb: Tensions between publicity and privacy (2014)Antipode, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 574-91
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Journal Article, Professional JournalThe Spatial Politics of Affect and Emotion in Participatory GIS (2013)Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Volume 103, Issue 4
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Journal Article, Academic JournalThe use of participatory mapping in ethnobiological research, biocultural conservation, and community empowerment: a case study from the Peruvian Amazon (2012)Journal of Ethnobiology, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 6-29
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Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-NewThe Maijuna Participatory Mapping Project: Mapping the Past and the Present for the Future (2010)Peru: Maijuna
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Journal Article, Academic JournalPublic Libraries and Development Across Sub-Saharan Africa: Overcoming a Problem of Perception
Presentations
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Community Approaches to Misinformation
(2021)
UW iSchool - Virtual
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Advancing Library Visibility in Africa
(2019)
3rd African Library & Information Associations & Institutions (AfLIA) Conference & 5th African Library Summit - Nairobi
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Knowledge Politics Across Digital Divides: Environmental Change, Indigeneity, and Technology Use in the Arctic
Development Studies Association 2018 Conference - Manchester, UK