Amelia Acker

Amelia Acker is an Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor/Director of Masters Studies at the University of Texas at Austin's School of Information. Her work focuses on the emergence of new information objects in wireless networks, digital preservation, and cultural memory. She holds a PhD with award-winning research on SMS standardization and mobile communication infrastructure. Prior to UT Austin, she served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh's iSchool and worked as an archivist/librarian in Southern California.

Her research is funded by NSF and IMLS grants, and has been published in journals like JASIST and Archival Science. She teaches courses on metadata, information studies, and cultural heritage informatics. Her current projects address digital traces in mobile computing and data justice issues. She previously worked with artist John Baldessari as an arts cataloger and has extensive experience in library preservation practices.

Key contributions include analyses of Venmo social payments, Palantir's surveillance systems, and API-driven social media archives. She emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to sociotechnical systems and data ethics in emerging technologies.