Publications

   Peer-reviewed Articles

• • Baik, J. S., & Famularo, J. (2024). Contextual integrity of loyalty programs, compromised? Interrogating consumer health data practices and networked actors in the U.S. retail sector. Telecommunications Policy, 48(7). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102780

  • Grover, R. & Baik, J.S. (2024). Platforms as Templates: Emerging Datafication Dynamics in Digital News Outlets’ Datawalls. The Information Society, 40(4), 260-276.  https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2024.2350015

  • Baik, J.S. & Sridharan, H. (2024). Civil Rights Audits as Counterpublic Strategy: Articulating the Responsibility and Failure to Care for Marginalized Communities in Platform Governance. Information, Communication and Society, 27(5), 836-855.  

https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2227685

• • Baik, J.S. & Sridharan, H. (2023). Civil Rights. Platform Governance Terminologies Essay Series. Yale Information Society Project-Wikimedia Initiative on Intermediaries & Information. https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/civilrights_ispessayseries_2023.pdf 

  • Jang, E., Baik, J.S., & Fischer, K. (2023). Contact Tracing Apps as Boundary Objects of Pandemic Governance: The State-by-State Approach to Contain the Spread of COVID-19 in the US. International Journal of Communication, 17, 1737-1758.   https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19621/4076 

  • Ahn, S., Baik, J.S., & Krause, C.S. (2023). Splintering and centralizing platform governance: how Facebook adapted its content moderation practices to the political and legal contexts in the United States, Germany, and South Korea. Information, Communication and Society, 26(14), 2843–2862.  https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2113817

  • Baik, J.S. (2022). How to Research Online Civil Society Networks. Sage Research Methods: Doing Research Online. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529609424 

  • Baik, J.S. & Jang, E. (2022). Where horizontal and vertical surveillances meet: Sense-making of US COVID-19 contact tracing apps during a health crisis. Mobile Media and Communication, 10(3), 468–486.  https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579221078674

  • Baik, J.S (2022). Data privacy and political distrust: corporate “pro liars,” “gridlocked Congress,” and the Twitter issue public around the U.S. privacy legislation. Information, Communication and Society, 25(9), 1211–1228. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1850839

  • Baik, J.S. (2020). Data privacy against innovation or against discrimination?: The case of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Telematics and Informatics, 52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2020.101431

  • Baik, J. (2020). The Geotagging Counterpublic: The Case of Facebook Remote Check-Ins to Standing Rock. International Journal of Communication, 14, 2057–2077. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/12663

  • Alarcon, A.*, Baik, J.*, & Kim, D. O.* (2019). “Everyone deserves a Smartphone?”: Understanding the media’s legitimation of mobile technology use by Syrian refugees. Mass Communication and Society, 22(6), 779-803. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2019.1666993 (*Equal Contribution)

   Book Chapters

• • Baik, J. (2022). Civic Imagination through Hip-hop: the case of a South Korean variety show, Infinite Challenge. In C. Hoad, G. Stahl, & O. Wilson (Eds.), Mixing Pop and Politics.

  • Baik, J. & Hollihan, T. (2021). Frame-Changing in the South Korean Legacy Media Coverage of the North Korean Nuclear Controversy. In T. Hollihan (Ed.), Engaging the Hermit Kingdom: Diplomatic and Mediated Arguments in the North Korean Crisis.

   Online Media

• • Baik, J. S., & Sridharan, H. (2022, January 10). Big Tech Civil Rights Audits Should Be Mandated By Law. Tech Policy Press. https://techpolicy.press/big-tech-civil-rights-audits-should-be-mandated-by-law/

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

• Baik, J.S. (2024). Analyzing the perceptions of anti-conservative bias in platform content moderation. The International Conference on Social Media & Society. London, UK. July 16-18.

• Baik, J.S. & Famularo, J. (2023). Boundless Loyalty Programs: Context Expansion, Data Privacy, and Healthtech. Information Systems Division at the 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA). Toronto, Canada.

• Grover, R. & Baik, J.S. (2023). From Paywalls to Datawalls: Platformization in Digital News Through Datafied Membership Programs. Journalism Studies Division at the 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA). Toronto, Canada.

• Baik, J.S. (2023). Reining in surveillance advertising through privacy regulations?: Multi-stakeholder responses to online behavioral advertising in the United States. Media Law and Policy Scholars Conference (MLPSC). Virtual.

• Grover, R. & Baik, J.S. (2022). From Paywalls to Datawalls: Platformization in Digital News Through Datafied Membership Programs. The International Conference on Social Media and Society. Virtual.

• Baik, J.S. & Sridharan, H. (2022). Civil Rights and Silicon Valley: Facebook and Airbnb Civil Rights Audits as a Co-regulatory Governance Framework? Communication Law & Policy Division at the 72nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA). Paris, France.

• Baik, J.S. & Jang, E. (2022). Where horizontal and vertical surveillances meet: Sense-making of US COVID-19 contact tracing apps during a health crisis. Mobile Communication Interest Group at the 72nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA). Paris, France.

• Jang, E., Fischer, K., & Baik, J.S. (2021). Between Public Health and Privacy: A Critical Examination of Statewide Contact Tracing Apps as Boundary Objects of Pandemic Governance. The Annual Convention of the National Communication Association (NCA). Seattle, WA. Top Paper in ARSTM (Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine)

• Baik, J.S. (2021). Framing Data Privacy as a Civil Right: From Neoliberal Privacy to Privacy Justice. Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC). Virtual. 

• Baik, J.S ., Yang, Y., Jang, E, & Ahn, S. (2021). Tracing Digital Contact Tracing: Surveillance Technology and Privacy Rights During COVID-19 in China, South Korea, and the United States. Communication & Technology Division at the 71st Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA). Virtual.

• Baik, J.S. & Sridharan, H. (2021). Civil Rights and Silicon Valley: Facebook and Airbnb Civil Rights Audits as a Co-regulatory Governance Framework? The Inaugural Conference of Platform Governance Research Network. Virtual. 

• Ahn, S., Baik, J.S., Chang, H., Krause, C.S. (2021). Divergences in Procedural Accountability: Comparative Analysis on Social Media Political Speech Regulation in Germany, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States. TPRC48: Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy. Virtual.

• Baik, J.S. (2020). Expanding the framework of networked privacy: from networked relations and technologies to networked institutions and data. The Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). Virtual due to COVID-19.

• Baik, J. (2020). Data privacy against innovation or against discrimination?: The case of California Consumer Privacy Act. Communication Law & Policy Division at the 70th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA). Virtual due to COVID-19.

• Baik, J. (2019). Data Privacy and Public Distrust of Institutions: Early Discourse of the US Consumer Privacy Regulations on Twitter. The International Conference on Social Media and Society. Toronto, Canada. 

• Alarcon, A., Baik, J.* & Kim, D. (2019). “Everyone deserves a Smartphone?”: Understanding the media’s legitimation of mobile technology use by Syrian refugees. Mobile Communication Division, The 69th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA). Washington, DC. (*The authors are listed in alphabetical order.)