Research Areas

Baik, J.S. (Under review). Ban on surveillance advertising? Networked harms of data-driven advertising and the need to bridge policy silos in the United States.

Baik, J.S. (Under review). Enshrining Data Privacy as a Civil Right.

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.

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.

Baik, J.S. (2020). Data privacy against innovation or against discrimination?: The case of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Telematics and Informatics. 52. 

Grover, R. & Baik, J.S. (2024). Platforms as Templates: Emerging Datafication Dynamics in Digital News Outlets’ Datawalls. The Information Society.

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. 

Baik, J.S. & Sridharan, H. (2023). Civil Rights. Platform Governance Terminologies Essay Series. Yale Information Society Project-Wikimedia Initiative on Intermediaries & Information.

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.

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.

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.

Baik, J. (2020). The Geotagging Counterpublic: The Case of Facebook Remote Check-Ins to Standing Rock. International Journal of Communication, 14, 2057–2077.

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.  (* Equal contribution.)