Research Areas
Data Privacy Laws
Baik, J.S. (In preparation). Data Privacy as a Digital Civil Right. In K. Barker & O. Jurasz (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Social Media, Law and Society.
Baik, J.S (2020). 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.
Data-Driven Business Models
Baik, J.S. (Under review). Negotiating the Ban on Surveillance Advertising: Policy Silos of Privacy, Antitrust, and Anti-discrimination in the United States.
Grover, R. & Baik, J.S. (Accepted). Platforms as Templates: Emerging Datafication Dynamics in Digital News Outlets’ Datawalls. The Information Society.
Baik, J.S. & Famularo, J. (Under review). Context Expansion: A System-Level Approach to Data Privacy and Loyalty Programs.
Platform Governance
Baik, J.S. & Sridharan, H. (2023). Civil Rights. Platform Governance Terminologies Essay Series. Yale Information Society Project-Wikimedia Initiative on Intermediaries & Information.
Baik, J.S. & Sridharan, H. (2023). Civil Rights Audits as Counterpublic Strategy: Articulating the Responsibility and Failure to Care for Marginalized Communities in Platform Governance. Information, Communication and Society.
Ahn, S., Baik, J.S., & Krause, C.S. (2022). 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.
The Politics of Surveillance
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.)