I’m an Assistant Professor of Media Law and Ethics in the department of Journalism, University of Massachusetts Amherst. I’m affiliated with the Global Technology for Social Justice Lab (GloTech) and the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP). I co-organize the junior tech scholar group with the Public Technology Leadership Collaborative (PTLC).

My research asks who governs what a democracy knows. As the institutions democracy relies on — journalism, courts, election systems — and the communities they serve come to depend on platforms and AI companies they don’t control, I study how that dependency redistributes power, who can be held accountable when these systems fail, and what makes publics support or resist their governance. I work across journalism, platforms, and AI, combining qualitative, quantitative, and computational methods across national contexts under a critical and normative lens: scholarship in service of a more democratic and just society.

Selected Interviews and Mentions

• (CNN, 2024) Interview with Jang on martial law in South Korea
• (Bloomberg, 2024) The end of passive democracy
• (Wired, 2024) Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google
• (The Washington Post, 2024) Americans must prepare for another round of election denial

Opinion pieces

• (Zeteo.com, 2024) South Korea: The deeper story behind the unrest
• (Bluesky, 2024) South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know
• (The Diplomat, 2024) South Korea’s Press Freedom Under Fire
• (Tech Policy Press, 2022) Transnational platform ecosystems harm children and women outside the West
• (Slate, 2021) AI chatbot systems can harm users in several ways