**Please feel free to contact me at youngrim.kim@rutgers.edu if you'd like copies of these publications.
1. Data Politics & Governance
Finn, M., Kim, Y., Ellis, R., Acker, A., Chaudhuri, B., & Wedlake, S. (2025). Affective experiences of error. International Journal of Communication. Link
Kim, Y., Finn, M., Acker, A., Chaudhuri, B., Wedlake, S., Ellis, R., & Srinivasan, J. (2024). Epistemologies of missing data: COVID dashboard builders the production and maintenance of marginalized COVID data. Big Data & Society, 11(2), 1–14. Link
Kim, Y. (2024). “Data Publics.” In J. Burrell, R. Singh, & P. Davidson (eds.). Keywords of the Datafied State (pp. 65–77). Data & Society. Link
Kim, Y., Chen, Y. & Liang, F. (2023). Engineering care in pandemic techno-governance: The politics of care in China and South Korea's COVID-19 tracking apps. New Media and Society, 25(6), 1432–1450. Link
Kim, Y. (2022). Tracking bodies in question: Telecom companies, mobile data, and surveillance platforms in South Korea's epidemic governance. Information, Communication, and Society, 25(12), 1717–1734. Link
Current Projects
Kim, Y. Infrastructures of Vilification: Pandemic Surveillance, Data Publics, and Coded Injustice in South Korea. (Monograph)
Acker, A., Chaudhuri, B., Ellis, R., Finn, M., Kim, Y., & Srinivasan, J. (Names in alphabetical order). COVID Data Builders: Dashboards, Publics, and the Making of Public Health Data Infrastructures in India and the U.S. (Multi-author monograph)
2. The Geopolitics of Digital Infrastructures
Current Projects
Kim, Y., & Margo Chaeyoung Lee*. Infrastructural desires for digital sovereignty: Data centers and postcolonial imaginaries in South Korea. (Journal article)
Kim, Y. Aerial media: Visualizing air pollution politics in Northeast Asia. (Journal article)
Kim, Y. (2022). Outbreak news production as a site of tension: Journalists' news-making of global infectious disease. Journalism, 23(1), 171–188. Link
Love, T., & Kim, Y. (2022). Squid Game and the Imagining of Afro-Asian Connections through Black Twitter Memescapes. Communication, Culture & Critique, 15(4), 552–554. Link
Sonnevend, J. & Kim, Y. (2020). An unlikely seducer: Kim Jong-un’s charm offensive from the PyeongChang Winter Olympics until the Trump–Kim summit. International Journal of Communication, 14, 1398–1420. Link
Current Projects
Platform Capitalism in East Asia: Female Micro-Entrepreneurs’ Everyday Digital Labor in China and South Korea (with Yuchen Chen)