Jasmine McNealy, Ph.D.

Professor - Department of Media Production, Management, and Technology
Director - Infrastructure for Communities, Ecology for Data (ICED) Hub

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Jasmine E. McNealy is a professor in the Department of Media Production, Management, and Technology, where she studies information, communication, and technology with a view toward influencing law and policy. Her research focuses on privacy, online media, and communities.

McNealy is also a former senior fellow in tech policy with the Mozilla Foundation and a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

She holds a PhD in Mass Communication with an emphasis in Media Law, and a J.D. from the University of Florida, and a Bachelor of Science degree in both Journalism and Afro-American studies from the University of Wisconsin.

Awards and Honors

Scholar, Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, & Mixed Methodologies, Johns Hopkins University, 2024.

Senior Fellow - Tech Policy, Mozilla, 2023.

Visiting Fellow, Shorenstein Center (Harvard Kennedy School), 2023.

100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics, Women in AI Ethics, 2020.

Visiting Professor Program, Advertising Education Association, 2020.

Mentor, University of Florida, 2020.

Trust Consortium Scholar, UF Trust Consortium, 2020.

Top Paper, ICA Sports Communication Division, 2016.

Areas of Expertise

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Communication Technology, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Human-Machine Communication, Media and Communication Law

News

• Jasmine McNealy is Featured in Data Privacy Podcast (March 10, 2025)
• Beyond Consent: Rethinking Privacy in the Digital Age (January 31, 2025)
• CommuniGator Podcast: Researching privacy with Jasmine McNealy (September 30, 2024)
• Jasmine McNealy to Speak at University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Colloquium (September 20, 2024)
• Jasmine McNealy Named Director of UFCJC Infrastructure for Communities, Ecology for Data (ICED) Hub (August 29, 2024)
• All News About Jasmine McNealy

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Liu, F., Makady, H., Nah, S., & McNealy, J. (2024). When citizens support AI policies: the moderating roles of AI efficacy on AI news, discussion, and literacy. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 21(4), 493-509. DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2023.2294363

Susser, D., Schiff, D. S., Gerke, S., Cabrera, L. Y., Cohen, I., Doerr, M., Harrod, J., Quenet, K. K., McNealy, J., Meyer, M. N., Price II, W. N., & Wagner, J. K. (2024). Synthetic Health Data: Real Ethical Promise and Peril. Hastings Center Report, 54(5), 8-13. DOI: 10.1002/hast.4911

McNealy, J., Tauali'i, M., Marten, C., Kapoor, A., Yu, J., & Doerr, M. (2024). The CHIRON Trustworthiness Calculator: Origin & Rationale. Sage Bionetworks. DOI: 10.21428/4f83582b.8aba1c41

McNealy, J., & Doerr, M. (2024). Community consent: neither a ceiling nor a floor. Sage Bionetworks. DOI: 10.21428/4f83582b.49ad262e

Shao, C., Nah, S., Makady, H., & McNealy, J. (2024). Understanding User Attitudes Towards AI-Enabled Technologies: An Integrated Model of Self-Efficacy, TAM, and AI Ethics. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1-13. DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2024.2331858

McNealy, J. (2023). All the rumors are true: Verification, actual malice, and celebrity gossip. University of Missouri Law Review.

McNealy, J. (2023). An Ecological Approach to Data Governance. Notre Dame Journal of Ethics, Law & Public Policy, En Banc, 37.

McNealy, J. (2022). Sonic Privacy. Yale Journal of Law & Technology/Yale ISP-Knight Foundation Public Sphere Series.

McNealy, J. (2022). Platforms as Phish Farms: Social Engineering at Scale. New Media & Society, 24(7), 1677-1694.

McNealy, J. (2022). Before the algorithm, what's in the imagination?. Interactions, 29(3), 66-68. DOI: 10.1145/3529761

McNealy, J., Dennis, J., & Nguyen, S. (2022). Prototyping Policy: Visualizing impact for better regulation. Convergence, 28(1), 109-126. DOI: 10.1177/13548565211069875

McNealy, J. (2021). Framing and the Language of Ethics: Technology, Persuasion, and Cultural Context. Journal of Social Computing, 2(3), 226 - 237. DOI: 10.23919/JSC.2021.0027

McNealy, J. (2021). Hoarder, Handler, Bricoleur, Spy: An explication of information distribution organizations. Journal of International and Comparative Law, 8(2), 71-89.

Nah, S., Kwon, H., Liu, W., & McNealy, J. (2021). “Communication Infrastructure, Social Media, and Civic Participation across Geographically Diverse Communities in the United States”. Communication Studies.

Mullis, M., & McNealy, J. (2020). Freeing the Nipple One Broadcast at a Time: FCC Indecency Regulations of Nudity. Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society.

McNealy, J., & Mullis, M. D. (2019). Tea and turbulence: Communication privacy management theory and online celebrity gossip forums. Computers in Human Behavior, 92(1), 110-118. DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2018.10.029

McNealy, J. (2018). Disparaging Trademarks and Social Responsibility. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 12(3), 304-316. DOI: 10.1080/17511321.2017.1360383

McNealy, J., & Alexander, L. (2017). A framework for unpublishing decisions. Digital Journalism, 6(3), 389-405.

McNealy, J. (2017). Online Commenters React Negatively to Newspaper Doxxing. Newspaper Research Journal.

McNealy, J. (2017). Readers react negatively to disclosure of poster’s identity. Newspaper Research Journal, 38(3), 282-292. DOI: 10.1177/0739532917722977

McNealy, J. (2017). Spam and the First Amendment Redux: Free Speech Issues in State Regulation of Unsolicited Email. Communication Law & Policy.

McNealy, J., & Shoenberger, H. (2016). Reexamining Privacy-Promising Technologies. Tulane Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property, 19, 1-25.

McNealy, J. (2015). Rethinking Media Joint Activity with Law Enforcement. U. Balt. J. Media L. & Ethics, 4, 90.

McNealy, J. (2013). Who Owns Your Friends?: Phonedog v. Kravitz and Business Claims of Trade Secret in Social Media Information. Rutgers Computer & Tech. LJ, 39, 30–55.

McNealy, J. (2012). A Textual Analysis of the Influence of Mcintyre v. Ohio Elections Commission in Cases Involving Anonymous Online Commenters. First Amend. L. Rev., 11, 149.

McNealy, J. (2012). The emerging conflict between newsworthiness and the right to be forgotten.

McNealy, J. (2011). Balancing Statutory Privacy and the Public Interest: A Review of State Wiretap Laws as Applied to the Press. Law/Technology.

McNealy, J. (2010). Plaintiff’s Status as a Consideration in Misrepresentation and Promissory Estoppel Cases Against the Media. Browser Download This Paper.

McNealy, J. (2010). The privacy implications of digital preservation: social media archives and the social networks theory of privacy. Browser Download This Paper.

McNealy, J. (2008). Angling for phishers: Legislative responses to deceptive e-mail. Comm. L. & Pol’y, 13(2), 275–300.

Book Chapters

McNealy, J. (2025). Rural Inclusion in AI Policy. In Oxford Intersections: AI in Society. Oxford University PressOxford. DOI: 10.1093/9780198945215.003.0098

McNealy, J. (2024). 15 Consent (Still) Won’t Save Us. In Feminist Cyberlaw (pp. 191-199). University of California Press. DOI: 10.1525/9780520388550-016

McNealy, J. (2023). Data Ethics. In Teaching Media Ethics. .

McNealy, J. (2023). Design + Power: Policy for the Ecology of Influence. In Routledge Handbook of AI. .

McNealy, J. (2023). Who’s liable?: Agency and accountability in human-machine communication. In Handbook of Human-Machine Communication. .

McNealy, J. (2022). Adding Complexity to Advance AI Organizational Governance Models. In The Oxford Handbook of AI Governance (pp. 572-583). Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197579329.013.37

Nah, S., McNealy, J., Kim, J. H., & Joo, J. (2020). Communicating Artificial Intelligence (AI): Theory, Research, and Practice. In Communicating Artificial Intelligence (AI) (pp. 1-4). Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003133735-1

McNealy, J. (2017). Account Ownership and Control. In Social Media and the Law. .

McNealy, J., & Flowers, A. (2015). Privacy Law and Regulation: Technologies, Implications, and Solutions. In Computer Communications and Networks (pp. 189-205). Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-08470-1_9

Research

Research Keywords

Privacy, reputation, social media, journalism, technology, surveillance, literacy, engagement, culture, intellectual property.

Courses

Syllabi from the current and three previous semesters:

• RTV 4700 - Telecommunication Law and Regulation - section 15228 - Spring 2025 (PDF)
• MMC 6421 - Research Methods in Mass Communication - Fall 2024 (PDF)
• RTV 4700 - Telecommunication Law and Regulation - section 16796 - Fall 2024 (PDF)
• RTV 4700 - Telecommunication Law and Regulation - Spring 2024 (PDF)