Jasmine McNealy is an attorney and associate professor in Media Production, Management and Technology in the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida, where she is also the Associate Director of the Marian B. Brechner First Amendment Project.
McNealy is an internationally recognized scholar whose research is interdisciplinary, centered at the intersection of media, technology, policy, and law. Of particular focus are the areas of privacy, surveillance, and data governance and the impacts on marginalized and vulnerable communities. Her research has been published in social science, law, ethics, and computer science journals. Her research has been funded by public institutions, private foundations, and private organizations. She is a public scholar who understands the importance of making research explainable and accessible to the wider public. To that extent, McNealy has collaborated with partners in academia, industry, and government, presented to industry, government, and community as well as scholarly audiences, and has translated and published her research in mass media outlets. At the Shorenstein Center she will conduct broad research on productive government approaches to tech-related issues, in particular algorithmic systems.
