Below is a list of my academic publications, with links to PDFs where available. I’ve also included links to blog posts, media articles, and press mentions related to these publications. My research is also listed on Google Scholar, ORCID, and DBLP.
Journal Articles // Conference Proceedings // Book Chapters // Organized Conference Activity // Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers // Lightly Reviewed Conference Papers // Workshop Papers // Reports // Invited Talks // Theses
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
J.9 Vitak, J., Liao, Y., Mols, A., Trottier, D., Zimmer, M., Kumar, P.C., & Pridmore, J. (2023). When Do Data Collection and Use Become a Matter of Concern? A Cross-Cultural Comparison of U.S. and Dutch Privacy Attitudes. International Journal of Communication, 17(2023), 471-498. [PDF]
J.8 Kumar, P.C., & Byrne, V.L. (2022). The 5Ds of Privacy Literacy: A Framework for Privacy Education. Information and Learning Sciences, 123(7/8), 445-461. doi:10.1108/ILS-02-2022-0022. [Pre-print PDF]
J.7 Kumar, P.C., Subramaniam, M., Vitak, J., Clegg, T.L., & Chetty, M. (2020). Strengthening Children’s Privacy Literacy Through Contextual Integrity. Media and Communication, 8(4), 175-184. doi: 10.17645/mac.v8i4.3236. [PDF]
J.6 Zimmer, M., Kumar, P., Vitak, J., Liao, Y., & Kritikos, K.C. (2020). ‘There’s Nothing Really They Can Do with This Information’: Unpacking How Users Manage Privacy Boundaries for Personal Fitness Information. Information, Communication & Society, 23(7), 1020-1037. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2018.1543442. [PDF]
J.5 Kumar, P.C., Vitak, J., Chetty, M., & Clegg, T.L. (2019). The Platformization of the Classroom: Teachers as Surveillant Consumers. Surveillance & Society, 17(1/2), 145-152. doi:10.24908/ss.v17i1/2.12926. [PDF] Listed as one of the journal’s top 20 trending articles of 2019.
J.4 Pridmore, J., Zimmer, M., Vitak, J., Mols, A., Trottier, D., Kumar, P.C., & Liao, Y. (2019). Intelligent Personal Assistants and the Intercultural Negotiations of Dataveillance in Platformed Households. Surveillance & Society, 17(1/2), 125-131. doi:10.24908/ss.v17i1/2.12936. [PDF]
J.3 Vitak, J., Liao, Y., Subramaniam, M., & Kumar, P. (2018). ‘I Knew It Was Too Good To Be True’: The Challenges Economically Disadvantaged Internet Users Face in Assessing Trustworthiness, Avoiding Scams, and Developing Self-Efficacy Online. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2(CSCW), Article 176. doi:10.1145/3274445. [26 percent acceptance rate]
J.2 Kumar, P., Naik, S.M., Devkar, U.R., Chetty, M., Clegg, T.L., & Vitak, J. (2017). ‘No Telling Passcodes Out Because They’re Private’: Understanding Children’s Mental Models of Privacy and Security Online. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 1(CSCW), Article 64. doi:10.1145/3134699. [27 percent acceptance rate]. Summary blog post | Princeton CITP post | Slate article | Terp article | CSCW blog post.
J.1 Kumar, P. (2017). Corporate Privacy Policy Changes during PRISM and the Rise of Surveillance Capitalism. Media and Communication, 5(1), 63-75. doi:10.17645/mac.v5il.813. [PDF] Summary blog post | Featured in the UMD Libraries Social Justice Research Guide
Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings
C.11 Kumar, P.C. (2022). Toward a Practice-Based Approach to Privacy Literacy. Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Conference on Information (iConference 2022). Virtual. February 28-March 4, 2019. PSU News article | Finalist, Best Short Research Paper Award.
C.10 Subramaniam, M., Kumar, P., Morehouse, S., Liao, Y., & Vitak, J. (2019). Leveraging Funds of Knowledge to Manage Privacy Practices in Families. Proceedings of the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T 2019), Melbourne, Australia. October 19-23, 2019. [PDF]
C.9 Kumar, P.C., Chetty, M., Clegg, T.L., & Vitak, J. (2019). Privacy and Security Considerations For Digital Technology Use in Elementary Schools. Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’19). Glasgow, Scotland. May 4-9, 2019. [24 percent acceptance rate] Summary blog post | HCIL blog post
C.8 Liao, Y., Vitak, J., Kumar, P., Zimmer, M., & Kritikos, K.C. (2019). Understanding the Role of Privacy and Trust in Intelligent Personal Assistant Adoption. Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Information (iConference 2019). Washington, DC. March 31-April 3, 2019. [32 percent acceptance rate] [PDF] Winner, Lee Dirks Award for Best Paper
C.7 Kumar, P., Vitak, J., Chetty, M., Clegg, T.L., Yang, J., McNally, B., & Bonsignore, E. (2018). Co-Designing Online Privacy-Related Games and Stories with Children. Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC’18). Trondheim, Norway. June 19-22, 2018. [28 percent acceptance rate]. Summary blog post
C.6 McNally, B., Kumar, P., Hordatt, C., Mauriello, M.L., Naik, S., Norooz, L., Shorter, A., Golub, E., & Druin, A. (2018). Co-designing Mobile Online Safety Applications with Children. Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’18). Montréal, Canada. April 21-26, 2018. [26 percent acceptance rate]. Summary blog post
C.5 Vitak, J., Liao, Y., Kumar, P., & Subramaniam, M. (2018). Librarians as Information Intermediaries: Navigating Tensions Between Being Helpful and Being Liable. Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Information (iConference 2018). Sheffield, UK. March 25-28, 2018. [PDF] [30 percent acceptance rate]
C.4 Vitak, J., Liao, Y., Kumar, P., Zimmer, M., & Kritikos, K., (2018). Privacy Attitudes and Data Valuation Among Fitness Tracker Users. Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference on Information (iConference 2018). Sheffield, UK. March 25-28, 2018. [PDF] [30 percent acceptance rate] Finalist, Lee Dirks Award for Best Paper
C.3 Kumar, P. (2016). Privacy Policies and Their Lack of Clear Disclosure Regarding the Life Cycle of User Information. 2016 AAAI Fall Symposium Series: Privacy and Language Technologies. Arlington, VA, November 17-19, 2016. [PDF] Ranking Digital Rights blog post.
C.2 Ammari, T., Kumar, P., Lampe, C., and Schoenebeck, S. (2015). Managing Children’s Online Identities: How Parents Decide what to Disclose about their Children Online. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’15). Seoul, South Korea. April 18-23, 2015. [23 percent acceptance rate]. Time article
C.1 Kumar, P. and Schoenebeck, S. (2015). The Modern Day Baby Book: Enacting Good Mothering and Stewarding Privacy on Facebook. Proceedings of the 18th Annual ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’15). Vancouver, Canada. March 14-18, 2015. [28 percent acceptance rate] Slate article | Brooklyn Quarterly article.
BC.2 Kumar, P.C. (2020). The Unavoidable Place: How Parents Manage the Socially Mediated Visibility of Their Young Children. In A.N. Markham & K. Tiidenberg (Eds.), Metaphors of Internet: Ways of Being in the Age of Ubiquity (pp. 107-111). Peter Lang.
BC.1 Kumar, P., Prasad, R, & Maréchal, N. (2017). Progress & Peril: The Role of ICT Companies in Promoting and Curtailing Human Rights. In M.G. Villareal (Ed.), Human Rights and Technology: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (pp. 189-214). United Nations University for Peace. [PDF]
Organized Conference Activity (Peer Reviewed)
CA.1 Vitak, J., Kumar, P., Clegg, T., Chetty, M., Wisniewski P., & Bonsignore, E. (2018). Designing privacy and security tools for children and teenagers. [One-day workshop]. 14th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS’14), Baltimore, MD, United States. [Workshop report PDF].
Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers
CP.9 Kumar, P.C. (2022, November 2-5). What is privacy literacy for? 23rd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR’21), Dublin, Ireland. [50 percent acceptance rate]
CP.8 Kumar, P.C. (2021, October 12-16). Producing the ‘Problem’ of Parental Overshare. 22nd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR’21), Virtual. [51 percent acceptance rate]
CP.7 Vitak, J., Kumar, P.C., Liao, Y., & Zimmer, M. (2020, May 21-25). Feature Creep or Just Plain Creepy? How Advances in ‘Smart’ Technologies Affect Attitudes Toward Data Privacy. 70th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA’20), Virtual. [44 percent acceptance rate]
CP.6 Liao, Y., Mols, A., Vitak, J., Zimmer, M., Trottier, D., Kumar, P.C., & Pridmore, J. (2020, May 21-25). When Does Data Collection and Use Become a Matter of Concern? A Cross Cultural Comparison of American and Dutch People’s Privacy Attitudes. 70th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA’20), Virtual. [44 percent acceptance rate]
CP.5 Kumar, P., Schoenebeck, S., Vitak, J. (2018, October 10-13). Enacting Fetal Ultrasound Online. 19th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR’18), Montréal, Canada. [46 percent acceptance rate]
CP.4 Zimmer, M., Kritikos, K.C., Vitak, J., Kumar, P., & Liao, Y. (2018, October 10-13). Privacy Boundaries and Information Flow Solipsism in the Personal Fitness Information Ecosystem. 19th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR’18), Montréal, Canada. [46 percent acceptance rate]
CP.3 Kumar, P. (2018, May 24-28). Emerging Norms and Privacy Implications of Parental Online Sharing: The Perspective of the STFU, Parents Blog. 68th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA’18), Prague, Czech Republic. [37 percent acceptance rate]. Top Student Paper, Communication and Technology division.
CP.2 Zimmer, M., Kumar, P., Vitak, J., Liao, Y., & Kritikos, K.C. (2018, May 23-28). ‘There’s nothing really they can do with this information’: Unpacking How Users Manage Privacy Boundaries for Personal Fitness Information. 68th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA’18), Prague, Czech Republic. [37 percent acceptance rate]
CP.1 Vitak, J., Liao, Y., & Kumar, P. (2018, May 24-28). How Communication Technologies Introduce Privacy Turbulence in Families During Late Adolescence. 68th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA’18), Prague, Czech Republic. [37 percent acceptance rate]
Lightly Reviewed Conference Papers
CL.16 Kumar, P.C. (2023, May 17-20). Creating a disciplinary map of privacy. 19th International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI’23). Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States.
CL.15 Ruppert J. & Kumar P. (2022, September 22-23). Opportunities for expanding contextual integrity: Information use and personal experience. 4th Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity (PrivaCI’22), New York, NY, United States.
CL.14 Kumar, P.C. & Byrne, V.L. (2022, September 22-23). The 5Ds of privacy literacy: A CI-based framework for privacy education. 4th Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity (PrivaCI’22), New York, NY, United States.
CL.13 Kumar, P.C. (2022, June 22-24). How fears of datafication reinforce neoliberal individuality. 4th International Data Power Conference, Hybrid.
CL.12 Kumar, P.C., Asgarali-Hoffman, N., Asher, E., Beard, N., DiBella, S., Park, S., Triola, S., & Zothan, M. (2022, May 18-22). The Becoming Scholars Collective: Learning to create meaningful knowledge. 18th International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI’22). Virtual.
CL.11 Kumar, P.C. (2022, May 18-22). Theorizing privacy as entanglement. 18th International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI’22). Virtual.
CL.10 Kumar, P.C. Zimmer, M., & Vitak, J. (2021, September 30-October 1). Analyzing Transmission Principles in Qualitative Applications of Contextual Integrity. 3rd Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity (PrivaCI’21), University of Chicago, Hybrid.
CL.9 Kumar, P.C. (2021, September 30-October 1). Strengthening Children’s Privacy Literacy through Contextual Integrity. 3rd Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity (PrivaCI’21), University of Chicago, Hybrid.
CL.8 Kumar, P.C. (2021, May 19-22). Embodying Philosophy in the Process of Scholarly Becoming. 17th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI’21). Virtual.
CL.7 Kumar, P. (2018, September 13-14). Contextual Integrity as a Conceptual, Analytic, and Educational Tool for Research. 1st Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity (PrivaCI), Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
CL.6 Zimmer, M., Kumar, P., Vitak, J., Liao, Y., & Kritikos, K.C. (2018, May 17-18). ‘Fitness Stuff is for Me, Not for Everybody Else’: Unpacking How Fitness Tracker Users Manage Privacy Boundaries for Personal Fitness Information. 15th Annual Information Ethics Roundtable (IER’18), Copenhagen, Denmark.
CL.5 Kumar, P. (2017, September 11-15). Privacy Concerns and Emergent Norms of Parental Sharing of Information About Children Online. Digitising Early Childhood Conference. Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia.
CL.4 Kumar, P. (2017, April 7-8). Young Children’s Contextual Understanding of Online Privacy and Security. InfoSocial 2017, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
CL.3 Kumar, P. (2014, October 17-18). How New Mothers Decide to Share Baby Pictures Online [Poster]. iSchool Research Invitational, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
CL.2 Kumar, P. (2014, February 26). A2 DataDive: Data Storytelling for Nonprofits [Poster]. Tapestry Conference on Data Storytelling, Annapolis, MD.
CL.1 Kumar, P. (2013, March 22). A Paradox with Penalties: Why Media Organizations Must Address Self-Plagiarism [Presentation]. Michigan Academy of Science, Arts & Letters Annual Conference, Holland, MI.
Workshop Papers and Career Development Colloquia (Lightly Reviewed)
W.13 Kumar, P.C. (2022, November 2). What is privacy literacy for? [Abstract] AoIR 2022 Workshop on Exploring the Surveillance Society and the Decoupling of Privacy, Dublin, Ireland.
W.12 Kumar, P.C. (2022, November 2). AoIR 2022 Early Career Workshop, Dublin, Ireland.
W.11 Kumar, P.C. (2022, March 1). Studying the Datafication of Family Life. [Abstract]. iConference 2022 Early Career Colloquium, Virtual.
W.10 Kumar, P.C. (2021, October 24). Citational Justice and the Praxis of Scholarly Becoming. [Extended abstract]. CSCW Workshop on Following the Trail of Citational Justice, Virtual.
W.9 Kumar, P.C. (2019, May 4) A Post-Humanist Take on Surveillance Capitalism [Extended abstract]. CHI 2019 workshop on Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Exploring the Intersection of Philosophy and HCI, Glasgow, Scotland.
W.8 Kumar, P., (2019, March 30). The Enactment of Children’s Digital Identities [Abstract]. iConference 2019 Doctoral Colloquium, Washington, DC.
W.7 Kumar, P. (2018, November 4). The Contextual Integrity Framework as an Educational Tool [Extended abstract]. CSCW 2018 workshop on Privacy in Context: Critically Engaging with Theory to Guide Privacy Research and Design, Jersey City, NJ.
W.6 Kumar, P., (2018, October 10). The Enactment of Children’s Digital Identities [Abstract]. AoIR 2018 Doctoral Colloquium, Montréal, Canada.
W.5 Kumar, P., (2018, April 16-20). Parental Online Sharing and the Construction of Children’s Digital Identities [Abstract]. Graduate seminar on Digital Media Ethnography: Concepts, Ethics, and Methods, Aarhus University, Denmark.
W.4 Kumar, P., Chetty, M., Clegg, T.L, & Vitak, J. (2017, October 28). Helping Elementary School-Aged Children Learn About Privacy and Security Online [Abstract]. ASIS&T SIG InfoLearn workshop: Information and Learning Sciences Research as an Integral Scholarly Nexus, Crystal City, VA.
W.3 Liao, Y., Kumar, P., Vitak, J., & Subramaniam, M. (2017, October 28). Enhancing Digital Privacy and Security Skills for Low-Socioeconomic Families: Resources for Librarians and Patrons [Abstract]. ASIS&T SIG InfoLearn workshop: Information and Learning Sciences Research as an Integral Scholarly Nexus, Crystal City, VA.
W.2 Kumar, P. (2016, May 7). Ranking Digital Rights: Pushing ICT Companies to Respect Users’ Privacy [Extended abstract]. CHI 2016 workshop on Bridging the Gap Between Privacy by Design and Privacy in Practice, San Jose, CA.
W.1 Kumar, P. and Schoenebeck, S. (2015, March 14-15). Helping Parents Manage Their Children’s Digital Footprints [Extended abstract] CSCW 2015 workshop on The Future of Networked Privacy: Challenges and Opportunities, Vancouver, Canada.
R.4 MacKinnon, R., Maréchal, N., & Kumar, P. (2016). Corporate Accountability for a Free and Open Internet. (Global Commission on Internet Governance Paper Series, No. 45). Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). | Ranking Digital Rights blog post.
R.3 Kumar, P. (2016). Ranking Digital Rights Findings on Transparency Reporting and Companies’ Terms of Service Enforcement. Ranking Digital Rights.
R.2 Kumar, P., Youngman, M., Fernandes, S., and Pal, J. (2014). Culture in a Connected World: Exploring the Work of Digital Observatories. Report for the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Ministry of Information Technology (MinTIC), Government of Colombia. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan School of Information. [Also available in Spanish]
R.1 Budish, R., with contributions from Kumar, P. (2013). Just in Time Censorship: Targeted Internet Filtering During Iran’s 2013 Elections. In U. Gasser, R. Faris, & R. H. Jones (Eds.), Internet Monitor 2013: Reflections on the Digital World (pp. 32-33). Cambridge, MA: Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
T.11 Internet Safety for the Family [Presentation]. MY Project USA, Columbus OH, February 13, 2021.
T.10 Datafication and Privacy Concerns Surrounding the Use of Wearable Fitness Trackers [Presentation]. Symposium on Data Min(d)ing: Privacy and Our Digital Identities, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C., October 22, 2018. Video on YouTube (Minute 15:45)
T.9 ‘No Telling Passcodes Out Because They’re Private’: Understanding Children’s Mental Models of Privacy and Security Online [Presentation]. Workshop on Applications of Contextual Integrity, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University, December 11, 2017.
T.8 The United States of Data: The New Knowledge Trust [Panel discussion] Techonomy ’16, Half Moon Bay, CA, November 10, 2016.
T.7 The Business Case for Encryption: Why Privacy and Data Rights Matter [Panel discussion]. Personal Democracy Forum, New York, NY, June 10, 2016.
T.6 Protest, Privacy, and the Private Sector [Panel discussion]. RightsCon 2016, San Francisco, CA, March 30-April 1, 2016.
T.5 Assessing Terms of Service Compliance with Human Rights Standards [Panel discussion]. RightsCon 2016, San Francisco, CA, March 30-April 1, 2016.
T.4 Big Data Breaches: The Tipping Point for Trust? [Panel discussion] RightsCon 2016, San Francisco, CA, March 30-April 1, 2016. Video on YouTube.
T.3 Digital Rights [Panel discussion]. The Media Consortium Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, February 18, 2016.
T.2 Data Storytelling Bootcamp [Presentation]. A2 DataDive, University of Michigan School of Information, January 28, 2015.
T.1 Understanding Rights: Explaining Terms of Service Complexity to Increase Accessibility and Transparency [Panel discussion]. International Conference on Human Rights in the Digital Environment: Perspectives on Online Terms of Service. Center for Technology and Society, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 3, 2014.
Kumar, P.C. (2021). “From Oversharing to Sharenting: How Experts Govern Parents and Their Social Media Use,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland , College Park, Maryland.
Kumar, P. (2014). “A Digital Footprint From Birth: New Mothers’ Decisions to Share Baby Pictures Online,” Master’s thesis, University of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Chisholm, V., Chow, N., Fei, S., Finder, J., Gan, S., Hosseinipour, N., Kumar, P., and Wilson, A. (2009). “Crossing the cultural divide: assessing the needs of a local immigrant community.” Undergraduate thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. [Authors listed in alphabetical order.]
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