Undrah Baasanjav, Ph.D.
Thank you for visiting. I am an
Associate Professor in the Department of Mass Communications at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Virtual office hours: M 2-3 p.m., Th 9:30-10:45 and Th 11-12:15 or by appointment (Fall 2021)
or contact me by tel: (618) 650 5687 or email: ubaasan(at)siue.edu.
At SIUE, I teach MC 500: Mass Communication Theory, MC 441: Advanced Digital Media, MC 327: Design and Writing for Digital Media, MC 451 Research Methods and newly designed MC 456: Identity and Emerging Media, MC 201 Media and Culture, and CODES 120 Research Team
These courses allow students explore theoretical approaches and practical applications of digital media. In my classes, students create web sites, blogs and multimedia projects that examine various media issues ranging from security and anonymity of the internet to the ownership and aesthetical appeals of digital media.
I also taught at Temple and Michigan Technological Universities courses like Information Society, Communication & Development and Future of TV.
I research international domain names, internet governance, digital television transition, digital divide, information privacy, and the gender aspects of online gaming.
Book in press
Baasanjav, U. (forthcoming). Information Society and Media Development. Amsterdam University Press.
Below are the links to my recently published journal articles and conference proceedings:
Baasanjav, U. (2021). Social Media and Privacy Laws and Regulations in Mongolia. Available at SSRN:
Baasanjav, U. (2020). Social Media and Credibility: Civil Society Organizations in Mongolia. SMSociety’20: International Conference on Social Media and Society, 230–237. https://doi.org/10.1145/3400806.3400833"
Baasanjav, U., Fernback, J., and Pan, X. (2019). A critical discourse analysis of privacy and the human flesh search engine. Media Asia. doi: 10.1080/01296612.2019.1626116
Baasanjav, U. (2017). Language rights and international domain names. Journal of Cyber Policy, 2 (3). 377-88. doi: 10.1080/23738871.2017.1402941
Baasanjav, U. (2017). The Media Convergence Blog Project. Teaching Media Quarterly, 5 (1).
Baasanjav, U. (2016). The public interest and transition to digital television in Mongolia. International Journal of Digital Television, 7 (1), 7-23.
Baasanjav, U. (2014). Linguistic diversity on the Internet: Arabic, Chinese and Cyrillic script top-level domain names. Telecommunications Policy, 38 (11). 961-69. doi: 10.1016/j.telpol.2014.03.005.
Baasanjav, U. (2013). Incorporating the experiential learning cycle into online classes. Journal of Online Learning and Teaching. 9(4), 575-589.
More InfoI serve the University Community on the Faculty Senate, and as a faculty advisor to the Web Radio and SIUE Chess Club.
I serve the department as a web master and Mass Communications Week organizer. Mass Comm Week event in 2015, for example, brought to campus 18 speakers including Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Jim Forbes of Saint Louis Dispatch, Editor-in-Chief of Ouest-France Vincent Jarnigon, and investigative journalist Violette Lazard of Le Nouvel Observateur, France.
I also review (on an ad-hoc basis) for journals New Media and Society, Information, Communication, and Society, The Journal of Information Technology and Politics, The Asian Journal of Communication and Europe-Asia Journal.