OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Information Society is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Saving global human rights: A “Global South + AI” strategy	52
A nightmare to control: Legal and organizational challenges around the procurement of journalistic AI from external technology providers	44
Introduction to the special issue “Digital mortality: Death and infrastructure”	43
Effects of an issue-based microtargeting campaign: A small-scale field experiment in a multi-party setting	32
“There are only a few things that you cannot manage without internet”: Realization of capabilities through internet (non)use by ultra-Orthodox Jewish women	22
Governing through transparency: Investigating the new access to information regime in Canada	22
Theorizing inconsistent media selection in the digital environment	16
Content creation and gig-work in the platform economy: What contemporary sex work can teach us about the futures of digital labor	14
Data by design: Shaping data-producing subjectivities through self-tracking	13
Does public opinion shape public policy? Effect of citizen dissent on legislative outcomes	12
Books, videos and platforms: Exploring the BookTube interface	10
The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India	10
Intellectual property rights and control in the digital economy: Examining the expansion of M-Pesa	9
Numbers will not save us: Agonistic data practices	9
Data storytelling is not storytelling with data: A framework for storytelling in science communication and data journalism	7
Systematic evaluation of gig work against decent work standards: The development and application of the Fairwork framework	6
Multiplicity and temporality of rationality: Constructing information for meningitis surveillance and response in Burkina Faso	5
Digital public goods platforms for development: The challenge of scaling	5
Digital Management Practice: Mastering Exponential Change with Collective and Artificial Intelligence	5
Management and mitigation of location privacy violations: Case study analysis of U.S. local governments	5
Chinese digital platform companies’ expansion in the Belt and Road countries	5
Rethinking Law, Regulation, and Technology Rethinking Law, Regulation, and Technology , by Roger Brownsword. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022. 272 pp., £95.	5
In pursuit of ignorance: The institutional assault on disinformation and hate speech research	5
Algorithmic models through a representational lens	4
Social network dynamics, bots, and community-based online misinformation spread: Lessons from anti-refugee and COVID-19 misinformation cases	4

The patterning of the discursive space in search for the #goodlife: A network analysis of the co-occurrence of Instagram hashtags	4
Working with Aula: How teachers navigate privacy uncertainties	4
Gain in quantity and novelty of work in intermittent task switching	3
Clip the blue bird: Discursive strategies of Hindutva digital mobilization against Twitter in India	3
Another article titled “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” or, the mass production of academic research titles	3
The algorithmic network imaginary: How music artists understand and experience their algorithmically constructed networks	3
China’s digital expansion in the Global South: Systematic literature review and future research agenda	3
Information infrastructures and historical research: A framework useful for professional and amateur historians	3
Governing Generation Z in China: Bilibili, bidirectional mediation, and online community governance	3
The behavior economy: The creation of behavior as an object of online surveillance	3
The Chinese surveillance state in Latin America? Evidence from Argentina and Ecuador	3
Who says what? Social networks and digital inequalities in online political expression and content creation	2
Social media as a place to see and be seen: Exploring factors affecting job attainment via social media	2
Designing for financial inclusion in developing countries: Digital financial service for low-income women in Ghana	2
Realizing the benefits of open government data: Journalists’ coverage of the NHS winter crisis, 2016–17	2
Learning along the Digital Silk Road? Technology transfer, power, and Chinese ICT corporations in North Africa	2
The irony of the smart home: How the IoT shifts power balances and reinforces household values	1
Worth-making in a datafied world: Urban cycling, smart urbanism, and technologies of justification in Santiago de Chile	1
Death of a child, birth of a guild: Factors aiding the rapid formation of online support communities	1
Inscribing place in Singapore: Instagram depictions of hauntedness	1
Coping with illness digitally	1
Canaries in the Data Mine: Understanding the Proprietary Design of Youth Environments	1
Digital mobilization via attention building: The logic of cross-boundary actions in the 2019 Hong Kong social movement	1
An interview with Professor Emeritus Brenda Dervin	1
Session replay scripts: A privacy analysis	1
Finding meaning in crowdwork: An analysis of algorithmic management, work characteristics, and meaningfulness	1
Platforms as templates: Emerging datafication dynamics in digital news outlets’ datawalls	1
Exploring the relationship between media literacy, online interaction, and civic engagement	1
The rise of digital repression: How technology is reshaping power, politics, and resistance	1
Comparative privacy research: Literature review, framework, and research agenda	1
The cultural embeddedness of academic books on knowing, feeling, and queering video games	1