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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction to the special issue “Digital mortality: Death and infrastructure”	61
Multiplicity and temporality of rationality: Constructing information for meningitis surveillance and response in Burkina Faso	47
In pursuit of ignorance: The institutional assault on disinformation and hate speech research	36
Inscribing place in Singapore: Instagram depictions of hauntedness	24
A qualitative enhancement to quantitative social network analysis	23
The cultural embeddedness of academic books on knowing, feeling, and queering video games	19
On track to biopower? Toward a conceptual framework for user compliance in digital self-tracking	19
Pressure to play: Social pressure in online multiplayer games	17
What lies behind a Facebook page? Insights from an action research project in rural Bangladesh	16
“There are only a few things that you cannot manage without internet”: Realization of capabilities through internet (non)use by ultra-Orthodox Jewish women	13
Digital media use as social practice: Quantifying its temporal characteristics and changes across 16 years, 2003–2018	12
Management and mitigation of location privacy violations: Case study analysis of U.S. local governments	12
The behavior economy: The creation of behavior as an object of online surveillance	11
Working with Aula: How teachers navigate privacy uncertainties	9
Gain in quantity and novelty of work in intermittent task switching	8
Governing artificial intelligence in China and the European Union: Comparing aims and promoting ethical outcomes	7
Worth-making in a datafied world: Urban cycling, smart urbanism, and technologies of justification in Santiago de Chile	7
Exploring the relationship between media literacy, online interaction, and civic engagement	7
Canaries in the Data Mine: Understanding the Proprietary Design of Youth Environments	7
Digital mobilization via attention building: The logic of cross-boundary actions in the 2019 Hong Kong social movement	7
China’s digital expansion in the Global South: Special issue introduction	6
Trusting the untrustable: The construction of politicians’ self-image on Facebook	6
Alibaba in Mexico: Adapting the digital villages model to Latin America	5
Dying on Airbnb: Digital infrastructures and deadly spaces	5
Internet appropriation barriers in the lives of Dutch parents living in poverty: A qualitative study	5

Can you see me now? Video gatherings and social connectedness during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Ethical reasoning in artificial intelligence: A cybersecurity perspective	5
What role does “hope” play in ICT4D research?	5
Searching for politics: Using real-world web search behavior and surveys to see political information searching in context	4
Doing more with less: Behavioral insights for anti-piracy messages	4
Challenging assumptions about the relationship between awareness of and attitudes to data uses amongst the UK public	4
Digital lifeline? ICTs for refugees and displaced persons	4
Content creation and gig-work in the platform economy: What contemporary sex work can teach us about the futures of digital labor	3
Intellectual property rights and control in the digital economy: Examining the expansion of M-Pesa	3
Hegemonic practices in multistakeholder Internet governance: Participatory evangelism, quiet politics, and glorification of status quo at ICANN meetings	3
Governing through transparency: Investigating the new access to information regime in Canada	3
Effects of an issue-based microtargeting campaign: A small-scale field experiment in a multi-party setting	3
China’s expansion into Brazilian digital surveillance markets	3
Data by design: Shaping data-producing subjectivities through self-tracking	3
Sources of security risk information: What do professionals rely on for their risk assessment?	2
Who says what? Social networks and digital inequalities in online political expression and content creation	2
The irony of the smart home: How the IoT shifts power balances and reinforces household values	2
Another article titled “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” or, the mass production of academic research titles	2
What (missing) the smartphone means: Implications of the medium’s portable, personal, and prosthetic aspects in the deprivation experience of teenagers	2
A nightmare to control: Legal and organizational challenges around the procurement of journalistic AI from external technology providers	2
China’s digital expansion in the Global South: Systematic literature review and future research agenda	2
The rise of digital repression: How technology is reshaping power, politics, and resistance	2
Conferencing together in social virtual reality: Bringing agency back into affordances-based approaches in communication scholarship	1
Learning along the Digital Silk Road? Technology transfer, power, and Chinese ICT corporations in North Africa	1
Realizing the benefits of open government data: Journalists’ coverage of the NHS winter crisis, 2016–17	1
Finding meaning in crowdwork: An analysis of algorithmic management, work characteristics, and meaningfulness	1
The seer and the seen: Surveying Palantir’s surveillance platform	1
Designing for financial inclusion in developing countries: Digital financial service for low-income women in Ghana	1
Algorithmic models through a representational lens	1
What you google is where you are from: Power and proximity in the global information flow of online searches	1
Business as usual? How gamification transforms internal party democracy	1
Experience, habit, and flow: Games user research and the forgetting of player identity	1
The algorithmic network imaginary: How music artists understand and experience their algorithmically constructed networks	1
Comparative privacy research: Literature review, framework, and research agenda	1