Big Data & Society

Article	Citations
Organizing an “organizationless” protest campaign in the WeChatsphere	136
Data citizenship: Quantifying structural racism in COVID-19 and beyond	127
Clicks and particulates: Value, alienation, and attunement as unifying themes in big data studies	99
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?	87
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation	78
Responding to unusual government request for user data: How tech companies make sense of human rights	77
The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter	67
An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option	59
Supportive but apprehensive: Ambivalent attitudes towards a Danish public health AI and surveillance-driven project	59
Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly research	53
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI	51
Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse	48
Local government cultural economy data practices and futures: Capacity, decision-making and partnerships	45
Disability data and its situational and contextual irrationalities in the Global South	43
How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism	38
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security	33
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews	33
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making	32
Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy	31
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy	31
Performative innovation: Data governance in China's fintech industries	30
‘Blockchain for good’: Exploring the notion of social good inside the blockchain scene	30
Digital phenotyping and the (data) shadow of Alzheimer's disease	30
‘Data saves lives’: Ideational-material drivers of health data journeys in the UK	29
Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority	28

After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce	28
Mandatory age verification for pornography access: Why it can't and won't ‘save the children’	28
Expansive and extractive networks of Web3	28
On samples, data, and their mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and data	28
Sounding out voice biometrics: Comparing and contrasting how the state and the private sector determine identity through voice	28
Algorithms and hegemony in the workplace: Negotiating design and values in an Italian television platform	27
Simulation and the reality gap: Moments in a prehistory of synthetic data	27
China as an analytical lens for AI and society	26
Computational reparations as generative justice: Decolonial transitions to unalienated circular value flow	25
Data and AI mystification: Ownership, control, and financialization in the platform	24
The importance of algorithm skills for informed Internet use	24
The chat-chamber effect: Trusting the AI hallucination	23
The Thick Machine: Anthropological AI between explanation and explication	23
Anthropographics in COVID-19 simulations	23
Situating questions of data, power, and racial formation	23
Inequalities in privacy cynicism: An intersectional analysis of agency constraints	23
The ICE–Lexis nexus: An argument against use of commercial databases in immigration enforcement	23
Artificial intelligence and skills in the workplace: An integrative research agenda	22
With great (statistical) power comes great responsibility: A comment on the ethics of using administrative data to investigate marginalised populations	22
Governing algorithmic decisions: The role of decision importance and governance on perceived legitimacy of algorithmic decisions	22
Outsourcing accountability: Extractive data practice and inequities of power in humanitarian third-party monitoring	22
From rules to examples: Machine learning's type of authority	22
Virtual state, where are you? A literature review, framework and agenda for failed digital transformation	21
Carceral algorithms and the history of control: An analysis of the Pennsylvania additive classification tool	21
After the algorithms: A study of meta-algorithmic judgments and diversity in the hiring process at a large multisite company	21
In data we (don't) trust: The public adrift in data-driven public opinion models	21
Bridging awareness and resistance: Using algorithmic knowledge against controversial content	20
Taking stock of COVID-19 health status certificates: Legal implications for data privacy and human rights	20
Researching data discomfort: The case of Statistics Norway’s quest for billing data	20
Why putting artificial intelligence ethics into practice is not enough: Towards a multi-level framework	19
Algorithmic constructions of risk: Anticipating uncertain futures in child protection services	19
Dislocated accountabilities in the “AI supply chain”: Modularity and developers’ notions of responsibility	19
Bridging silos or adding friction? The data work behind re-identification across interoperable data infrastructures	19
Digital identity as platform-mediated surveillance	19
Rethinking use-restricted open-source licenses for regulating abuse of generative models	18
Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 300K emails from the 2020 US election cycle	18
AI incidents and ‘networked trouble’: The case for a research agenda	18
Toward a sociology of machine learning explainability: Human–machine interaction in deep neural network-based automated trading	17
A typology of artificial intelligence data work	17
Just public algorithms: Mapping public engagement with the use of algorithms in UK public services	17
Coloniality and frictions: Data-driven humanitarianism in North-Eastern Nigeria and South Sudan	17
The power and promise of transparency: Perspectives from citizens’ juries of pandemic health data sharing	17
Political affiliation moderates subjective interpretations of COVID-19 graphs	16
Towards a political economy of technical systems: The case of Google	16
Situating data relations in the datafied home: A methodological approach	16
Generating reality and silencing debate: Synthetic data as discursive device	16
Data communism: Constructing a national data ecosystem	16
Imaginaries of better administration: Renegotiating the relationship between citizens and digital public power	16
Reactionary sensemaking: Mapping the micropolitics of online oppositional subcultures	16
Gender and the invisibility of care on Wikipedia	15

Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system	15
Recording the ethical provenance of data and automating data stewardship	15
Public views of the smart city: Towards the construction of a social problem	15
Nothing new under the sun: Medical professional maintenance in the face of artificial intelligence's disruption	15
Algorithmic configurations in caring arrangements	15
#TargetedAds, or memeing dataveillance on TikTok: How users comply, oppose, and imagine datafication practices	15
Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models	14
The role of mundane resistance in the spectacular failure of the smart home	14
Formally comparing topic models and human-generated qualitative coding of physician mothers’ experiences of workplace discrimination	14
The city as a license: Design, rights and civics in a blockchain society	14
Making relations: Re-imagining AI through crafted and embodied knowledge systems in Moana Oceania	14
Deeply embedded wages: Navigating digital payments in data work	14
Prediction as extraction of discretion	14
Tradeoffs all the way down: Ethical abduction as a decision-making process for data-intensive technology development	14
Afrofuturist ambiguities: Inclusion and consolidation in South African digital finance	13
Collectivism and individualism political bias in large language models: A two-step approach	13
Why sovereignty matters for humanitarian data	13
“Governing the urban commons”: DLT, institutions, and citizens in perspective	13
‘I’ve left enough data’: Relations between people and data and the production of surveillance	13
Artificial intelligence for development (AI4D): A contested notion	13
Platform sub-imperialism	13
The effectiveness of embedded values analysis modules in Computer Science education: An empirical study	13
Strong or thin digital democracy? The democratic implications of Taiwan's open government data policy in the 2010s	13
Engaging citizens in experiments with computational analysis of patient stories: From unwarranted reductions to meaningful insights	13
Trade-offs in AI assistant choice: Do consumers prioritize transparency and sustainability over AI assistant performance?	12
Seeing like a driver: How workers repair, resist, and reinforce the platform's algorithmic visions	12
Ground truth tracings (GTT): On the epistemic limits of machine learning	12
Participatory action research in critical data studies: Interrogating AI from a South–North approach	12
“Too Soon” to count? How gender and race cloud notability considerations on Wikipedia	12
Repair and redress: A research program for algorithmic futures	11
Erratum to Taking a critical look at the critical turn in data science: From “data feminism” to transnational feminist data science	11
The problem of researching a recursive society: Algorithms, data coils and the looping of the social	11
The promises and challenges of addressing artificial intelligence with human rights	11
Governing teachers through datafication: Physical–virtual hybridity and language interoperability in teacher accountability	11
Fact signalling and fact nostalgia in the data-driven society	11
In search of the citizen in the datafication of public administration	11
AI Empire: Unraveling the interlocking systems of oppression in generative AI's global order	11
Digital platforms in the agricultural sector: Dynamics of oligopolistic platformisation	11
Contextual integrity in Africa's plural-legal contexts: Fintech, privacy, and informational norms in Ghana	11
Sharenting and social media properties: Exploring vicarious data harms and sociotechnical mitigations	11
Politics of data reuse in machine learning systems: Theorizing reuse entanglements	11
Beyond high-tech versus low-tech: A tentative framework for sustainable urban data governance	10
Grøn Genstart: A quali-quantitative micro-history of a political idea in real-time	10
Individual benefits and collective challenges: Experts’ views on data-driven approaches in medical research and healthcare in the German context	10
The ethics of data interoperability: Mapping problems and strategies in biomedical data and beyond	10
Terms-we-serve-with: Five dimensions for anticipating and repairing algorithmic harm	10
The role of evidence-based misogyny in antifeminist online communities of the ‘manosphere’	10
Data infrastructure studies on an unequal planet	10
Surveillance experiences of extinction rebellion activists and police: Unpacking the technologization of Dutch protest policing	10
Adjusting expectations actionable: Personalised treatment plan in anticipation of data-driven healthcare	10
Redress and worldmaking: Differing approaches to algorithmic reparations for housing justice	10
Machine learning, meaning making: On reading computer science texts	10
Mapping materials, drawing Europe: Sample and data quality and accessibility in the biobanking infrastructure BBMRI-ERIC	10
Quantifying the self with others	10
Our data, ourselves: Participation, justice, and alternative futures of data sovereignty in India	10
How people connect fairness and equity when they talk about data uses	9
Beyond the cybernetic loop: “ smart” pain technology in a recursive society	9
Indigenous peoples and artificial intelligence: A systematic review and future directions	9
Unsustainable artificial intelligence and algorithmically facilitated emissions: The case for emissions-reduction-by-design	9
Algorithmic probing: Prompting offensive Google results and their moderation	9
Commercial genetic information and criminal investigations: The case for social privacy	9
The problem with annotation. Human labour and outsourcing between France and Madagascar	9
Computational grounded theory revisited: From computer-led to computer-assisted text analysis	9
New geographies of platform capitalism: The case of digital monopolization in Turkey	9
Silencing in data science practices	9
Ecological ethics and the smart circular economy	9
Joint-sensemaking, innovation, and communication management during crisis: Evidence from the DCT applications in China	9
Computational ethnography: A view from sociology	9
Linguistic justice as a framework for designing, developing, and managing natural language processing tools	9
‘What about the dads?’ Linking fathers and children in administrative data: A systematic scoping review	9
Sensing data: Towards ethnographic methods for data positionality	9
The valorization of interactions. Gift exchange, power and value creation on digital platforms	9
The curious case of blockchain in rural China: Unravelling power, profit, and surveillance	9
Diversity and neocolonialism in Big Data research: Avoiding extractivism while struggling with paternalism	9
Extrapolation and AI transparency: Why machine learning models should reveal when they make decisions beyond their training	9
The appification of borders: Data, migration and digitalization	9
Decolonizing AI? Lessons from a failed experiment	9
When the future meets the past: Can safety and cyber security coexist in modern critical infrastructures?	9
Cleaning up data work: Negotiating meaning, morality, and inequality in a tech startup	9
Cross-cultural narratives of weaponised artificial intelligence: Comparing France, India, Japan and the United States	9

Everyday digital traces	9
Algorithmic governmentality in Latin America: Sociotechnical imaginaries, neocolonial soft power, and authoritarianism	9
The after party: Cynical resignation in Adtech's pivot to privacy	9
Global data empires: Analysing artificial intelligence data annotation in China and the USA	9
Choreographing for public value in digital health?	8
Datafication and the practice of intelligence production	8
Exploring the impact of national culture on the development of open government data: A cross-cultural analysis	8
Digital phenotyping – Editorial	8
Editorial introduction: Towards a machinic anthropology	8
Interoperable and standardized algorithmic images: The domestic war on drugs and mugshots within facial recognition technologies	8
When artificial intelligence meets accountability: Who holds legitimacy as account givers and holders?	8
The unbearable (technical) unreliability of automated facial emotion recognition	8
With eyes of a machine: A three-step guide for applying machine learning to visual content analysis in social research	8
“Revolutionize medicine as we know it”: Shaping imaginaries of the European Health Data Space	8
A song for each moment: Identifying listening modes as reflexive practices in music streaming	8
Datafied ageing futures: Regimes of anticipation and participatory futuring	8
Predictive privacy: Collective data protection in the context of artificial intelligence and big data	8
Online fraud detection: ‘In the moment’ digital accountability in a data-sensitive setting	8
Designing for justice in freelancing: Testing platform interventions to minimise discrimination in online labour markets	7
From human-centered to social-centered artificial intelligence: Assessing ChatGPT's impact through disruptive events	7
The emergence of artificial intelligence ethics auditing	7
The platformisation tree in China's AI data annotation ecosystem	7
Surveillance capitalism and systemic digital risk: The imperative to collect and connect and the risks of interconnectedness	7
Artificial intelligence and the state: Seeing like an artificial neural network	7
Making sense of “big data”: Ten years of discourse around datafication	7
Sharing precision medicine data with private industry: Outcomes of a citizens’ jury in Singapore	7
Power BI and the datafication of Danish higher education	7
Investment narratives in women's health: Insights on ‘tech for good’ from a new market	7
Social data governance: From reflective practices to comparative synthesis	7
Communicative strategies for building public confidence in data governance: Analyzing Singapore's COVID-19 contact-tracing initiatives	7
The right to information or data sovereignty? Sending unsolicited messages to Russians about the war in Ukraine	7
Street-level bureaucracy meets Big Data: The moral economy of taxation in China in the digital age	7
Emotional labour in the collaborative data practices of repurposing healthcare data and building data technologies	7
Beyond manifestos: Exploring how political campaigns use online advertisements to communicate policy information and pledges	7
Because the machine can discriminate: How machine learning serves and transforms biological explanations of human difference	7
Automated informed consent	6
A feeling for the algorithm: Diversity, expertise, and artificial intelligence	6
Meaningful disinformation: Narrative rituals and affective folktales	6
The material consequences of “chipification”: The case of software-embedded cars	6
A novel, human-in-the-loop computational grounded theory framework for big social data	6
Data cultures: Contested meanings in a public cultural institution	6
Rethinking the filter bubble? Developing a research agenda for the protective filter bubble	6
Not so fast! Data temporalities in law enforcement and border control	6
Utopia of abstraction: Digital organizations and the promise of sovereignty	6
Outlier bias: AI classification of curb ramps, outliers, and context	6
Digitalisation, democracy and the GDPR: The efforts of DPAs to defend democratic principles despite the limitations of the GDPR	6
Sharing digital trace data: Researchers’ challenges and needs	6
Advancing search engine studies: The evolution of Google critique and intervention	6
The corporate cultivation of digital resignation in policymaking: How weak US regulations enable data trafficking to China	5
All WARC and no playback: The materialities of data-centered web archives research	5
A narrative syntax for meaningful human agency – rereading Greimas in times of algorithmic systems	5
Snails, time, data: On the politics of mass-digitization and the possibility of data drift	5
Understanding game data work	5
Short-circuiting biology: Digital phenotypes, digital biomarkers, and shifting gazes in psychiatry	5
Networks, narratives and neocoloniality of AI for Climate Action	5
Enacting data context: Fixing meaning in transparency data initiatives	5
Broken loops, open futures: The building and breaking of behavioural insurance	5
Digital resignation and the datafied welfare state	5
Epistemologies of missing data: COVID dashboard builders and the production and maintenance of marginalized COVID data	5
Algorithmic accountability in U.S. cities: Transparency, impact, and political economy	5
Fairness perceptions of algorithmic decision-making: A systematic review of the empirical literature	5
Designing privacy in personalized health: An empirical analysis	5
Dimensionalizing privacy to advance the study of digital disempowerment	5
Efficient service provider or committed social reformer?: Government data storytelling around city data projects	5
Intelligent toys, complex questions: A literature review of artificial intelligence in children's toys and devices	5
Digital marketing as digital methods: Repurposing Google Ads for controversy mapping	5
Why generative AI is different from designed technology regarding task-relatedness, user interaction, and agency	5
Prediction and explainability in AI: Striking a new balance?	5
Navigating the ethical landscape behind ChatGPT	5
Corrigendum to Leveraging blockchain for energy transition in urban contexts	5
Doing place through data: Proliferation, profiling and the perils of portrayal in local climate action	5
Race-neutral vs race-conscious: Using algorithmic methods to evaluate the reparative potential of housing programs	5