Big Data & Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Big Data & Society is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Organizing an “organizationless” protest campaign in the WeChatsphere121
Clicks and particulates: Value, alienation, and attunement as unifying themes in big data studies112
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation83
The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter82
Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly Research62
Data citizenship: Quantifying structural racism in COVID-19 and beyond61
Responding to unusual government request for user data: How tech companies make sense of human rights59
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?51
An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option51
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI46
How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism42
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy38
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making37
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security36
Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse35
Local government cultural economy data practices and futures: Capacity, decision-making and partnerships33
Disability data and its situational and contextual irrationalities in the Global South31
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews29
On samples, data, and their mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and data28
‘Blockchain for good’: Exploring the notion of social good inside the blockchain scene28
Performative innovation: Data governance in China's fintech industries28
Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy28
Digital phenotyping and the (data) shadow of Alzheimer's disease27
‘Data saves lives’: Ideational-material drivers of health data journeys in the UK27
Algorithms and hegemony in the workplace: Negotiating design and values in an Italian television platform27
Sounding out voice biometrics: Comparing and contrasting how the state and the private sector determine identity through voice26
Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority26
Simulation and the reality gap: Moments in a prehistory of synthetic data26
Mandatory age verification for pornography access: Why it can't and won't ‘save the children’26
Computational reparations as generative justice: Decolonial transitions to unalienated circular value flow25
After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce25
The importance of algorithm skills for informed Internet use24
Anthropographics in COVID-19 simulations22
Data and AI mystification: Ownership, control, and financialization in the platform22
The ICE–Lexis nexus: An argument against use of commercial databases in immigration enforcement22
Expansive and extractive networks of Web322
Artificial intelligence and skills in the workplace: An integrative research agenda21
The chat-chamber effect: Trusting the AI hallucination21
The Thick Machine: Anthropological AI between explanation and explication20
Situating questions of data, power, and racial formation20
Governing algorithmic decisions: The role of decision importance and governance on perceived legitimacy of algorithmic decisions20
From rules to examples: Machine learning's type of authority20
Inequalities in privacy cynicism: An intersectional analysis of agency constraints20
Researching data discomfort: The case of Statistics Norway’s quest for billing data19
Carceral algorithms and the history of control: An analysis of the Pennsylvania additive classification tool19
Taking stock of COVID-19 health status certificates: Legal implications for data privacy and human rights19
In data we (don't) trust: The public adrift in data-driven public opinion models18
Algorithmic constructions of risk: Anticipating uncertain futures in child protection services18
Bridging awareness and resistance: Using algorithmic knowledge against controversial content18
With great (statistical) power comes great responsibility: A comment on the ethics of using administrative data to investigate marginalised populations18
Outsourcing accountability: Extractive data practice and inequities of power in humanitarian third-party monitoring18
After the algorithms: A study of meta-algorithmic judgments and diversity in the hiring process at a large multisite company17
Why putting artificial intelligence ethics into practice is not enough: Towards a multi-level framework17
Dislocated accountabilities in the “AI supply chain”: Modularity and developers’ notions of responsibility17
Digital identity as platform-mediated surveillance17
Virtual state, where are you? A literature review, framework and agenda for failed digital transformation17
AI incidents and ‘networked trouble’: The case for a research agenda16
Rethinking use-restricted open-source licenses for regulating abuse of generative models16
Generating reality and silencing debate: Synthetic data as discursive device16
Coloniality and frictions: Data-driven humanitarianism in North-Eastern Nigeria and South Sudan16
A typology of artificial intelligence data work16
The power and promise of transparency: Perspectives from citizens’ juries of pandemic health data sharing16
Just public algorithms: Mapping public engagement with the use of algorithms in UK public services16
Political affiliation moderates subjective interpretations of COVID-19 graphs15
Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 300K emails from the 2020 US election cycle15
Reactionary sensemaking: Mapping the micropolitics of online oppositional subcultures15
Toward a sociology of machine learning explainability: Human–machine interaction in deep neural network-based automated trading15
Data communism: Constructing a national data ecosystem15
Towards a political economy of technical systems: The case of Google15
Imaginaries of better administration: Renegotiating the relationship between citizens and digital public power15
Situating data relations in the datafied home: A methodological approach14
Recording the ethical provenance of data and automating data stewardship14
“Governing the urban commons”: DLT, institutions, and citizens in perspective14
Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models14
Algorithmic configurations in caring arrangements14
Tradeoffs all the way down: Ethical abduction as a decision-making process for data-intensive technology development13
The city as a license: Design, rights and civics in a blockchain society13
The role of mundane resistance in the spectacular failure of the smart home13
Gender and the invisibility of care on Wikipedia13
Formally comparing topic models and human-generated qualitative coding of physician mothers’ experiences of workplace discrimination13
Prediction as extraction of discretion13
Deeply embedded wages: Navigating digital payments in data work13
Nothing new under the sun: Medical professional maintenance in the face of artificial intelligence's disruption13
Making relations: Re-imagining AI through crafted and embodied knowledge systems in Moana Oceania13
Platform sub-imperialism12
Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system12
Strong or thin digital democracy? The democratic implications of Taiwan's open government data policy in the 2010s12
Engaging citizens in experiments with computational analysis of patient stories: From unwarranted reductions to meaningful insights12
Public views of the smart city: Towards the construction of a social problem12
Artificial intelligence for development (AI4D): A contested notion12
Collectivism and individualism political bias in large language models: A two-step approach12
Participatory action research in critical data studies: Interrogating AI from a South–North approach12
Ground truth tracings (GTT): On the epistemic limits of machine learning11
Trade-offs in AI assistant choice: Do consumers prioritize transparency and sustainability over AI assistant performance?11
Seeing like a driver: How workers repair, resist, and reinforce the platform's algorithmic visions11
Erratum to Taking a critical look at the critical turn in data science: From “data feminism” to transnational feminist data science11
‘I’ve left enough data’: Relations between people and data and the production of surveillance11
Afrofuturist ambiguities: Inclusion and consolidation in South African digital finance11
Governing teachers through datafication: Physical–virtual hybridity and language interoperability in teacher accountability11
Why sovereignty matters for humanitarian data11
The effectiveness of embedded values analysis modules in Computer Science education: An empirical study11
“Too Soon” to count? How gender and race cloud notability considerations on Wikipedia11
Contextual integrity in Africa's plural-legal contexts: Fintech, privacy, and informational norms in Ghana10
Politics of data reuse in machine learning systems: Theorizing reuse entanglements10
Sharenting and social media properties: Exploring vicarious data harms and sociotechnical mitigations10
The promises and challenges of addressing artificial intelligence with human rights10
Fact signalling and fact nostalgia in the data-driven society10
In search of the citizen in the datafication of public administration10
Surveillance experiences of extinction rebellion activists and police: Unpacking the technologization of Dutch protest policing9
Adjusting expectations actionable: Personalised treatment plan in anticipation of data-driven healthcare9
The role of evidence-based misogyny in antifeminist online communities of the ‘manosphere’9
Beyond high-tech versus low-tech: A tentative framework for sustainable urban data governance9
Indigenous peoples and artificial intelligence: A systematic review and future directions9
Mapping materials, drawing Europe: Sample and data quality and accessibility in the biobanking infrastructure BBMRI-ERIC9
Data infrastructure studies on an unequal planet9
Quantifying the self with others9
The problem of researching a recursive society: Algorithms, data coils and the looping of the social9
Machine learning, meaning making: On reading computer science texts9
Joint-sensemaking, innovation, and communication management during crisis: Evidence from the DCT applications in China9
Global data empires: Analysing artificial intelligence data annotation in China and the USA9
Digital platforms in the agricultural sector: Dynamics of oligopolistic platformisation9
Our data, ourselves: Participation, justice, and alternative futures of data sovereignty in India9
The ethics of data interoperability: Mapping problems and strategies in biomedical data and beyond9
Redress and worldmaking: Differing approaches to algorithmic reparations for housing justice9
Terms-we-serve-with: Five dimensions for anticipating and repairing algorithmic harm9
Beyond the cybernetic loop: smart” pain technology in a recursive society9
Individual benefits and collective challenges: Experts’ views on data-driven approaches in medical research and healthcare in the German context9
AI Empire: Unraveling the interlocking systems of oppression in generative AI's global order9
New geographies of platform capitalism: The case of digital monopolization in Turkey8
Ecological ethics and the smart circular economy8
Decolonizing AI? Lessons from a failed experiment8
The appification of borders: Data, migration and digitalization8
When the future meets the past: Can safety and cyber security coexist in modern critical infrastructures?8
Linguistic justice as a framework for designing, developing, and managing natural language processing tools8
A song for each moment: Identifying listening modes as reflexive practices in music streaming8
‘What about the dads?’ Linking fathers and children in administrative data: A systematic scoping review8
The valorization of interactions. Gift exchange, power and value creation on digital platforms8
Computational ethnography: A view from sociology8
Unsustainable artificial intelligence and algorithmically facilitated emissions: The case for emissions-reduction-by-design8
Silencing in data science practices8
Extrapolation and AI transparency: Why machine learning models should reveal when they make decisions beyond their training8
The problem with annotation. Human labour and outsourcing between France and Madagascar8
Datafied ageing futures: Regimes of anticipation and participatory futuring8
Exploring the impact of national culture on the development of open government data: A cross-cultural analysis8
The curious case of blockchain in rural China: Unravelling power, profit, and surveillance8
Diversity and neocolonialism in Big Data research: Avoiding extractivism while struggling with paternalism8
The after party: Cynical resignation in Adtech's pivot to privacy8
Grøn Genstart: A quali-quantitative micro-history of a political idea in real-time8
How people connect fairness and equity when they talk about data uses8
Algorithmic governmentality in Latin America: Sociotechnical imaginaries, neocolonial soft power, and authoritarianism8
Cleaning up data work: Negotiating meaning, morality, and inequality in a tech startup8
Algorithmic probing: Prompting offensive Google results and their moderation8
The unbearable (technical) unreliability of automated facial emotion recognition8
Sensing data: Towards ethnographic methods for data positionality8
Computational grounded theory revisited: From computer-led to computer-assisted text analysis8
Interoperable and standardized algorithmic images: The domestic war on drugs and mugshots within facial recognition technologies7
Everyday digital traces7
Online fraud detection: ‘In the moment’ digital accountability in a data-sensitive setting7
The emergence of artificial intelligence ethics auditing7
Investment narratives in women's health: Insights on ‘tech for good’ from a new market7
Cross-cultural narratives of weaponised artificial intelligence: Comparing France, India, Japan and the United States7
Choreographing for public value in digital health?7
Predictive privacy: Collective data protection in the context of artificial intelligence and big data7
Editorial introduction: Towards a machinic anthropology7
Digital phenotyping – Editorial7
Emotional labour in the collaborative data practices of repurposing healthcare data and building data technologies7
Datafication and the practice of intelligence production7
Commercial genetic information and criminal investigations: The case for social privacy7
Beyond manifestos: Exploring how political campaigns use online advertisements to communicate policy information and pledges7
Surveillance capitalism and systemic digital risk: The imperative to collect and connect and the risks of interconnectedness7
With eyes of a machine: A three-step guide for applying machine learning to visual content analysis in social research7
Automated informed consent6
Street-level bureaucracy meets Big Data: The moral economy of taxation in China in the digital age6
A feeling for the algorithm: Diversity, expertise, and artificial intelligence6
Designing for justice in freelancing: Testing platform interventions to minimise discrimination in online labour markets6
Sharing precision medicine data with private industry: Outcomes of a citizens’ jury in Singapore6
The material consequences of “chipification”: The case of software-embedded cars6
Digitalisation, democracy and the GDPR: The efforts of DPAs to defend democratic principles despite the limitations of the GDPR6
Utopia of abstraction: Digital organizations and the promise of sovereignty6
Advancing search engine studies: The evolution of Google critique and intervention6
Communicative strategies for building public confidence in data governance: Analyzing Singapore's COVID-19 contact-tracing initiatives6
Making sense of “big data”: Ten years of discourse around datafication6
From human-centered to social-centered artificial intelligence: Assessing ChatGPT's impact through disruptive events6
A novel, human-in-the-loop computational grounded theory framework for big social data6
Social data governance: From reflective practices to comparative synthesis6
Because the machine can discriminate: How machine learning serves and transforms biological explanations of human difference6
Outlier bias: AI classification of curb ramps, outliers, and context6
Artificial intelligence and the state: Seeing like an artificial neural network6
The right to information or data sovereignty? Sending unsolicited messages to Russians about the war in Ukraine6
Meaningful disinformation: Narrative rituals and affective folktales6
The perils of ‘tech for good’ lie in its politics of helping5
Corrigendum to Leveraging blockchain for energy transition in urban contexts5
Understanding game data work5
Snails, time, data: On the politics of mass-digitization and the possibility of data drift5
Algorithmic accountability in U.S. cities: Transparency, impact, and political economy5
Race-neutral vs race-conscious: Using algorithmic methods to evaluate the reparative potential of housing programs5
Prediction and explainability in AI: Striking a new balance?5
Short-circuiting biology: Digital phenotypes, digital biomarkers, and shifting gazes in psychiatry5
Sharing digital trace data: Researchers’ challenges and needs5
Navigating the ethical landscape behind ChatGPT5
Rethinking the filter bubble? Developing a research agenda for the protective filter bubble5
Networks, narratives and neocoloniality of AI for Climate Action5
Dimensionalizing privacy to advance the study of digital disempowerment5
Lexical algorithmic resistance: Tactics of deceiving Arabic content moderation algorithms on Facebook5
Designing privacy in personalized health: An empirical analysis5
Not so fast! Data temporalities in law enforcement and border control5
Doing place through data: Proliferation, profiling and the perils of portrayal in local climate action5
Digital resignation and the datafied welfare state5
Fairness perceptions of algorithmic decision-making: A systematic review of the empirical literature5
Efficient service provider or committed social reformer?: Government data storytelling around city data projects5
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