Big Data & Society

Article	Citations
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?	114
The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter	106
Organizing an “organizationless” protest campaign in the WeChatsphere	79
Clicks and particulates: Value, alienation, and attunement as unifying themes in big data studies	77
Data citizenship: Quantifying structural racism in COVID-19 and beyond	62
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation	60
Responding to unusual government request for user data: How tech companies make sense of human rights	50
An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option	47
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI	46
Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy	46
How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism	42
Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse	37
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews	34
‘Blockchain for good’: Exploring the notion of social good inside the blockchain scene	33
Local government cultural economy data practices and futures: Capacity, decision-making and partnerships	32
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security	31
Disability data and its situational and contextual irrationalities in the Global South	31
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making	28
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy	28
Performative innovation: Data governance in China's fintech industries	28
On samples, data, and their mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and data	27
Expansive and extractive networks of Web3	27
Digital phenotyping and the (data) shadow of Alzheimer's disease	26
‘Data saves lives’: Ideational-material drivers of health data journeys in the UK	26
Mandatory age verification for pornography access: Why it can't and won't ‘save the children’	24

The importance of algorithm skills for informed Internet use	24
Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority	24
Algorithms and hegemony in the workplace: Negotiating design and values in an Italian television platform	24
Simulation and the reality gap: Moments in a prehistory of synthetic data	23
Sounding out voice biometrics: Comparing and contrasting how the state and the private sector determine identity through voice	23
After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce	23
Computational reparations as generative justice: Decolonial transitions to unalienated circular value flow	22
From rules to examples: Machine learning's type of authority	21
Data and AI mystification: Ownership, control, and financialization in the platform	21
Anthropographics in COVID-19 simulations	21
Artificial intelligence and skills in the workplace: An integrative research agenda	20
Situating questions of data, power, and racial formation	20
The Thick Machine: Anthropological AI between explanation and explication	20
Governing algorithmic decisions: The role of decision importance and governance on perceived legitimacy of algorithmic decisions	20
The chat-chamber effect: Trusting the AI hallucination	20
Inequalities in privacy cynicism: An intersectional analysis of agency constraints	20
Digital identity as platform-mediated surveillance	19
Carceral algorithms and the history of control: An analysis of the Pennsylvania additive classification tool	19
Virtual state, where are you? A literature review, framework and agenda for failed digital transformation	18
Taking stock of COVID-19 health status certificates: Legal implications for data privacy and human rights	18
After the algorithms: A study of meta-algorithmic judgments and diversity in the hiring process at a large multisite company	18
Researching data discomfort: The case of Statistics Norway’s quest for billing data	18
Algorithmic constructions of risk: Anticipating uncertain futures in child protection services	17
In data we (don't) trust: The public adrift in data-driven public opinion models	17
With great (statistical) power comes great responsibility: A comment on the ethics of using administrative data to investigate marginalised populations	17
Dislocated accountabilities in the “AI supply chain”: Modularity and developers’ notions of responsibility	17
Why putting artificial intelligence ethics into practice is not enough: Towards a multi-level framework	17
Outsourcing accountability: Extractive data practice and inequities of power in humanitarian third-party monitoring	17
Bridging awareness and resistance: Using algorithmic knowledge against controversial content	17
Toward a sociology of machine learning explainability: Human–machine interaction in deep neural network-based automated trading	16
Just public algorithms: Mapping public engagement with the use of algorithms in UK public services	16
Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 300K emails from the 2020 US election cycle	16
A typology of artificial intelligence data work	16
AI incidents and ‘networked trouble’: The case for a research agenda	16
Rethinking use-restricted open-source licenses for regulating abuse of generative models	15
Imaginaries of better administration: Renegotiating the relationship between citizens and digital public power	15
The power and promise of transparency: Perspectives from citizens’ juries of pandemic health data sharing	15
Coloniality and frictions: Data-driven humanitarianism in North-Eastern Nigeria and South Sudan	15
Generating reality and silencing debate: Synthetic data as discursive device	15
Political affiliation moderates subjective interpretations of COVID-19 graphs	14
Public views of the smart city: Towards the construction of a social problem	14
Reactionary sensemaking: Mapping the micropolitics of online oppositional subcultures	14
Data communism: Constructing a national data ecosystem	14
Towards a political economy of technical systems: The case of Google	14
Situating data relations in the datafied home: A methodological approach	14
Prediction as extraction of discretion	13
Recording the ethical provenance of data and automating data stewardship	13
The city as a license: Design, rights and civics in a blockchain society	13
Nothing new under the sun: Medical professional maintenance in the face of artificial intelligence's disruption	13
Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models	13

Gender and the invisibility of care on Wikipedia	13
Tradeoffs all the way down: Ethical abduction as a decision-making process for data-intensive technology development	13
Algorithmic configurations in caring arrangements	13
Deeply embedded wages: Navigating digital payments in data work	13
Making relations: Re-imagining AI through crafted and embodied knowledge systems in Moana Oceania	13
Artificial intelligence for development (AI4D): A contested notion	12
“Governing the urban commons”: DLT, institutions, and citizens in perspective	12
The role of mundane resistance in the spectacular failure of the smart home	12
Formally comparing topic models and human-generated qualitative coding of physician mothers’ experiences of workplace discrimination	12
Trade-offs in AI assistant choice: Do consumers prioritize transparency and sustainability over AI assistant performance?	12
Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system	12
Participatory action research in critical data studies: Interrogating AI from a South–North approach	11
Platform sub-imperialism	11
Collectivism and individualism political bias in large language models: A two-step approach	11
Afrofuturist ambiguities: Inclusion and consolidation in South African digital finance	11
“Too Soon” to count? How gender and race cloud notability considerations on Wikipedia	11
Engaging citizens in experiments with computational analysis of patient stories: From unwarranted reductions to meaningful insights	11
‘I’ve left enough data’: Relations between people and data and the production of surveillance	11
Strong or thin digital democracy? The democratic implications of Taiwan's open government data policy in the 2010s	11
Seeing like a driver: How workers repair, resist, and reinforce the platform's algorithmic visions	11
The effectiveness of embedded values analysis modules in Computer Science education: An empirical study	11
Ground truth tracings (GTT): On the epistemic limits of machine learning	11
Fact signalling and fact nostalgia in the data-driven society	10
The problem of researching a recursive society: Algorithms, data coils and the looping of the social	10
Politics of data reuse in machine learning systems: Theorizing reuse entanglements	10
Why sovereignty matters for humanitarian data	10
In search of the citizen in the datafication of public administration	10
Contextual integrity in Africa's plural-legal contexts: Fintech, privacy, and informational norms in Ghana	10
The promises and challenges of addressing artificial intelligence with human rights	10
Governing teachers through datafication: Physical–virtual hybridity and language interoperability in teacher accountability	10
Sharenting and social media properties: Exploring vicarious data harms and sociotechnical mitigations	10
Digital platforms in the agricultural sector: Dynamics of oligopolistic platformisation	9
Machine learning, meaning making: On reading computer science texts	9
Beyond high-tech versus low-tech: A tentative framework for sustainable urban data governance	9
Mapping materials, drawing Europe: Sample and data quality and accessibility in the biobanking infrastructure BBMRI-ERIC	9
Quantifying the self with others	9
AI Empire: Unraveling the interlocking systems of oppression in generative AI's global order	9
Erratum to Taking a critical look at the critical turn in data science: From “data feminism” to transnational feminist data science	9
The ethics of data interoperability: Mapping problems and strategies in biomedical data and beyond	9
The role of evidence-based misogyny in antifeminist online communities of the ‘manosphere’	9
Redress and worldmaking: Differing approaches to algorithmic reparations for housing justice	9
Individual benefits and collective challenges: Experts’ views on data-driven approaches in medical research and healthcare in the German context	9
Surveillance experiences of extinction rebellion activists and police: Unpacking the technologization of Dutch protest policing	9
Adjusting expectations actionable: Personalised treatment plan in anticipation of data-driven healthcare	9
Terms-we-serve-with: Five dimensions for anticipating and repairing algorithmic harm	9
When the future meets the past: Can safety and cyber security coexist in modern critical infrastructures?	8
Extrapolation and AI transparency: Why machine learning models should reveal when they make decisions beyond their training	8
Grøn Genstart: A quali-quantitative micro-history of a political idea in real-time	8
The problem with annotation. Human labour and outsourcing between France and Madagascar	8
‘What about the dads?’ Linking fathers and children in administrative data: A systematic scoping review	8
Interoperable and standardized algorithmic images: The domestic war on drugs and mugshots within facial recognition technologies	8
Datafication and the practice of intelligence production	8
The after party: Cynical resignation in Adtech's pivot to privacy	8
Algorithmic governmentality in Latin America: Sociotechnical imaginaries, neocolonial soft power, and authoritarianism	8
Computational ethnography: A view from sociology	8
How people connect fairness and equity when they talk about data uses	8
Beyond the cybernetic loop: “ smart” pain technology in a recursive society	8
Joint-sensemaking, innovation, and communication management during crisis: Evidence from the DCT applications in China	8
Global data empires: Analysing artificial intelligence data annotation in China and the USA	8
Linguistic justice as a framework for designing, developing, and managing natural language processing tools	8
Choreographing for public value in digital health?	8
Everyday digital traces	8
New geographies of platform capitalism: The case of digital monopolization in Turkey	8
Ecological ethics and the smart circular economy	8
The appification of borders: Data, migration and digitalization	8
Indigenous peoples and artificial intelligence: A systematic review and future directions	8
Data infrastructure studies on an unequal planet	8
The valorization of interactions. Gift exchange, power and value creation on digital platforms	8
Computational grounded theory revisited: From computer-led to computer-assisted text analysis	8
Algorithmic probing: Prompting offensive Google results and their moderation	8
A song for each moment: Identifying listening modes as reflexive practices in music streaming	8
Diversity and neocolonialism in Big Data research: Avoiding extractivism while struggling with paternalism	8
Digital phenotyping – Editorial	7
The emergence of artificial intelligence ethics auditing	7
Exploring the impact of national culture on the development of open government data: A cross-cultural analysis	7
Commercial genetic information and criminal investigations: The case for social privacy	7
Social data governance: From reflective practices to comparative synthesis	7
Emotional labour in the collaborative data practices of repurposing healthcare data and building data technologies	7
Investment narratives in women's health: Insights on ‘tech for good’ from a new market	7
Cross-cultural narratives of weaponised artificial intelligence: Comparing France, India, Japan and the United States	7

The unbearable (technical) unreliability of automated facial emotion recognition	7
Cleaning up data work: Negotiating meaning, morality, and inequality in a tech startup	7
With eyes of a machine: A three-step guide for applying machine learning to visual content analysis in social research	7
Beyond manifestos: Exploring how political campaigns use online advertisements to communicate policy information and pledges	7
Editorial introduction: Towards a machinic anthropology	7
Datafied ageing futures: Regimes of anticipation and participatory futuring	7
Predictive privacy: Collective data protection in the context of artificial intelligence and big data	7
The curious case of blockchain in rural China: Unravelling power, profit, and surveillance	7
Surveillance capitalism and systemic digital risk: The imperative to collect and connect and the risks of interconnectedness	7
Communicative strategies for building public confidence in data governance: Analyzing Singapore's COVID-19 contact-tracing initiatives	6
Advancing search engine studies: The evolution of Google critique and intervention	6
Outlier bias: AI classification of curb ramps, outliers, and context	6
Online fraud detection: ‘In the moment’ digital accountability in a data-sensitive setting	6
Designing for justice in freelancing: Testing platform interventions to minimise discrimination in online labour markets	6
A feeling for the algorithm: Diversity, expertise, and artificial intelligence	6
A novel, human-in-the-loop computational grounded theory framework for big social data	6
Digitalisation, democracy and the GDPR: The efforts of DPAs to defend democratic principles despite the limitations of the GDPR	6
Corrigendum to Leveraging blockchain for energy transition in urban contexts	6
Making sense of “big data”: Ten years of discourse around datafication	6
Sharing precision medicine data with private industry: Outcomes of a citizens’ jury in Singapore	6
Artificial intelligence and the state: Seeing like an artificial neural network	6
Utopia of abstraction: Digital organizations and the promise of sovereignty	6
Because the machine can discriminate: How machine learning serves and transforms biological explanations of human difference	6
From human-centered to social-centered artificial intelligence: Assessing ChatGPT's impact through disruptive events	6
The right to information or data sovereignty? Sending unsolicited messages to Russians about the war in Ukraine	6
Short-circuiting biology: Digital phenotypes, digital biomarkers, and shifting gazes in psychiatry	6
Street-level bureaucracy meets Big Data: The moral economy of taxation in China in the digital age	6
Automated informed consent	6
Understanding game data work	5
Designing privacy in personalized health: An empirical analysis	5
Rethinking the filter bubble? Developing a research agenda for the protective filter bubble	5
Navigating the ethical landscape behind ChatGPT	5
Algorithmic accountability in U.S. cities: Transparency, impact, and political economy	5
Meaningful disinformation: Narrative rituals and affective folktales	5
The material consequences of “chipification”: The case of software-embedded cars	5
Doing place through data: Proliferation, profiling and the perils of portrayal in local climate action	5
Snails, time, data: On the politics of mass-digitization and the possibility of data drift	5
Networks, narratives and neocoloniality of AI for Climate Action	5
Fairness perceptions of algorithmic decision-making: A systematic review of the empirical literature	5
Not so fast! Data temporalities in law enforcement and border control	5
Digital resignation and the datafied welfare state	5
Prediction and explainability in AI: Striking a new balance?	5
Sharing digital trace data: Researchers’ challenges and needs	5