OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Big Data & Society is 10. 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
Toward cultural interpretability: A linguistic anthropological framework for describing and evaluating large language models	155
“Make our communities better through data”: The moral economy of smart city labor	122
Critical companionship: Some sensibilities for studying the lived experience of data subjects	90
The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter	84
Situating data relations in the datafied home: A methodological approach	83
Erratum to The digital life of the #migrantcaravan: Contextualizing Twitter as a spatial technology	77
Towards a United Nations Internal Regulation for Artificial Intelligence	62
Cooling down AI regulation controversies: Three closure processes in the Chilean legislative arena	53
Artificial intelligence as planetary assemblages of coloniality: The new power architecture driving a tiered global data economy	48
Modeling COVID-19 with big mobility data: Surveillance and reaffirming the people in the data	47
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation	47
Towards a political economy of technical systems: The case of Google	47
Low on trust, high on use: Datafied media, trust and everyday life	44
Data communism: Constructing a national data ecosystem	41
Political affiliation moderates subjective interpretations of COVID-19 graphs	40
Enacting data context: Fixing meaning in transparency data initiatives	38
Ecological ethics and the smart circular economy	36
The corporate cultivation of digital resignation in policymaking: How weak US regulations enable data trafficking to China	36
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?	35
Linguistic justice as a framework for designing, developing, and managing natural language processing tools	35
Learning accountable governance: Challenges and perspectives for data-intensive health research networks	34
The valorization of interactions. Gift exchange, power and value creation on digital platforms	29
An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option	28
‘Real-time’ air quality channels: A technology review of emerging environmental alert systems	28
Broken loops, open futures: The building and breaking of behavioural insurance	27

Organizing an “organizationless” protest campaign in the WeChatsphere	27
Cities, COVID-19, and counting	26
Digital/computational phenotyping: What are the differences in the science and the ethics?	26
Responding to unusual government request for user data: How tech companies make sense of human rights	25
Clicks and particulates: Value, alienation, and attunement as unifying themes in big data studies	25
New geographies of platform capitalism: The case of digital monopolization in Turkey	25
Epistemologies of missing data: COVID dashboard builders and the production and maintenance of marginalized COVID data	24
Reactionary sensemaking: Mapping the micropolitics of online oppositional subcultures	24
All WARC and no playback: The materialities of data-centered web archives research	22
Reading datasets: Strategies for interpreting the politics of data signification	21
Clickbait or conspiracy? How Twitter users address the epistemic uncertainty of a controversial preprint	21
Racial formations as data formations	21
Digital marketing as digital methods: Repurposing Google Ads for controversy mapping	21
Diversity and neocolonialism in Big Data research: Avoiding extractivism while struggling with paternalism	21
Computational ethnography: A view from sociology	21
Super SDKs: Tracking personal data and platform monopolies in the mobile	21
The after party: Cynical resignation in Adtech's pivot to privacy	20
Machine Anthropology: A View from International Relations	19
Data extraction in dockless bikeshare: An analysis from users’ perspective	18
Data citizenship: Quantifying structural racism in COVID-19 and beyond	18
The great Transformer: Examining the role of large language models in the political economy of AI	18
The visible body and the invisible organization: Information asymmetry and college athletics data	18
Que(e)rying artificial intelligence use for infectious disease surveillance: The need for a reparative algorithmic praxis	17
The perils of ‘tech for good’ lie in its politics of helping	17
Health in data space: Formative and experiential dimensions of cross-border health data sharing	16
Co-designing algorithms for governance: Ensuring responsible and accountable algorithmic management of refugee camp supplies	16
The ethical dimensions of Google autocomplete	16
Artificial intelligence, human intelligence and hybrid intelligence based on mutual augmentation	16
Algorithmic governmentality in Latin America: Sociotechnical imaginaries, neocolonial soft power, and authoritarianism	16
Addressing ethical gaps in ‘Technology for Good’: Foregrounding care and capabilities	16
The problem with annotation. Human labour and outsourcing between France and Madagascar	16
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI	15
Algorithmic management in a work context	15
Local government cultural economy data practices and futures: Capacity, decision-making and partnerships	15
The fabrics of machine moderation: Studying the technical, normative, and organizational structure of Perspective API	15
Big data surveillance across fields: Algorithmic governance for policing & regulation	15
Computational grounded theory revisited: From computer-led to computer-assisted text analysis	15
Developing data capability with non-profit organisations using participatory methods	15
Surface and Sublevel Hate	15
The data will not save us: Afropessimism and racial antimatter in the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Cleaning up data work: Negotiating meaning, morality, and inequality in a tech startup	14
Algorithmic empowerment: A comparative ethnography of two open-source algorithmic platforms – Decide Madrid and vTaiwan	14
“Big data see through you”: Sexual identifications in an age of algorithmic recommendation	14
The city as a license: Design, rights and civics in a blockchain society	13
“Governing the urban commons”: DLT, institutions, and citizens in perspective	13
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making	13
Digital epidemiology, deep phenotyping and the enduring fantasy of pathological omniscience	13
Gender and the invisibility of care on Wikipedia	13
Ethical scaling for content moderation: Extreme speech and the (in)significance of artificial intelligence	13
Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse	13

Recording the ethical provenance of data and automating data stewardship	13
Performative innovation: Data governance in China's fintech industries	12
Based and confused: Tracing the political connotations of a memetic phrase across the web	12
Tradeoffs all the way down: Ethical abduction as a decision-making process for data-intensive technology development	12
Deepening the data divide: Marginalised perspectives and non-profit priorities in Australian data sharing reforms	12
Datafied ageing futures: Regimes of anticipation and participatory futuring	12
Corrigendum to Racial formation, coloniality, and climate finance organizations: Implications for emergent data projects in the Pacific	12
Doctors for the truth: Latin American antivaccine oppositional cultures on Telegram	12
Datafication and the practice of intelligence production	12
Disability data and its situational and contextual irrationalities in the Global South	12
Accounting for “the social” in contact tracing applications: The paradox between public health governance and mistrust of government's data use	12
Foundation models are platform models: Prompting and the political economy of AI	12
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews	12
Deeply embedded wages: Navigating digital payments in data work	11
‘Blockchain for good’: Exploring the notion of social good inside the blockchain scene	11
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security	11
Imaginaries of democratization and the value of open environmental data: Analysis of Microsoft's planetary computer	11
Phenotyping as disciplinary practice: Data infrastructure and the interprofessional conflict over drug use in California	11
Algorithmic configurations in caring arrangements	11
Exploring the impact of national culture on the development of open government data: A cross-cultural analysis	11
AI as super-controversy: Eliciting AI and society controversies with an extended expert community in the UK	10
Cognitive assemblages: The entangled nature of algorithmic content moderation	10
European Search? How to counter-imagine and counteract hegemonic search with European search engine projects	10
AI and discriminative decisions in recruitment: Challenging the core assumptions	10
Leveraging blockchain for energy transition in urban contexts	10
Interoperable and standardized algorithmic images: The domestic war on drugs and mugshots within facial recognition technologies	10
The interplay of rational evaluation and motivated reasoning in privacy helplessness: An integrative approach	10
‘What about the dads?’ Linking fathers and children in administrative data: A systematic scoping review	10
Algorithmic probing: Prompting offensive Google results and their moderation	10