OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Big Data & Society is 13. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option	191
Clicks and particulates: Value, alienation, and attunement as unifying themes in big data studies	158
The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter	143
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation	111
Data citizenship: Quantifying structural racism in COVID-19 and beyond	95
Responding to unusual government request for user data: How tech companies make sense of human rights	91
Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly research	81
Supportive but apprehensive: Ambivalent attitudes towards a Danish public health AI and surveillance-driven project	79
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?	68
From authority to similarity: How Google transformed its knowledge infrastructure using computer vision	61
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI	60
How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism	52
‘Blockchain for good’: Exploring the notion of social good inside the blockchain scene	45
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews	40
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security	39
Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse	39
Local government cultural economy data practices and futures: Capacity, decision-making and partnerships	39
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy	38
Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy	38
Disability data and its situational and contextual irrationalities in the Global South	37
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making	37
Performative innovation: Data governance in China's fintech industries	36
After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce	34
Computational reparations as generative justice: Decolonial transitions to unalienated circular value flow	34
Mandatory age verification for pornography access: Why it can't and won't ‘save the children’	34

Simulation and the reality gap: Moments in a prehistory of synthetic data	33
Expansive and extractive networks of Web3	32
‘Data saves lives’: Ideational-material drivers of health data journeys in the UK	32
Algorithms and hegemony in the workplace: Negotiating design and values in an Italian television platform	32
Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority	32
Sounding out voice biometrics: Comparing and contrasting how the state and the private sector determine identity through voice	32
The importance of algorithm skills for informed Internet use	31
On samples, data, and their mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and data	31
China as an analytical lens for AI and society	30
Demographic figures at risk in the digital era: Resisting commodification, reclaiming the common good	30
Producing shifting personhood: How designers anthropomorphize artificial intelligence	29
Artificial intelligence and skills in the workplace: An integrative research agenda	27
Inequalities in privacy cynicism: An intersectional analysis of agency constraints	27
The chat-chamber effect: Trusting the AI hallucination	27
From rules to examples: Machine learning's type of authority	27
From “I have nothing to hide” to “Its stalking”: Americans’ comfort sharing individual mobility features	26
Emergency curation as anticipatory maintenance: Lessons from the 2016/2017 data rescue movement	26
The ICE–Lexis nexus: An argument against use of commercial databases in immigration enforcement	26
Algorithmicized bodies: Account nurturing behaviors on Chinese short video platforms	26
Data and AI mystification: Ownership, control, and financialization in the platform	25
Bridging awareness and resistance: Using algorithmic knowledge against controversial content	24
From flatlands to livable futures: Unflattening carbon metrics in the energy and data industries	24
With great (statistical) power comes great responsibility: A comment on the ethics of using administrative data to investigate marginalised populations	24
Mapping the landscape of deepfake research: A systematic review of empirical studies	24
Researching data discomfort: The case of Statistics Norway’s quest for billing data	23
Outsourcing accountability: Extractive data practice and inequities of power in humanitarian third-party monitoring	23
Strategising imaginaries: How corporate actors in China, Germany and the US shape AI governance	22
Working closely with data: Aspirations and constraints of Chinese data scientists	22
Studying the discursive order of artificial intelligence: Cross-national media coverage in China, Germany, and the US (2012–2024)	22
Creating certainty where there is none: Artificial intelligence as political concept	22
Bridging silos or adding friction? The data work behind re-identification across interoperable data infrastructures	22
Racial framing contests: How anti-Asian racism and its resistance enacted racial projects during COVID-19	22
After the algorithms: A study of meta-algorithmic judgments and diversity in the hiring process at a large multisite company	22
Virtual state, where are you? A literature review, framework and agenda for failed digital transformation	21
Algorithmic constructions of risk: Anticipating uncertain futures in child protection services	20
Why putting artificial intelligence ethics into practice is not enough: Towards a multi-level framework	20
Toward a sociology of machine learning explainability: Human–machine interaction in deep neural network-based automated trading	20
Digital identity as platform-mediated surveillance	20
Dancing with anklets: Navigating digital rural governance with big data in China	20
Dislocated accountabilities in the “AI supply chain”: Modularity and developers’ notions of responsibility	20
The power and promise of transparency: Perspectives from citizens’ juries of pandemic health data sharing	20
A typology of artificial intelligence data work	19
Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 300K emails from the 2020 US election cycle	19
AI incidents and ‘networked trouble’: The case for a research agenda	19
Imaginaries of better administration: Renegotiating the relationship between citizens and digital public power	19
Generating reality and silencing debate: Synthetic data as discursive device	19
Coloniality and frictions: Data-driven humanitarianism in North-Eastern Nigeria and South Sudan	19
Just public algorithms: Mapping public engagement with the use of algorithms in UK public services	18
Situating data relations in the datafied home: A methodological approach	18
Rethinking use-restricted open-source licenses for regulating abuse of generative models	18

Reactionary sensemaking: Mapping the micropolitics of online oppositional subcultures	18
Data communism: Constructing a national data ecosystem	18
Towards a political economy of technical systems: The case of Google	18
Legitimacy practices, algorithms, and the new bureaucratic quantification	17
AI failure loops in devalued work: The confluence of overconfidence in AI and underconfidence in worker expertise	17
Double standards of generative AI chatbots: Unveiling (digital) ageism versus sexism through sociological interviews	17
Recording the ethical provenance of data and automating data stewardship	16
Deeply embedded wages: Navigating digital payments in data work	16
#TargetedAds, or memeing dataveillance on TikTok: How users comply, oppose, and imagine datafication practices	16
Prediction as extraction of discretion	16
The city as a license: Design, rights and civics in a blockchain society	16
CO2e (best) avoided? How people experience CO2e avoided on the Too Good To Go app	16
Formally comparing topic models and human-generated qualitative coding of physician mothers’ experiences of workplace discrimination	16
“Governing the urban commons”: DLT, institutions, and citizens in perspective	16
Nothing new under the sun: Medical professional maintenance in the face of artificial intelligence's disruption	16
Gender and the invisibility of care on Wikipedia	16
Rating villagers’ morality: Techno-moral governance via a data scoring system in rural China	16
Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models	15
Algorithmic configurations in caring arrangements	15
Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system	15
Making relations: Re-imagining AI through crafted and embodied knowledge systems in Moana Oceania	14
Collectivism and individualism political bias in large language models: A two-step approach	14
The effectiveness of embedded values analysis modules in Computer Science education: An empirical study	14
‘I’ve left enough data’: Relations between people and data and the production of surveillance	14
Patchwork surveillance and accountability labor: China's Health Code Systems during COVID-19	14
Afrofuturist ambiguities: Inclusion and consolidation in South African digital finance	14
“Too Soon” to count? How gender and race cloud notability considerations on Wikipedia	14
Strong or thin digital democracy? The democratic implications of Taiwan's open government data policy in the 2010s	14
Ground truth tracings (GTT): On the epistemic limits of machine learning	14
The role of mundane resistance in the spectacular failure of the smart home	14
Why sovereignty matters for humanitarian data	14
Engaging citizens in experiments with computational analysis of patient stories: From unwarranted reductions to meaningful insights	14
Trade-offs in AI assistant choice: Do consumers prioritize transparency and sustainability over AI assistant performance?	14
Contextual integrity in Africa's plural-legal contexts: Fintech, privacy, and informational norms in Ghana	13
Platform sub-imperialism	13
AI Empire: Unraveling the interlocking systems of oppression in generative AI's global order	13
The promises and challenges of addressing artificial intelligence with human rights	13
Participatory action research in critical data studies: Interrogating AI from a South–North approach	13
Digital platforms in the agricultural sector: Dynamics of oligopolistic platformisation	13
Sharenting and social media properties: Exploring vicarious data harms and sociotechnical mitigations	13
Artificial intelligence for development (AI4D): A contested notion	13
Seeing like a driver: How workers repair, resist, and reinforce the platform's algorithmic visions	13
Fact signalling and fact nostalgia in the data-driven society	13