OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Big Data & Society is 11. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

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
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews	33
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security	33
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making	32
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy	31
Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy	31
‘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
Performative innovation: Data governance in China's fintech industries	30
‘Data saves lives’: Ideational-material drivers of health data journeys in the UK	29
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
Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority	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
The importance of algorithm skills for informed Internet use	24
Data and AI mystification: Ownership, control, and financialization in the platform	24
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
The chat-chamber effect: Trusting the AI hallucination	23
The Thick Machine: Anthropological AI between explanation and explication	23
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
Artificial intelligence and skills in the workplace: An integrative research agenda	22
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
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
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
Bridging awareness and resistance: Using algorithmic knowledge against controversial content	20
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
Why putting artificial intelligence ethics into practice is not enough: Towards a multi-level framework	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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models	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
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
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