OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Information Society is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Privacy and smart speakers: A multi-dimensional approach	44
Systematic evaluation of gig work against decent work standards: The development and application of the Fairwork framework	36
Numbers will not save us: Agonistic data practices	35
Folk theories of algorithmic operations during Internet use: A mixed methods study	26
Governing artificial intelligence in China and the European Union: Comparing aims and promoting ethical outcomes	26
Controlling petty corruption in public administrations of developing countries through digitalization: An opportunity theory informed study of Ghana customs	25
Unpacking the multiple spaces of innovation hubs	22
“This is capitalism. It is not illegal”: Users’ attitudes toward institutional privacy following the Cambridge Analytica scandal	20
Trading spaces: How and why older adults disconnect from and switch between digital media	19
The seer and the seen: Surveying Palantir’s surveillance platform	18
Collaboration without consensus: Building resilience in sustainable agriculture through ICTs	18
The acquisition of health and science information in the 21^st century	16
Return of the regulatory state: A stakeholder analysis of Australia’s Digital Platforms Inquiry and online news policy	15
Digital public goods platforms for development: The challenge of scaling	14
Measuring internet skills in a general population: A large-scale validation of the short Internet Skills Scale in Slovenia	12
Social network dynamics, bots, and community-based online misinformation spread: Lessons from anti-refugee and COVID-19 misinformation cases	11
Data storytelling is not storytelling with data: A framework for storytelling in science communication and data journalism	10
Saying no to Facebook: Uncovering motivations to resist or reject social media platforms	10
Social media repertoires: Social structure and platform use	8
Governing Generation Z in China: Bilibili, bidirectional mediation, and online community governance	8
The effects of algorithmic content selection on user engagement with news on Twitter	6
Mood playlists, biopower, and the “functional turn” in online media: What happens when a pre-digital social control technology is transferred to the internet?	6
Governing through transparency: Investigating the new access to information regime in Canada	5
Investigating consumers’ motives for consumer brand-cyberbullying on social media	5
Death of a child, birth of a guild: Factors aiding the rapid formation of online support communities	5

Grief hypejacking: Influencers, #ThoughtsAndPrayers, and the commodification of grief on Instagram	5
Monstrous hybridity of social information technologies: Through the lens of photorealism and non-photorealism in archaeological visualization	5
A qualitative enhancement to quantitative social network analysis	5
Social media as a place to see and be seen: Exploring factors affecting job attainment via social media	4
Intellectual property rights and control in the digital economy: Examining the expansion of M-Pesa	4
Critical evaluation of China’s universal service policy: Toward a harmonious online nation	4
Theorizing inconsistent media selection in the digital environment	4
What you google is where you are from: Power and proximity in the global information flow of online searches	3
Finding meaning in crowdwork: An analysis of algorithmic management, work characteristics, and meaningfulness	3
China’s digital expansion in the Global South: Systematic literature review and future research agenda	3
Searching for politics: Using real-world web search behavior and surveys to see political information searching in context	3
A decade of proxy internet use: The changing role of socio-demographics and family support in nonusers’ indirect internet access to online services	3
Learning along the Digital Silk Road? Technology transfer, power, and Chinese ICT corporations in North Africa	3
Chinese digital platform companies’ expansion in the Belt and Road countries	3
Doing more with less: Behavioral insights for anti-piracy messages	3
Pressure to play: Social pressure in online multiplayer games	3
Realizing the benefits of open government data: Journalists’ coverage of the NHS winter crisis, 2016–17	3
This site is a dead end? Employment uncertainties and labor in data centers	2
An interview with Professor Emeritus Brenda Dervin	2
Effects of an issue-based microtargeting campaign: A small-scale field experiment in a multi-party setting	2
Evolution of social informatics: Publications, research, and educational activities	2
The patterning of the discursive space in search for the #goodlife: A network analysis of the co-occurrence of Instagram hashtags	2
China’s expansion into Brazilian digital surveillance markets	2
Worth-making in a datafied world: Urban cycling, smart urbanism, and technologies of justification in Santiago de Chile	2
Another article titled “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” or, the mass production of academic research titles	2
Inscribing place in Singapore: Instagram depictions of hauntedness	1
Data by design: Shaping data-producing subjectivities through self-tracking	1
Governance of news aggregators’ practices across five emblematic cases: Policy regimes between normative acceptance and resistance	1
Dying on Airbnb: Digital infrastructures and deadly spaces	1
On track to biopower? Toward a conceptual framework for user compliance in digital self-tracking	1
The algorithmic network imaginary: How music artists understand and experience their algorithmically constructed networks	1
“There are only a few things that you cannot manage without internet”: Realization of capabilities through internet (non)use by ultra-Orthodox Jewish women	1
Can you see me now? Video gatherings and social connectedness during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Trusting the untrustable: The construction of politicians’ self-image on Facebook	1
The irony of the smart home: How the IoT shifts power balances and reinforces household values	1
Working with Aula: How teachers navigate privacy uncertainties	1
What role does “hope” play in ICT4D research?	1
China’s digital expansion in the Global South: Special issue introduction	1