OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Information Society is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Countering security-induced government non-responsiveness with nonprofit technology: Evidence from Hong Kong	117
“All of us data points”: Experiences of data welfare state from the margins	45
In pursuit of ignorance: The institutional assault on disinformation and hate speech research	35
The cultural embeddedness of academic books on knowing, feeling, and queering video games	33
A critique of commodity analysis in the political economy of media: The value and price of digital commodities	31
The development of just-in-time information acquisition behaviors in Generation X	30
What lies behind a Facebook page? Insights from an action research project in rural Bangladesh	21
“There are only a few things that you cannot manage without internet”: Realization of capabilities through internet (non)use by ultra-Orthodox Jewish women	20
Digital media use as social practice: Quantifying its temporal characteristics and changes across 16 years, 2003–2018	20
The behavior economy: The creation of behavior as an object of online surveillance	18
Working with Aula: How teachers navigate privacy uncertainties	17
Trusting the untrustable: The construction of politicians’ self-image on Facebook	16
Dimensions of data quality in smart cities datafication	15
Digital mobilization via attention building: The logic of cross-boundary actions in the 2019 Hong Kong social movement	14
Exploring the relationship between media literacy, online interaction, and civic engagement	12
Governing artificial intelligence in China and the European Union: Comparing aims and promoting ethical outcomes	11
China’s digital expansion in the Global South: Special issue introduction	11
Internet appropriation barriers in the lives of Dutch parents living in poverty: A qualitative study	10
China’s expansion into Brazilian digital surveillance markets	9
Alibaba in Mexico: Adapting the digital villages model to Latin America	9
Hegemonic practices in multistakeholder Internet governance: Participatory evangelism, quiet politics, and glorification of status quo at ICANN meetings	9
What role does “hope” play in ICT4D research?	9
Digital lifeline? ICTs for refugees and displaced persons	9
Doing more with less: Behavioral insights for anti-piracy messages	8
Searching for politics: Using real-world web search behavior and surveys to see political information searching in context	7

Effects of an issue-based microtargeting campaign: A small-scale field experiment in a multi-party setting	7
A nightmare to control: Legal and organizational challenges around the procurement of journalistic AI from external technology providers	7
Data by design: Shaping data-producing subjectivities through self-tracking	7
Ethical reasoning in artificial intelligence: A cybersecurity perspective	7
Challenging assumptions about the relationship between awareness of and attitudes to data uses amongst the UK public	7
Content creation and gig-work in the platform economy: What contemporary sex work can teach us about the futures of digital labor	6
Governing through transparency: Investigating the new access to information regime in Canada	6
The moral in the machine: Rentier mechanisms in content recommender system on digital platforms	6
Intellectual property rights and control in the digital economy: Examining the expansion of M-Pesa	5
Another article titled “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” or, the mass production of academic research titles	4
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference	4
China’s digital expansion in the Global South: Systematic literature review and future research agenda	4
Sources of security risk information: What do professionals rely on for their risk assessment?	4
Who says what? Social networks and digital inequalities in online political expression and content creation	4
Other worlds: Using AI to revisit Cybersyn and rethink economic futures	3
Comparative privacy research: Literature review, framework, and research agenda	3
Experience, habit, and flow: Games user research and the forgetting of player identity	3
Finding meaning in crowdwork: An analysis of algorithmic management, work characteristics, and meaningfulness	3
What (missing) the smartphone means: Implications of the medium’s portable, personal, and prosthetic aspects in the deprivation experience of teenagers	3
Business as usual? How gamification transforms internal party democracy	3
The irony of the smart home: How the IoT shifts power balances and reinforces household values	3
The algorithmic network imaginary: How music artists understand and experience their algorithmically constructed networks	2
The seer and the seen: Surveying Palantir’s surveillance platform	2
Governing Generation Z in China: Bilibili, bidirectional mediation, and online community governance	2
Behind the screens, beyond the shelves: A comparative assessment of digital labor in content creation and Amazon logistics	2
Algorithmic models through a representational lens	2
Learning along the Digital Silk Road? Technology transfer, power, and Chinese ICT corporations in North Africa	2
Conferencing together in social virtual reality: Bringing agency back into affordances-based approaches in communication scholarship	2
Digital futures and current frictions: The technocrisis of childhood socialization	2