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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction to the special issue “Digital mortality: Death and infrastructure”	113
Countering security-induced government non-responsiveness with nonprofit technology: Evidence from Hong Kong	39
“All of us data points”: Experiences of data welfare state from the margins	35
In pursuit of ignorance: The institutional assault on disinformation and hate speech research	33
Inscribing place in Singapore: Instagram depictions of hauntedness	31
The cultural embeddedness of academic books on knowing, feeling, and queering video games	29
A critique of commodity analysis in the political economy of media: The value and price of digital commodities	21
The development of just-in-time information acquisition behaviors in Generation X	20
Digital media use as social practice: Quantifying its temporal characteristics and changes across 16 years, 2003–2018	20
What lies behind a Facebook page? Insights from an action research project in rural Bangladesh	20
“There are only a few things that you cannot manage without internet”: Realization of capabilities through internet (non)use by ultra-Orthodox Jewish women	17
Working with Aula: How teachers navigate privacy uncertainties	16
The behavior economy: The creation of behavior as an object of online surveillance	15
Gain in quantity and novelty of work in intermittent task switching	14
Trusting the untrustable: The construction of politicians’ self-image on Facebook	14
Digital mobilization via attention building: The logic of cross-boundary actions in the 2019 Hong Kong social movement	11
Dimensions of data quality in smart cities datafication	11
Exploring the relationship between media literacy, online interaction, and civic engagement	11
What role does “hope” play in ICT4D research?	9
Governing artificial intelligence in China and the European Union: Comparing aims and promoting ethical outcomes	9
Internet appropriation barriers in the lives of Dutch parents living in poverty: A qualitative study	9
China’s digital expansion in the Global South: Special issue introduction	9
Alibaba in Mexico: Adapting the digital villages model to Latin America	9
Dying on Airbnb: Digital infrastructures and deadly spaces	9
Hegemonic practices in multistakeholder Internet governance: Participatory evangelism, quiet politics, and glorification of status quo at ICANN meetings	8

Challenging assumptions about the relationship between awareness of and attitudes to data uses amongst the UK public	8
Digital lifeline? ICTs for refugees and displaced persons	7
China’s expansion into Brazilian digital surveillance markets	7
Ethical reasoning in artificial intelligence: A cybersecurity perspective	7
Effects of an issue-based microtargeting campaign: A small-scale field experiment in a multi-party setting	6
Doing more with less: Behavioral insights for anti-piracy messages	6
Data by design: Shaping data-producing subjectivities through self-tracking	6
Searching for politics: Using real-world web search behavior and surveys to see political information searching in context	6
Intellectual property rights and control in the digital economy: Examining the expansion of M-Pesa	6
A nightmare to control: Legal and organizational challenges around the procurement of journalistic AI from external technology providers	6
Governing through transparency: Investigating the new access to information regime in Canada	5
The moral in the machine: Rentier mechanisms in content recommender system on digital platforms	4
Another article titled “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” or, the mass production of academic research titles	4
Content creation and gig-work in the platform economy: What contemporary sex work can teach us about the futures of digital labor	4
Sources of security risk information: What do professionals rely on for their risk assessment?	4
The irony of the smart home: How the IoT shifts power balances and reinforces household values	3
Who says what? Social networks and digital inequalities in online political expression and content creation	3
Other worlds: Using AI to revisit Cybersyn and rethink economic futures	3
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference	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
China’s digital expansion in the Global South: Systematic literature review and future research agenda	3
Comparative privacy research: Literature review, framework, and research agenda	2
The seer and the seen: Surveying Palantir’s surveillance platform	2
Algorithmic models through a representational lens	2
Business as usual? How gamification transforms internal party democracy	2
Digital futures and current frictions: The technocrisis of childhood socialization	2
Learning along the Digital Silk Road? Technology transfer, power, and Chinese ICT corporations in North Africa	2
Experience, habit, and flow: Games user research and the forgetting of player identity	2
Conferencing together in social virtual reality: Bringing agency back into affordances-based approaches in communication scholarship	2
Behind the screens, beyond the shelves: A comparative assessment of digital labor in content creation and Amazon logistics	2