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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Privacy and smart speakers: A multi-dimensional approach	36
Systematic evaluation of gig work against decent work standards: The development and application of the Fairwork framework	28
Social constructivist account of the world’s largest gay social app: Case study of Blued in China	28
The smart feature phone revolution in developing countries: Bringing the internet to the bottom of the pyramid	25
Numbers will not save us: Agonistic data practices	23
Folk theories of algorithmic operations during Internet use: A mixed methods study	23
Controlling petty corruption in public administrations of developing countries through digitalization: An opportunity theory informed study of Ghana customs	23
Unpacking the multiple spaces of innovation hubs	19
Ethical aspects of multi-stakeholder recommendation systems	18
“This is capitalism. It is not illegal”: Users’ attitudes toward institutional privacy following the Cambridge Analytica scandal	17
Who wants 9-to-5 jobs? Precarity, (in)security, and Chinese youths in Beijing and Hong Kong	16
Cryptocurrencies and the emergence of blockocracy	16
Trading spaces: How and why older adults disconnect from and switch between digital media	16
Governing artificial intelligence in China and the European Union: Comparing aims and promoting ethical outcomes	15
The acquisition of health and science information in the 21^st century	15
Return of the regulatory state: A stakeholder analysis of Australia’s Digital Platforms Inquiry and online news policy	14
Collaboration without consensus: Building resilience in sustainable agriculture through ICTs	13
Digital public goods platforms for development: The challenge of scaling	9
The seer and the seen: Surveying Palantir’s surveillance platform	9
Measuring internet skills in a general population: A large-scale validation of the short Internet Skills Scale in Slovenia	9
Saying no to Facebook: Uncovering motivations to resist or reject social media platforms	9
Data storytelling is not storytelling with data: A framework for storytelling in science communication and data journalism	9
Social network dynamics, bots, and community-based online misinformation spread: Lessons from anti-refugee and COVID-19 misinformation cases	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
The Breakup 2.1: The ten-year update	5

The information practices and politics of migrant-aid work in the US-Mexico borderlands	5
Investigating consumers’ motives for consumer brand-cyberbullying on social media	5
The socio-spatial installed base: Ride-hailing applications, parking associations, and precarity in tuk tuk driving in Phnom Penh, Cambodia	4
Governing Generation Z in China: Bilibili, bidirectional mediation, and online community governance	4
Theorizing inconsistent media selection in the digital environment	4
Grief hypejacking: Influencers, #ThoughtsAndPrayers, and the commodification of grief on Instagram	4
Death of a child, birth of a guild: Factors aiding the rapid formation of online support communities	4
A qualitative enhancement to quantitative social network analysis	4
The effects of algorithmic content selection on user engagement with news on Twitter	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
Realizing the benefits of open government data: Journalists’ coverage of the NHS winter crisis, 2016–17	3
Monstrous hybridity of social information technologies: Through the lens of photorealism and non-photorealism in archaeological visualization	3
Critical evaluation of China’s universal service policy: Toward a harmonious online nation	3
Leveling the playing field in ICT design: Transcending knowledge roles by balancing division and privileging of knowledges	3
The ethics of aesthetics: Stigma, information, and the politics of electronic ankle monitor design	3
Valuable information on recyclable waste: Mobile phones and the rationalization of the scrap-handling sector in Myanmar	3
Social media repertoires: Social structure and platform use	3
Governing through transparency: Investigating the new access to information regime in Canada	3
Pressure to play: Social pressure in online multiplayer games	2
Worth-making in a datafied world: Urban cycling, smart urbanism, and technologies of justification in Santiago de Chile	2
Doing more with less: Behavioral insights for anti-piracy messages	2
Evolution of social informatics: Publications, research, and educational activities	2
An interview with Professor Emeritus Brenda Dervin	2
What you google is where you are from: Power and proximity in the global information flow of online searches	2
This site is a dead end? Employment uncertainties and labor in data centers	2
Another article titled “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” or, the mass production of academic research titles	2
What role does “hope” play in ICT4D research?	1
Inscribing place in Singapore: Instagram depictions of hauntedness	1
China’s digital expansion in the Global South: Systematic literature review and future research agenda	1
Data by design: Shaping data-producing subjectivities through self-tracking	1
Searching for politics: Using real-world web search behavior and surveys to see political information searching in context	1
Can you see me now? Video gatherings and social connectedness during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Social media as a place to see and be seen: Exploring factors affecting job attainment via social media	1
Working with Aula: How teachers navigate privacy uncertainties	1
China’s expansion into Brazilian digital surveillance markets	1
Alibaba in Mexico: Adapting the digital villages model to Latin America	1
Dying on Airbnb: Digital infrastructures and deadly spaces	1
Chinese digital platform companies’ expansion in the Belt and Road countries	1
Intellectual property rights and control in the digital economy: Examining the expansion of M-Pesa	1
Governance of news aggregators’ practices across five emblematic cases: Policy regimes between normative acceptance and resistance	1