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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Countering security-induced government non-responsiveness with nonprofit technology: Evidence from Hong Kong	128
“All of us data points”: Experiences of data welfare state from the margins	51
Strategic Opacity: The Paradox of Open Source AI Governance in DeepSeek and OpenAI	40
In pursuit of ignorance: The institutional assault on disinformation and hate speech research	37
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	32
What lies behind a Facebook page? Insights from an action research project in rural Bangladesh	23
The development of just-in-time information acquisition behaviors in Generation X	23
Digital media use as social practice: Quantifying its temporal characteristics and changes across 16 years, 2003–2018	21
The behavior economy: The creation of behavior as an object of online surveillance	19
“There are only a few things that you cannot manage without internet”: Realization of capabilities through internet (non)use by ultra-Orthodox Jewish women	19
Working with Aula: How teachers navigate privacy uncertainties	18
Trusting the untrustable: The construction of politicians’ self-image on Facebook	16
Digital mobilization via attention building: The logic of cross-boundary actions in the 2019 Hong Kong social movement	15
China’s digital expansion in the Global South: Special issue introduction	14
Dimensions of data quality in smart cities datafication	13
Exploring the relationship between media literacy, online interaction, and civic engagement	11
Governing artificial intelligence in China and the European Union: Comparing aims and promoting ethical outcomes	10
What role does “hope” play in ICT4D research?	10
The smartphone as AI’s launchpad: A perspective on the domestication of artificial intelligence in China	10
Internet appropriation barriers in the lives of Dutch parents living in poverty: A qualitative study	10
Alibaba in Mexico: Adapting the digital villages model to Latin America	9
China’s expansion into Brazilian digital surveillance markets	9
Hegemonic practices in multistakeholder Internet governance: Participatory evangelism, quiet politics, and glorification of status quo at ICANN meetings	9
Digital lifeline? ICTs for refugees and displaced persons	9

Challenging assumptions about the relationship between awareness of and attitudes to data uses amongst the UK public	8
Ethical reasoning in artificial intelligence: A cybersecurity perspective	8
Searching for politics: Using real-world web search behavior and surveys to see political information searching in context	8
A nightmare to control: Legal and organizational challenges around the procurement of journalistic AI from external technology providers	7
The moral in the machine: Rentier mechanisms in content recommender system on digital platforms	6
Data by design: Shaping data-producing subjectivities through self-tracking	6
Effects of an issue-based microtargeting campaign: A small-scale field experiment in a multi-party setting	6
Intellectual property rights and control in the digital economy: Examining the expansion of M-Pesa	5
Governing through transparency: Investigating the new access to information regime in Canada	5
The information society as an exaptive dynamic system	5
Another article titled “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” or, the mass production of academic research titles	4
China’s digital expansion in the Global South: Systematic literature review and future research agenda	4
Content creation and gig-work in the platform economy: What contemporary sex work can teach us about the futures of digital labor	4
The irony of the smart home: How the IoT shifts power balances and reinforces household values	3
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference	3
Comparative privacy research: Literature review, framework, and research agenda	3
What (missing) the smartphone means: Implications of the medium’s portable, personal, and prosthetic aspects in the deprivation experience of teenagers	3
Sources of security risk information: What do professionals rely on for their risk assessment?	3
Other worlds: Using AI to revisit Cybersyn and rethink economic futures	3
Who says what? Social networks and digital inequalities in online political expression and content creation	3
Resisting artificial intelligence, automated-decision making, and algorithmic power: A systematic and narrative review	3
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
Business as usual? How gamification transforms internal party democracy	2
Experience, habit, and flow: Games user research and the forgetting of player identity	2
The seer and the seen: Surveying Palantir’s surveillance platform	2
Finding meaning in crowdwork: An analysis of algorithmic management, work characteristics, and meaningfulness	2
Digital futures and current frictions: The technocrisis of childhood socialization	2