Big Data & Society

Article	Citations
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation	190
Responding to unusual government request for user data: How tech companies make sense of human rights	185
Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly research	114
Supportive but apprehensive: Ambivalent attitudes towards a Danish public health AI and surveillance-driven project	106
From authority to similarity: How Google transformed its knowledge infrastructure using computer vision	102
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?	97
Clicks and particulates: Value, alienation, and attunement as unifying themes in big data studies	72
From rule of law to rule of algorithm: Generative Artificial Intelligence's threat to democracy	70
Exploring relational farming futures for responsible innovation in precision agriculture through Q-method and speculative design	70
The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter	65
Embedding ethics in infrastructures for data-intensive health research	53
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI	52
Data citizenship: Quantifying structural racism in COVID-19 and beyond	47
An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option	46
Local government cultural economy data practices and futures: Capacity, decision-making and partnerships	44
Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse	43
Disability data and its situational and contextual irrationalities in the Global South	43
The technopolitics of database interoperability	42
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security	41
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy	39
Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy	38
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making	37
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews	37
‘Blockchain for good’: Exploring the notion of social good inside the blockchain scene	36
Perpetuating misogyny with generative AI: How model personalization normalizes gendered harm	35

Expansive and extractive networks of Web3	35
How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism	35
Mandatory age verification for pornography access: Why it can't and won't ‘save the children’	34
Simulation and the reality gap: Moments in a prehistory of synthetic data	34
Basic research, lethal effects: Military artificial intelligence research funding as enlistment	33
After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce	31
Producing shifting personhood: How designers anthropomorphize artificial intelligence	31
Demographic figures at risk in the digital era: Resisting commodification, reclaiming the common good	31
MarxistLLM: Fine-tuning a language model with a Marxist worldview	29
On samples, data, and their mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and data	29
Data futurities: Negotiating statistical citizenship and ethnoracial visibility in Portugal's 2021 population census	29
China as an analytical lens for AI and society	29
‘Data saves lives’: Ideational-material drivers of health data journeys in the UK	28
Algorithms and hegemony in the workplace: Negotiating design and values in an Italian television platform	28
Computational reparations as generative justice: Decolonial transitions to unalienated circular value flow	28
Sounding out voice biometrics: Comparing and contrasting how the state and the private sector determine identity through voice	27
Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority	27
The importance of algorithm skills for informed Internet use	27
Technologies of distinction for indiscriminate killing: What can the Israeli war on Gaza teach us about the social meaning of AI	27
Emergency curation as anticipatory maintenance: Lessons from the 2016/2017 data rescue movement	26
The ICE–Lexis nexus: An argument against use of commercial databases in immigration enforcement	25
Artificial intelligence and skills in the workplace: An integrative research agenda	25
From rules to examples: Machine learning's type of authority	24
From flatlands to livable futures: Unflattening carbon metrics in the energy and data industries	24
Algorithmicized bodies: Account nurturing behaviors on Chinese short video platforms	24
From “I have nothing to hide” to “Its stalking”: Americans’ comfort sharing individual mobility features	23
The chat-chamber effect: Trusting the AI hallucination	22
Mapping the landscape of deepfake research: A systematic review of empirical studies	22
Stupid AI around? Understanding users’ everyday AI complaints	21
Data and AI mystification: Ownership, control, and financialization in the platform	21
Outsourcing accountability: Extractive data practice and inequities of power in humanitarian third-party monitoring	21
Inequalities in privacy cynicism: An intersectional analysis of agency constraints	21
Researching data discomfort: The case of Statistics Norway’s quest for billing data	21
Generative AI, propaganda, and digital authoritarianism: Comparative insights from six democratically weakened countries	21
Algorithmic constructions of risk: Anticipating uncertain futures in child protection services	20
Racial framing contests: How anti-Asian racism and its resistance enacted racial projects during COVID-19	20
Working closely with data: Aspirations and constraints of Chinese data scientists	20
Virtual state, where are you? A literature review, framework and agenda for failed digital transformation	19
Bridging awareness and resistance: Using algorithmic knowledge against controversial content	19
After the algorithms: A study of meta-algorithmic judgments and diversity in the hiring process at a large multisite company	19
Why putting artificial intelligence ethics into practice is not enough: Towards a multi-level framework	19
The algorithmic other: Dehumanization, infrastructure, and racial capitalism in the age of AI	19
Bridging silos or adding friction? The data work behind re-identification across interoperable data infrastructures	19
Studying the discursive order of artificial intelligence: Cross-national media coverage in China, Germany, and the US (2012–2024)	18
Digital identity as platform-mediated surveillance	18
Creating certainty where there is none: Artificial intelligence as political concept	18
Dislocated accountabilities in the “AI supply chain”: Modularity and developers’ notions of responsibility	18
With great (statistical) power comes great responsibility: A comment on the ethics of using administrative data to investigate marginalised populations	18
Dancing with anklets: Navigating digital rural governance with big data in China	18
Strategising imaginaries: How corporate actors in China, Germany and the US shape AI governance	18

Coloniality and frictions: Data-driven humanitarianism in North-Eastern Nigeria and South Sudan	18
Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 300K emails from the 2020 US election cycle	17
Just public algorithms: Mapping public engagement with the use of algorithms in UK public services	17
Generating reality and silencing debate: Synthetic data as discursive device	17
AI incidents and ‘networked trouble’: The case for a research agenda	17
Rethinking use-restricted open-source licenses for regulating abuse of generative models	17
Imaginaries of better administration: Renegotiating the relationship between citizens and digital public power	17
The power and promise of transparency: Perspectives from citizens’ juries of pandemic health data sharing	17
A typology of artificial intelligence data work	17
Legitimacy practices, algorithms, and the new bureaucratic quantification	16
Double standards of generative AI chatbots: Unveiling (digital) ageism versus sexism through sociological interviews	16
Data communism: Constructing a national data ecosystem	15
The role of data literacies in participatory data stewardship: Drawing on the Round ‘Ere project	15
CO2e (best) avoided? How people experience CO2e avoided on the Too Good To Go app	15
Situating data relations in the datafied home: A methodological approach	15
AI failure loops in devalued work: The confluence of overconfidence in AI and underconfidence in worker expertise	15
Algorithmic configurations in caring arrangements	15
Making relations: Re-imagining AI through crafted and embodied knowledge systems in Moana Oceania	15
Algorithmic responsibility in PPC practice: Interpreting black boxes in digital advertising work	15
#TargetedAds, or memeing dataveillance on TikTok: How users comply, oppose, and imagine datafication practices	15
Reactionary sensemaking: Mapping the micropolitics of online oppositional subcultures	15
“Governing the urban commons”: DLT, institutions, and citizens in perspective	14
Prediction as extraction of discretion	14
The role of mundane resistance in the spectacular failure of the smart home	14
Formally comparing topic models and human-generated qualitative coding of physician mothers’ experiences of workplace discrimination	14
Gender and the invisibility of care on Wikipedia	14
Rating villagers’ morality: Techno-moral governance via a data scoring system in rural China	14
Deeply embedded wages: Navigating digital payments in data work	14
Recording the ethical provenance of data and automating data stewardship	13
Afrofuturist ambiguities: Inclusion and consolidation in South African digital finance	13
Digital phantoms in medical research: Synthetic data and the pursuit of ground truth	13
Nothing new under the sun: Medical professional maintenance in the face of artificial intelligence's disruption	13
Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system	13
Patchwork surveillance and accountability labor: China's Health Code Systems during COVID-19	13
Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models	13
The city as a license: Design, rights and civics in a blockchain society	13
‘I’ve left enough data’: Relations between people and data and the production of surveillance	13
Collectivism and individualism political bias in large language models: A two-step approach	12
Engaging citizens in experiments with computational analysis of patient stories: From unwarranted reductions to meaningful insights	12
Ground truth tracings (GTT): On the epistemic limits of machine learning	12
Platform sub-imperialism	12
Fact signalling and fact nostalgia in the data-driven society	12
Why sovereignty matters for humanitarian data	12
Doing data, doing gender: Manufacturing gendered AI through the optimization loop	12
Strong or thin digital democracy? The democratic implications of Taiwan's open government data policy in the 2010s	12
“Too Soon” to count? How gender and race cloud notability considerations on Wikipedia	12
Contextual integrity in Africa's plural-legal contexts: Fintech, privacy, and informational norms in Ghana	12
Digital platforms in the agricultural sector: Dynamics of oligopolistic platformisation	12
Participatory action research in critical data studies: Interrogating AI from a South–North approach	12
Artificial intelligence for development (AI4D): A contested notion	12
Trade-offs in AI assistant choice: Do consumers prioritize transparency and sustainability over AI assistant performance?	12
The effectiveness of embedded values analysis modules in Computer Science education: An empirical study	12
Repair and redress: A research program for algorithmic futures	12
The promises and challenges of addressing artificial intelligence with human rights	12
Routinized data activism: Citizen data practices and everyday data citizenship in South Korea	11
Sharenting and social media properties: Exploring vicarious data harms and sociotechnical mitigations	11
Terms-we-serve-with: Five dimensions for anticipating and repairing algorithmic harm	11
The role of evidence-based misogyny in antifeminist online communities of the ‘manosphere’	11
The Digital Welfare State: Conceptual limits and possibilities	11
Beyond high-tech versus low-tech: A tentative framework for sustainable urban data governance	11
Mapping materials, drawing Europe: Sample and data quality and accessibility in the biobanking infrastructure BBMRI-ERIC	11
Our data, ourselves: Participation, justice, and alternative futures of data sovereignty in India	11
AI Empire: Unraveling the interlocking systems of oppression in generative AI's global order	11
Adjusting expectations actionable: Personalised treatment plan in anticipation of data-driven healthcare	11
Quantifying the self with others	11
Data infrastructure studies on an unequal planet	10
Redress and worldmaking: Differing approaches to algorithmic reparations for housing justice	10
When is black-box AI justifiable to use in healthcare?	10
Surveillance experiences of extinction rebellion activists and police: Unpacking the technologization of Dutch protest policing	10
Extrapolation and AI transparency: Why machine learning models should reveal when they make decisions beyond their training	10
Efficiency over democracy? AI and the discursive erasure of human involvement in HRM media	10
The ethics of data interoperability: Mapping problems and strategies in biomedical data and beyond	10
Machine learning, meaning making: On reading computer science texts	10
Joint-sensemaking, innovation, and communication management during crisis: Evidence from the DCT applications in China	10
Beyond the cybernetic loop: “ smart” pain technology in a recursive society	9
How people connect fairness and equity when they talk about data uses	9
Global data empires: Analysing artificial intelligence data annotation in China and the USA	9
Narrow surveillance: Preserving privacy in AI-based safety monitoring in public spaces	9
Topologies of visibility: A space-sensitive approach to online visibility analysis	9
The appification of borders: Data, migration and digitalization	9

Silencing in data science practices	9
Indigenous peoples and artificial intelligence: A systematic review and future directions	9
‘Drilling down’ and ‘breaking glass’ – Evolving notions of public service ‘quality’ in the Norwegian health data space	9
Greenwashing Silicon Valley: The legitimization of green platform capitalism through tech-on-climate discourse	9
Decolonizing AI? Lessons from a failed experiment	9
The valorization of interactions. Gift exchange, power and value creation on digital platforms	8
Building digital authoritarianism 2.0: Social construction of bounded legitimacy of facial recognition technology in China and the United Kingdom	8
Unsustainable artificial intelligence and algorithmically facilitated emissions: The case for emissions-reduction-by-design	8
The after party: Cynical resignation in Adtech's pivot to privacy	8
Vectorizing distinction: The mathematical logic of online profiling through a Bourdieusian lens	8
The rise of AI sovereignty: Authoritarian technological imaginaries as a form of reflexive control	8
The free labor of “local guides”: How Google translates the “hacker ethic” into a data-accumulation culture	8
The problem with annotation. Human labour and outsourcing between France and Madagascar	8
Crafting computer vision through human eyes: An AI laboratory ethnography	8
Ecological ethics and the smart circular economy	8
Cleaning up data work: Negotiating meaning, morality, and inequality in a tech startup	7
Commercial genetic information and criminal investigations: The case for social privacy	7
Sensing data: Towards ethnographic methods for data positionality	7
Diversity and neocolonialism in Big Data research: Avoiding extractivism while struggling with paternalism	7
Choreographing for public value in digital health?	7
A song for each moment: Identifying listening modes as reflexive practices in music streaming	7
Interoperable and standardized algorithmic images: The domestic war on drugs and mugshots within facial recognition technologies	7
Algorithmic governmentality in Latin America: Sociotechnical imaginaries, neocolonial soft power, and authoritarianism	7
The curious case of blockchain in rural China: Unravelling power, profit, and surveillance	7
Datafied ageing futures: Regimes of anticipation and participatory futuring	7
Algorithmic probing: Prompting offensive Google results and their moderation	7
Cross-cultural narratives of weaponised artificial intelligence: Comparing France, India, Japan and the United States	7
Investment narratives in women's health: Insights on ‘tech for good’ from a new market	6
Everyday digital traces	6
User perceptions of misgendering algorithms	6
Agents of erasure: Following the deletion of public sector data through its value chain	6
With eyes of a machine: A three-step guide for applying machine learning to visual content analysis in social research	6
When artificial intelligence meets accountability: Who holds legitimacy as account givers and holders?	6
Predictive privacy: Collective data protection in the context of artificial intelligence and big data	6
Editorial introduction: Towards a machinic anthropology	6
The platformisation tree in China's AI data annotation ecosystem	6
Power BI and the datafication of Danish higher education	6
“Revolutionize medicine as we know it”: Shaping imaginaries of the European Health Data Space	6
Exploring the impact of national culture on the development of open government data: A cross-cultural analysis	6
Online fraud detection: ‘In the moment’ digital accountability in a data-sensitive setting	6
Digital passing: “I died once, so I could live. Perhaps that is my real story”	6
Surveillance capitalism and systemic digital risk: The imperative to collect and connect and the risks of interconnectedness	6
A novel, human-in-the-loop computational grounded theory framework for big social data	5
AI-generated imagery in ethnography: A reflective framework	5
Seeing like an API: Platform-mediated research and the politics of access	5
Automated informed consent	5
Making sense of “big data”: Ten years of discourse around datafication	5
Redefining human Go experts in the post-AI era: Perspectives from the sociology of professions and expertise	5
Street-level bureaucracy meets Big Data: The moral economy of taxation in China in the digital age	5
The right to information or data sovereignty? Sending unsolicited messages to Russians about the war in Ukraine	5
Artificial intelligence and the state: Seeing like an artificial neural network	5
A feeling for the algorithm: Diversity, expertise, and artificial intelligence	5
Data cultures: Contested meanings in a public cultural institution	5
(Re)assembling algorithmic resistance: An integrative review of research-machines	5
From planetary to state-embedded AI stacks: The re-territorialisation of China's data annotation industry	5
Advancing search engine studies: The evolution of Google critique and intervention	5
Because the machine can discriminate: How machine learning serves and transforms biological explanations of human difference	5
Digitalisation, democracy and the GDPR: The efforts of DPAs to defend democratic principles despite the limitations of the GDPR	5
Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity: AI hallucinations and the ethics of posthuman creativity	5
Whose voice counts? The role of large language models in public commenting	5
Designing for justice in freelancing: Testing platform interventions to minimise discrimination in online labour markets	5
The emergence of artificial intelligence ethics auditing	5
Sharing digital trace data: Researchers’ challenges and needs	4
Designing privacy in personalized health: An empirical analysis	4
Doing place through data: Proliferation, profiling and the perils of portrayal in local climate action	4
Understanding game data work	4
Not so fast! Data temporalities in law enforcement and border control	4
Prediction and explainability in AI: Striking a new balance?	4
Digital resignation and the datafied welfare state	4
Rethinking the filter bubble? Developing a research agenda for the protective filter bubble	4
Snails, time, data: On the politics of mass-digitization and the possibility of data drift	4
Outlier bias: AI classification of curb ramps, outliers, and context	4
From human-centered to social-centered artificial intelligence: Assessing ChatGPT's impact through disruptive events	4
Data economy: A discussion on value, fictitious valorisation, and national sovereignty	4
Dimensionalizing privacy to advance the study of digital disempowerment	4
Networks, narratives and neocoloniality of AI for Climate Action	4
Efficient service provider or committed social reformer?: Government data storytelling around city data projects	4
Race-neutral vs race-conscious: Using algorithmic methods to evaluate the reparative potential of housing programs	4
Corrigendum to Leveraging blockchain for energy transition in urban contexts	4
Can human-centred participatory design turn AI into a pertinent tool for human rights research?	4
Navigating the ethical landscape behind ChatGPT	4
Meaningful disinformation: Narrative rituals and affective folktales	4
Short-circuiting biology: Digital phenotypes, digital biomarkers, and shifting gazes in psychiatry	4
AI innovation at the boundaries: Justifying a generative AI decision support tool	4
Automated welfare surveillance in the datafied welfare state: Exploring the underlying problematisations	4
A narrative syntax for meaningful human agency – rereading Greimas in times of algorithmic systems	4