Big Data & Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Big Data & Society is 5. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Clicks and particulates: Value, alienation, and attunement as unifying themes in big data studies158
Responding to unusual government request for user data: How tech companies make sense of human rights126
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?101
Organizing an “organizationless” protest campaign in the WeChatsphere89
Towards a United Nations Internal Regulation for Artificial Intelligence85
The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter81
Data citizenship: Quantifying structural racism in COVID-19 and beyond68
The great Transformer: Examining the role of large language models in the political economy of AI54
An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option53
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation51
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI48
Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy47
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security46
Biometric identity systems in law enforcement and the politics of (voice) recognition: The case of SiiP44
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy41
How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism40
Accounting for “the social” in contact tracing applications: The paradox between public health governance and mistrust of government's data use39
Performative innovation: Data governance in China's fintech industries38
Disability data and its situational and contextual irrationalities in the Global South37
Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse36
‘Blockchain for good’: Exploring the notion of social good inside the blockchain scene36
Local government cultural economy data practices and futures: Capacity, decision-making and partnerships35
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making31
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews31
Mandatory age verification for pornography access: Why it can't and won't ‘save the children’30
Digital phenotyping and the (data) shadow of Alzheimer's disease29
Expansive and extractive networks of Web329
Algorithms and hegemony in the workplace: Negotiating design and values in an Italian television platform28
Simulation and the reality gap: Moments in a prehistory of synthetic data28
Different types of COVID-19 misinformation have different emotional valence on Twitter28
‘Data saves lives’: Ideational-material drivers of health data journeys in the UK25
Sounding out voice biometrics: Comparing and contrasting how the state and the private sector determine identity through voice25
Computational reparations as generative justice: Decolonial transitions to unalienated circular value flow25
Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority25
After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce24
The importance of algorithm skills for informed Internet use23
On samples, data, and their mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and data22
The chat-chamber effect: Trusting the AI hallucination21
The Thick Machine: Anthropological AI between explanation and explication21
Situating questions of data, power, and racial formation21
Artificial intelligence and skills in the workplace: An integrative research agenda21
Anthropographics in COVID-19 simulations21
Governing algorithmic decisions: The role of decision importance and governance on perceived legitimacy of algorithmic decisions20
“AI will fix this” – The Technical, Discursive, and Political Turn to AI in Governing Communication20
Inequalities in privacy cynicism: An intersectional analysis of agency constraints20
Outsourcing accountability: Extractive data practice and inequities of power in humanitarian third-party monitoring19
Taking stock of COVID-19 health status certificates: Legal implications for data privacy and human rights19
Digital phenotyping and data inheritance19
Researching data discomfort: The case of Statistics Norway’s quest for billing data19
From rules to examples: Machine learning's type of authority19
In data we (don't) trust: The public adrift in data-driven public opinion models18
With great (statistical) power comes great responsibility: A comment on the ethics of using administrative data to investigate marginalised populations18
After the algorithms: A study of meta-algorithmic judgments and diversity in the hiring process at a large multisite company18
Digital identity as platform-mediated surveillance18
Carceral algorithms and the history of control: An analysis of the Pennsylvania additive classification tool18
Bridging awareness and resistance: Using algorithmic knowledge against controversial content18
The datafication revolution in criminal justice: An empirical exploration of frames portraying data-driven technologies for crime prevention and control18
Algorithmic constructions of risk: Anticipating uncertain futures in child protection services18
Virtual state, where are you? A literature review, framework and agenda for failed digital transformation17
Bot, or not? Comparing three methods for detecting social bots in five political discourses17
Stream your brain! Speculative economy of the IoT and its pan-kinetic dataveillance16
Ghosts of white methods? The challenges of Big Data research in exploring racism in digital context16
The power and promise of transparency: Perspectives from citizens’ juries of pandemic health data sharing16
AI incidents and ‘networked trouble’: The case for a research agenda16
Dislocated accountabilities in the “AI supply chain”: Modularity and developers’ notions of responsibility16
Just public algorithms: Mapping public engagement with the use of algorithms in UK public services16
Rethinking use-restricted open-source licenses for regulating abuse of generative models16
Coloniality and frictions: Data-driven humanitarianism in North-Eastern Nigeria and South Sudan15
Toward a sociology of machine learning explainability: Human–machine interaction in deep neural network-based automated trading15
Generating reality and silencing debate: Synthetic data as discursive device15
Imaginaries of better administration: Renegotiating the relationship between citizens and digital public power15
Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 300K emails from the 2020 US election cycle15
Precision medicine and digital phenotyping: Digital medicine's way from more data to better health15
Data communism: Constructing a national data ecosystem14
A typology of artificial intelligence data work14
Situating data relations in the datafied home: A methodological approach14
Reactionary sensemaking: Mapping the micropolitics of online oppositional subcultures14
Tradeoffs all the way down: Ethical abduction as a decision-making process for data-intensive technology development13
Nothing new under the sun: Medical professional maintenance in the face of artificial intelligence's disruption13
Formally comparing topic models and human-generated qualitative coding of physician mothers’ experiences of workplace discrimination13
Political affiliation moderates subjective interpretations of COVID-19 graphs13
Gender and the invisibility of care on Wikipedia13
Deeply embedded wages: Navigating digital payments in data work13
Towards a political economy of technical systems: The case of Google13
The city as a license: Design, rights and civics in a blockchain society13
“Governing the urban commons”: DLT, institutions, and citizens in perspective13
Algorithmic configurations in caring arrangements13
Design choices: Mechanism design and platform capitalism13
Trade-offs in AI assistant choice: Do consumers prioritize transparency and sustainability over AI assistant performance?12
Public views of the smart city: Towards the construction of a social problem12
“Too Soon” to count? How gender and race cloud notability considerations on Wikipedia12
Strong or thin digital democracy? The democratic implications of Taiwan's open government data policy in the 2010s12
Prediction as extraction of discretion12
Recording the ethical provenance of data and automating data stewardship12
Participatory action research in critical data studies: Interrogating AI from a South–North approach12
‘I’ve left enough data’: Relations between people and data and the production of surveillance12
Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models12
Engaging citizens in experiments with computational analysis of patient stories: From unwarranted reductions to meaningful insights12
The effectiveness of embedded values analysis modules in Computer Science education: An empirical study11
Data deprivations, data gaps and digital divides: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic11
Big data and Belmont: On the ethics and research implications of consumer-based datasets11
Seeing like a driver: How workers repair, resist, and reinforce the platform's algorithmic visions11
Social determinants of health in the Big Data mode of population health risk calculation11
The problem of researching a recursive society: Algorithms, data coils and the looping of the social11
Ground truth tracings (GTT): On the epistemic limits of machine learning11
Platform sub-imperialism11
Sharenting and social media properties: Exploring vicarious data harms and sociotechnical mitigations11
Politics of data reuse in machine learning systems: Theorizing reuse entanglements11
Online Labour Index 2020: New ways to measure the world’s remote freelancing market10
A view from data science10
Digital platforms in the agricultural sector: Dynamics of oligopolistic platformisation10
Governing teachers through datafication: Physical–virtual hybridity and language interoperability in teacher accountability10
Erratum to Taking a critical look at the critical turn in data science: From “data feminism” to transnational feminist data science10
Fact signalling and fact nostalgia in the data-driven society10
The promises and challenges of addressing artificial intelligence with human rights10
Of dog kennels, magnets, and hard drives: Dealing with Big Data peripheries10
Corrigendum to Heritage transformations10
In search of the citizen in the datafication of public administration10
Mapping materials, drawing Europe: Sample and data quality and accessibility in the biobanking infrastructure BBMRI-ERIC9
The role of evidence-based misogyny in antifeminist online communities of the ‘manosphere’9
Machine learning, meaning making: On reading computer science texts9
AI Empire: Unraveling the interlocking systems of oppression in generative AI's global order9
Redress and worldmaking: Differing approaches to algorithmic reparations for housing justice9
Quantifying the self with others9
Data infrastructure studies on an unequal planet9
Beyond high-tech versus low-tech: A tentative framework for sustainable urban data governance9
Individual benefits and collective challenges: Experts’ views on data-driven approaches in medical research and healthcare in the German context9
Adjusting expectations actionable: Personalised treatment plan in anticipation of data-driven healthcare9
Terms-we-serve-with: Five dimensions for anticipating and repairing algorithmic harm9
Surveillance experiences of extinction rebellion activists and police: Unpacking the technologization of Dutch protest policing9
How people connect fairness and equity when they talk about data uses8
Computational grounded theory revisited: From computer-led to computer-assisted text analysis8
Joint-sensemaking, innovation, and communication management during crisis: Evidence from the DCT applications in China8
Computational ethnography: A view from sociology8
The fabrics of machine moderation: Studying the technical, normative, and organizational structure of Perspective API8
Datafication and the practice of intelligence production8
Grøn Genstart: A quali-quantitative micro-history of a political idea in real-time8
Ecological ethics and the smart circular economy8
Diversity and neocolonialism in Big Data research: Avoiding extractivism while struggling with paternalism8
Algorithmic governmentality in Latin America: Sociotechnical imaginaries, neocolonial soft power, and authoritarianism8
Linguistic justice as a framework for designing, developing, and managing natural language processing tools8
The curious case of blockchain in rural China: Unravelling power, profit, and surveillance8
The valorization of interactions. Gift exchange, power and value creation on digital platforms8
Extrapolation and AI transparency: Why machine learning models should reveal when they make decisions beyond their training8
Digital/computational phenotyping: What are the differences in the science and the ethics?8
When the future meets the past: Can safety and cyber security coexist in modern critical infrastructures?8
The after party: Cynical resignation in Adtech's pivot to privacy8
The problem with annotation. Human labour and outsourcing between France and Madagascar8
New geographies of platform capitalism: The case of digital monopolization in Turkey8
Social data governance: From reflective practices to comparative synthesis7
The emergence of artificial intelligence ethics auditing7
Emotional labour in the collaborative data practices of repurposing healthcare data and building data technologies7
The Datafication of #MeToo: Whiteness, Racial Capitalism, and Anti-Violence Technologies7
Commercial genetic information and criminal investigations: The case for social privacy7
Interoperable and standardized algorithmic images: The domestic war on drugs and mugshots within facial recognition technologies7
Algorithmic probing: Prompting offensive Google results and their moderation7
Everyday digital traces7
Digital phenotyping – Editorial7
Online fraud detection: ‘In the moment’ digital accountability in a data-sensitive setting7
Choreographing for public value in digital health?7
Cross-cultural narratives of weaponised artificial intelligence: Comparing France, India, Japan and the United States7
Datafied ageing futures: Regimes of anticipation and participatory futuring7
Predictive privacy: Collective data protection in the context of artificial intelligence and big data7
Exploring the impact of national culture on the development of open government data: A cross-cultural analysis7
Beyond manifestos: Exploring how political campaigns use online advertisements to communicate policy information and pledges7
Editorial introduction: Towards a machinic anthropology7
Surveillance capitalism and systemic digital risk: The imperative to collect and connect and the risks of interconnectedness7
The unbearable (technical) unreliability of automated facial emotion recognition7
Excavating awareness and power in data science: A manifesto for trustworthy pervasive data research7
‘What about the dads?’ Linking fathers and children in administrative data: A systematic scoping review7
Cleaning up data work: Negotiating meaning, morality, and inequality in a tech startup7
A song for each moment: Identifying listening modes as reflexive practices in music streaming7
Automated informed consent6
Because the machine can discriminate: How machine learning serves and transforms biological explanations of human difference6
Snails, time, data: On the politics of mass-digitization and the possibility of data drift6
Understanding game data work6
Communicative strategies for building public confidence in data governance: Analyzing Singapore's COVID-19 contact-tracing initiatives6
Designing for justice in freelancing: Testing platform interventions to minimise discrimination in online labour markets6
Digitalisation, democracy and the GDPR: The efforts of DPAs to defend democratic principles despite the limitations of the GDPR6
Sharing precision medicine data with private industry: Outcomes of a citizens’ jury in Singapore6
Advancing search engine studies: The evolution of Google critique and intervention6
Meaningful disinformation: Narrative rituals and affective folktales6
Data access and regime competition: A case study of car data sharing in China6
Street-level bureaucracy meets Big Data: The moral economy of taxation in China in the digital age6
The right to information or data sovereignty? Sending unsolicited messages to Russians about the war in Ukraine6
From human-centered to social-centered artificial intelligence: Assessing ChatGPT's impact through disruptive events6
Utopia of abstraction: Digital organizations and the promise of sovereignty6
Sharing digital trace data: Researchers’ challenges and needs6
Doing place through data: Proliferation, profiling and the perils of portrayal in local climate action6
Outlier bias: AI classification of curb ramps, outliers, and context6
Dashboard design and the ‘datafied’ driving experience6
A feeling for the algorithm: Diversity, expertise, and artificial intelligence6
Designing privacy in personalized health: An empirical analysis5
Navigating the ethical landscape behind ChatGPT5
Short-circuiting biology: Digital phenotypes, digital biomarkers, and shifting gazes in psychiatry5
Algorithmic accountability in U.S. cities: Transparency, impact, and political economy5
Digital resignation and the datafied welfare state5
Modeling COVID-19 with big mobility data: Surveillance and reaffirming the people in the data5
Corrigendum to Leveraging blockchain for energy transition in urban contexts5
Not so fast! Data temporalities in law enforcement and border control5
Race-neutral vs race-conscious: Using algorithmic methods to evaluate the reparative potential of housing programs5
Dimensionalizing privacy to advance the study of digital disempowerment5
The perils of ‘tech for good’ lie in its politics of helping5
Erratum to The digital life of the #migrantcaravan: Contextualizing Twitter as a spatial technology5
Fairness perceptions of algorithmic decision-making: A systematic review of the empirical literature5
Rethinking the filter bubble? Developing a research agenda for the protective filter bubble5
The material consequences of “chipification”: The case of software-embedded cars5
Prediction and explainability in AI: Striking a new balance?5
Computational challenges to test and revitalize Claude Lévi-Strauss transformational methodology5
Epistemologies of missing data: COVID dashboard builders and the production and maintenance of marginalized COVID data5
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