Big Data & Society

Article	Citations
Clicks and particulates: Value, alienation, and attunement as unifying themes in big data studies	206
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation	164
Data citizenship: Quantifying structural racism in COVID-19 and beyond	157
Responding to unusual government request for user data: How tech companies make sense of human rights	118
Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly research	101
Supportive but apprehensive: Ambivalent attitudes towards a Danish public health AI and surveillance-driven project	96
From authority to similarity: How Google transformed its knowledge infrastructure using computer vision	85
The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter	82
From rule of law to rule of algorithm: Generative Artificial Intelligence's threat to democracy	69
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI	63
An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option	61
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?	56
‘Blockchain for good’: Exploring the notion of social good inside the blockchain scene	48
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security	43
Local government cultural economy data practices and futures: Capacity, decision-making and partnerships	42
The technopolitics of database interoperability	42
Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy	40
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews	40
Performative innovation: Data governance in China's fintech industries	40
Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse	39
Disability data and its situational and contextual irrationalities in the Global South	39
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making	38
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy	36
How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism	35
Computational reparations as generative justice: Decolonial transitions to unalienated circular value flow	34

Data futurities: Negotiating statistical citizenship and ethnoracial visibility in Portugal's 2021 population census	34
On samples, data, and their mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and data	34
Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority	33
Algorithms and hegemony in the workplace: Negotiating design and values in an Italian television platform	33
Mandatory age verification for pornography access: Why it can't and won't ‘save the children’	33
After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce	32
China as an analytical lens for AI and society	32
Sounding out voice biometrics: Comparing and contrasting how the state and the private sector determine identity through voice	31
Demographic figures at risk in the digital era: Resisting commodification, reclaiming the common good	31
‘Data saves lives’: Ideational-material drivers of health data journeys in the UK	31
Producing shifting personhood: How designers anthropomorphize artificial intelligence	31
The importance of algorithm skills for informed Internet use	30
MarxistLLM: Fine-tuning a language model with a Marxist worldview	29
Simulation and the reality gap: Moments in a prehistory of synthetic data	29
From rules to examples: Machine learning's type of authority	27
Expansive and extractive networks of Web3	27
The ICE–Lexis nexus: An argument against use of commercial databases in immigration enforcement	27
Technologies of distinction for indiscriminate killing: What can the Israeli war on Gaza teach us about the social meaning of AI	27
Algorithmicized bodies: Account nurturing behaviors on Chinese short video platforms	26
Inequalities in privacy cynicism: An intersectional analysis of agency constraints	25
From “I have nothing to hide” to “Its stalking”: Americans’ comfort sharing individual mobility features	25
Data and AI mystification: Ownership, control, and financialization in the platform	25
From flatlands to livable futures: Unflattening carbon metrics in the energy and data industries	25
Mapping the landscape of deepfake research: A systematic review of empirical studies	25
Researching data discomfort: The case of Statistics Norway’s quest for billing data	24
Emergency curation as anticipatory maintenance: Lessons from the 2016/2017 data rescue movement	24
With great (statistical) power comes great responsibility: A comment on the ethics of using administrative data to investigate marginalised populations	24
Artificial intelligence and skills in the workplace: An integrative research agenda	24
Generative AI, propaganda, and digital authoritarianism: Comparative insights from six democratically weakened countries	24
The chat-chamber effect: Trusting the AI hallucination	24
Working closely with data: Aspirations and constraints of Chinese data scientists	23
Outsourcing accountability: Extractive data practice and inequities of power in humanitarian third-party monitoring	23
Studying the discursive order of artificial intelligence: Cross-national media coverage in China, Germany, and the US (2012–2024)	22
Algorithmic constructions of risk: Anticipating uncertain futures in child protection services	22
Racial framing contests: How anti-Asian racism and its resistance enacted racial projects during COVID-19	22
Strategising imaginaries: How corporate actors in China, Germany and the US shape AI governance	22
Creating certainty where there is none: Artificial intelligence as political concept	22
Why putting artificial intelligence ethics into practice is not enough: Towards a multi-level framework	22
Bridging awareness and resistance: Using algorithmic knowledge against controversial content	21
Dislocated accountabilities in the “AI supply chain”: Modularity and developers’ notions of responsibility	21
Bridging silos or adding friction? The data work behind re-identification across interoperable data infrastructures	21
After the algorithms: A study of meta-algorithmic judgments and diversity in the hiring process at a large multisite company	21
Digital identity as platform-mediated surveillance	20
Coloniality and frictions: Data-driven humanitarianism in North-Eastern Nigeria and South Sudan	20
Virtual state, where are you? A literature review, framework and agenda for failed digital transformation	20
The power and promise of transparency: Perspectives from citizens’ juries of pandemic health data sharing	20
Dancing with anklets: Navigating digital rural governance with big data in China	20
Just public algorithms: Mapping public engagement with the use of algorithms in UK public services	19
Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 300K emails from the 2020 US election cycle	19
Imaginaries of better administration: Renegotiating the relationship between citizens and digital public power	19

AI incidents and ‘networked trouble’: The case for a research agenda	18
Double standards of generative AI chatbots: Unveiling (digital) ageism versus sexism through sociological interviews	18
A typology of artificial intelligence data work	18
Generating reality and silencing debate: Synthetic data as discursive device	18
AI failure loops in devalued work: The confluence of overconfidence in AI and underconfidence in worker expertise	18
Toward a sociology of machine learning explainability: Human–machine interaction in deep neural network-based automated trading	18
Rethinking use-restricted open-source licenses for regulating abuse of generative models	18
Towards a political economy of technical systems: The case of Google	18
Legitimacy practices, algorithms, and the new bureaucratic quantification	17
Data communism: Constructing a national data ecosystem	17
#TargetedAds, or memeing dataveillance on TikTok: How users comply, oppose, and imagine datafication practices	17
Algorithmic responsibility in PPC practice: Interpreting black boxes in digital advertising work	16
Formally comparing topic models and human-generated qualitative coding of physician mothers’ experiences of workplace discrimination	16
Nothing new under the sun: Medical professional maintenance in the face of artificial intelligence's disruption	16
Gender and the invisibility of care on Wikipedia	16
Situating data relations in the datafied home: A methodological approach	16
Recording the ethical provenance of data and automating data stewardship	16
Reactionary sensemaking: Mapping the micropolitics of online oppositional subcultures	16
The role of mundane resistance in the spectacular failure of the smart home	16
CO2e (best) avoided? How people experience CO2e avoided on the Too Good To Go app	16
Prediction as extraction of discretion	16
“Governing the urban commons”: DLT, institutions, and citizens in perspective	15
Algorithmic configurations in caring arrangements	15
The city as a license: Design, rights and civics in a blockchain society	15
Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models	15
Making relations: Re-imagining AI through crafted and embodied knowledge systems in Moana Oceania	15
Rating villagers’ morality: Techno-moral governance via a data scoring system in rural China	15
Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system	15
Deeply embedded wages: Navigating digital payments in data work	15
Strong or thin digital democracy? The democratic implications of Taiwan's open government data policy in the 2010s	15
Collectivism and individualism political bias in large language models: A two-step approach	14
‘I’ve left enough data’: Relations between people and data and the production of surveillance	14
Digital phantoms in medical research: Synthetic data and the pursuit of ground truth	14
Patchwork surveillance and accountability labor: China's Health Code Systems during COVID-19	14
The effectiveness of embedded values analysis modules in Computer Science education: An empirical study	14
Afrofuturist ambiguities: Inclusion and consolidation in South African digital finance	14
“Too Soon” to count? How gender and race cloud notability considerations on Wikipedia	14
Trade-offs in AI assistant choice: Do consumers prioritize transparency and sustainability over AI assistant performance?	14
Ground truth tracings (GTT): On the epistemic limits of machine learning	13
Participatory action research in critical data studies: Interrogating AI from a South–North approach	13
Governing teachers through datafication: Physical–virtual hybridity and language interoperability in teacher accountability	13
Platform sub-imperialism	13
Seeing like a driver: How workers repair, resist, and reinforce the platform's algorithmic visions	13
Why sovereignty matters for humanitarian data	13
Fact signalling and fact nostalgia in the data-driven society	13
Politics of data reuse in machine learning systems: Theorizing reuse entanglements	13
Artificial intelligence for development (AI4D): A contested notion	13
Engaging citizens in experiments with computational analysis of patient stories: From unwarranted reductions to meaningful insights	13
Contextual integrity in Africa's plural-legal contexts: Fintech, privacy, and informational norms in Ghana	13
Erratum to Taking a critical look at the critical turn in data science: From “data feminism” to transnational feminist data science	13
Quantifying the self with others	12
Terms-we-serve-with: Five dimensions for anticipating and repairing algorithmic harm	12
Sharenting and social media properties: Exploring vicarious data harms and sociotechnical mitigations	12
Digital platforms in the agricultural sector: Dynamics of oligopolistic platformisation	12
Mapping materials, drawing Europe: Sample and data quality and accessibility in the biobanking infrastructure BBMRI-ERIC	12
Our data, ourselves: Participation, justice, and alternative futures of data sovereignty in India	12
The problem of researching a recursive society: Algorithms, data coils and the looping of the social	12
AI Empire: Unraveling the interlocking systems of oppression in generative AI's global order	12
Adjusting expectations actionable: Personalised treatment plan in anticipation of data-driven healthcare	12
Surveillance experiences of extinction rebellion activists and police: Unpacking the technologization of Dutch protest policing	12
Redress and worldmaking: Differing approaches to algorithmic reparations for housing justice	12
Repair and redress: A research program for algorithmic futures	12
The promises and challenges of addressing artificial intelligence with human rights	12
Beyond high-tech versus low-tech: A tentative framework for sustainable urban data governance	12
When is black-box AI justifiable to use in healthcare?	11
The Digital Welfare State: Conceptual limits and possibilities	11
Global data empires: Analysing artificial intelligence data annotation in China and the USA	11
Topologies of visibility: A space-sensitive approach to online visibility analysis	11
Beyond the cybernetic loop: “ smart” pain technology in a recursive society	11
The ethics of data interoperability: Mapping problems and strategies in biomedical data and beyond	11
Data infrastructure studies on an unequal planet	11
Extrapolation and AI transparency: Why machine learning models should reveal when they make decisions beyond their training	11
Silencing in data science practices	11
The role of evidence-based misogyny in antifeminist online communities of the ‘manosphere’	11
Machine learning, meaning making: On reading computer science texts	11
Greenwashing Silicon Valley: The legitimization of green platform capitalism through tech-on-climate discourse	11
‘Drilling down’ and ‘breaking glass’ – Evolving notions of public service ‘quality’ in the Norwegian health data space	11
The appification of borders: Data, migration and digitalization	10
Indigenous peoples and artificial intelligence: A systematic review and future directions	10
Unsustainable artificial intelligence and algorithmically facilitated emissions: The case for emissions-reduction-by-design	10

Joint-sensemaking, innovation, and communication management during crisis: Evidence from the DCT applications in China	10
Ecological ethics and the smart circular economy	10
The free labor of “local guides”: How Google translates the “hacker ethic” into a data-accumulation culture	10
How people connect fairness and equity when they talk about data uses	10
Decolonizing AI? Lessons from a failed experiment	10
The valorization of interactions. Gift exchange, power and value creation on digital platforms	10
Diversity and neocolonialism in Big Data research: Avoiding extractivism while struggling with paternalism	10
The problem with annotation. Human labour and outsourcing between France and Madagascar	9
Algorithmic governmentality in Latin America: Sociotechnical imaginaries, neocolonial soft power, and authoritarianism	9
“Revolutionize medicine as we know it”: Shaping imaginaries of the European Health Data Space	9
Commercial genetic information and criminal investigations: The case for social privacy	9
A song for each moment: Identifying listening modes as reflexive practices in music streaming	9
Crafting computer vision through human eyes: An AI laboratory ethnography	9
Cross-cultural narratives of weaponised artificial intelligence: Comparing France, India, Japan and the United States	9
The unbearable (technical) unreliability of automated facial emotion recognition	9
Choreographing for public value in digital health?	9
The after party: Cynical resignation in Adtech's pivot to privacy	9
The rise of AI sovereignty: Authoritarian technological imaginaries as a form of reflexive control	9
New geographies of platform capitalism: The case of digital monopolization in Turkey	9
Building digital authoritarianism 2.0: Social construction of bounded legitimacy of facial recognition technology in China and the United Kingdom	9
The curious case of blockchain in rural China: Unravelling power, profit, and surveillance	9
Interoperable and standardized algorithmic images: The domestic war on drugs and mugshots within facial recognition technologies	9
The platformisation tree in China's AI data annotation ecosystem	8
Algorithmic probing: Prompting offensive Google results and their moderation	8
Exploring the impact of national culture on the development of open government data: A cross-cultural analysis	8
Surveillance capitalism and systemic digital risk: The imperative to collect and connect and the risks of interconnectedness	8
Investment narratives in women's health: Insights on ‘tech for good’ from a new market	8
From planetary to state-embedded AI stacks: The re-territorialisation of China's data annotation industry	8
Cleaning up data work: Negotiating meaning, morality, and inequality in a tech startup	8
Sensing data: Towards ethnographic methods for data positionality	8
Predictive privacy: Collective data protection in the context of artificial intelligence and big data	8
With eyes of a machine: A three-step guide for applying machine learning to visual content analysis in social research	8
User perceptions of misgendering algorithms	8
Everyday digital traces	8
When artificial intelligence meets accountability: Who holds legitimacy as account givers and holders?	8
Datafied ageing futures: Regimes of anticipation and participatory futuring	8
Online fraud detection: ‘In the moment’ digital accountability in a data-sensitive setting	8
Editorial introduction: Towards a machinic anthropology	7
Making sense of “big data”: Ten years of discourse around datafication	7
A feeling for the algorithm: Diversity, expertise, and artificial intelligence	7
Power BI and the datafication of Danish higher education	7
Social data governance: From reflective practices to comparative synthesis	7
Data cultures: Contested meanings in a public cultural institution	7
Digital phenotyping – Editorial	7
The emergence of artificial intelligence ethics auditing	7
From human-centered to social-centered artificial intelligence: Assessing ChatGPT's impact through disruptive events	7
Advancing search engine studies: The evolution of Google critique and intervention	6
Automated informed consent	6
Whose voice counts? The role of large language models in public commenting	6
Digitalisation, democracy and the GDPR: The efforts of DPAs to defend democratic principles despite the limitations of the GDPR	6
A novel, human-in-the-loop computational grounded theory framework for big social data	6
Outlier bias: AI classification of curb ramps, outliers, and context	6
Because the machine can discriminate: How machine learning serves and transforms biological explanations of human difference	6
Street-level bureaucracy meets Big Data: The moral economy of taxation in China in the digital age	6
The right to information or data sovereignty? Sending unsolicited messages to Russians about the war in Ukraine	6
Designing for justice in freelancing: Testing platform interventions to minimise discrimination in online labour markets	6
AI-generated imagery in ethnography: A reflective framework	6
Artificial intelligence and the state: Seeing like an artificial neural network	6
Designing privacy in personalized health: An empirical analysis	5
Data economy: A discussion on value, fictitious valorisation, and national sovereignty	5
Doing place through data: Proliferation, profiling and the perils of portrayal in local climate action	5
Corrigendum to Leveraging blockchain for energy transition in urban contexts	5
Algorithmic accountability in U.S. cities: Transparency, impact, and political economy	5
Why generative AI is different from designed technology regarding task-relatedness, user interaction, and agency	5
Navigating the ethical landscape behind ChatGPT	5
Rethinking the filter bubble? Developing a research agenda for the protective filter bubble	5
Can human-centred participatory design turn AI into a pertinent tool for human rights research?	5
Sharing digital trace data: Researchers’ challenges and needs	5
Understanding game data work	5
Efficient service provider or committed social reformer?: Government data storytelling around city data projects	5
Networks, narratives and neocoloniality of AI for Climate Action	5
Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity: AI hallucinations and the ethics of posthuman creativity	5
Short-circuiting biology: Digital phenotypes, digital biomarkers, and shifting gazes in psychiatry	5
Snails, time, data: On the politics of mass-digitization and the possibility of data drift	5
Not so fast! Data temporalities in law enforcement and border control	5
Fairness perceptions of algorithmic decision-making: A systematic review of the empirical literature	5
A narrative syntax for meaningful human agency – rereading Greimas in times of algorithmic systems	5
Meaningful disinformation: Narrative rituals and affective folktales	5
The perils of ‘tech for good’ lie in its politics of helping	4
From the virtual community to “Trust and Safety”: eBay (1995–2007) and the rise of platform governance	4
Modeling COVID-19 with big mobility data: Surveillance and reaffirming the people in the data	4
Platformization of research data infrastructure: A decadal analysis of scientific data management plans	4
Prediction and explainability in AI: Striking a new balance?	4
Broken loops, open futures: The building and breaking of behavioural insurance	4
Lexical algorithmic resistance: Tactics of deceiving Arabic content moderation algorithms on Facebook	4
Toward cultural interpretability: A linguistic anthropological framework for describing and evaluating large language models	4
All WARC and no playback: The materialities of data-centered web archives research	4
Intelligent toys, complex questions: A literature review of artificial intelligence in children's toys and devices	4
Race-neutral vs race-conscious: Using algorithmic methods to evaluate the reparative potential of housing programs	4
Digital resignation and the datafied welfare state	4
Epistemologies of missing data: COVID dashboard builders and the production and maintenance of marginalized COVID data	4
Enacting data context: Fixing meaning in transparency data initiatives	4
The corporate cultivation of digital resignation in policymaking: How weak US regulations enable data trafficking to China	4
AI innovation at the boundaries: Justifying a generative AI decision support tool	4
Dimensionalizing privacy to advance the study of digital disempowerment	4