Big Data & Society

Article	Citations
An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option	191
Clicks and particulates: Value, alienation, and attunement as unifying themes in big data studies	158
The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter	143
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation	111
Data citizenship: Quantifying structural racism in COVID-19 and beyond	95
Responding to unusual government request for user data: How tech companies make sense of human rights	91
Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly research	81
Supportive but apprehensive: Ambivalent attitudes towards a Danish public health AI and surveillance-driven project	79
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?	68
From authority to similarity: How Google transformed its knowledge infrastructure using computer vision	61
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI	60
How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism	52
‘Blockchain for good’: Exploring the notion of social good inside the blockchain scene	45
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews	40
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security	39
Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse	39
Local government cultural economy data practices and futures: Capacity, decision-making and partnerships	39
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy	38
Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy	38
Disability data and its situational and contextual irrationalities in the Global South	37
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making	37
Performative innovation: Data governance in China's fintech industries	36
After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce	34
Computational reparations as generative justice: Decolonial transitions to unalienated circular value flow	34
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	33
Sounding out voice biometrics: Comparing and contrasting how the state and the private sector determine identity through voice	32
Expansive and extractive networks of Web3	32
‘Data saves lives’: Ideational-material drivers of health data journeys in the UK	32
Algorithms and hegemony in the workplace: Negotiating design and values in an Italian television platform	32
Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority	32
On samples, data, and their mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and data	31
The importance of algorithm skills for informed Internet use	31
Demographic figures at risk in the digital era: Resisting commodification, reclaiming the common good	30
China as an analytical lens for AI and society	30
Producing shifting personhood: How designers anthropomorphize artificial intelligence	29
Artificial intelligence and skills in the workplace: An integrative research agenda	27
Inequalities in privacy cynicism: An intersectional analysis of agency constraints	27
The chat-chamber effect: Trusting the AI hallucination	27
From rules to examples: Machine learning's type of authority	27
From “I have nothing to hide” to “Its stalking”: Americans’ comfort sharing individual mobility features	26
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	26
Algorithmicized bodies: Account nurturing behaviors on Chinese short video platforms	26
Data and AI mystification: Ownership, control, and financialization in the platform	25
Bridging awareness and resistance: Using algorithmic knowledge against controversial content	24
From flatlands to livable futures: Unflattening carbon metrics in the energy and data industries	24
With great (statistical) power comes great responsibility: A comment on the ethics of using administrative data to investigate marginalised populations	24
Mapping the landscape of deepfake research: A systematic review of empirical studies	24
Researching data discomfort: The case of Statistics Norway’s quest for billing data	23
Outsourcing accountability: Extractive data practice and inequities of power in humanitarian third-party monitoring	23
After the algorithms: A study of meta-algorithmic judgments and diversity in the hiring process at a large multisite company	22
Strategising imaginaries: How corporate actors in China, Germany and the US shape AI governance	22
Working closely with data: Aspirations and constraints of Chinese data scientists	22
Studying the discursive order of artificial intelligence: Cross-national media coverage in China, Germany, and the US (2012–2024)	22
Creating certainty where there is none: Artificial intelligence as political concept	22
Bridging silos or adding friction? The data work behind re-identification across interoperable data infrastructures	22
Racial framing contests: How anti-Asian racism and its resistance enacted racial projects during COVID-19	22
Virtual state, where are you? A literature review, framework and agenda for failed digital transformation	21
Dislocated accountabilities in the “AI supply chain”: Modularity and developers’ notions of responsibility	20
The power and promise of transparency: Perspectives from citizens’ juries of pandemic health data sharing	20
Algorithmic constructions of risk: Anticipating uncertain futures in child protection services	20
Why putting artificial intelligence ethics into practice is not enough: Towards a multi-level framework	20
Toward a sociology of machine learning explainability: Human–machine interaction in deep neural network-based automated trading	20
Digital identity as platform-mediated surveillance	20
Dancing with anklets: Navigating digital rural governance with big data in China	20
Coloniality and frictions: Data-driven humanitarianism in North-Eastern Nigeria and South Sudan	19
A typology of artificial intelligence data work	19
Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 300K emails from the 2020 US election cycle	19
AI incidents and ‘networked trouble’: The case for a research agenda	19
Imaginaries of better administration: Renegotiating the relationship between citizens and digital public power	19
Generating reality and silencing debate: Synthetic data as discursive device	19
Just public algorithms: Mapping public engagement with the use of algorithms in UK public services	18
Situating data relations in the datafied home: A methodological approach	18
Rethinking use-restricted open-source licenses for regulating abuse of generative models	18

Reactionary sensemaking: Mapping the micropolitics of online oppositional subcultures	18
Data communism: Constructing a national data ecosystem	18
Towards a political economy of technical systems: The case of Google	18
Legitimacy practices, algorithms, and the new bureaucratic quantification	17
AI failure loops in devalued work: The confluence of overconfidence in AI and underconfidence in worker expertise	17
Double standards of generative AI chatbots: Unveiling (digital) ageism versus sexism through sociological interviews	17
Recording the ethical provenance of data and automating data stewardship	16
#TargetedAds, or memeing dataveillance on TikTok: How users comply, oppose, and imagine datafication practices	16
Deeply embedded wages: Navigating digital payments in data work	16
Prediction as extraction of discretion	16
CO2e (best) avoided? How people experience CO2e avoided on the Too Good To Go app	16
The city as a license: Design, rights and civics in a blockchain society	16
Formally comparing topic models and human-generated qualitative coding of physician mothers’ experiences of workplace discrimination	16
Gender and the invisibility of care on Wikipedia	16
“Governing the urban commons”: DLT, institutions, and citizens in perspective	16
Rating villagers’ morality: Techno-moral governance via a data scoring system in rural China	16
Nothing new under the sun: Medical professional maintenance in the face of artificial intelligence's disruption	16
Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models	15
Algorithmic configurations in caring arrangements	15
Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system	15
Collectivism and individualism political bias in large language models: A two-step approach	14
The effectiveness of embedded values analysis modules in Computer Science education: An empirical study	14
‘I’ve left enough data’: Relations between people and data and the production of surveillance	14
Patchwork surveillance and accountability labor: China's Health Code Systems during COVID-19	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
Strong or thin digital democracy? The democratic implications of Taiwan's open government data policy in the 2010s	14
Ground truth tracings (GTT): On the epistemic limits of machine learning	14
The role of mundane resistance in the spectacular failure of the smart home	14
Why sovereignty matters for humanitarian data	14
Engaging citizens in experiments with computational analysis of patient stories: From unwarranted reductions to meaningful insights	14
Trade-offs in AI assistant choice: Do consumers prioritize transparency and sustainability over AI assistant performance?	14
Making relations: Re-imagining AI through crafted and embodied knowledge systems in Moana Oceania	14
Platform sub-imperialism	13
AI Empire: Unraveling the interlocking systems of oppression in generative AI's global order	13
The promises and challenges of addressing artificial intelligence with human rights	13
Participatory action research in critical data studies: Interrogating AI from a South–North approach	13
Digital platforms in the agricultural sector: Dynamics of oligopolistic platformisation	13
Sharenting and social media properties: Exploring vicarious data harms and sociotechnical mitigations	13
Artificial intelligence for development (AI4D): A contested notion	13
Seeing like a driver: How workers repair, resist, and reinforce the platform's algorithmic visions	13
Fact signalling and fact nostalgia in the data-driven society	13
Contextual integrity in Africa's plural-legal contexts: Fintech, privacy, and informational norms in Ghana	13
Beyond high-tech versus low-tech: A tentative framework for sustainable urban data governance	12
Erratum to Taking a critical look at the critical turn in data science: From “data feminism” to transnational feminist data science	12
The Digital Welfare State: Conceptual limits and possibilities	12
Surveillance experiences of extinction rebellion activists and police: Unpacking the technologization of Dutch protest policing	12
Mapping materials, drawing Europe: Sample and data quality and accessibility in the biobanking infrastructure BBMRI-ERIC	12
The ethics of data interoperability: Mapping problems and strategies in biomedical data and beyond	12
Politics of data reuse in machine learning systems: Theorizing reuse entanglements	12
Governing teachers through datafication: Physical–virtual hybridity and language interoperability in teacher accountability	12
The role of evidence-based misogyny in antifeminist online communities of the ‘manosphere’	12
Adjusting expectations actionable: Personalised treatment plan in anticipation of data-driven healthcare	12
Quantifying the self with others	12
Machine learning, meaning making: On reading computer science texts	12
The problem of researching a recursive society: Algorithms, data coils and the looping of the social	12
Repair and redress: A research program for algorithmic futures	12
Redress and worldmaking: Differing approaches to algorithmic reparations for housing justice	12
Terms-we-serve-with: Five dimensions for anticipating and repairing algorithmic harm	12
Our data, ourselves: Participation, justice, and alternative futures of data sovereignty in India	12
Global data empires: Analysing artificial intelligence data annotation in China and the USA	11
Beyond the cybernetic loop: “ smart” pain technology in a recursive society	11
Joint-sensemaking, innovation, and communication management during crisis: Evidence from the DCT applications in China	11
Topologies of visibility: A space-sensitive approach to online visibility analysis	11
Silencing in data science practices	11
Indigenous peoples and artificial intelligence: A systematic review and future directions	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
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	10
When is black-box AI justifiable to use in healthcare?	10
Diversity and neocolonialism in Big Data research: Avoiding extractivism while struggling with paternalism	10
New geographies of platform capitalism: The case of digital monopolization in Turkey	10
How people connect fairness and equity when they talk about data uses	10
The problem with annotation. Human labour and outsourcing between France and Madagascar	10
Algorithmic governmentality in Latin America: Sociotechnical imaginaries, neocolonial soft power, and authoritarianism	10
Unsustainable artificial intelligence and algorithmically facilitated emissions: The case for emissions-reduction-by-design	10
Decolonizing AI? Lessons from a failed experiment	10
The appification of borders: Data, migration and digitalization	10
Ecological ethics and the smart circular economy	10

The valorization of interactions. Gift exchange, power and value creation on digital platforms	10
Everyday digital traces	9
The after party: Cynical resignation in Adtech's pivot to privacy	9
When artificial intelligence meets accountability: Who holds legitimacy as account givers and holders?	9
Cross-cultural narratives of weaponised artificial intelligence: Comparing France, India, Japan and the United States	9
Choreographing for public value in digital health?	9
Algorithmic probing: Prompting offensive Google results and their moderation	9
“Revolutionize medicine as we know it”: Shaping imaginaries of the European Health Data Space	9
The curious case of blockchain in rural China: Unravelling power, profit, and surveillance	9
Commercial genetic information and criminal investigations: The case for social privacy	9
The free labor of “local guides”: How Google translates the “hacker ethic” into a data-accumulation culture	9
Exploring the impact of national culture on the development of open government data: A cross-cultural analysis	9
The unbearable (technical) unreliability of automated facial emotion recognition	9
User perceptions of misgendering algorithms	8
Interoperable and standardized algorithmic images: The domestic war on drugs and mugshots within facial recognition technologies	8
Predictive privacy: Collective data protection in the context of artificial intelligence and big data	8
Power BI and the datafication of Danish higher education	8
With eyes of a machine: A three-step guide for applying machine learning to visual content analysis in social research	8
Editorial introduction: Towards a machinic anthropology	8
A song for each moment: Identifying listening modes as reflexive practices in music streaming	8
Cleaning up data work: Negotiating meaning, morality, and inequality in a tech startup	8
Investment narratives in women's health: Insights on ‘tech for good’ from a new market	8
Digital phenotyping – Editorial	8
Online fraud detection: ‘In the moment’ digital accountability in a data-sensitive setting	8
Sensing data: Towards ethnographic methods for data positionality	8
Datafied ageing futures: Regimes of anticipation and participatory futuring	8
From planetary to state-embedded AI stacks: The re-territorialisation of China's data annotation industry	8
The platformisation tree in China's AI data annotation ecosystem	8
Social data governance: From reflective practices to comparative synthesis	8
The emergence of artificial intelligence ethics auditing	8
The right to information or data sovereignty? Sending unsolicited messages to Russians about the war in Ukraine	7
Advancing search engine studies: The evolution of Google critique and intervention	7
Digitalisation, democracy and the GDPR: The efforts of DPAs to defend democratic principles despite the limitations of the GDPR	7
Because the machine can discriminate: How machine learning serves and transforms biological explanations of human difference	7
Designing for justice in freelancing: Testing platform interventions to minimise discrimination in online labour markets	7
A feeling for the algorithm: Diversity, expertise, and artificial intelligence	7
Surveillance capitalism and systemic digital risk: The imperative to collect and connect and the risks of interconnectedness	7
Outlier bias: AI classification of curb ramps, outliers, and context	7
Automated informed consent	7
Artificial intelligence and the state: Seeing like an artificial neural network	6
AI-generated imagery in ethnography: A reflective framework	6
Making sense of “big data”: Ten years of discourse around datafication	6
Not so fast! Data temporalities in law enforcement and border control	6
Can human-centred participatory design turn AI into a pertinent tool for human rights research?	6
Street-level bureaucracy meets Big Data: The moral economy of taxation in China in the digital age	6
Data cultures: Contested meanings in a public cultural institution	6
Whose voice counts? The role of large language models in public commenting	6
Short-circuiting biology: Digital phenotypes, digital biomarkers, and shifting gazes in psychiatry	6
Snails, time, data: On the politics of mass-digitization and the possibility of data drift	6
From human-centered to social-centered artificial intelligence: Assessing ChatGPT's impact through disruptive events	6
Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity: AI hallucinations and the ethics of posthuman creativity	6
A novel, human-in-the-loop computational grounded theory framework for big social data	6
Designing privacy in personalized health: An empirical analysis	6
Data economy: A discussion on value, fictitious valorisation, and national sovereignty	6
Fairness perceptions of algorithmic decision-making: A systematic review of the empirical literature	5
Efficient service provider or committed social reformer?: Government data storytelling around city data projects	5
A narrative syntax for meaningful human agency – rereading Greimas in times of algorithmic systems	5
Navigating the ethical landscape behind ChatGPT	5
Meaningful disinformation: Narrative rituals and affective folktales	5
Networks, narratives and neocoloniality of AI for Climate Action	5
AI innovation at the boundaries: Justifying a generative AI decision support tool	5
Race-neutral vs race-conscious: Using algorithmic methods to evaluate the reparative potential of housing programs	5
Rethinking the filter bubble? Developing a research agenda for the protective filter bubble	5
Sharing digital trace data: Researchers’ challenges and needs	5
Corrigendum to Leveraging blockchain for energy transition in urban contexts	5
Why generative AI is different from designed technology regarding task-relatedness, user interaction, and agency	5
Digital resignation and the datafied welfare state	5
Doing place through data: Proliferation, profiling and the perils of portrayal in local climate action	5
Understanding game data work	5