Big Data & Society

Article	Citations
Data sovereignty: A review	143
Towards psychological herd immunity: Cross-cultural evidence for two prebunking interventions against COVID-19 misinformation	130
Algorithmic management in a work context	120
The COVID-19 Infodemic: Twitter versus Facebook	113
Data as asset? The measurement, governance, and valuation of digital personal data by Big Tech	106
On the genealogy of machine learning datasets: A critical history of ImageNet	103
The algorithm audit: Scoring the algorithms that score us	93
Algorithmic reparation	66
Fairness perceptions of algorithmic decision-making: A systematic review of the empirical literature	63
Artificial intelligence ethics by design. Evaluating public perception on the importance of ethical design principles of artificial intelligence	62
The great Transformer: Examining the role of large language models in the political economy of AI	61
Making sense of algorithms: Relational perception of contact tracing and risk assessment during COVID-19	47
Bot, or not? Comparing three methods for detecting social bots in five political discourses	45
Dashboard stories: How narratives told by predictive analytics reconfigure roles, risk and sociality in education	43
Between surveillance and recognition: Rethinking digital identity in aid	42
Toxicity and verbal aggression on social media: Polarized discourse on wearing face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic	40
Visual media analysis for Instagram and other online platforms	40
The Chilling Effects of Digital Dataveillance: A Theoretical Model and an Empirical Research Agenda	37
Countering misinformation: A multidisciplinary approach	37
Online Labour Index 2020: New ways to measure the world’s remote freelancing market	36
Co-design and ethical artificial intelligence for health: An agenda for critical research and practice	36
The fabrics of machine moderation: Studying the technical, normative, and organizational structure of Perspective API	35
How partners mediate platform power: Mapping business and data partnerships in the social media ecosystem	33
Different types of COVID-19 misinformation have different emotional valence on Twitter	31
Alternative data and sentiment analysis: Prospecting non-standard data in machine learning-driven finance	30

Emotional artificial intelligence in children’s toys and devices: Ethics, governance and practical remedies	30
Dislocated accountabilities in the “AI supply chain”: Modularity and developers’ notions of responsibility	30
Auto-essentialization: Gender in automated facial analysis as extended colonial project	30
Lifting the curtain: Strategic visibility of human labour in AI-as-a-Service	28
Studying the COVID-19 infodemic at scale	28
Artificial intelligence, human intelligence and hybrid intelligence based on mutual augmentation	28
Assessing biases, relaxing moralism: On ground-truthing practices in machine learning design and application	27
Blockchain imperialism in the Pacific	27
What do we see when we look at networks: Visual network analysis, relational ambiguity, and force-directed layouts	26
Identifying and characterizing scientific authority-related misinformation discourse about hydroxychloroquine on twitter using unsupervised machine learning	26
“Reach the right people”: The politics of “interests” in Facebook’s classification system for ad targeting	25
Design choices: Mechanism design and platform capitalism	24
Precision medicine and digital phenotyping: Digital medicine's way from more data to better health	24
Big data for climate action or climate action for big data?	24
From FAIR data to fair data use: Methodological data fairness in health-related social media research	23
Racial formations as data formations	22
Consumers are willing to pay a price for explainable, but not for green AI. Evidence from a choice-based conjoint analysis	21
“AI will fix this” – The Technical, Discursive, and Political Turn to AI in Governing Communication	21
Diversity in sociotechnical machine learning systems	20
In search of the citizen in the datafication of public administration	19
Data deprivations, data gaps and digital divides: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	19
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI	19
For a heterodox computational social science	19
Knowledge co-creation in participatory policy and practice: Building community through data-driven direct democracy	19
Toward a sociology of machine learning explainability: Human–machine interaction in deep neural network-based automated trading	19
Discovering needs for digital capitalism: The hybrid profession of data science	19
Machine learning in tutorials – Universal applicability, underinformed application, and other misconceptions	19
Machine learning and the politics of synthetic data	18
Excavating awareness and power in data science: A manifesto for trustworthy pervasive data research	18
Big Data Dreams and Reality in Shenzhen: An Investigation of Smart City Implementation in China	17
Social impacts of algorithmic decision-making: A research agenda for the social sciences	17
The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts	17
Big Tech platforms in health research: Re-purposing big data governance in light of the General Data Protection Regulation’s research exemption	16
COVID-19, digital health technology and the politics of the unprecedented	16
Big Data in the workplace: Privacy Due Diligence as a human rights-based approach to employee privacy protection	16
‘It depends on your threat model’: the anticipatory dimensions of resistance to data-driven surveillance	16
Epistemologies of predictive policing: Mathematical social science, social physics and machine learning	15
Seeing like a driver: How workers repair, resist, and reinforce the platform's algorithmic visions	15
The datafication revolution in criminal justice: An empirical exploration of frames portraying data-driven technologies for crime prevention and control	15
Web3 as ‘self-infrastructuring’: The challenge is how	15
How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism	15
The Thick Machine: Anthropological AI between explanation and explication	15
Controversing the datafied smart city: Conceptualising a ‘making-controversial’ approach to civic engagement	15
Public views of the smart city: Towards the construction of a social problem	14
The problem with annotation. Human labour and outsourcing between France and Madagascar	14
Mapping Persian Twitter: Networks and mechanism of political communication in Iranian 2017 presidential election	14
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making	14
In search of ‘extra data’: Making tissues flow from personal to personalised medicine	14
Addressing ethical gaps in ‘Technology for Good’: Foregrounding care and capabilities	14
Reading datasets: Strategies for interpreting the politics of data signification	13

Data diaries: A situated approach to the study of data	13
Identifying how COVID-19-related misinformation reacts to the announcement of the UK national lockdown: An interrupted time-series study	13
AI Empire: Unraveling the interlocking systems of oppression in generative AI's global order	13
The importance of algorithm skills for informed Internet use	13
Predictive privacy: Collective data protection in the context of artificial intelligence and big data	13
One size does not fit all: Constructing complementary digital reskilling strategies using online labour market data	13
For what it's worth. Unearthing the values embedded in digital phenotyping for mental health	13
Squeaky wheels: Missing data, disability, and power in the smart city	12
Critical companionship: Some sensibilities for studying the lived experience of data subjects	12
Big AI: Cloud infrastructure dependence and the industrialisation of artificial intelligence	12
Ground truth tracings (GTT): On the epistemic limits of machine learning	12
Four investment areas for ethical AI: Transdisciplinary opportunities to close the publication-to-practice gap	12
The role of sensors in the production of smart city spaces	12
‘The interface of the future’: Mixed reality, intimate data and imagined temporalities	11
A comparative analysis of data governance: Socio-technical imaginaries of digital personal data in the USA and EU (2008–2016)	11
Data access and regime competition: A case study of car data sharing in China	11
Politics of data reuse in machine learning systems: Theorizing reuse entanglements	11
Towards a United Nations Internal Regulation for Artificial Intelligence	11
Social data governance: Towards a definition and model	10
Analysing discourse around COVID-19 in the Australian Twittersphere: A real-time corpus-based analysis	10
Expansive and extractive networks of Web3	10
Co-designing algorithms for governance: Ensuring responsible and accountable algorithmic management of refugee camp supplies	10
Virtual state, where are you? A literature review, framework and agenda for failed digital transformation	10
“More like a support tool”: Ambivalences around digital health from medical developers’ perspective	10
Capitalizing on transparency: Commercial surveillance and pharmaceutical marketing after the Physician Sunshine Act	10
Social media advertising for clinical studies: Ethical and data protection implications of online targeting	10
The problem of researching a recursive society: Algorithms, data coils and the looping of the social	10
Governing algorithmic decisions: The role of decision importance and governance on perceived legitimacy of algorithmic decisions	10
Archival strategies for contemporary collecting in a world of big data: Challenges and opportunities with curating the UK web archive	10
Performative innovation: Data governance in China's fintech industries	9
Computational grounded theory revisited: From computer-led to computer-assisted text analysis	9
Ghosts of white methods? The challenges of Big Data research in exploring racism in digital context	9
Influence government: Exploring practices, ethics, and power in the use of targeted advertising by the UK state	9
Dashboard design and the ‘datafied’ driving experience	9
Social determinants of health in the Big Data mode of population health risk calculation	9
Ethical scaling for content moderation: Extreme speech and the (in)significance of artificial intelligence	9
Digital failure: Unbecoming the “good” data subject through entropic, fugitive, and queer data	9
Racial formation, coloniality, and climate finance organizations: Implications for emergent data projects in the Pacific	9
When the future meets the past: Can safety and cyber security coexist in modern critical infrastructures?	9
Shall AI moderators be made visible? Perception of accountability and trust in moderation systems on social media platforms	9
The case for tracking misinformation the way we track disease	9
Neither opaque nor transparent: A transdisciplinary methodology to investigate datafication at the EU borders	9
Towards a political economy of technical systems: The case of Google	9
Google Search and the creation of ignorance: The case of the climate crisis	9
Algorithmic precarity and metric power: Managing the affective measures and customers in the gig economy	9
Utopia of abstraction: Digital organizations and the promise of sovereignty	9
Ethnographic data in the age of big data: How to compare and combine	9
(Tar)getting you: The use of online political targeted messages on Facebook	8
The data archive as factory: Alienation and resistance of data processors	8
Digital epidemiology, deep phenotyping and the enduring fantasy of pathological omniscience	8
Structured like a language model: Analysing AI as an automated subject	8
Algorithms as organizational figuration: The sociotechnical arrangements of a fintech start-up	8
‘Blockchain for good’: Exploring the notion of social good inside the blockchain scene	8
Smart campus communication, Internet of Things, and data governance: Understanding student tensions and imaginaries	8
Digital phenotyping and the (data) shadow of Alzheimer's disease	8
The revolution that did not happen: Telematics and car insurance in the 2010s	8
The role of evidence-based misogyny in antifeminist online communities of the ‘manosphere’	7
Algorithmic failure as a humanities methodology: Machine learning's mispredictions identify rich cases for qualitative analysis	7
Formally comparing topic models and human-generated qualitative coding of physician mothers’ experiences of workplace discrimination	7
‘Real-time’ air quality channels: A technology review of emerging environmental alert systems	7
Extrapolation and AI transparency: Why machine learning models should reveal when they make decisions beyond their training	7
A view from anthropology: Should anthropologists fear the data machines?	7
Privacy at risk? Understanding the perceived privacy protection of health code apps in China	7
The unbearable (technical) unreliability of automated facial emotion recognition	7
The data will not save us: Afropessimism and racial antimatter in the COVID-19 pandemic	7
The ontology explorer: A method to make visible data infrastructures for population management	7
Not so fast! Data temporalities in law enforcement and border control	7
Heritage-based tribalism in Big Data ecologies: Deploying origin myths for antagonistic othering	7
Datafication and the practice of intelligence production	7
Accounting for “the social” in contact tracing applications: The paradox between public health governance and mistrust of government's data use	7
Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 300K emails from the 2020 US election cycle	7
AI ethics and data governance in the geospatial domain of Digital Earth	7
In data we (don't) trust: The public adrift in data-driven public opinion models	6
Ethical assessments and mitigation strategies for biases in AI-systems used during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Learning machine learning: On the political economy of big tech's online AI courses	6
Emotional labour in the collaborative data practices of repurposing healthcare data and building data technologies	6
Google, data voids, and the dynamics of the politics of exclusion	6
Algorithmic empowerment: A comparative ethnography of two open-source algorithmic platforms – Decide Madrid and vTaiwan	6
Low on trust, high on use: Datafied media, trust and everyday life	6
Organic online politics: Farmers, Facebook, and Myanmar's military coup	6

A practical role-based approach for autonomous vehicle moral dilemmas	6
World Heritage sites on Wikipedia: Cultural heritage activism in a context of constrained agency	6
Digital phenotyping and data inheritance	6
Against carceral data collection in response to anti-Asian violences	6
Productive myopia: Racialized organizations and edtech	6
Algorithmic probing: Prompting offensive Google results and their moderation	6
Computational ethnography: A view from sociology	6
Knowing when to act: A call for an open misinformation library to guide actionable surveillance	6
Feeling fixes: Mess and emotion in algorithmic audits	6
The world wide web of carbon: Toward a relational footprinting of information and communications technology's climate impacts	6
Advancing search engine studies: The evolution of Google critique and intervention	6
“Too Soon” to count? How gender and race cloud notability considerations on Wikipedia	6
States of computing: On government organization and artificial intelligence in Canada	6
The Datafication of #MeToo: Whiteness, Racial Capitalism, and Anti-Violence Technologies	6
The ethical dimensions of Google autocomplete	5
Taking a critical look at the critical turn in data science: From “data feminism” to transnational feminist data science	5
Linguistic justice as a framework for designing, developing, and managing natural language processing tools	5
Ideological variation in preferred content and source credibility on Reddit during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
“The revolution will not be supervised”: Consent and open secrets in data science	5
The material consequences of “chipification”: The case of software-embedded cars	5
Digital identity as platform-mediated surveillance	5
Machine Anthropology: A View from International Relations	5
Of dog kennels, magnets, and hard drives: Dealing with Big Data peripheries	5
Developing data capability with non-profit organisations using participatory methods	5
Investigating hybridity in artificial intelligence research	5
‘What about the dads?’ Linking fathers and children in administrative data: A systematic scoping review	5
The Concentration-after-Personalisation Index (CAPI): Governing effects of personalisation using the example of targeted online advertising	5
Taking stock of COVID-19 health status certificates: Legal implications for data privacy and human rights	5
Sharing precision medicine data with private industry: Outcomes of a citizens’ jury in Singapore	5
All WARC and no playback: The materialities of data-centered web archives research	5
Digital contact tracing in the pandemic cities: Problematizing the regime of traceability in South Korea	5
Political affiliation moderates subjective interpretations of COVID-19 graphs	5
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy	5
Public sector information in the European Union policy: The misbalance between economy and individuals	5
Algorithmic constructions of risk: Anticipating uncertain futures in child protection services	5
Justice, injustice, and artificial intelligence: Lessons from political theory and philosophy	5
Why Personal Dreams Matter: How professionals affectively engage with the promises surrounding data-driven healthcare in Europe	5
Materialities of digital disease control in Taiwan during COVID-19	4
Short-circuiting biology: Digital phenotypes, digital biomarkers, and shifting gazes in psychiatry	4
Understanding ‘passivity’ in digital health through imaginaries and experiences of coronavirus disease 2019 contact tracing apps	4
Artificial intelligence and skills in the workplace: An integrative research agenda	4
Data arenas: The relational dynamics of data activism	4
Stepping back from Data and AI for Good – current trends and ways forward	4
Ecological ethics and the smart circular economy	4
A typology of artificial intelligence data work	4
Inequalities in privacy cynicism: An intersectional analysis of agency constraints	4
‘I started seeing shadows everywhere’: The diverse chilling effects of surveillance in Zimbabwe	4
The effectiveness of embedded values analysis modules in Computer Science education: An empirical study	4
Choreographing for public value in digital health?	4
Prediction as extraction of discretion	4
Modeling COVID-19 with big mobility data: Surveillance and reaffirming the people in the data	4
Algorithmic accountability in U.S. cities: Transparency, impact, and political economy	4
Heritage transformations	4
Communicative strategies for building public confidence in data governance: Analyzing Singapore's COVID-19 contact-tracing initiatives	4
Big data and Belmont: On the ethics and research implications of consumer-based datasets	4
When research is the context: Cross-platform user expectations for social media data reuse	4
Leveraging blockchain for energy transition in urban contexts	4
Biometric identity systems in law enforcement and the politics of (voice) recognition: The case of SiiP	4
Organizing an “organizationless” protest campaign in the WeChatsphere	4