Big Data & Society

Article	Citations
Clicks and particulates: Value, alienation, and attunement as unifying themes in big data studies	158
Responding to unusual government request for user data: How tech companies make sense of human rights	126
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?	101
Organizing an “organizationless” protest campaign in the WeChatsphere	89
Towards a United Nations Internal Regulation for Artificial Intelligence	85
The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter	81
Data citizenship: Quantifying structural racism in COVID-19 and beyond	68
The great Transformer: Examining the role of large language models in the political economy of AI	54
An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option	53
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation	51
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI	48
Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy	47
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security	46
Biometric identity systems in law enforcement and the politics of (voice) recognition: The case of SiiP	44
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy	41
How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism	40
Accounting for “the social” in contact tracing applications: The paradox between public health governance and mistrust of government's data use	39
Performative innovation: Data governance in China's fintech industries	38
Disability data and its situational and contextual irrationalities in the Global South	37
Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse	36
‘Blockchain for good’: Exploring the notion of social good inside the blockchain scene	36
Local government cultural economy data practices and futures: Capacity, decision-making and partnerships	35
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making	31
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews	31
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 disease	29
Expansive and extractive networks of Web3	29
Algorithms and hegemony in the workplace: Negotiating design and values in an Italian television platform	28
Simulation and the reality gap: Moments in a prehistory of synthetic data	28
Different types of COVID-19 misinformation have different emotional valence on Twitter	28
‘Data saves lives’: Ideational-material drivers of health data journeys in the UK	25
Sounding out voice biometrics: Comparing and contrasting how the state and the private sector determine identity through voice	25
Computational reparations as generative justice: Decolonial transitions to unalienated circular value flow	25
Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority	25
After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce	24
The importance of algorithm skills for informed Internet use	23
On samples, data, and their mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and data	22
The chat-chamber effect: Trusting the AI hallucination	21
The Thick Machine: Anthropological AI between explanation and explication	21
Situating questions of data, power, and racial formation	21
Artificial intelligence and skills in the workplace: An integrative research agenda	21
Anthropographics in COVID-19 simulations	21
Governing algorithmic decisions: The role of decision importance and governance on perceived legitimacy of algorithmic decisions	20
“AI will fix this” – The Technical, Discursive, and Political Turn to AI in Governing Communication	20
Inequalities in privacy cynicism: An intersectional analysis of agency constraints	20
Taking stock of COVID-19 health status certificates: Legal implications for data privacy and human rights	19
Digital phenotyping and data inheritance	19
Researching data discomfort: The case of Statistics Norway’s quest for billing data	19
From rules to examples: Machine learning's type of authority	19
Outsourcing accountability: Extractive data practice and inequities of power in humanitarian third-party monitoring	19
With great (statistical) power comes great responsibility: A comment on the ethics of using administrative data to investigate marginalised populations	18
After the algorithms: A study of meta-algorithmic judgments and diversity in the hiring process at a large multisite company	18
Digital identity as platform-mediated surveillance	18
Carceral algorithms and the history of control: An analysis of the Pennsylvania additive classification tool	18
Bridging awareness and resistance: Using algorithmic knowledge against controversial content	18
The datafication revolution in criminal justice: An empirical exploration of frames portraying data-driven technologies for crime prevention and control	18
Algorithmic constructions of risk: Anticipating uncertain futures in child protection services	18
In data we (don't) trust: The public adrift in data-driven public opinion models	18
Virtual state, where are you? A literature review, framework and agenda for failed digital transformation	17
Bot, or not? Comparing three methods for detecting social bots in five political discourses	17
Stream your brain! Speculative economy of the IoT and its pan-kinetic dataveillance	16
Ghosts of white methods? The challenges of Big Data research in exploring racism in digital context	16
The power and promise of transparency: Perspectives from citizens’ juries of pandemic health data sharing	16
AI incidents and ‘networked trouble’: The case for a research agenda	16
Dislocated accountabilities in the “AI supply chain”: Modularity and developers’ notions of responsibility	16
Just public algorithms: Mapping public engagement with the use of algorithms in UK public services	16
Rethinking use-restricted open-source licenses for regulating abuse of generative models	16
Coloniality and frictions: Data-driven humanitarianism in North-Eastern Nigeria and South Sudan	15
Toward a sociology of machine learning explainability: Human–machine interaction in deep neural network-based automated trading	15
Generating reality and silencing debate: Synthetic data as discursive device	15
Imaginaries of better administration: Renegotiating the relationship between citizens and digital public power	15
Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 300K emails from the 2020 US election cycle	15
Precision medicine and digital phenotyping: Digital medicine's way from more data to better health	15
Data communism: Constructing a national data ecosystem	14
A typology of artificial intelligence data work	14

Situating data relations in the datafied home: A methodological approach	14
Reactionary sensemaking: Mapping the micropolitics of online oppositional subcultures	14
Formally comparing topic models and human-generated qualitative coding of physician mothers’ experiences of workplace discrimination	13
Political affiliation moderates subjective interpretations of COVID-19 graphs	13
Gender and the invisibility of care on Wikipedia	13
Deeply embedded wages: Navigating digital payments in data work	13
Towards a political economy of technical systems: The case of Google	13
The city as a license: Design, rights and civics in a blockchain society	13
“Governing the urban commons”: DLT, institutions, and citizens in perspective	13
Algorithmic configurations in caring arrangements	13
Design choices: Mechanism design and platform capitalism	13
Tradeoffs all the way down: Ethical abduction as a decision-making process for data-intensive technology development	13
Nothing new under the sun: Medical professional maintenance in the face of artificial intelligence's disruption	13
“Too Soon” to count? How gender and race cloud notability considerations on Wikipedia	12
Strong or thin digital democracy? The democratic implications of Taiwan's open government data policy in the 2010s	12
Prediction as extraction of discretion	12
Recording the ethical provenance of data and automating data stewardship	12
Participatory action research in critical data studies: Interrogating AI from a South–North approach	12
‘I’ve left enough data’: Relations between people and data and the production of surveillance	12
Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models	12
Engaging citizens in experiments with computational analysis of patient stories: From unwarranted reductions to meaningful insights	12
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 problem	12
The effectiveness of embedded values analysis modules in Computer Science education: An empirical study	11
Data deprivations, data gaps and digital divides: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Big data and Belmont: On the ethics and research implications of consumer-based datasets	11
Seeing like a driver: How workers repair, resist, and reinforce the platform's algorithmic visions	11
Social determinants of health in the Big Data mode of population health risk calculation	11
The problem of researching a recursive society: Algorithms, data coils and the looping of the social	11
Ground truth tracings (GTT): On the epistemic limits of machine learning	11
Platform sub-imperialism	11
Sharenting and social media properties: Exploring vicarious data harms and sociotechnical mitigations	11
Politics of data reuse in machine learning systems: Theorizing reuse entanglements	11
A view from data science	10
Digital platforms in the agricultural sector: Dynamics of oligopolistic platformisation	10
Governing teachers through datafication: Physical–virtual hybridity and language interoperability in teacher accountability	10
Erratum to Taking a critical look at the critical turn in data science: From “data feminism” to transnational feminist data science	10
Fact signalling and fact nostalgia in the data-driven society	10
The promises and challenges of addressing artificial intelligence with human rights	10
Of dog kennels, magnets, and hard drives: Dealing with Big Data peripheries	10
Corrigendum to Heritage transformations	10
In search of the citizen in the datafication of public administration	10
Online Labour Index 2020: New ways to measure the world’s remote freelancing market	10
AI Empire: Unraveling the interlocking systems of oppression in generative AI's global order	9
Redress and worldmaking: Differing approaches to algorithmic reparations for housing justice	9
Quantifying the self with others	9
Data infrastructure studies on an unequal planet	9
Beyond high-tech versus low-tech: A tentative framework for sustainable urban data governance	9
Individual benefits and collective challenges: Experts’ views on data-driven approaches in medical research and healthcare in the German context	9
Adjusting expectations actionable: Personalised treatment plan in anticipation of data-driven healthcare	9
Terms-we-serve-with: Five dimensions for anticipating and repairing algorithmic harm	9
Surveillance experiences of extinction rebellion activists and police: Unpacking the technologization of Dutch protest policing	9
Mapping materials, drawing Europe: Sample and data quality and accessibility in the biobanking infrastructure BBMRI-ERIC	9
The role of evidence-based misogyny in antifeminist online communities of the ‘manosphere’	9
Machine learning, meaning making: On reading computer science texts	9
Computational grounded theory revisited: From computer-led to computer-assisted text analysis	8
Joint-sensemaking, innovation, and communication management during crisis: Evidence from the DCT applications in China	8
Computational ethnography: A view from sociology	8
The fabrics of machine moderation: Studying the technical, normative, and organizational structure of Perspective API	8
Datafication and the practice of intelligence production	8
Grøn Genstart: A quali-quantitative micro-history of a political idea in real-time	8
Ecological ethics and the smart circular economy	8
Diversity and neocolonialism in Big Data research: Avoiding extractivism while struggling with paternalism	8
Algorithmic governmentality in Latin America: Sociotechnical imaginaries, neocolonial soft power, and authoritarianism	8
Linguistic justice as a framework for designing, developing, and managing natural language processing tools	8
The curious case of blockchain in rural China: Unravelling power, profit, and surveillance	8
The valorization of interactions. Gift exchange, power and value creation on digital platforms	8
Extrapolation and AI transparency: Why machine learning models should reveal when they make decisions beyond their training	8
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 privacy	8
The problem with annotation. Human labour and outsourcing between France and Madagascar	8
New geographies of platform capitalism: The case of digital monopolization in Turkey	8
How people connect fairness and equity when they talk about data uses	8
The Datafication of #MeToo: Whiteness, Racial Capitalism, and Anti-Violence Technologies	7
Commercial genetic information and criminal investigations: The case for social privacy	7
Interoperable and standardized algorithmic images: The domestic war on drugs and mugshots within facial recognition technologies	7
Algorithmic probing: Prompting offensive Google results and their moderation	7
Everyday digital traces	7
Digital phenotyping – Editorial	7

Online fraud detection: ‘In the moment’ digital accountability in a data-sensitive setting	7
Choreographing for public value in digital health?	7
Cross-cultural narratives of weaponised artificial intelligence: Comparing France, India, Japan and the United States	7
Datafied ageing futures: Regimes of anticipation and participatory futuring	7
Predictive privacy: Collective data protection in the context of artificial intelligence and big data	7
Exploring the impact of national culture on the development of open government data: A cross-cultural analysis	7
Beyond manifestos: Exploring how political campaigns use online advertisements to communicate policy information and pledges	7
Editorial introduction: Towards a machinic anthropology	7
Surveillance capitalism and systemic digital risk: The imperative to collect and connect and the risks of interconnectedness	7
The unbearable (technical) unreliability of automated facial emotion recognition	7
Excavating awareness and power in data science: A manifesto for trustworthy pervasive data research	7
‘What about the dads?’ Linking fathers and children in administrative data: A systematic scoping review	7
Cleaning up data work: Negotiating meaning, morality, and inequality in a tech startup	7
A song for each moment: Identifying listening modes as reflexive practices in music streaming	7
Social data governance: From reflective practices to comparative synthesis	7
The emergence of artificial intelligence ethics auditing	7
Emotional labour in the collaborative data practices of repurposing healthcare data and building data technologies	7
Digitalisation, democracy and the GDPR: The efforts of DPAs to defend democratic principles despite the limitations of the GDPR	6
Understanding game data work	6
Sharing precision medicine data with private industry: Outcomes of a citizens’ jury in Singapore	6
Advancing search engine studies: The evolution of Google critique and intervention	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
Meaningful disinformation: Narrative rituals and affective folktales	6
From human-centered to social-centered artificial intelligence: Assessing ChatGPT's impact through disruptive events	6
Data access and regime competition: A case study of car data sharing in China	6
Utopia of abstraction: Digital organizations and the promise of sovereignty	6
Sharing digital trace data: Researchers’ challenges and needs	6
Outlier bias: AI classification of curb ramps, outliers, and context	6
Dashboard design and the ‘datafied’ driving experience	6
A feeling for the algorithm: Diversity, expertise, and artificial intelligence	6
Doing place through data: Proliferation, profiling and the perils of portrayal in local climate action	6
Automated informed consent	6
Because the machine can discriminate: How machine learning serves and transforms biological explanations of human difference	6
Snails, time, data: On the politics of mass-digitization and the possibility of data drift	6
Communicative strategies for building public confidence in data governance: Analyzing Singapore's COVID-19 contact-tracing initiatives	6
Designing for justice in freelancing: Testing platform interventions to minimise discrimination in online labour markets	6
Corrigendum to Leveraging blockchain for energy transition in urban contexts	5
Not so fast! Data temporalities in law enforcement and border control	5
Race-neutral vs race-conscious: Using algorithmic methods to evaluate the reparative potential of housing programs	5
Dimensionalizing privacy to advance the study of digital disempowerment	5
The perils of ‘tech for good’ lie in its politics of helping	5
Erratum to The digital life of the #migrantcaravan: Contextualizing Twitter as a spatial technology	5
Fairness perceptions of algorithmic decision-making: A systematic review of the empirical literature	5
Rethinking the filter bubble? Developing a research agenda for the protective filter bubble	5
The material consequences of “chipification”: The case of software-embedded cars	5
Prediction and explainability in AI: Striking a new balance?	5
Computational challenges to test and revitalize Claude Lévi-Strauss transformational methodology	5
Epistemologies of missing data: COVID dashboard builders and the production and maintenance of marginalized COVID data	5
Designing privacy in personalized health: An empirical analysis	5
Navigating the ethical landscape behind ChatGPT	5
Short-circuiting biology: Digital phenotypes, digital biomarkers, and shifting gazes in psychiatry	5
Algorithmic accountability in U.S. cities: Transparency, impact, and political economy	5
Digital resignation and the datafied welfare state	5
Modeling COVID-19 with big mobility data: Surveillance and reaffirming the people in the data	5