Big Data & Society

Article	Citations
Content moderation, AI, and the question of scale	125
Going viral: How a single tweet spawned a COVID-19 conspiracy theory on Twitter	120
Data sovereignty: A review	116
Towards psychological herd immunity: Cross-cultural evidence for two prebunking interventions against COVID-19 misinformation	102
The COVID-19 Infodemic: Twitter versus Facebook	99
Emerging models of data governance in the age of datafication	96
AI ethics should not remain toothless! A call to bring back the teeth of ethics	95
Algorithmic management in a work context	84
The algorithm audit: Scoring the algorithms that score us	77
Data as asset? The measurement, governance, and valuation of digital personal data by Big Tech	76
On the genealogy of machine learning datasets: A critical history of ImageNet	67
Designing for human rights in AI	67
Innovation under pressure: Implications for data privacy during the Covid-19 pandemic	60
COVID-19 is spatial: Ensuring that mobile Big Data is used for social good	55
Covid-19 and the accelerating smart home	49
The birth of sensory power: How a pandemic made it visible?	47
Techno-solutionism and the standard human in the making of the COVID-19 pandemic	44
Algorithmic reparation	44
From pool to profile: Social consequences of algorithmic prediction in insurance	43
Black boxes, not green: Mythologizing artificial intelligence and omitting the environment	40
Making sense of algorithms: Relational perception of contact tracing and risk assessment during COVID-19	39
Between surveillance and recognition: Rethinking digital identity in aid	38
Bot, or not? Comparing three methods for detecting social bots in five political discourses	37
Making data science systems work	36
The great Transformer: Examining the role of large language models in the political economy of AI	34

Fairness perceptions of algorithmic decision-making: A systematic review of the empirical literature	34
Cambridge Analytica’s black box	34
Toxicity and verbal aggression on social media: Polarized discourse on wearing face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic	33
Artificial intelligence ethics by design. Evaluating public perception on the importance of ethical design principles of artificial intelligence	33
Dashboard stories: How narratives told by predictive analytics reconfigure roles, risk and sociality in education	33
Visual media analysis for Instagram and other online platforms	32
A qualitative analysis of sarcasm, irony and related #hashtags on Twitter	31
“Smittestopp”: If you want your freedom back, download now	30
Countering misinformation: A multidisciplinary approach	30
Learning from lines: Critical COVID data visualizations and the quarantine quotidian	28
The Chilling Effects of Digital Dataveillance: A Theoretical Model and an Empirical Research Agenda	28
The price of certainty: How the politics of pandemic data demand an ethics of care	28
Online Labour Index 2020: New ways to measure the world’s remote freelancing market	28
The fabrics of machine moderation: Studying the technical, normative, and organizational structure of Perspective API	28
The “black box” at work	27
How partners mediate platform power: Mapping business and data partnerships in the social media ecosystem	27
Studying the COVID-19 infodemic at scale	26
Co-design and ethical artificial intelligence for health: An agenda for critical research and practice	25
Blockchain imperialism in the Pacific	24
Alternative data and sentiment analysis: Prospecting non-standard data in machine learning-driven finance	23
Different types of COVID-19 misinformation have different emotional valence on Twitter	23
A post-truth pandemic?	23
Big data for climate action or climate action for big data?	23
Assessing biases, relaxing moralism: On ground-truthing practices in machine learning design and application	22
From FAIR data to fair data use: Methodological data fairness in health-related social media research	22
What do we see when we look at networks: Visual network analysis, relational ambiguity, and force-directed layouts	22
Mass personalization: Predictive marketing algorithms and the reshaping of consumer knowledge	21
Emotional artificial intelligence in children’s toys and devices: Ethics, governance and practical remedies	21
Editorial: The personalisation of insurance: Data, behaviour and innovation	20
Data deprivations, data gaps and digital divides: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	20
Design choices: Mechanism design and platform capitalism	20
Precision medicine and digital phenotyping: Digital medicine's way from more data to better health	19
Racial formations as data formations	19
Auto-essentialization: Gender in automated facial analysis as extended colonial project	19
Identifying and characterizing scientific authority-related misinformation discourse about hydroxychloroquine on twitter using unsupervised machine learning	19
Lifting the curtain: Strategic visibility of human labour in AI-as-a-Service	18
“Reach the right people”: The politics of “interests” in Facebook’s classification system for ad targeting	18
Good organizational reasons for better medical records: The data work of clinical documentation integrity specialists	18
Caution: Rumors ahead—A case study on the debunking of false information on Twitter	17
Knowledge co-creation in participatory policy and practice: Building community through data-driven direct democracy	17
For a heterodox computational social science	17
Machine learning in tutorials – Universal applicability, underinformed application, and other misconceptions	17
Contesting algorithms: Restoring the public interest in content filtering by artificial intelligence	17
Excavating awareness and power in data science: A manifesto for trustworthy pervasive data research	17
Discovering needs for digital capitalism: The hybrid profession of data science	16
The value of sharing: Branding and behaviour in a life and health insurance company	16
Revisiting the Black Box Society by rethinking the political economy of big data	16
Web3 as ‘self-infrastructuring’: The challenge is how	15
Seven intersectional feminist principles for equitable and actionable COVID-19 data	15
‘It depends on your threat model’: the anticipatory dimensions of resistance to data-driven surveillance	15

Consumers are willing to pay a price for explainable, but not for green AI. Evidence from a choice-based conjoint analysis	15
Toward a sociology of machine learning explainability: Human–machine interaction in deep neural network-based automated trading	14
The Thick Machine: Anthropological AI between explanation and explication	14
Diversity in sociotechnical machine learning systems	14
The politics of algorithmic governance in the black box city	14
In search of the citizen in the datafication of public administration	14
Contested technology: Social scientific perspectives of behaviour-based insurance	14
COVID-19, digital health technology and the politics of the unprecedented	14
“AI will fix this” – The Technical, Discursive, and Political Turn to AI in Governing Communication	13
Big Tech platforms in health research: Re-purposing big data governance in light of the General Data Protection Regulation’s research exemption	13
For what it's worth. Unearthing the values embedded in digital phenotyping for mental health	13
Epistemologies of predictive policing: Mathematical social science, social physics and machine learning	13
Disruption and dislocation in post-COVID futures for digital health	13
COVID-19: What does it mean for digital social protection?	12
Viral Data	12
“No disease for the others”: How COVID-19 data can enact new and old alterities	12
The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts	12
The datafication revolution in criminal justice: An empirical exploration of frames portraying data-driven technologies for crime prevention and control	12
Controversing the datafied smart city: Conceptualising a ‘making-controversial’ approach to civic engagement	12
Big Data in the workplace: Privacy Due Diligence as a human rights-based approach to employee privacy protection	11
Data diaries: A situated approach to the study of data	11
Identifying how COVID-19-related misinformation reacts to the announcement of the UK national lockdown: An interrupted time-series study	11
Intentionality and design in the data sonification of social issues	11
For a situational analytics: An interpretative methodology for the study of situations in computational settings	11
Big Data Dreams and Reality in Shenzhen: An Investigation of Smart City Implementation in China	11
One size does not fit all: Constructing complementary digital reskilling strategies using online labour market data	11
In search of ‘extra data’: Making tissues flow from personal to personalised medicine	11
Dislocated accountabilities in the “AI supply chain”: Modularity and developers’ notions of responsibility	10
Mapping Persian Twitter: Networks and mechanism of political communication in Iranian 2017 presidential election	10
Social data governance: Towards a definition and model	10
Towards a United Nations Internal Regulation for Artificial Intelligence	10
Big Data: From modern fears to enlightened and vigilant embrace of new beginnings	10
Data-bodies and data activism: Presencing women in digital heritage research	9
Public views of the smart city: Towards the construction of a social problem	9
Squeaky wheels: Missing data, disability, and power in the smart city	9
The role of sensors in the production of smart city spaces	9
Artificial intelligence, human intelligence and hybrid intelligence based on mutual augmentation	9
A comparative analysis of data governance: Socio-technical imaginaries of digital personal data in the USA and EU (2008–2016)	9
“More like a support tool”: Ambivalences around digital health from medical developers’ perspective	9
Social determinants of health in the Big Data mode of population health risk calculation	9
Reading datasets: Strategies for interpreting the politics of data signification	9
Four investment areas for ethical AI: Transdisciplinary opportunities to close the publication-to-practice gap	9
The problem of researching a recursive society: Algorithms, data coils and the looping of the social	8
Data/infrastructure in the smart city: Understanding the infrastructural power of Citymapper app through technicity of data	8
Critical companionship: Some sensibilities for studying the lived experience of data subjects	8
Machine learning and the politics of synthetic data	8
Ground truth tracings (GTT): On the epistemic limits of machine learning	8
Towards a political economy of technical systems: The case of Google	8
‘The interface of the future’: Mixed reality, intimate data and imagined temporalities	8
Digital epidemiology, deep phenotyping and the enduring fantasy of pathological omniscience	8
Co-designing algorithms for governance: Ensuring responsible and accountable algorithmic management of refugee camp supplies	8
The ontology explorer: A method to make visible data infrastructures for population management	7
Utopia of abstraction: Digital organizations and the promise of sovereignty	7
Data access and regime competition: A case study of car data sharing in China	7
The case for tracking misinformation the way we track disease	7
Disrupting the library: Digital scholarship and Big Data at the National Library of Scotland	7
Digital failure: Unbecoming the “good” data subject through entropic, fugitive, and queer data	7
Social impacts of algorithmic decision-making: A research agenda for the social sciences	7
Analysing discourse around COVID-19 in the Australian Twittersphere: A real-time corpus-based analysis	7
Ethnographic data in the age of big data: How to compare and combine	7
Performative innovation: Data governance in China's fintech industries	7
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making	7
Racial formation, coloniality, and climate finance organizations: Implications for emergent data projects in the Pacific	7
A view from anthropology: Should anthropologists fear the data machines?	7
Politics of data reuse in machine learning systems: Theorizing reuse entanglements	7
Capitalizing on transparency: Commercial surveillance and pharmaceutical marketing after the Physician Sunshine Act	7
The sale of heritage on eBay: Market trends and cultural value	7
Computational grounded theory revisited: From computer-led to computer-assisted text analysis	7
Archival strategies for contemporary collecting in a world of big data: Challenges and opportunities with curating the UK web archive	6
Google Search and the creation of ignorance: The case of the climate crisis	6
Feeling fixes: Mess and emotion in algorithmic audits	6
The importance of algorithm skills for informed Internet use	6
Seeing like a driver: How workers repair, resist, and reinforce the platform's algorithmic visions	6
Accounting for “the social” in contact tracing applications: The paradox between public health governance and mistrust of government's data use	6
Addressing ethical gaps in ‘Technology for Good’: Foregrounding care and capabilities	6
When the future meets the past: Can safety and cyber security coexist in modern critical infrastructures?	6
Ghosts of white methods? The challenges of Big Data research in exploring racism in digital context	6
Epistemic clashes in network science: Mapping the tensions between idiographic and nomothetic subcultures	6
A proxy for privacy uncovering the surveillance ecology of mobile apps	6
Expansive and extractive networks of Web3	6

The data archive as factory: Alienation and resistance of data processors	6
Influence government: Exploring practices, ethics, and power in the use of targeted advertising by the UK state	6
Knowing when to act: A call for an open misinformation library to guide actionable surveillance	6
Privacy at risk? Understanding the perceived privacy protection of health code apps in China	6
Digital phenotyping and the (data) shadow of Alzheimer's disease	6
Algorithmic failure as a humanities methodology: Machine learning's mispredictions identify rich cases for qualitative analysis	6
Extrapolation and AI transparency: Why machine learning models should reveal when they make decisions beyond their training	5
Why Personal Dreams Matter: How professionals affectively engage with the promises surrounding data-driven healthcare in Europe	5
A practical role-based approach for autonomous vehicle moral dilemmas	5
The world wide web of carbon: Toward a relational footprinting of information and communications technology's climate impacts	5
Neither opaque nor transparent: A transdisciplinary methodology to investigate datafication at the EU borders	5
How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism	5
‘Real-time’ air quality channels: A technology review of emerging environmental alert systems	5
Smart campus communication, Internet of Things, and data governance: Understanding student tensions and imaginaries	5
AI ethics and data governance in the geospatial domain of Digital Earth	5
Governing algorithmic decisions: The role of decision importance and governance on perceived legitimacy of algorithmic decisions	5
Shall AI moderators be made visible? Perception of accountability and trust in moderation systems on social media platforms	5
Emotional labour in the collaborative data practices of repurposing healthcare data and building data technologies	5
Taking a critical look at the critical turn in data science: From “data feminism” to transnational feminist data science	5
The data will not save us: Afropessimism and racial antimatter in the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Digital phenotyping and data inheritance	5
Public sector information in the European Union policy: The misbalance between economy and individuals	5
Heritage-based tribalism in Big Data ecologies: Deploying origin myths for antagonistic othering	5
Google, data voids, and the dynamics of the politics of exclusion	5
Ethical scaling for content moderation: Extreme speech and the (in)significance of artificial intelligence	5
The unbearable (technical) unreliability of automated facial emotion recognition	5
Algorithmic precarity and metric power: Managing the affective measures and customers in the gig economy	4
Virtual state, where are you? A literature review, framework and agenda for failed digital transformation	4
Advancing search engine studies: The evolution of Google critique and intervention	4
Dashboard design and the ‘datafied’ driving experience	4
Digital contact tracing in the pandemic cities: Problematizing the regime of traceability in South Korea	4
“Too Soon” to count? How gender and race cloud notability considerations on Wikipedia	4
Formally comparing topic models and human-generated qualitative coding of physician mothers’ experiences of workplace discrimination	4
Algorithmic probing: Prompting offensive Google results and their moderation	4
All WARC and no playback: The materialities of data-centered web archives research	4
Developing data capability with non-profit organisations using participatory methods	4
“The revolution will not be supervised”: Consent and open secrets in data science	4
The role of evidence-based misogyny in antifeminist online communities of the ‘manosphere’	4
Understanding ‘passivity’ in digital health through imaginaries and experiences of coronavirus disease 2019 contact tracing apps	4
Of dog kennels, magnets, and hard drives: Dealing with Big Data peripheries	4
The effectiveness of embedded values analysis modules in Computer Science education: An empirical study	4
Algorithmic empowerment: A comparative ethnography of two open-source algorithmic platforms – Decide Madrid and vTaiwan	4
Justice, injustice, and artificial intelligence: Lessons from political theory and philosophy	4
Datafication and the practice of intelligence production	4
The problem with annotation. Human labour and outsourcing between France and Madagascar	4
The ethical dimensions of Google autocomplete	4
Organic online politics: Farmers, Facebook, and Myanmar's military coup	4
Materialities of digital disease control in Taiwan during COVID-19	4
Learning machine learning: On the political economy of big tech's online AI courses	4
Big data and Belmont: On the ethics and research implications of consumer-based datasets	4
Algorithms as organizational figuration: The sociotechnical arrangements of a fintech start-up	4
Productive myopia: Racialized organizations and edtech	4
The revolution that did not happen: Telematics and car insurance in the 2010s	4
The Datafication of #MeToo: Whiteness, Racial Capitalism, and Anti-Violence Technologies	4
Computational ethnography: A view from sociology	4
Organizing an “organizationless” protest campaign in the WeChatsphere	4