Big Data & Society

Article	Citations
Organizing an “organizationless” protest campaign in the WeChatsphere	151
Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly research	142
Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?	119
Responding to unusual government request for user data: How tech companies make sense of human rights	102
Data citizenship: Quantifying structural racism in COVID-19 and beyond	97
Supportive but apprehensive: Ambivalent attitudes towards a Danish public health AI and surveillance-driven project	87
Clicks and particulates: Value, alienation, and attunement as unifying themes in big data studies	76
An alternative planetary future? Digital sovereignty frameworks and the decolonial option	75
Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation	62
The multifaceted and situated data center imaginary of Dutch Twitter	60
The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI	56
Is it about “them”? leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse	49
Local government cultural economy data practices and futures: Capacity, decision-making and partnerships	49
Review bombing the platformed city: Contested political speech in online local reviews	47
Disability data and its situational and contextual irrationalities in the Global South	39
Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy	37
Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy	35
Performative innovation: Data governance in China's fintech industries	34
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making	34
‘Blockchain for good’: Exploring the notion of social good inside the blockchain scene	33
After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce	32
In Palantir we trust? Regulation of data analysis platforms in public security	32
‘Data saves lives’: Ideational-material drivers of health data journeys in the UK	32
Sounding out voice biometrics: Comparing and contrasting how the state and the private sector determine identity through voice	32
How platforms govern: Social regulation in digital capitalism	32

Digital phenotyping and the (data) shadow of Alzheimer's disease	31
Justitia ex machina: The impact of an AI system on legal decision-making and discretionary authority	31
China as an analytical lens for AI and society	30
On samples, data, and their mobility in biobanking: How imagined travels help to relate samples and data	30
Algorithms and hegemony in the workplace: Negotiating design and values in an Italian television platform	29
Producing shifting personhood: How designers anthropomorphize artificial intelligence	29
Simulation and the reality gap: Moments in a prehistory of synthetic data	29
The importance of algorithm skills for informed Internet use	28
Demographic figures at risk in the digital era: Resisting commodification, reclaiming the common good	28
Mandatory age verification for pornography access: Why it can't and won't ‘save the children’	27
Expansive and extractive networks of Web3	27
Computational reparations as generative justice: Decolonial transitions to unalienated circular value flow	27
The ICE–Lexis nexus: An argument against use of commercial databases in immigration enforcement	26
Data and AI mystification: Ownership, control, and financialization in the platform	26
From rules to examples: Machine learning's type of authority	25
Situating questions of data, power, and racial formation	25
From flatlands to livable futures: Unflattening carbon metrics in the energy and data industries	25
The chat-chamber effect: Trusting the AI hallucination	24
Anthropographics in COVID-19 simulations	24
Inequalities in privacy cynicism: An intersectional analysis of agency constraints	24
Artificial intelligence and skills in the workplace: An integrative research agenda	23
The Thick Machine: Anthropological AI between explanation and explication	23
Governing algorithmic decisions: The role of decision importance and governance on perceived legitimacy of algorithmic decisions	23
Carceral algorithms and the history of control: An analysis of the Pennsylvania additive classification tool	22
With great (statistical) power comes great responsibility: A comment on the ethics of using administrative data to investigate marginalised populations	22
Taking stock of COVID-19 health status certificates: Legal implications for data privacy and human rights	22
Virtual state, where are you? A literature review, framework and agenda for failed digital transformation	22
Outsourcing accountability: Extractive data practice and inequities of power in humanitarian third-party monitoring	22
Researching data discomfort: The case of Statistics Norway’s quest for billing data	22
In data we (don't) trust: The public adrift in data-driven public opinion models	22
Algorithmic constructions of risk: Anticipating uncertain futures in child protection services	21
Bridging silos or adding friction? The data work behind re-identification across interoperable data infrastructures	21
Strategising imaginaries: How corporate actors in China, Germany and the US shape AI governance	20
Digital identity as platform-mediated surveillance	20
Bridging awareness and resistance: Using algorithmic knowledge against controversial content	20
Creating certainty where there is none: Artificial intelligence as political concept	20
Just public algorithms: Mapping public engagement with the use of algorithms in UK public services	19
Rethinking use-restricted open-source licenses for regulating abuse of generative models	19
Dislocated accountabilities in the “AI supply chain”: Modularity and developers’ notions of responsibility	19
The power and promise of transparency: Perspectives from citizens’ juries of pandemic health data sharing	19
After the algorithms: A study of meta-algorithmic judgments and diversity in the hiring process at a large multisite company	19
Coloniality and frictions: Data-driven humanitarianism in North-Eastern Nigeria and South Sudan	19
A typology of artificial intelligence data work	19
Why putting artificial intelligence ethics into practice is not enough: Towards a multi-level framework	19
AI incidents and ‘networked trouble’: The case for a research agenda	18
Generating reality and silencing debate: Synthetic data as discursive device	18
Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 300K emails from the 2020 US election cycle	18
Dancing with anklets: Navigating digital rural governance with big data in China	18
Situating data relations in the datafied home: A methodological approach	17
Towards a political economy of technical systems: The case of Google	17

Political affiliation moderates subjective interpretations of COVID-19 graphs	17
Toward a sociology of machine learning explainability: Human–machine interaction in deep neural network-based automated trading	17
Reactionary sensemaking: Mapping the micropolitics of online oppositional subcultures	17
Imaginaries of better administration: Renegotiating the relationship between citizens and digital public power	17
#TargetedAds, or memeing dataveillance on TikTok: How users comply, oppose, and imagine datafication practices	16
Gender and the invisibility of care on Wikipedia	16
Prediction as extraction of discretion	16
Data communism: Constructing a national data ecosystem	16
Nothing new under the sun: Medical professional maintenance in the face of artificial intelligence's disruption	16
Making relations: Re-imagining AI through crafted and embodied knowledge systems in Moana Oceania	16
Algorithmic configurations in caring arrangements	16
The role of mundane resistance in the spectacular failure of the smart home	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	15
Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system	15
CO2e (best) avoided? How people experience CO2e avoided on the Too Good To Go app	15
Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models	15
Tradeoffs all the way down: Ethical abduction as a decision-making process for data-intensive technology development	15
Public views of the smart city: Towards the construction of a social problem	15
“Governing the urban commons”: DLT, institutions, and citizens in perspective	15
Afrofuturist ambiguities: Inclusion and consolidation in South African digital finance	14
Engaging citizens in experiments with computational analysis of patient stories: From unwarranted reductions to meaningful insights	14
Deeply embedded wages: Navigating digital payments in data work	14
‘I’ve left enough data’: Relations between people and data and the production of surveillance	14
Collectivism and individualism political bias in large language models: A two-step approach	14
Recording the ethical provenance of data and automating data stewardship	14
Artificial intelligence for development (AI4D): A contested notion	14
Platform sub-imperialism	13
Seeing like a driver: How workers repair, resist, and reinforce the platform's algorithmic visions	13
Trade-offs in AI assistant choice: Do consumers prioritize transparency and sustainability over AI assistant performance?	13
Strong or thin digital democracy? The democratic implications of Taiwan's open government data policy in the 2010s	13
Participatory action research in critical data studies: Interrogating AI from a South–North approach	13
Why sovereignty matters for humanitarian data	13
The effectiveness of embedded values analysis modules in Computer Science education: An empirical study	13
“Too Soon” to count? How gender and race cloud notability considerations on Wikipedia	13
Contextual integrity in Africa's plural-legal contexts: Fintech, privacy, and informational norms in Ghana	12
The promises and challenges of addressing artificial intelligence with human rights	12
AI Empire: Unraveling the interlocking systems of oppression in generative AI's global order	12
Digital platforms in the agricultural sector: Dynamics of oligopolistic platformisation	12
Ground truth tracings (GTT): On the epistemic limits of machine learning	12
Erratum to Taking a critical look at the critical turn in data science: From “data feminism” to transnational feminist data science	12
Politics of data reuse in machine learning systems: Theorizing reuse entanglements	12
In search of the citizen in the datafication of public administration	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
Fact signalling and fact nostalgia in the data-driven society	12
Governing teachers through datafication: Physical–virtual hybridity and language interoperability in teacher accountability	12
Sharenting and social media properties: Exploring vicarious data harms and sociotechnical mitigations	12
Decolonizing AI? Lessons from a failed experiment	11
Adjusting expectations actionable: Personalised treatment plan in anticipation of data-driven healthcare	11
Quantifying the self with others	11
Beyond high-tech versus low-tech: A tentative framework for sustainable urban data governance	11
Data infrastructure studies on an unequal planet	11
The role of evidence-based misogyny in antifeminist online communities of the ‘manosphere’	11
Joint-sensemaking, innovation, and communication management during crisis: Evidence from the DCT applications in China	11
Individual benefits and collective challenges: Experts’ views on data-driven approaches in medical research and healthcare in the German context	11
The ethics of data interoperability: Mapping problems and strategies in biomedical data and beyond	11
Machine learning, meaning making: On reading computer science texts	11
Mapping materials, drawing Europe: Sample and data quality and accessibility in the biobanking infrastructure BBMRI-ERIC	11
Grøn Genstart: A quali-quantitative micro-history of a political idea in real-time	11
Beyond the cybernetic loop: “ smart” pain technology in a recursive society	11
Surveillance experiences of extinction rebellion activists and police: Unpacking the technologization of Dutch protest policing	11
Redress and worldmaking: Differing approaches to algorithmic reparations for housing justice	11
Our data, ourselves: Participation, justice, and alternative futures of data sovereignty in India	11
Terms-we-serve-with: Five dimensions for anticipating and repairing algorithmic harm	11
Extrapolation and AI transparency: Why machine learning models should reveal when they make decisions beyond their training	10
The appification of borders: Data, migration and digitalization	10
Global data empires: Analysing artificial intelligence data annotation in China and the USA	10
Unsustainable artificial intelligence and algorithmically facilitated emissions: The case for emissions-reduction-by-design	10
Linguistic justice as a framework for designing, developing, and managing natural language processing tools	10
Indigenous peoples and artificial intelligence: A systematic review and future directions	10
When is black-box AI justifiable to use in healthcare?	10
How people connect fairness and equity when they talk about data uses	10
When the future meets the past: Can safety and cyber security coexist in modern critical infrastructures?	10
Ecological ethics and the smart circular economy	10
The valorization of interactions. Gift exchange, power and value creation on digital platforms	10
Silencing in data science practices	10
Greenwashing Silicon Valley: The legitimization of green platform capitalism through tech-on-climate discourse	10
Computational grounded theory revisited: From computer-led to computer-assisted text analysis	10
Diversity and neocolonialism in Big Data research: Avoiding extractivism while struggling with paternalism	10

The after party: Cynical resignation in Adtech's pivot to privacy	10
The curious case of blockchain in rural China: Unravelling power, profit, and surveillance	9
The problem with annotation. Human labour and outsourcing between France and Madagascar	9
Datafication and the practice of intelligence production	9
‘What about the dads?’ Linking fathers and children in administrative data: A systematic scoping review	9
Cleaning up data work: Negotiating meaning, morality, and inequality in a tech startup	9
A song for each moment: Identifying listening modes as reflexive practices in music streaming	9
Cross-cultural narratives of weaponised artificial intelligence: Comparing France, India, Japan and the United States	9
New geographies of platform capitalism: The case of digital monopolization in Turkey	9
Computational ethnography: A view from sociology	9
Sensing data: Towards ethnographic methods for data positionality	9
Interoperable and standardized algorithmic images: The domestic war on drugs and mugshots within facial recognition technologies	9
Commercial genetic information and criminal investigations: The case for social privacy	9
Predictive privacy: Collective data protection in the context of artificial intelligence and big data	9
Algorithmic probing: Prompting offensive Google results and their moderation	9
Algorithmic governmentality in Latin America: Sociotechnical imaginaries, neocolonial soft power, and authoritarianism	9
The unbearable (technical) unreliability of automated facial emotion recognition	9
“Revolutionize medicine as we know it”: Shaping imaginaries of the European Health Data Space	9
Everyday digital traces	9
Datafied ageing futures: Regimes of anticipation and participatory futuring	9
Editorial introduction: Towards a machinic anthropology	8
Investment narratives in women's health: Insights on ‘tech for good’ from a new market	8
When artificial intelligence meets accountability: Who holds legitimacy as account givers and holders?	8
Online fraud detection: ‘In the moment’ digital accountability in a data-sensitive setting	8
Beyond manifestos: Exploring how political campaigns use online advertisements to communicate policy information and pledges	8
User perceptions of misgendering algorithms	8
Power BI and the datafication of Danish higher education	8
Digital phenotyping – Editorial	8
The platformisation tree in China's AI data annotation ecosystem	8
Surveillance capitalism and systemic digital risk: The imperative to collect and connect and the risks of interconnectedness	8
Social data governance: From reflective practices to comparative synthesis	8
Exploring the impact of national culture on the development of open government data: A cross-cultural analysis	8
With eyes of a machine: A three-step guide for applying machine learning to visual content analysis in social research	8
Choreographing for public value in digital health?	8
Emotional labour in the collaborative data practices of repurposing healthcare data and building data technologies	8
The emergence of artificial intelligence ethics auditing	7
Digitalisation, democracy and the GDPR: The efforts of DPAs to defend democratic principles despite the limitations of the GDPR	7
Street-level bureaucracy meets Big Data: The moral economy of taxation in China in the digital age	7
Because the machine can discriminate: How machine learning serves and transforms biological explanations of human difference	7
Outlier bias: AI classification of curb ramps, outliers, and context	7
Data cultures: Contested meanings in a public cultural institution	7
AI-generated imagery in ethnography: A reflective framework	7
From human-centered to social-centered artificial intelligence: Assessing ChatGPT's impact through disruptive events	7
Designing for justice in freelancing: Testing platform interventions to minimise discrimination in online labour markets	7
Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity: AI hallucinations and the ethics of posthuman creativity	7
Automated informed consent	7
Sharing precision medicine data with private industry: Outcomes of a citizens’ jury in Singapore	7
Making sense of “big data”: Ten years of discourse around datafication	7
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
Artificial intelligence and the state: Seeing like an artificial neural network	7
Short-circuiting biology: Digital phenotypes, digital biomarkers, and shifting gazes in psychiatry	6
Communicative strategies for building public confidence in data governance: Analyzing Singapore's COVID-19 contact-tracing initiatives	6
Meaningful disinformation: Narrative rituals and affective folktales	6
Understanding game data work	6
Doing place through data: Proliferation, profiling and the perils of portrayal in local climate action	6
Snails, time, data: On the politics of mass-digitization and the possibility of data drift	6
Fairness perceptions of algorithmic decision-making: A systematic review of the empirical literature	6
A novel, human-in-the-loop computational grounded theory framework for big social data	6
Sharing digital trace data: Researchers’ challenges and needs	6
Designing privacy in personalized health: An empirical analysis	6
Rethinking the filter bubble? Developing a research agenda for the protective filter bubble	6
Not so fast! Data temporalities in law enforcement and border control	6
Data economy: A discussion on value, fictitious valorisation, and national sovereignty	6
Corrigendum to Leveraging blockchain for energy transition in urban contexts	6
A feeling for the algorithm: Diversity, expertise, and artificial intelligence	6
The material consequences of “chipification”: The case of software-embedded cars	6
Utopia of abstraction: Digital organizations and the promise of sovereignty	6
Can human-centred participatory design turn AI into a pertinent tool for human rights research?	6
Prediction and explainability in AI: Striking a new balance?	5
Networks, narratives and neocoloniality of AI for Climate Action	5
All WARC and no playback: The materialities of data-centered web archives research	5
Modeling COVID-19 with big mobility data: Surveillance and reaffirming the people in the data	5
“My phone must be listening!”: Peoples’ surveillance beliefs around devices “listening” to offline conversations in the US, the Netherlands, and Poland	5
Intelligent toys, complex questions: A literature review of artificial intelligence in children's toys and devices	5
Algorithmic accountability in U.S. cities: Transparency, impact, and political economy	5
A narrative syntax for meaningful human agency – rereading Greimas in times of algorithmic systems	5
Navigating the ethical landscape behind ChatGPT	5
Broken loops, open futures: The building and breaking of behavioural insurance	5
Governing prediction: A material political economy of the computational toxicology market	5
The corporate cultivation of digital resignation in policymaking: How weak US regulations enable data trafficking to China	5
Enacting data context: Fixing meaning in transparency data initiatives	5
Epistemologies of missing data: COVID dashboard builders and the production and maintenance of marginalized COVID data	5
Digital resignation and the datafied welfare state	5
Efficient service provider or committed social reformer?: Government data storytelling around city data projects	5
Digital marketing as digital methods: Repurposing Google Ads for controversy mapping	5
Race-neutral vs race-conscious: Using algorithmic methods to evaluate the reparative potential of housing programs	5
The perils of ‘tech for good’ lie in its politics of helping	5
Using archival versions of apps to understand emerging digital ecosystems	5
Lexical algorithmic resistance: Tactics of deceiving Arabic content moderation algorithms on Facebook	5
Dimensionalizing privacy to advance the study of digital disempowerment	5
Why generative AI is different from designed technology regarding task-relatedness, user interaction, and agency	5