OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Big Data & Society is 11. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

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
Different types of COVID-19 misinformation have different emotional valence on Twitter	28
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
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
‘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
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
Outsourcing accountability: Extractive data practice and inequities of power in humanitarian third-party monitoring	19
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
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
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
Bot, or not? Comparing three methods for detecting social bots in five political discourses	17
Virtual state, where are you? A literature review, framework and agenda for failed digital transformation	17
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
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
Precision medicine and digital phenotyping: Digital medicine's way from more data to better health	15
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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