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| Knowledge goes pop: From conspiracy theory to gossip C Birchall Berg Publishers, 2006 | 221 | 2006 |
| Radical transparency? C Birchall Cultural Studies? Critical Methodologies 14 (1), 77-88, 2014 | 157 | 2014 |
| New cultural studies: Adventures in theory G Hall, C Birchall Edinburgh University Press, 2006 | 128 | 2006 |
| Transparency, interrupted: Secrets of the left C Birchall Theory, culture & society 28 (7-8), 60-84, 2011 | 123 | 2011 |
| ‘Data. gov-in-a-box’ Delimiting transparency C Birchall European Journal of Social Theory 18 (2), 185-202, 2015 | 83 | 2015 |
| Shareveillance: Subjectivity between open and closed data C Birchall Big Data & Society 3 (2), 2053951716663965, 2016 | 50 | 2016 |
| “There's Been Too Much Secrecy in This City”: The False Choice between Secrecy and Transparency in US Politics C Birchall Cultural Politics 7 (1), 133-156, 2011 | 46 | 2011 |
| Shareveillance: The dangers of openly sharing and covertly collecting data C Birchall U of Minnesota Press, 2017 | 45 | 2017 |
| Aesthetics of the secret C Birchall New Formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics 83 (1), 25-46, 2014 | 41 | 2014 |
| Managing secrecy C Birchall International journal of communication 10, 152-163, 2016 | 40 | 2016 |
| Conspiracy theories and academic discourses: The necessary possibility of popular (over) interpretation C Birchall Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 15 (1), 67-76, 2001 | 35 | 2001 |
| ‘Feels Like Home’: Dawson’s Creek, Nostalgia and the Young Adult Viewer C Birchall Teen TV: genre, consumption, identity, 176-89, 2004 | 34 | 2004 |
| Radical secrecy: The ends of transparency in datafied America C Birchall U of Minnesota Press, 2021 | 30 | 2021 |
| Six answers to the question ‘what is secrecy studies?’ C Birchall Secrecy and Society 1 (1), 2, 2016 | 15 | 2016 |
| The Politics of Opacity and Openness: Introduction to ‘Transparency.’ C Birchall Theory, Culture & Society 28 (7-8), 7-25, 2011 | 15 | 2011 |
| The commodification of conspiracy theory. C Birchall New York University Press, 2002 | 13 | 2002 |
| New cultural studies: adventures in theory (some comments, clarifications, explanations, observations, recommendations, remarks, statements and suggestions) G Hall, C Birchall New cultural studies: Adventures in theory, 1-28, 2006 | 12 | 2006 |
| Pirate philosophy G Hall Culture Machine (Coventry) 10, 2008 | 11 | 2008 |
| Cultural studies confidential C Birchall Cultural studies 21 (1), 5-21, 2007 | 11 | 2007 |
