At the mercy of the objects, we study: Epistemic consequences of proprietary digital research infrastructures

This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in New Media & Society. Flensburg, S., Lai, S. S., & Ørmen, J. (2025): At the mercy of the objects, we study: Epistemic consequences of proprietary digital research infrastructures, New Media & Society, 27(4), 1928-1944. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251314397. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.