OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Media Culture & Society is 6. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
‘We cracked a hole in this very white structure’: Indigenous journalism practices in mainstream Australian news organisations	100
Infrastructures for media ‘extension’: licensing trade expos and the production of media distribution	65
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media	58
More than a sex crime: a feminist political economy of the 2014 iCloud hack	49
Keep it Oakland: e-commerce meets social justice	47
Circulating cassettes of ceremony: Indigenous peer-to-peer networks in Arnhem Land	47
Attention, ambivalence and algorithms: Publishers in the era of ubiquitous connectivity and expanding platforms	40
Day of Rage: Forensic journalism and the US Capitol riot	38
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths	37
Scripting Disability as the ‘New’ Bollywood: Pitching, reflecting, researching and negotiating	34
Media and cultural systems: Connecting national news dynamics and the cultures of social problems through a case study of climate change in the U.S. and U.K.	33
Platformized childhood: How app stores construct children’s software audiences through platform governance and industry lore	33
A global communications standpoint: What might that mean?	33
Reconsidering trauma and symbolic wounds in times of online misogyny and platforms	31
Happiness in newsroom contracts: communicative resistance for digital work and life satisfaction	30
We are stronger when we are connected: Queer counterpublics and the Korean Queer Culture Festival	30
Fake digital identity and cyberbullying	30
From audiences to data points: The role of media agencies in the platformization of the news media industry	28
“That’s PEGI, the American system!”: Perceptions of video game age ratings among families in Norway	26
Media coverage of COVID-19 state surveillance in Israel: the securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis	25
Media reporting of industrial wastewater issues in Kenya	25
LGBT+ mainstreaming on strictly come dancing: Queering the norms of ballroom dancing	24
A gathering with fire: Exploring the audience reception of internet memes about Belfast riots	24
The manufacture of militarized masculinity in Chinese series You Are My Hero (2021)	22
Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state	21

(Dis)Affordances: Publicness and the Question of Absence	20
Making sense of the invisible: cognitive mapping, affective realities and the Irish/Northern Irish Border	18
Navigating the digital age: The gray digital divide and digital inclusion in China	18
The possibilities Jesús Martín-Barbero left for us to understand Latin America	17
Can the other be heard?	17
Composite Anne: The remembrance of Anne Frank and Holocaust commemoration in the digital age	17
Remembering a disastrous past to imagine catastrophic future(s) on social media: The expected Istanbul earthquake	17
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences	16
The erosion of media freedom in Ghana: A signal democratic backsliding?	16
A mask between you and me	16
Towards a new progressive labour culture? Industry-oriented channels, bitter and precarious structure of feeling and worker solidarity in China	15
Exploring the intersection of digital and environmental challenges: Understanding their convergence through habitus	15
Connecting the individual and the other in disconnection studies	14
Hegemonic meanings of populism: Populism as a signifier in legacy dailies of six countries 2000–2018	14
TikTok and the platformisation from China: Geopolitical anxieties, repetitive creativities and future imaginaries	13
The show must go on? The entertainment industry during (and after) COVID-19	13
The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains	13
Hashtag nationalism: a discursive and networked digital activism	13
‘There’s a lot of freedom you can have with that kind of thing’: vinyl and cassette split releases in the digital age	12
Young adults’ perceptions of entertainment consumption in their everyday lives during the COVID-19 pandemic: Negotiating versatility, emotions, and agency in times of limited choice	12
The financial ecologies of transnational television production: “Following the money” from private equity to Sky Germany’s Pagan Peak	12
How propagames work as a part of digital authoritarianism: an analysis of a popular Chinese propagame	12
Bringing #LinaBell to life online: A case study in the creative and collaborative dynamics of Chinese online fandom	12
Ethopolitical media: Organizing Assistive Technology, disability and care in the platform society	11
On losing the “dispensable” sense: TikTok imitation publics and COVID-19 smell loss challenges	11
Default viewing: Reconceptualising choice and habit in television audience research	11
Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news	11
Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond COVID-19: Editorial	11
Rural media studies: making the case for a new subfield	11
Social media’s canaries: content moderators between digital labor and mediated trauma	10
How “original” are Netflix Original films? Mapping and understanding the recycling of content in the age of streaming cinema	10
ADHD and digital disconnection: Exploring inclusive and practical approaches	10
Dirty dancing: Gender, aging, and sexuality during Hong Kong’s COVID-19 pandemic	9
Reimagining digital inclusion through platform economies in Brazil	9
Transcoding a wanghong city: Mediatized culturalization of urban places in China	9
How to train your algorithm: The struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok	9
Newspaper framing of attempts to ban LGTBQ books in the U.S., U.K., and Ireland	9
The details that matter: Racism in Norwegian media during the Covid-19 pandemic	9
Are video streaming services offering incomplete entertainment?	9
Interracial romances and colorblindness in Shondaland’s Bridgerton	9
Overlapping care and control: Insights from Romanian smart speaker users	9
Cable news advertising: Applying formal analysis to uncover current trends in self-promotional marketing	9
‘Something else’?: international co-production, postcolonial crime fiction and the representation of sexual orientation in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency TV series	9
Creative compliance and selective visibility: How Chinese queer uploaders performing identities on the Douyin platform	8
Framing post-disaster collective action as ‘good news’: Possibilities and tensions	8
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Being Chinese or becoming Chinese? Discursive imaginations of Eileen Gu across media platforms	8
The pandemic shock doctrine in an authoritarian context: the economic, bodily, and political precarity of Turkey’s journalists during the pandemic	8
Standpointing global communication	8
Sexual abuse, celebrity bhaktas, and counterpublics in the digital sphere	8

Digital disconnective practice: Online platform migration and technology non-use in the age of emerging social media and polarized societies	8
Constructing ‘race/ethnicity’ and nationality in Spanish media: a content analysis of international football coverage	8
Look at me, I’m on TV: the political dimensions of reality television participation	8
By sharing our loss, we fight: Collective expressions of grief in the digital age	8
On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy	7
Traumatic past in the present: COVID-19 and Holocaust memory in Israeli media, digital media, and social media	7
Misinformation’s missing human	7
Global influencers’ content creation strategies: Negotiating with platform affordances to practice vernacular creativity	7
Reawakenings to the improbable: Offerings of the limit situation for media theory in a disorderly world	7
Remembering Marielle Franco: Haunting online presence and the memorialization of resistance on social media	7
My journey with western theory in the university in Africa	7
The Queer Clubhouse? Bar culture, sports media, and LGBTQ+ communities	7
Disablement in figure skating: Media, celebrity, spectacle	7
Digital technologies and the protest paradigm: The discursive construction of the #WomanLifeFreedom protests in Time and Wired magazine	7
Environmental and social issues and the media game: Four ways to address mediated (in)visibility	7
Martín-Barbero’s style	6
‘Hypocrite!’ Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack	6
Editorial: encounters with Western media theory	6
Democratising media policymaking: a stakeholder-centric, systemic approach to copyright consultation	6
Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance	6
Crosscurrents: Welfare	6
Danish public service online weather from 2005 to 2022: From meteorological data and information to leisurely commonality	6
Scrutinising South African media companies’ strategies for Generation Z’s news consumption	6
Always-on authenticity: Challenging the BeReal ideal of “being real”	6
Rethinking creativity: creative industries, AI and everyday creativity	6
Media research and proposals for media change: Notes on a key variable	6
Media representations of naturalized athletes: Sentiment variations and trends in Turkish media	6
‘You’re too smart to be a publicist’: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity	6
The life-transition perspective in mediatization research: Exploring lived experiences of media-related social changes through transitioning social roles	6
Protecting the people, or the Olympics? Agenda-cutting of the COVID-19 risk in the news coverage of Japan’s public broadcaster	6