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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
‘We cracked a hole in this very white structure’: Indigenous journalism practices in mainstream Australian news organisations	122
Keep it Oakland: e-commerce meets social justice	83
Circulating cassettes of ceremony: Indigenous peer-to-peer networks in Arnhem Land	66
Attention, ambivalence and algorithms: Publishers in the era of ubiquitous connectivity and expanding platforms	60
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths	59
Day of Rage: Forensic journalism and the US Capitol riot	59
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media	48
Platformized childhood: How app stores construct children’s software audiences through platform governance and industry lore	41
Proactive governance by official administrators on Chinese social media platforms: Boundary discourse and governance legitimacy	40
Scripting Disability as the ‘New’ Bollywood: Pitching, reflecting, researching and negotiating	39
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.	36
Discostan and Hamnawa: Between erasure and preservation in South Asian digital diasporic archives	36
A global communications standpoint: What might that mean?	35
Reconsidering trauma and symbolic wounds in times of online misogyny and platforms	34
We are stronger when we are connected: Queer counterpublics and the Korean Queer Culture Festival	32
“That’s PEGI, the American system!”: Perceptions of video game age ratings among families in Norway	31
Fake digital identity and cyberbullying	31
Happiness in newsroom contracts: communicative resistance for digital work and life satisfaction	29
Media reporting of industrial wastewater issues in Kenya	28
Remembering a disastrous past to imagine catastrophic future(s) on social media: The expected Istanbul earthquake	28
LGBT+ mainstreaming on strictly come dancing: Queering the norms of ballroom dancing	27
A gathering with fire: Exploring the audience reception of internet memes about Belfast riots	27
Making sense of the invisible: cognitive mapping, affective realities and the Irish/Northern Irish Border	26
The possibilities Jesús Martín-Barbero left for us to understand Latin America	25
The manufacture of militarized masculinity in Chinese series You Are My Hero (2021)	23

Can the other be heard?	22
The erosion of media freedom in Ghana: A signal democratic backsliding?	21
Composite Anne: The remembrance of Anne Frank and Holocaust commemoration in the digital age	21
Navigating the digital age: The gray digital divide and digital inclusion in China	20
(Dis)Affordances: Publicness and the Question of Absence	19
Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state	19
A mask between you and me	18
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences	18
Bringing #LinaBell to life online: A case study in the creative and collaborative dynamics of Chinese online fandom	17
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	17
Exploring the intersection of digital and environmental challenges: Understanding their convergence through habitus	17
Hashtag nationalism: a discursive and networked digital activism	15
‘There’s a lot of freedom you can have with that kind of thing’: vinyl and cassette split releases in the digital age	15
Towards a new progressive labour culture? Industry-oriented channels, bitter and precarious structure of feeling and worker solidarity in China	15
The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains	14
Hegemonic meanings of populism: Populism as a signifier in legacy dailies of six countries 2000–2018	14
Connecting the individual and the other in disconnection studies	14
TikTok and the platformisation from China: Geopolitical anxieties, repetitive creativities and future imaginaries	13
Between cultural promotion and nation building: Analysing the drivers of Basque public television consumption over a decade	13
Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news	13
The financial ecologies of transnational television production: “Following the money” from private equity to Sky Germany’s Pagan Peak	13
The show must go on? The entertainment industry during (and after) COVID-19	13
Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond COVID-19: Editorial	12
On losing the “dispensable” sense: TikTok imitation publics and COVID-19 smell loss challenges	12
Ethopolitical media: Organizing Assistive Technology, disability and care in the platform society	12
Social media’s canaries: content moderators between digital labor and mediated trauma	11
Default viewing: Reconceptualising choice and habit in television audience research	11
Regulatory barriers in the attention economy: Lack of support, trust, and measures	11
ADHD and digital disconnection: Exploring inclusive and practical approaches	11
How “original” are Netflix Original films? Mapping and understanding the recycling of content in the age of streaming cinema	11
The details that matter: Racism in Norwegian media during the Covid-19 pandemic	10
Rural media studies: making the case for a new subfield	10
Transcoding a wanghong city: Mediatized culturalization of urban places in China	9
Creative compliance and selective visibility: How Chinese queer uploaders performing identities on the Douyin platform	9
Are video streaming services offering incomplete entertainment?	9
How to train your algorithm: The struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok	9
Interracial romances and colorblindness in Shondaland’s Bridgerton	9
Overlapping care and control: Insights from Romanian smart speaker users	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
Reimagining digital inclusion through platform economies in Brazil	9
Cable news advertising: Applying formal analysis to uncover current trends in self-promotional marketing	9
Dirty dancing: Gender, aging, and sexuality during Hong Kong’s COVID-19 pandemic	9
Digital disconnective practice: Online platform migration and technology non-use in the age of emerging social media and polarized societies	9
Constructing ‘race/ethnicity’ and nationality in Spanish media: a content analysis of international football coverage	8
Standpointing global communication	8
By sharing our loss, we fight: Collective expressions of grief in the digital age	8
Sexual abuse, celebrity bhaktas , and counterpublics in the digital sphere	8
Digital technologies and the protest paradigm: The discursive construction of the #WomanLifeFreedom protests in Time and Wired magazine	8
The pandemic shock doctrine in an authoritarian context: the economic, bodily, and political precarity of Turkey’s journalists during the pandemic	8
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	8

The Queer Clubhouse? Bar culture, sports media, and LGBTQ+ communities	8
Disablement in figure skating: Media, celebrity, spectacle	8
‘You’re too smart to be a publicist’: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity	8
Framing post-disaster collective action as ‘good news’: Possibilities and tensions	8
Newspaper framing of attempts to ban LGTBQ books in the U.S., U.K., and Ireland	8
On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy	8
Reawakenings to the improbable: Offerings of the limit situation for media theory in a disorderly world	8
Being Chinese or becoming Chinese? Discursive imaginations of Eileen Gu across media platforms	8
Martín-Barbero’s style	7
Remembering Marielle Franco: Haunting online presence and the memorialization of resistance on social media	7
Global influencers’ content creation strategies: Negotiating with platform affordances to practice vernacular creativity	7
Rethinking creativity: creative industries, AI and everyday creativity	7
My journey with western theory in the university in Africa	7
Danish public service online weather from 2005 to 2022: From meteorological data and information to leisurely commonality	7
Media representations of naturalized athletes: Sentiment variations and trends in Turkish media	7
Democratising media policymaking: a stakeholder-centric, systemic approach to copyright consultation	7
Environmental and social issues and the media game: Four ways to address mediated (in)visibility	7
Scrutinising South African media companies’ strategies for Generation Z’s news consumption	7
The life-transition perspective in mediatization research: Exploring lived experiences of media-related social changes through transitioning social roles	7
Media research and proposals for media change: Notes on a key variable	7
Misinformation’s missing human	7
Editorial: encounters with Western media theory	7
Always-on authenticity: Challenging the BeReal ideal of “being real”	7
Legalization of press control under democratic backsliding: The case of post-national security law Hong Kong	6
Discourse, incivility and language aggression in social media debates on Biafra separatist agitation: Implications for Nigeria’s democratic future	6
Paradoxical inclusion of India’s ex-untouchables in New Casteist media	6
Protecting the people, or the Olympics? Agenda-cutting of the COVID-19 risk in the news coverage of Japan’s public broadcaster	6
Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance	6
Balancing boundaries: Mapping parents’ perceived concerns and opportunities of LGBTQ storylines in children’s television	6
Time for a change: women, work, and gender equality in TV production	6
Borderline practices on Douyin/TikTok: Content transfer and algorithmic manipulation	6
‘Hypocrite!’ Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack	6
Onlife intersectionalities as flows of playbour: The case of women in gaming	6
Culture, commerce and crowdfunding: Artists’ experiences of crowdfunding and lessons from Japan	6
Crosscurrents: Welfare	6
Neoliberalism and authoritarian media cultures: a Vietnamese perspective	6