OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Media Culture & Society is 5. 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
‘We cracked a hole in this very white structure’: Indigenous journalism practices in mainstream Australian news organisations	93
Platformized childhood: How app stores construct children’s software audiences through platform governance and industry lore	62
Infrastructures for media ‘extension’: licensing trade expos and the production of media distribution	55
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media	46
More than a sex crime: a feminist political economy of the 2014 iCloud hack	45
Keep it Oakland: e-commerce meets social justice	44
Circulating cassettes of ceremony: Indigenous peer-to-peer networks in Arnhem Land	39
Day of Rage: Forensic journalism and the US Capitol riot	38
Attention, ambivalence and algorithms: Publishers in the era of ubiquitous connectivity and expanding platforms	35
Scripting Disability as the ‘New’ Bollywood: Pitching, reflecting, researching and negotiating	32
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths	32
Media reporting of industrial wastewater issues in Kenya	31
Fake digital identity and cyberbullying	30
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.	29
A global communications standpoint: What might that mean?	29
From audiences to data points: The role of media agencies in the platformization of the news media industry	29
“That’s PEGI, the American system!”: Perceptions of video game age ratings among families in Norway	28
Reconsidering trauma and symbolic wounds in times of online misogyny and platforms	27
We are stronger when we are connected: Queer counterpublics and the Korean Queer Culture Festival	24
Media coverage of COVID-19 state surveillance in Israel: the securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis	24
Remembering a disastrous past to imagine catastrophic future(s) on social media: The expected Istanbul earthquake	23
Happiness in newsroom contracts: communicative resistance for digital work and life satisfaction	23
Can the other be heard?	22
The erosion of media freedom in Ghana: A signal democratic backsliding?	21
A gathering with fire: Exploring the audience reception of internet memes about Belfast riots	20

The manufacture of militarized masculinity in Chinese series You Are My Hero (2021)	18
LGBT+ mainstreaming on strictly come dancing: Queering the norms of ballroom dancing	18
Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state	18
(Dis)Affordances: Publicness and the Question of Absence	17
Navigating the digital age: The gray digital divide and digital inclusion in China	16
Making sense of the invisible: cognitive mapping, affective realities and the Irish/Northern Irish Border	16
The possibilities Jesús Martín-Barbero left for us to understand Latin America	15
Composite Anne: The remembrance of Anne Frank and Holocaust commemoration in the digital age	15
A mask between you and me	15
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences	15
Hashtag nationalism: a discursive and networked digital activism	13
Exploring the intersection of digital and environmental challenges: Understanding their convergence through habitus	13
TikTok and the platformisation from China: Geopolitical anxieties, repetitive creativities and future imaginaries	13
Bringing #LinaBell to life online: A case study in the creative and collaborative dynamics of Chinese online fandom	13
Connecting the individual and the other in disconnection studies	13
Towards a new progressive labour culture? Industry-oriented channels, bitter and precarious structure of feeling and worker solidarity in China	13
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
Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news	12
How propagames work as a part of digital authoritarianism: an analysis of a popular Chinese propagame	12
The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains	12
The show must go on? The entertainment industry during (and after) COVID-19	12
Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond COVID-19: Editorial	11
Hegemonic meanings of populism: Populism as a signifier in legacy dailies of six countries 2000–2018	11
Default viewing: Reconceptualising choice and habit in television audience research	11
‘There’s a lot of freedom you can have with that kind of thing’: vinyl and cassette split releases in the digital age	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	10
Ethopolitical media: Organizing Assistive Technology, disability and care in the platform society	10
Digital disconnective practice: Online platform migration and technology non-use in the age of emerging social media and polarized societies	9
Social media’s canaries: content moderators between digital labor and mediated trauma	9
Interracial romances and colorblindness in Shondaland’s Bridgerton	9
On losing the “dispensable” sense: TikTok imitation publics and COVID-19 smell loss challenges	9
The details that matter: Racism in Norwegian media during the Covid-19 pandemic	9
Are video streaming services offering incomplete entertainment?	9
Reimagining digital inclusion through platform economies in Brazil	9
Rural media studies: making the case for a new subfield	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
Transcoding a wanghong city: Mediatized culturalization of urban places in China	9
Dirty dancing: Gender, aging, and sexuality during Hong Kong’s COVID-19 pandemic	8
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 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
How to train your algorithm: The struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok	8
Constructing ‘race/ethnicity’ and nationality in Spanish media: a content analysis of international football coverage	8
The Queer Clubhouse? Bar culture, sports media, and LGBTQ+ communities	8
Sexual abuse, celebrity bhaktas, and counterpublics in the digital sphere	7
By sharing our loss, we fight: Collective expressions of grief in the digital age	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
Look at me, I’m on TV: the political dimensions of reality television participation	7
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
The life-transition perspective in mediatization research: Exploring lived experiences of media-related social changes through transitioning social roles	7
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Editorial: encounters with Western media theory	7
Reawakenings to the improbable: Offerings of the limit situation for media theory in a disorderly world	7
Global influencers’ content creation strategies: Negotiating with platform affordances to practice vernacular creativity	6
Always-on authenticity: Challenging the BeReal ideal of “being real”	6
‘You’re too smart to be a publicist’: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity	6
Crosscurrents: Welfare	6
Scrutinising South African media companies’ strategies for Generation Z’s news consumption	6
Media research and proposals for media change: Notes on a key variable	6
Misinformation’s missing human	6
Democratising media policymaking: a stakeholder-centric, systemic approach to copyright consultation	6
Environmental and social issues and the media game: Four ways to address mediated (in)visibility	6
Danish public service online weather from 2005 to 2022: From meteorological data and information to leisurely commonality	6
Rethinking creativity: creative industries, AI and everyday creativity	6
My journey with western theory in the university in Africa	6
Remembering Marielle Franco: Haunting online presence and the memorialization of resistance on social 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
Neoliberalism and authoritarian media cultures: a Vietnamese perspective	6
Caring for others who look just like us: The representation of Ukrainian refugees on Dutch television	5
A new algorithmic imaginary	5
Can African scholars speak? Situating African voices in International Communication scholarship	5
Media representations of naturalized athletes: Sentiment variations and trends in Turkish media	5
Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance	5
Balancing boundaries: Mapping parents’ perceived concerns and opportunities of LGBTQ storylines in children’s television	5
TikTok and its mediatic split: the promotion of ecumenical user-generated content alongside Sinocentric media globalization	5
Discourse, incivility and language aggression in social media debates on Biafra separatist agitation: Implications for Nigeria’s democratic future	5
Culture, commerce and crowdfunding: Artists’ experiences of crowdfunding and lessons from Japan	5
‘Hypocrite!’ Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack	5
Legalization of press control under democratic backsliding: The case of post-national security law Hong Kong	5
Corrigendum to “[Crosscurrents: Welfare]”	5
Towards a theory of participatory diplomacy via the Eurovision Song Contest	5
Time for a change: women, work, and gender equality in TV production	5
Onlife intersectionalities as flows of playbour: The case of women in gaming	5
Martín-Barbero’s style	5
Borderline practices on Douyin/TikTok: Content transfer and algorithmic manipulation	5
Paradoxical inclusion of India’s ex-untouchables in New Casteist media	5