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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
‘We cracked a hole in this very white structure’: Indigenous journalism practices in mainstream Australian news organisations	105
Infrastructures for media ‘extension’: licensing trade expos and the production of media distribution	73
Keep it Oakland: e-commerce meets social justice	60
Circulating cassettes of ceremony: Indigenous peer-to-peer networks in Arnhem Land	53
Attention, ambivalence and algorithms: Publishers in the era of ubiquitous connectivity and expanding platforms	52
Scripting Disability as the ‘New’ Bollywood: Pitching, reflecting, researching and negotiating	50
Day of Rage: Forensic journalism and the US Capitol riot	43
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths	37
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media	36
Platformized childhood: How app stores construct children’s software audiences through platform governance and industry lore	36
From audiences to data points: The role of media agencies in the platformization of the news media industry	34
A global communications standpoint: What might that mean?	33
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.	32
Media coverage of COVID-19 state surveillance in Israel: the securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis	31
Reconsidering trauma and symbolic wounds in times of online misogyny and platforms	31
We are stronger when we are connected: Queer counterpublics and the Korean Queer Culture Festival	30
Media reporting of industrial wastewater issues in Kenya	27
“That’s PEGI, the American system!”: Perceptions of video game age ratings among families in Norway	27
Happiness in newsroom contracts: communicative resistance for digital work and life satisfaction	27
Navigating the digital age: The gray digital divide and digital inclusion in China	25
Remembering a disastrous past to imagine catastrophic future(s) on social media: The expected Istanbul earthquake	25
A gathering with fire: Exploring the audience reception of internet memes about Belfast riots	25
Fake digital identity and cyberbullying	25
LGBT+ mainstreaming on strictly come dancing: Queering the norms of ballroom dancing	22
The manufacture of militarized masculinity in Chinese series You Are My Hero (2021)	20

The possibilities Jesús Martín-Barbero left for us to understand Latin America	18
Making sense of the invisible: cognitive mapping, affective realities and the Irish/Northern Irish Border	18
Can the other be heard?	18
(Dis)Affordances: Publicness and the Question of Absence	18
The erosion of media freedom in Ghana: A signal democratic backsliding?	17
Composite Anne: The remembrance of Anne Frank and Holocaust commemoration in the digital age	17
A mask between you and me	16
Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state	16
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences	16
Connecting the individual and the other in disconnection studies	15
Exploring the intersection of digital and environmental challenges: Understanding their convergence through habitus	15
The show must go on? The entertainment industry during (and after) COVID-19	14
Hashtag nationalism: a discursive and networked digital activism	14
‘There’s a lot of freedom you can have with that kind of thing’: vinyl and cassette split releases in the digital age	14
Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news	14
TikTok and the platformisation from China: Geopolitical anxieties, repetitive creativities and future imaginaries	13
How propagames work as a part of digital authoritarianism: an analysis of a popular Chinese propagame	13
Bringing #LinaBell to life online: A case study in the creative and collaborative dynamics of Chinese online fandom	13
Towards a new progressive labour culture? Industry-oriented channels, bitter and precarious structure of feeling and worker solidarity in China	13
The financial ecologies of transnational television production: “Following the money” from private equity to Sky Germany’s Pagan Peak	12
The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains	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
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
Hegemonic meanings of populism: Populism as a signifier in legacy dailies of six countries 2000–2018	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
ADHD and digital disconnection: Exploring inclusive and practical approaches	10
Between cultural promotion and nation building: Analysing the drivers of Basque public television consumption over a decade	10
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
‘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	9
Newspaper framing of attempts to ban LGTBQ books in the U.S., U.K., and Ireland	9
Default viewing: Reconceptualising choice and habit in television audience research	9
Are video streaming services offering incomplete entertainment?	9
Cable news advertising: Applying formal analysis to uncover current trends in self-promotional marketing	9
The details that matter: Racism in Norwegian media during the Covid-19 pandemic	9
Interracial romances and colorblindness in Shondaland’s Bridgerton	9
Creative compliance and selective visibility: How Chinese queer uploaders performing identities on the Douyin platform	9
Overlapping care and control: Insights from Romanian smart speaker users	8
The pandemic shock doctrine in an authoritarian context: the economic, bodily, and political precarity of Turkey’s journalists during the pandemic	8
Look at me, I’m on TV: the political dimensions of reality television participation	8
Reimagining digital inclusion through platform economies in Brazil	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
How to train your algorithm: The struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok	8
Digital disconnective practice: Online platform migration and technology non-use in the age of emerging social media and polarized societies	8
Standpointing global communication	8

Constructing ‘race/ethnicity’ and nationality in Spanish media: a content analysis of international football coverage	8
On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy	7
Disablement in figure skating: Media, celebrity, spectacle	7
Misinformation’s missing human	7
Traumatic past in the present: COVID-19 and Holocaust memory in Israeli media, digital media, and social media	7
Being Chinese or becoming Chinese? Discursive imaginations of Eileen Gu across media platforms	7
The Queer Clubhouse? Bar culture, sports media, and LGBTQ+ communities	7
Reawakenings to the improbable: Offerings of the limit situation for media theory in a disorderly world	7
‘You’re too smart to be a publicist’: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity	7
By sharing our loss, we fight: Collective expressions of grief in the digital age	7
Sexual abuse, celebrity bhaktas, and counterpublics in the digital sphere	7
Digital technologies and the protest paradigm: The discursive construction of the #WomanLifeFreedom protests in Time and Wired magazine	7
Editorial: encounters with Western media theory	7
Democratising media policymaking: a stakeholder-centric, systemic approach to copyright consultation	6
The life-transition perspective in mediatization research: Exploring lived experiences of media-related social changes through transitioning social roles	6
Always-on authenticity: Challenging the BeReal ideal of “being real”	6
Media representations of naturalized athletes: Sentiment variations and trends in Turkish media	6
Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance	6
‘Hypocrite!’ Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack	6
Remembering Marielle Franco: Haunting online presence and the memorialization of resistance on social media	6
Rethinking creativity: creative industries, AI and everyday creativity	6
My journey with western theory in the university in Africa	6
Media research and proposals for media change: Notes on a key variable	6
Legalization of press control under democratic backsliding: The case of post-national security law Hong Kong	6
Borderline practices on Douyin/TikTok: Content transfer and algorithmic manipulation	6
Environmental and social issues and the media game: Four ways to address mediated (in)visibility	6
Global influencers’ content creation strategies: Negotiating with platform affordances to practice vernacular creativity	6
Scrutinising South African media companies’ strategies for Generation Z’s news consumption	6
Martín-Barbero’s style	6
Danish public service online weather from 2005 to 2022: From meteorological data and information to leisurely commonality	6