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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Sexual abuse, celebrity bhaktas, and counterpublics in the digital sphere	88
Innovation through anachronism: The Pony Express, media, and American modernities	60
Censorship, clientelism and bureaucracy: Production cultures in Colombian state-owned media system	53
More than a sex crime: a feminist political economy of the 2014 iCloud hack	41
Disconnection for protection (D4P): an addition to the disconnection repertoire	39
‘We cracked a hole in this very white structure’: Indigenous journalism practices in mainstream Australian news organisations	38
A digital platform for ethical advertising and hybrid business models for news organizations: are they greening methods for ‘news deserts’?	35
Flying the skies to wire the seas: Subsea cables, remote work, and the social fabric of a media industry	35
Japanese scandals and their production	31
Keep it Oakland: e-commerce meets social justice	31
The Mizrahi Pillar of Fire: memory policy-actors’ perceptions of the role of media and memory	29
The Queer Clubhouse? Bar culture, sports media, and LGBTQ+ communities	29
The politics of platform folklore: Emotion, identity, and sense-making in far-right populist Twitter communities	28
Border countervisuality: smartphone videos of border crossing and migration	27
Eating alone as psychological self-care: How the younger generation in Let’s Eat survives in neoliberal South Korea	27
Constructing ‘race/ethnicity’ and nationality in Spanish media: a content analysis of international football coverage	27
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	25
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media	25
Ritual check-in, shocked immersion, regained stability: A sequential typology of news experiences in crisis situations	24
Standpointing global communication	23
Circulating cassettes of ceremony: Indigenous peer-to-peer networks in Arnhem Land	23
Rethinking news media from the perspective of epistemic democracy: ‘Democratic imagination’ in the coverage of minoritised activism in Polish liberal media	21
Audience perceptions of AI-driven news presenters: A case of ‘Alice’ in Zimbabwe	21
Kitchen sink dramas and the search for common culture: a comparative analysis of migrant domestic worker abuse in Hong Kong’s English and Chinese-language news media	19
Local fiction series: the value of European Public Service Media (1990–2020)	18

Rethinking affective publics as media rituals through temporality, performativity and liminality	18
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths	17
Transgender identity management across social media platforms	17
Infrastructures for media ‘extension’: licensing trade expos and the production of media distribution	16
Mimicking the mimics: problematizing cover performance of Filipino local music on social media	15
Recognition for resistance: Gifting, social media, and the politics of reciprocity in South Korean energy activism	14
Look at me, I’m on TV: the political dimensions of reality television participation	14
The use of animation in NGOs’ audio-visual communication about solidarity and migration	14
The wellbeing of ordinary people in factual television production	13
Framing post-disaster collective action as ‘good news’: Possibilities and tensions	13
Scripting Disability as the ‘New’ Bollywood: Pitching, reflecting, researching and negotiating	13
Between invisibility and having a voice: The marginalization of gendered non-fiction writers in the South Korean television industry	13
Japan’s retreat to the metaverse	12
‘I’m also slightly conscious of how much I’m listening to something’: Music streaming and the transformation of music listening	12
Connectivity as productivity: Workplace from Meta and organizational datafication	12
Attention, ambivalence and algorithms: Publishers in the era of ubiquitous connectivity and expanding platforms	12
Day of Rage: Forensic journalism and the US Capitol riot	12
Re-meme-bering Tiananmen? From collective memory to meta-memory on TikTok	11
On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy	11
Indigenous dance, cultural continuity, and resistance: A netnographic analysis of the Palestinian Dabke in the diaspora	11
Oppression by omission: An analysis of the #WhereIsTheInterpreter hashtag campaign around COVID-19 on Twitter	10
Dependence in the online screen industry	10
“Salute the strivers”: China’s Internet giant founders and the discursive construction of overwork	10
Review essay: Perils of aggregating a global zeitgeist	9
Platformized childhood: How app stores construct children’s software audiences through platform governance and industry lore	9
The pandemic shock doctrine in an authoritarian context: the economic, bodily, and political precarity of Turkey’s journalists during the pandemic	9
Careful attunements: the choreographing of care and affective witnessing through media practices during, and after, crisis	9
From the main-melody story to gaming experience: is the Chinese digital game arena a potential counterpublic sphere?	9
Reclaiming the human in machine cultures: Introduction	9
Games and data capture culture: play in the era of accelerated neoliberalism	9
Fostering intimacy on TikTok: a platform that ‘listens’ and ‘creates a safe space’	9
When the war strikes back: TikTok’s domestication of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict among youth	9
Unpacking news consumption and trust decisions through a folk theory approach: A study of Austrian young adults	9
Transcending failure: A study on the “failed domestication” of online news for young visually impaired people in China	9
The shadow banning controversy: perceived governance and algorithmic folklore	9
Theorising TikTok cultures: Neuro-images in the era of short videos	8
Public service media and race relations in postcolonial Britain: BBC and immigrant programming, 1965–1988	8
Public service media as critical media infrastructure for the digital era	8
‘Block talk’ on Twitter: Material affordances and communicative norms	8
Digital technologies and the protest paradigm: The discursive construction of the #WomanLifeFreedom protests in Time and Wired magazine	8
By sharing our loss, we fight: Collective expressions of grief in the digital age	8
Engine for the imagination? Visual generative media and the issue of representation	8
The life-transition perspective in mediatization research: Exploring lived experiences of media-related social changes through transitioning social roles	7
Overshadowed voices in media reporting on truth-telling commissions	7
Editorial: encounters with Western media theory	7
Drone trauma: violent mediation and remote warfare	7
The times of jeopardising free speech	7
Sugar and spice (and everything nice?): Japan’s ambition behind Lolita’s Kawaii aesthetics	7
Calls from Beyond the Walls: prison cellphone recordings during the pandemic in Lebanon	7
Poland as Gilead. Pop culture fiction and performative protests in the era of the pandemic	7

Embedded authoritarianism: the politics of poor press freedom in Indian Kashmir	7
Archives of/as resistance: On the justice potential of eyewitness image records documenting the Syrian conflict	7
Happiness in newsroom contracts: communicative resistance for digital work and life satisfaction	7
Evolving yet contentious transcultural fanscapes: Peruvian fans’ accounts of K-pop and its fandoms	7
Refugees versus ‘refugees’: the role of Islamophobia in Swedish alternative media’s reporting on Ukrainian asylum seekers	7
‘You’re too smart to be a publicist’: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity	7
Media reporting of industrial wastewater issues in Kenya	6
Personalization of politics through visuals: Interplay of identity, ideology, and gender in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly Election Campaign	6
Media practice and class-making: The anticipation of stigma and the cultural middle-class habitus	6
Fake digital identity and cyberbullying	6
Always-on authenticity: Challenging the BeReal ideal of “being real”	6
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.	6
Framing data witnessing: Airwars and the production of authority in conflict monitoring	6
Democratising media policymaking: a stakeholder-centric, systemic approach to copyright consultation	6
From audiences to data points: The role of media agencies in the platformization of the news media industry	6
‘What a funny looking video’: Using allegorical representations of technological change to reflect on future digital communication and design challenges	6
Remembering Marielle Franco: Haunting online presence and the memorialization of resistance on social media	5
Why journalism’s default neglect of temporality is a problem	5
“That’s PEGI, the American system!”: Perceptions of video game age ratings among families in Norway	5
Mediating gender in digital China: Post-2020s discourse and representation	5
Shelter skelter: record stores during the pandemic and the new selling of old stuff	5
A global communications standpoint: What might that mean?	5
Disablement in figure skating: Media, celebrity, spectacle	5
Between affection and control: Chinese migrant mothers’ motherhood practices based on the mediated one-dimensional visibility of home cameras	5
Europe is not like you see on TV! Ramadan drama as a platform of education on Harga in Tunisia	5
“An out gay man in the parliament”: New aspects in the study of LGBTQ politicians’ media coverage	5
Algorithmic power and African indigenous languages: search engine autocomplete and the global multilingual Internet	5
Asian sporting masculinities in figure skating: media representations of Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu as rivals	5
Authentic cult: media representations of cultural consumption and legitimization of cultural hierarchies	5
Traumatic past in the present: COVID-19 and Holocaust memory in Israeli media, digital media, and social media	5
“More dangerous than sharks”: Cellspace, death, and pathologies of the selfie*	5
Media coverage of COVID-19 state surveillance in Israel: the securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis	5
Analyzing gender capital in Grand Theft Auto social media conversations	5