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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
‘We cracked a hole in this very white structure’: Indigenous journalism practices in mainstream Australian news organisations	111
Infrastructures for media ‘extension’: licensing trade expos and the production of media distribution	79
Keep it Oakland: e-commerce meets social justice	61
Circulating cassettes of ceremony: Indigenous peer-to-peer networks in Arnhem Land	57
Attention, ambivalence and algorithms: Publishers in the era of ubiquitous connectivity and expanding platforms	56
Scripting Disability as the ‘New’ Bollywood: Pitching, reflecting, researching and negotiating	55
Day of Rage: Forensic journalism and the US Capitol riot	47
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths	40
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media	39
Platformized childhood: How app stores construct children’s software audiences through platform governance and industry lore	37
Proactive governance by official administrators on Chinese social media platforms: Boundary discourse and governance legitimacy	35
Discostan and Hamnawa: Between erasure and preservation in South Asian digital diasporic archives	34
A global communications standpoint: What might that mean?	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.	32
Reconsidering trauma and symbolic wounds in times of online misogyny and platforms	31
Media coverage of COVID-19 state surveillance in Israel: the securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis	30
We are stronger when we are connected: Queer counterpublics and the Korean Queer Culture Festival	28
Fake digital identity and cyberbullying	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	26
Media reporting of industrial wastewater issues in Kenya	26
A gathering with fire: Exploring the audience reception of internet memes about Belfast riots	25
Remembering a disastrous past to imagine catastrophic future(s) on social media: The expected Istanbul earthquake	25
LGBT+ mainstreaming on strictly come dancing: Queering the norms of ballroom dancing	22
(Dis)Affordances: Publicness and the Question of Absence	21

Making sense of the invisible: cognitive mapping, affective realities and the Irish/Northern Irish Border	21
Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state	19
The possibilities Jesús Martín-Barbero left for us to understand Latin America	19
The manufacture of militarized masculinity in Chinese series You Are My Hero (2021)	19
Can the other be heard?	18
Composite Anne: The remembrance of Anne Frank and Holocaust commemoration in the digital age	17
The erosion of media freedom in Ghana: A signal democratic backsliding?	17
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences	16
Navigating the digital age: The gray digital divide and digital inclusion in China	16
A mask between you and me	15
Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news	14
Exploring the intersection of digital and environmental challenges: Understanding their convergence through habitus	14
Hashtag nationalism: a discursive and networked digital activism	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
Hegemonic meanings of populism: Populism as a signifier in legacy dailies of six countries 2000–2018	13
Bringing #LinaBell to life online: A case study in the creative and collaborative dynamics of Chinese online fandom	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	13
Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond COVID-19: Editorial	12
The show must go on? The entertainment industry during (and after) COVID-19	12
The financial ecologies of transnational television production: “Following the money” from private equity to Sky Germany’s Pagan Peak	12
‘There’s a lot of freedom you can have with that kind of thing’: vinyl and cassette split releases in the digital age	12
The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains	12
Towards a new progressive labour culture? Industry-oriented channels, bitter and precarious structure of feeling and worker solidarity in China	12
On losing the “dispensable” sense: TikTok imitation publics and COVID-19 smell loss challenges	11
Ethopolitical media: Organizing Assistive Technology, disability and care in the platform society	11
Rural media studies: making the case for a new subfield	10
Regulatory barriers in the attention economy: Lack of support, trust, and measures	10
How “original” are Netflix Original films? Mapping and understanding the recycling of content in the age of streaming cinema	10
Interracial romances and colorblindness in Shondaland’s Bridgerton	9
Social media’s canaries: content moderators between digital labor and mediated trauma	9
Between cultural promotion and nation building: Analysing the drivers of Basque public television consumption over a decade	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
Digital disconnective practice: Online platform migration and technology non-use in the age of emerging social media and polarized societies	9
ADHD and digital disconnection: Exploring inclusive and practical approaches	9
The details that matter: Racism in Norwegian media during the Covid-19 pandemic	9
Dirty dancing: Gender, aging, and sexuality during Hong Kong’s COVID-19 pandemic	9
How to train your algorithm: The struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok	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
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
By sharing our loss, we fight: Collective expressions of grief in the digital age	8
Creative compliance and selective visibility: How Chinese queer uploaders performing identities on the Douyin platform	8
Newspaper framing of attempts to ban LGTBQ books in the U.S., U.K., and Ireland	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
Transcoding a wanghong city: Mediatized culturalization of urban places in China	8
Reimagining digital inclusion through platform economies in Brazil	8

Standpointing global communication	8
Framing post-disaster collective action as ‘good news’: Possibilities and tensions	8
Disablement in figure skating: Media, celebrity, spectacle	7
Look at me, I’m on TV: the political dimensions of reality television participation	7
Digital technologies and the protest paradigm: The discursive construction of the #WomanLifeFreedom protests in Time and Wired magazine	7
Always-on authenticity: Challenging the BeReal ideal of “being real”	7
Remembering Marielle Franco: Haunting online presence and the memorialization of resistance on social media	7
Constructing ‘race/ethnicity’ and nationality in Spanish media: a content analysis of international football coverage	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
My journey with western theory in the university in Africa	7
Sexual abuse, celebrity bhaktas , and counterpublics in the digital sphere	7
On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy	7
Being Chinese or becoming Chinese? Discursive imaginations of Eileen Gu across media platforms	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
The life-transition perspective in mediatization research: Exploring lived experiences of media-related social changes through transitioning social roles	7
Editorial: encounters with Western media theory	6
Environmental and social issues and the media game: Four ways to address mediated (in)visibility	6
Borderline practices on Douyin/TikTok: Content transfer and algorithmic manipulation	6
Protecting the people, or the Olympics? Agenda-cutting of the COVID-19 risk in the news coverage of Japan’s public broadcaster	6
Crosscurrents: Welfare	6
Danish public service online weather from 2005 to 2022: From meteorological data and information to leisurely commonality	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
Media representations of naturalized athletes: Sentiment variations and trends in Turkish media	6
Martín-Barbero’s style	6
Democratising media policymaking: a stakeholder-centric, systemic approach to copyright consultation	6
Rethinking creativity: creative industries, AI and everyday creativity	6
Media research and proposals for media change: Notes on a key variable	6
‘Hypocrite!’ Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack	6
Neoliberalism and authoritarian media cultures: a Vietnamese perspective	6