OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cultural Studies is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Fissures in algorithmic power: platforms, code, and contestation	32
Toward a Black media philosophy	32
Seeing like an infrastructure: avidity and difference in algorithmic recommendation	29
Doing cultural studies in rough seas: the COVID-19 ocean multiple	23
The orang utan is not an indigenous name: knowing and naming the maias as a decolonizing epistemology	20
Introduction: COVID-19, the multiplier	17
Feeling good: humanitarian virtual reality film, emotional style and global citizenship	16
Re-articulating feminisms: a theoretical critique of feminist struggles and discourse in historical and contemporary China	16
Thermopolitics of data: cloud infrastructures and energy futures	16
Beyond the crisis: transitioning to a better world?	15
‘Give me liberty or give me Covid!’: Anti-lockdown protests as necropopulist downsurgency	13
Seeing infrastructure: race, facial recognition and the politics of data	11
Fashion in ‘crisis’: consumer activism and brand (ir)responsibility in lockdown	11
Infrastructural politics amidst the coils of control	10
Magical capitalism, gambler subjects: South Korea’s bitcoin investment frenzy	10
The biopolitics of pandemics: interview with Ed Cohen	10
Asian Americans as racial contagion	9
Infrastructures of discovery: examining podcast ratings and rankings	9
Enduring COVID-19, nevertheless	9
Mistranslation as disinformation: COVID-19, global imaginaries, and self-serving cosmopolitanism	8
Everyday life and the management of risky bodies in the COVID-19 era	8
Parodies for a pandemic: coronavirus songs, creativity and lockdown	8
Regulation of pornography and criminalization of BL readers and authors in contemporary China (2010–2019)	8
Do algorithms have a right to the city? Waze and algorithmic spatiality	7
Sweeping the city: infrastructure, informality, and the politics of maintenance	7

COVID-19 at sea: ‘the world as you know it no longer exists’	7
Mask as identity? The political subject in the 2019 Hong Kong’s social unrest	7
The value of the underground: punk, politics, and creative urbanism in Bandung, Indonesia	6
Redirected entanglements in the digital supply chain	6
The mechanical Turk: a short history of ‘artificial artificial intelligence’	6
The long and deadly road: the covid pandemic and Indian migrants	6
Following the science? Covid-19, ‘race’ and the politics of knowing	5
Decolonization, decolonial excess, and punk: reflections on the cultural politics of race and coloniality in North Atlantic punk	5
Covid-19 and the mundane practices of privilege	5
The politics and aesthetics of featuring in post-2017 Chinese hip hop	5
Data(-)based ambivalence regarding NYC 311 data infrastructure	5
Smart homes: domestic futurity as Infrastructure	5
Collective disorientation in the pandemic conjuncture	4
No time for fun: the politics of partying during a pandemic	4
Coal ground	4
Predicting Covid-19: wearable technology and the politics of solutionism	4
Guarani-kaiowa’s political ontology: singular because common	4
Status economies and frequent flier expertise: YouTube first class travel videos	4
Speculative machines and us: more-than-human intuition and the algorithmic condition	4
COVID-19 and ‘crisis as ordinary’: pathological whiteness, popular pessimism, and pre-apocalyptic cultural studies	4
Confronting global infrastructural capitalism: the triple logic of the 'vanguard' and its inevitable spatial and class contradictions in China's high-speed rail program	3
The problematization of consumers in Swedish financial literacy education	3
Tuning sound for infrastructures: artificial intelligence, automation, and the cultural politics of audio mastering	3
On taking the affective turn: interview with Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, and Deborah Gould	3
Virus government – A twenty-first-century genealogy of the ‘Dusk mask’ as biopolitical technology	3
Tech money in civil society: whose interests do digital rights organisations represent?	3
Recoding the city: cultural mediation of short-term rental platforms in the US	3
Racism is a public health crisis! Black Power in the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Automated media and commercial populism	3
Off-centring empire in the Anthropocene: towards multispecies intimacies and nonhuman agents of survival	3
Playing politics digitally: young Chinese people’s political feelings on social media platforms	3
Michel Foucault and the coloniality of power	3
Empire, emotion, exchange: (dis)orienting encounters of/with post-9/11 US cultural diplomacy	3
Multispecies mourning: grieving as resistance on the West Papuan plantation frontier	3
Resisting carelessness	3
Civilizing infrastructure	3