OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Continuum-Journal of Media & Cultural Studies is 1. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction	30
The complexities of home and belonging in the Gulf-Malayalee experience: a close reading of Salim Ahamed’s Pathemari (2015)	20
A state against boys’ love? Reviewing the trajectory of censorship over danmei	16
Moving beyond deficit media figurations of young people: troubling the contemporary ‘youth crime crisis’	15
‘I Blame House Hunters ’: How real estate agents use property TV to manage clients and establish expertise	14
Community as the material basis of creative citizenship in Taiwan and Hong Kong	12
The Nutbush Dance Reframed: further analysis related to ‘Doing the Nutbush’	11
Digital infrastructure, ultra-fast broadband, and citizenship in the Gigatown competition in the South Island, Aotearoa New Zealand	10
State-sponsored stigma and discrimination: female Indonesian migrants in Hong Kong during the pandemic	10
Guilt and migrant experience in Australia: narratives of happiness and hatred	10
Producing multiculturalism: casting and editing migrants in Korean reality television	10
Thai Boys Love drama fandom as a transnational and trans-subcultural contact zone in Japan	9
Contesting electric vehicles: agonism, antagonism and conjunctural politics in digital participatory media	8
Lifestyle, opportunity and attraction images: real estate platforms and the digital remediation of space	8
Nonhuman witnessing: war, data, and ecology after the end of the world, by Michael Richardson	8
“An active and generative process”: encountering death with Ross Gibson	8
Afterword: troubling the dark social	7
Youth arts as popular education: Cultural Studies at the edges of the creative industries	7
Critical data provenance as a methodology for studying how language conceals data ethics	7
Out of thin air: emerging Muslim fashion entrepreneurs and the spectre of labour in Indonesia	6
Algorithms, affordances and the ambiguity of credit on TikTok	6
Fake histories? Original bands, contemporary formations and Little River Band	6
Fatalist attraction: structure of feeling in great recession fiction	5
‘Pioneers of culture’: Australian natural history and the German colonial imaginary	5
Critiquing cultural appropriation, building community: desi online activism on Tumblr shame blogs and #reclaimthebindi	5

Precarious love of eSports players in China: work-and-play amidst love and precarity	5
Vocal renewal, revision and revival in Annie Lennox’s 2021 cover of ‘Why’	5
Is there a ‘theory of learning’ for Cultural Studies and is it (still) relevant in an era of surveillance capitalism?	5
Terror: live	5
Neoliberal feminism with Chinese characteristics: alternative self-representations of female PhDs on RED	5
“End your weekend”: populism, identity, and the politics of energy transition assemblages in Australia	5
Witnessing the 2023 earthquakes in Turkey through YouTube documentaries	5
Playing with misinformation, lying with truth: satirical conspiracy theories and sacred seriousness of play in online imageboard cultures	4
Charger rage, digital vigilantism, and the cultural politics of EV infrastructure	4
Jack Johnson’s quiet activism	4
Ancestors on motorbikes: cosmic rays bring retribution	4
Performing whiteface in contemporary Senegal: mimicry, self-censorship and the disruption of postcolonial whiteness	4
Exploring biracial identities and experiences through the #biracialproblems hashtag on TikTok	4
XR support in the frame: the creative extended reality ecosystem in Australia	3
The diaspora queers back: reflections on rebetology and zine-making	3
Shaping old media on new media: vinyl revival and its representation on Chinese social media	3
Account-sharing programme: beyond piracy streaming platforms in Indonesia	3
Longing and belonging: narratives by two Asian North American auto-graphic artists	3
Introduction: media and fakery	3
Correction	3
The communist empty signifier: the Australian League of Rights and the Voice to Parliament referendum	3
Relocating sustainable fashion: intercultural reciprocity in ‘more than local’ fashion-making	3
Mortality, moral regulation, and (im)moral entrepreneurship in My Favorite Murder	2
Body of evidence: conspiracy, masculinity and otherness in ‘QAnon shaman’ meme discourses	2
“Lie Flat”– Chinese youth subculture in the context of the pandemic and national rejuvenation	2
Cultural Studies and critical allyship in the settler colonial academe	2
Beyond the spectacle: everyday witnessing for we that are here	2
Rape and Revenge (2017): the male gaze and fourth wave feminist rage in rape-revenge film	2
A moving view: an introduction to Our Sentimental Natures	2
Single mothers as ‘imperfect-resilient’ subjects and their entrepreneurial narratives on TikTok	2
Nationalism and heroism with Chinese characteristics: a critical discourse analysis of Wolf Warrior II	2
LGBTQA+ allies and activism: past, present and future perspectives	2
Cheerful dissensus: Almighty satirical poetry columns in neoliberalist Japan	2
Animal activism on and off screen	2
Online feminist stand-up comedy: an emerging affective-discursive intervention on gender in China	2
Living ghosts and the Laapata : the episode of genocide continuum in Pakistani art	2
Field recordings as invitation and transportation	2
Fakery as a process of negotiation: understanding the information assessment and sharing behaviours of the marginalized elderly on social media	2
Transforming the ‘tart with the cart’: re-imagining the statue of Molly Malone in Ireland’s cultural memory	2
Sex in the time of coronavirus: queer men negotiating biosexual citizenship during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Special issue introduction: reflecting on TikTok creators and digital economies	2
Embedded in this modern fast-paced society … can we hear silence? Analysing the presence of silence in a radio programme	2
TikTok’s tools: The politics of platform tools for cultural production	2
Indonesian critiques of the new musical system	2
Birds as buddies: the politics of sentimentality in the Birds in backyards (Australia) Facebook site	1
Correction	1
Celebrating 30 years of the CSAA	1
“The algorithm loves the war”: ambivalent visibility in content creator practices during war	1
Everybody’s crisis? Critiques and limitations of humanitarian mapping during COVID-19	1
#Runningupthathill, revival and popular music fandom on TikTok	1

The location of Cultural Studies: a contextually contingent account of Cultural Studies’ praxis	1
Market miracle and national image: government promotion and nationalist transformation in Black Myth: Wukong and Nezha 2	1
Writing the Feminist Internet: a Chthonian Feminist Internet Theory for the twenty first century	1
Live streaming funerals: constructing togetherness and belonging in the mediatization era	1
The practices of care: extinction and de-colonization in the natural history museum	1
Co-creating stories for social innovation: a dialogic reflection of narrative Futuring and Cinema del Pueblo	1
Transnational suburbia: suburban settings in Australian video games	1
Diminished ambiguity: the transformation of masculinity from Chinese videogames to their fan-fiction	1
Japanese City Pop and Gen Z in the US: happy, calm, and automated nostalgia	1
‘What awaits us’: the life-worlds of post-war migration	1
‘Every entry should be the last’: archiving the war and producing implicated publics in Yevgenia Belorusets’ A Wartime Diary (2022)	1
Wet dreams: eco-subjectivity, mineral washing, and the cultural politics of electric mobility	1
Contested political alliances in fortress Europe: migrants and Europeans in Helon Habila’s Travellers	1
Feminism and the politics of resilience: essays on gender, media and the end of welfare	1
Shedding light on ‘dark’ ads	1
The cultural economy of Xiangqin : an analysis of the ‘intimate business’ on Chinese television, date-renting sites and mobile phones	1
It’s new, it’s revolutionary, and it’s modern: Vietnamese indie music in the age of digital streaming platforms	1
Commercializing desire for platform economics: digital romance in China’s platformization age	1
Dark, clear or brackish? Using Reddit to break down the binary of the dark and clear web	1
The affective pressures of WhatsApp: from safe spaces to conspiratorial publics	1
Digital performance at the side stage: the communicative practices of classical musicians and music hobbyists on Instagram	1
Birth Family Search (Part 1)	1
Bodily surveillance: Singapore’s COVID-19 app and technological opportunism	1
Towards ethics of care: exploring eco-identities of men in Life of Pi and Sherdil	1
Art-making for political ecology: practice, poetics and activism through enchantment	1
A streaming generation? Interrogating assumptions about young-adult audiences, content discovery, and engagement with broadcast television	1
Who is ‘married donkey’? Investigating a neoliberal and dominant feminist discourse on Chinese social media	1
Culture in practice	1
Coming out in a ‘faux-lesbian comedy’: authenticity and queer identity in MTV’s Faking it	1
Between commodification and politicization: the social invention of Bella Ciao	1
Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19	1
Introduction: digital cultures and acts of refusal, secrecy and power across privacy-enhancing technologies	1
The ‘poietic’ turn: creative arts research in the academy	1
Self-presentation of grey-haired influencers on TikTok: active ageing in China	1
Ghosts of eugenics’ past: ‘Childhood’ as a target for whitening race in the United States and Canada	1
Secularism, decoloniality and the veil: Kutlug Ataman and Cigdem Aydemir on hair and veiling	1
Great AI divides? Automated decision-making technologies and dreams of development	1
Making bodies, craft skills and the legacies of policy ‘blokeism’	1
“Fertility fear” on Chinese social media: The disciplined female reproductive bodies and resistance towards motherhood	1
Zines of rupture: theorising migration studies using comics by racialised migrants and refugees	1
Place-bound attributes in music scenes. Evolution of the independent electronica music scene in Brisbane since the mid-1980s	1
Migration and immigration in Europe and its edges	1
Borrowed soundtracks: adopting the global history approach to the study of connectedness in film history	1
Shifting from top-down to bottom-up nationalism: an analysis of YouTube speeches from the 2016/17 candlelight revolution in South Korea	1
Climate nags: Affect and the convergence of global risk in online networks	1
Thinking, recounting: the first Australian Screen Studies Association Conference (1982)	1
Film as ‘prosthetic memory’: Chinese mainland audiences’ reconstruction of historical memory through the Taiwanese film “A City of Sadness”	1
Assaying landscape, sensation and knowledge in Ross Gibson’s academic essays	1
Fringe to famous	1
Flying cars and bigots: projecting post-COVID-19 worlds through the atlas of the civic imagination as refuge for hope	1
Reconstituting teachers’ professional knowledge: using Cultural Studies to rethink multicultural education	1
The darker turn of intimate machines: dark webs and (post)social media	1
Journalism from the bottom: capture by mythical intelligentsia versus resistance of fisherfolk	1
Correction	1
Breaking the “chain of contempt”: distinction and taste in Chinese social media fandom	1