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

Article	Citations
Borrowed soundtracks: adopting the global history approach to the study of connectedness in film history	27
The complexities of home and belonging in the Gulf-Malayalee experience: a close reading of Salim Ahamed’s Pathemari (2015)	15
Unearthing the code of Gondwana VR	12
Underrated, overlooked, suppressed, discarded: canonical discourse and 1980s rock music from Australia and New Zealand	11
‘We can sh*t for another 10 years.’ Toilet paper, pandemic politics and cultural citizenship	11
Resisting division: migrant sex work and “New Zealand working girls”	11
Migrant placemaking and authorship: digital storytelling by Chinese interprovincial students	9
Living ghosts and the Laapata : the episode of genocide continuum in Pakistani art	9
Indigenous Cinema, the camera ashore, and House Made of Dawn	9
The location of Cultural Studies: a contextually contingent account of Cultural Studies’ praxis	8
Correction	8
Caring for clothes: how and why people maintain garments in regular use	8
Zines of rupture: theorising migration studies using comics by racialised migrants and refugees	7
English teaching and media education: the (lost) legacies of Cultural Studies	7
Birth Family Search (Part 1)	7
Race and the suburbs in American film	7
Art-making for political ecology: practice, poetics and activism through enchantment	6
Happy Valley	6
Moving beyond deficit media figurations of young people: troubling the contemporary ‘youth crime crisis’	5
On becoming a queer educator: reflections on queer perspectives and approaches in initial teacher education	5
Mortality, moral regulation, and (im)moral entrepreneurship in My Favorite Murder	5
Chinese-language digital news media in Australia: new narratives of hybrid identities	4
Indonesian critiques of the new musical system	4
Modifications of R: how the virtual comes to matter in VR, XR and MR art and performance	4
Citizenship and neoliberalism: pandemic horror in Latin America	4

Field recordings as invitation and transportation	4
Dark, clear or brackish? Using Reddit to break down the binary of the dark and clear web	4
Vive la république européenne? Reading The European Balcony Project as artistic counter-public	4
Pandemic citizenship: introduction	4
A moving view: an introduction to Our Sentimental Natures	4
Adapting European heritage: Bernardine Evaristo’s Soul Tourists (2005) and Omar Victor Diop’s Project Diaspora (2014)	4
The Nutbush Dance Reframed: further analysis related to ‘Doing the Nutbush’	3
Correction	3
The Rassemblement National on social media: the online rewards of gendered political speech for radical right politicians	3
‘Go sharp or go home’: the competitive subcultural practices of historical Australian youth culture known as ‘Sharpies’	3
Correction	3
The colonial project of gender: trans joy, queerness in practice, coloniality in turmoil	3
Breaking the “chain of contempt”: distinction and taste in Chinese social media fandom	3
Translation of deconstructivism in the Romanian post-communist transition interval	3
‘The queer pedagogical encounter: a continuum of futures’, introduction to ‘In Queer Minds’ special issue	3
Secularism, decoloniality and the veil: Kutlug Ataman and Cigdem Aydemir on hair and veiling	3
‘I Blame House Hunters’: How real estate agents use property TV to manage clients and establish expertise	3
Coping with the ‘double bind’ through vlogging: pandemic digital citizenship of Chinese international students	3
Climate change and SIDS in the transpacific region: flows of people, capital and goods	3
Overcoming ‘confirmation bias’ and the persistence of conspiratorial types of thinking	2
The web series: empowering diversity on the Australian screen	2
Culture in practice	2
A post-secular journey	2
Guilt and migrant experience in Australia: narratives of happiness and hatred	2
Proud to be not beautiful: navigating affects in the rebellious body project of Chinese TuoMeiYi feminism	2
Archives and autographics: reanimating diaspora in the Transpacific	2
Representations of Swedish ‘gangster rap’ in contemporary media – Exploring dimensions of public pedagogy	2
‘Zero dollars and zero cents’: resourcefulness and DIY music scenes in rural and regional South Australia	2
Industry dialogue: navigating complexity in the future of fashion	2
Thai Boys Love drama fandom as a transnational and trans-subcultural contact zone in Japan	2
Body of evidence: conspiracy, masculinity and otherness in ‘QAnon shaman’ meme discourses	2
Creative is not always lucrative: how grassroots film communities defy the ‘creativisation of culture’ in post-authoritarian Indonesia	2
Thinking, recounting: the first Australian Screen Studies Association Conference (1982)	2
The practices of care: extinction and de-colonization in the natural history museum	2
A state against boys’ love? Reviewing the trajectory of censorship over danmei	2
Back catalogue touring and the ephemeral archive: personal memory and popular music heritage	2
The darker turn of intimate machines: dark webs and (post)social media	2
Streaming platform imaginaries: audiences and Southeast Asian streaming	2
Feedback, difference, and remediation: post-war Taiwanese covers of Shanghai shidaiqu	1
Representing Aboriginal Childhood: The politics of memory and forgetting in Australia	1
Transnational suburbia: suburban settings in Australian video games	1
LGBTQA+ allies and activism: past, present and future perspectives	1
State-sponsored stigma and discrimination: female Indonesian migrants in Hong Kong during the pandemic	1
Contemporary drag practices and performers: drag in a changing scene volume 1	1
Ungrievable lives and the ensemble of opinions	1
Stranger Things: boys and feminism	1
Anatomy of a film industry Redux: Notes on the West Australian case (1969–1993)	1
Provocation in women’s filmmaking: authorship and art cinema	1
Notes on Transkids: an affirmative feminist study of transgender boyhood in Israel’s sexual modernity	1
Cyborg, goddess, or magical girl/heavenly woman? Rethinking gender and technology in science education via Ghost in the Shell	1

Nonhuman witnessing: war, data, and ecology after the end of the world, by Michael Richardson	1
Transgression, resistance and independent art in contemporary russia	1
Communities, connections, and careers: building personal and professional networks through community media work	1
Figured actions in the Transformers action figure, nonnormative positivism, disability, and transformation	1
‘Just like us’: community radio broadcasters and the on-air performance of community identity	1
Writing the Feminist Internet: a Chthonian Feminist Internet Theory for the twenty first century	1
Some reflections on the ‘policy moment’	1
Cultural Studies and critical allyship in the settler colonial academe	1
Youth arts as popular education: Cultural Studies at the edges of the creative industries	1
Deliberation through contestation: EU investments in cultural and artistic spaces beyond the EU	1
Introduction: digital cultures and acts of refusal, secrecy and power across privacy-enhancing technologies	1
Digital infrastructure, ultra-fast broadband, and citizenship in the Gigatown competition in the South Island, Aotearoa New Zealand	1
Media portrayals of binational couples in 90 Day Fiancé	1
Fakery as a process of negotiation: understanding the information assessment and sharing behaviours of the marginalized elderly on social media	1
Lifestyle, opportunity and attraction images: real estate platforms and the digital remediation of space	1
#Runningupthathill, revival and popular music fandom on TikTok	1
Mental and social scotoma represented and worked through in the television series Our Boys (Levi, Ceder and Abu-Wael 2019)	1
Between commodification and politicization: the social invention of Bella Ciao	1
Spectacularisation of ‘madness’ and the sugarcoated discourse of care in Indonesian social media: a dispositive analysis	1
Japanese City Pop and Gen Z in the US: happy, calm, and automated nostalgia	1
Producing multiculturalism: casting and editing migrants in Korean reality television	1
Engendering ethics: recognition and inclusion of intersectional identities in queer communities when conducting population survey research	1
Nationalism and heroism with Chinese characteristics: a critical discourse analysis of Wolf Warrior II	1
Asylum-seeker emergency and third spaces in the Inspector Montalbano TV series	1
Biscuit production and consumption as war re-enactment	1
‘Every entry should be the last’: archiving the war and producing implicated publics in Yevgenia Belorusets’ A Wartime Diary (2022)	1
Feminism and the politics of resilience: essays on gender, media and the end of welfare	1
Shedding light on ‘dark’ ads	1
“Lie Flat”– Chinese youth subculture in the context of the pandemic and national rejuvenation	1
Sex in the time of coronavirus: queer men negotiating biosexual citizenship during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
The production of girls’ love narrative in Couple of Mirrors (2021) through transmedia storytelling in contemporary China	1
Describing, knotting, tying: developing emerging media documentary in a creative accelerator context	1