OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Media International Australia 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
How can we measure the creative economy? The Cunningham Project	49
The video years: Stuart Cunningham and screen industry research	39
Practising citizenship through online media: an interpretive case study of Chinese New Zealanders’ civic engagement online	24
Book Review: Emotions and Virtues in Feature Writing: The Alchemy of Creating Prize-Winning Stories	24
Love your idol in a ‘cleaned’ way: Fans, fundraising platform, and fandom governance in China	21
Learning the art of Scholarly Peer-Review: Insights from the Communication Discipline	20
Scott Morrison’s political discourse during crisis: A narrative-semiotic analysis	17
Spiritual opium and the spiritual opium war: a cultural history of arcade games and console games in 1990s China	17
Visibility and invisibility in the aged care sector: visual representation in Australian news from 2018–2021	17
Digital hostility: contemporary crisis, disrupted belonging and self-care practices	16
Secondary, security threat, and sage: eulogy effect and the framing of female politicians as political martyrs in the elite press of South Asia	16
Book Review: The Production of Global Web Series in a Networked Age	15
Industry professionals speak: it's all about messages – except when it isn’t	14
Book Review: Journalism, Technology and Cultural Practice: A History by Martin Conboy	14
Stereotypes: Older adult representation in Australian newspaper advertising	13
Playful rehearsals of animal subjugation: The naturalization of animal labour in videogames	12
‘You can’t trust the mainstream media’: exploring shifts in racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, antisemitic and Islamophobic sentiment within Australian far-right alternative news media	12
Digital Racism and Antiracism Toward Asian and Muslim Communities During the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Australian Experience	12
What Australian research offers the study of digital childhoods: A scoping review of digital media use by families with young children	12
Exploring a post-truth referendum: Australia's Voice to Parliament and the management of attention on social media	12
Closing the digital gap for remote First Nations communities: 5G and beyond?	11
Book Review: Setting the Agenda	11
Teachers of TikTok: Glimpses and gestures in the performance of professional identity	11
Making public or quiet listening? Media logics and public inquiries into the abuse of children	11
Book Review: Subtitling: Concepts and Practices	11

‘African kids can’: challenging the African gangs narrative on social media	11
Book Review: Feral Media: The Chamberlain Case 40 Years On	10
Chinese digital platforms in Australia: From market and politics to governance	10
Amplifying victim–survivor voices: media power, collective action, and ultra-Orthodox Jewish identity in the Leifer case	10
Ethnic media, diversity and settlement: a qualitative study	9
Contesting the climate breakdown: athlete activism, documentary and the environmentalism of Australia's David Pocock	9
Images of China in the Australian press: time for new frames and new readings of old frames to broaden the horizons of framing analysis?	8
Public service sentiment in Australian digital communities on Reddit and Whirlpool during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Connections, community, coconuts: exploring the history of regional community radio	8
Strategies for climate change communication through social media: Objectives, approach, and interaction	7
The effect of trust in media and information sources on coronavirus disease 2019 prevention behaviors in Lebanon	7
Exploring the role of political elites in post-truth communication on social media	7
Book Review: Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives	7
Vernacular Visibility and Algorithmic Resistance in the Public Expression of Latin American Feminism	6
Book Review: Mediatised Terrorism: East-West Narratives of Risk	6
The cultural customization of TikTok: subaltern migrant workers and their digital cultures	6
“Epistemic justice” (a memoir)	6
Pandemic impacts on cinema industry and over-the-top platforms in China	6
The value of news: A gender gap in paying for news	6
Deplatforming sex education on Meta: sex, power, and content moderation	6
Who is a journalist now? Recognising atypical journalism work in the digital media economy	6
The decolonial paradox: negotiating glocal identity in China's Lolita fashion subculture	6
China’s evolving stance against tech monopolies: A moment of international alignment in an era of digital sovereignty	5
Jelena Dokic's suicide-related social media post and the worldwide media's portrayal of a story of survival: a natural experiment	5
We’ve always been antagonistic: algorithmic resistances and dissidences beyond the Global North	5
A Sociotechnical Approach to Smartphone Research: Outline for a Holistic, Qualitative Mobile Method	5
Hyperlocal journalism in the face of the advance of news deserts: scoping review	5
Redefining older Australians: moving beyond stereotypes and consumer narratives in print media representations	5
Algorithmic resistance as political disengagement	5
Book Review: The Near-Death of the Author: Creativity in the Internet Age John Potts, The Near-Death of the Author: Creativity in the Internet Age . Toronto Buffalo Lond	5
Balancing digital presents and futures: understanding first-time parents’ practices, plans and perceptions of ‘quality’ and risk in young children's digital engagements	5
Between culture and industry: re-evaluating the development of the Australian New Eligible Drama Expenditure (NEDE) requirement on Australian pay-TV	5
Subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) original production in Australia: Evolution or revolution?	5
Book Review: Platforms and Cultural Production by Poell, Thomas, David B. Nieborg, and Brooke Erin Duffy PoellThomasNieborgDavid B.DuffyBrooke Erin, Platforms and Cultur	5
‘Big Lies’: understanding the role of political actors and mainstream journalists in the spread of disinformation	5
Exploring health misinformation on WhatsApp within the African migrant and refugee community in Southeast Queensland (SEQ)	4
Wellness communities and vaccine hesitancy	4
5G common threads and challenges in emerging economies: the cases of Indonesia and Peru	4
Making Queer content visible: approaches and assumptions of Australian film and television stakeholders working with LGBTQ+ content	4
Studying WeChat Official Accounts with novel ‘backend-in’ and ‘traceback’ methods: Walking through platforms back-to-front and past-to-present	4
#Aboriginallivesmatter: Mapping Black Lives Matter discourse in Australia	4
(Dis)assembling mental health through apps: The sociomaterialities of young adults’ experiences	4
Digital arts and culture in Australia: Promissory discourses and uncertain realities in pandemic times	4
Performing islamophobia in the Australian parliament: The role of populism and performance in Pauline Hanson’s “burqa stunt”	3
Book Review: Popular Culture and Social Change: The Hidden Work of Public Relations	3
Understanding the industry/state interface in creative industries studies	3
‘Oh my god this is happening’: how Our Flag Means Death staged an empathic mutiny against the labour of queer reading practices	3
Never Have I Ever felt super Indian: constructing Indian femininity and recasting the “other”	3
The Belt and Road Initiative in Australian mainstream media: why did its narratives shift from 2013 to 2021?	3
News portals as a gateway to civic engagement: the case of South Korea	3

Using co-designed smartphone apps to cultivate authentic communication and disaster risk resilience in multi-cultural communities	3
Towards future politics of the cybersphere: China’s temporal-spatial governance of digital transition	3
Introduction to the Media International Australia special issue on “TikTok cultures in the Asia Pacific”	3
Brittany Higgins' story or the Brittany Higgins story? Journalism, politics and narrative rhetoric	3
WeChat as the coordinator of polymedia: Chinese women maintaining intercultural romantic relationships	3
The Final Word on sports podcasts: Audience perceptions of media engagement and news consumption	3
First Nations media in the Closing the Gap era: navigating the new self-determination	3
Book Review: Middle Eastern Diasporas and Political Communication: New Approaches Ehab Galal, Mostafa Shehata and Claus Valling Pedersen, Middle Eastern Diasporas and Political Communic	3
‘A mouthpiece to make a positive impact’: Australian journalists’ attitudes, knowledge, and experiences reporting on mental ill-health and suicide in sportspeople	3