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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The video years: Stuart Cunningham and screen industry research	46
Book Review: Emotions and Virtues in Feature Writing: The Alchemy of Creating Prize-Winning Stories	39
How can we measure the creative economy? The Cunningham Project	24
Scott Morrison’s political discourse during crisis: A narrative-semiotic analysis	24
Visibility and invisibility in the aged care sector: visual representation in Australian news from 2018–2021	21
Practising citizenship through online media: an interpretive case study of Chinese New Zealanders’ civic engagement online	19
Learning the art of Scholarly Peer-Review: Insights from the Communication Discipline	17
Love your idol in a ‘cleaned’ way: Fans, fundraising platform, and fandom governance in China	16
Digital hostility: contemporary crisis, disrupted belonging and self-care practices	16
Spiritual opium and the spiritual opium war: a cultural history of arcade games and console games in 1990s China	16
Secondary, security threat, and sage: eulogy effect and the framing of female politicians as political martyrs in the elite press of South Asia	15
Book Review: The Production of Global Web Series in a Networked Age	15
Exploring a post-truth referendum: Australia's Voice to Parliament and the management of attention on social media	14
‘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	13
Industry professionals speak: it's all about messages – except when it isn’t	12
Making public or quiet listening? Media logics and public inquiries into the abuse of children	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
Book Review: Journalism, Technology and Cultural Practice: A History by Martin Conboy	12
Playful rehearsals of animal subjugation: The naturalization of animal labour in videogames	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
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
Images of China in the Australian press: time for new frames and new readings of old frames to broaden the horizons of framing analysis?	9
Connections, community, coconuts: exploring the history of regional community radio	9
Public service sentiment in Australian digital communities on Reddit and Whirlpool during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Amplifying victim–survivor voices: media power, collective action, and ultra-Orthodox Jewish identity in the Leifer case	9
Contesting the climate breakdown: athlete activism, documentary and the environmentalism of Australia's David Pocock	8
Ethnic media, diversity and settlement: a qualitative study	8
Exploring the role of political elites in post-truth communication on social media	8
Chinese digital platforms in Australia: From market and politics to governance	8
The effect of trust in media and information sources on coronavirus disease 2019 prevention behaviors in Lebanon	7
Strategies for climate change communication through social media: Objectives, approach, and interaction	7
“Epistemic justice” (a memoir)	6
Book Review: Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives	6
Vernacular Visibility and Algorithmic Resistance in the Public Expression of Latin American Feminism	6
Pandemic impacts on cinema industry and over-the-top platforms in China	6
Who is a journalist now? Recognising atypical journalism work in the digital media economy	6
Deplatforming sex education on Meta: sex, power, and content moderation	6
Hyperlocal journalism in the face of the advance of news deserts: scoping review	5
The decolonial paradox: negotiating glocal identity in China's Lolita fashion subculture	5
The cultural customization of TikTok: subaltern migrant workers and their digital cultures	5
Subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) original production in Australia: Evolution or revolution?	5
China’s evolving stance against tech monopolies: A moment of international alignment in an era of digital sovereignty	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
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
A Sociotechnical Approach to Smartphone Research: Outline for a Holistic, Qualitative Mobile Method	5
Redefining older Australians: moving beyond stereotypes and consumer narratives in print media representations	5
We’ve always been antagonistic: algorithmic resistances and dissidences beyond the Global North	5
Jelena Dokic's suicide-related social media post and the worldwide media's portrayal of a story of survival: a natural experiment	5
Algorithmic resistance as political disengagement	5
The value of news: A gender gap in paying for news	5
Book Review: Mediatised Terrorism: East-West Narratives of Risk	5
‘Big Lies’: understanding the role of political actors and mainstream journalists in the spread of disinformation	5
(Dis)assembling mental health through apps: The sociomaterialities of young adults’ experiences	4
5G common threads and challenges in emerging economies: the cases of Indonesia and Peru	4
Digital arts and culture in Australia: Promissory discourses and uncertain realities in pandemic times	4
Between culture and industry: re-evaluating the development of the Australian New Eligible Drama Expenditure (NEDE) requirement on Australian pay-TV	4
Exploring health misinformation on WhatsApp within the African migrant and refugee community in Southeast Queensland (SEQ)	4
Brittany Higgins' story or the Brittany Higgins story? Journalism, politics and narrative rhetoric	4
Making Queer content visible: approaches and assumptions of Australian film and television stakeholders working with LGBTQ+ content	4
Wellness communities and vaccine hesitancy	4
WeChat as the coordinator of polymedia: Chinese women maintaining intercultural romantic relationships	4
Studying WeChat Official Accounts with novel ‘backend-in’ and ‘traceback’ methods: Walking through platforms back-to-front and past-to-present	3
The Final Word on sports podcasts: Audience perceptions of media engagement and news consumption	3
Introduction to the Media International Australia special issue on “TikTok cultures in the Asia Pacific”	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
Performing islamophobia in the Australian parliament: The role of populism and performance in Pauline Hanson’s “burqa stunt”	3
News portals as a gateway to civic engagement: the case of South Korea	3
Understanding the industry/state interface in creative industries studies	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

First Nations media in the Closing the Gap era: navigating the new self-determination	3
The Belt and Road Initiative in Australian mainstream media: why did its narratives shift from 2013 to 2021?	3
Book Review: Popular Culture and Social Change: The Hidden Work of Public Relations	3
#Aboriginallivesmatter: Mapping Black Lives Matter discourse in Australia	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