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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Emotions and Virtues in Feature Writing: The Alchemy of Creating Prize-Winning Stories	28
Optimizing empowerment and equality in media-based practice: A Longwe framework of media communication	25
McPhee Gribble's ‘determinedly unglamorous’ parties: A small publisher's accrual and conversion of social capital	17
Practising citizenship through online media: an interpretive case study of Chinese New Zealanders’ civic engagement online	17
Scott Morrison’s political discourse during crisis: A narrative-semiotic analysis	15
Spiritual opium and the spiritual opium war: A cultural history of arcade games and console games in 1990s China	14
Learning the art of scholarly peer-review: insights from the communication discipline	13
Stereotypes: Older adult representation in Australian newspaper advertising	13
Book Review: The Production of Global Web Series in a Networked Age	13
Industry professionals speak: it's all about messages – except when it isn’t	13
Dimensions of digital precarity: visibility, voice, and vulnerability of Filipino youth	12
Secondary, security threat, and sage: eulogy effect and the framing of female politicians as political martyrs in the elite press of South Asia	12
‘To be honest, they’re mainly a way to waste time… but they also help me learn things’: the complexities of teens’ social media motivations	12
Book Review: Journalism, Technology and Cultural Practice: A History MartinConboy, Journalism, Technology and Cultural Practice: A History . London: Rout	12
Gatekeepers or facilitators? Capturing and assessing Australia's freedom of information implementation culture	11
Exploring a post-truth referendum: Australia's Voice to Parliament and the management of attention on social media	11
Book Review: Migrants, Television and Australian Stories: A New History by Kate Darian-Smith, Sue Turnbull, Sukhmani Khorana and Kyle Harvey Darian-Smith	8
Orchestras and the Australian imaginary: From national icons to public value?	8
‘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	8
Australian media's response to the end of indefinite detention: towards a rights-based treatment of people seeking asylum?	8
Digital racism and antiracism toward Asian and Muslim communities during the Covid-19 pandemic: the Australian experience	8
Journalistic perspectives on cross-border peace journalism between Pakistan and Afghanistan	7
Book Review: Setting the Agenda	7
Closing the digital gap for remote First Nations communities: 5G and beyond?	7
Making public or quiet listening? Media logics and public inquiries into the abuse of children	7

‘African kids can’: challenging the African gangs narrative on social media	7
What Australian research offers the study of digital childhoods: A scoping review of digital media use by families with young children	7
Playful rehearsals of animal subjugation: The naturalization of animal labour in videogames	7
Book Review: Subtitling: Concepts and Practices	7
Counterpublics in exile: a computational analysis of Syrian YouTube podcasts during the Assad era	6
Public service sentiment in Australian digital communities on Reddit and Whirlpool during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Connections, community, coconuts: exploring the history of regional community radio	6
Deplatforming sex education on Meta: sex, power, and content moderation	6
Images of China in the Australian press: time for new frames and new readings of old frames to broaden the horizons of framing analysis?	6
Contesting the climate breakdown: athlete activism, documentary and the environmentalism of Australia's David Pocock	6
‘Wait, am I #neurodivergent?’ Exploring TikTok's influence on neurodivergent self-understanding	6
Sociological film: blending filmic and sociological imaginations	6
Ethnic media, diversity and settlement: a qualitative study	6
Exploring the role of political elites in post-truth communication on social media	6
The effect of trust in media and information sources on coronavirus disease 2019 prevention behaviors in Lebanon	6
Amplifying victim–survivor voices: media power, collective action, and ultra-Orthodox Jewish identity in the Leifer case	6
The value of news: A gender gap in paying for news	5
Who is a journalist now? Recognising atypical journalism work in the digital media economy	5
‘A treasured possession that has seen better days’: work, respect and co-operation at The Repair Shop	5
“Epistemic justice” (a memoir)	5
Framing a national champion: Media narratives, Brand Nationalism, and public sentiment online	5
Pandemic impacts on cinema industry and over-the-top platforms in China	5
‘The best story, a connection through time’: The role of family in shaping book culture across generations	4
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	4
Book Review: Mediatised Terrorism: East-West Narratives of Risk	4
Book Review: Platforms and Cultural Production Poell, Thomas, David B. Nieborg, and Brooke Erin Duffy, Platforms and Cultural Production , Polity Press,	4
The cultural customization of TikTok: subaltern migrant workers and their digital cultures	4
‘Now they’re going to find us on a map’: pre-suasive visioning, rhetoric and framing in the city-seeking discourses of the City of Moreton Bay	4
China’s evolving stance against tech monopolies: A moment of international alignment in an era of digital sovereignty	4
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
‘Big Lies’: understanding the role of political actors and mainstream journalists in the spread of disinformation	3
From the global/local divide to transnational popular culture	3
Balancing digital presents and futures: understanding first-time parents’ practices, plans and perceptions of ‘quality’ and risk in young children's digital engagements	3
Hyperlocal journalism in the face of the advance of news deserts: a scoping review	3
Exploring health misinformation on WhatsApp within the African migrant and refugee community in Southeast Queensland (SEQ)	3
Wellness communities and vaccine hesitancy	3
Trump's first month through the eyes of political cartoonists	3
Jelena Dokic's suicide-related social media post and the worldwide media's portrayal of a story of survival: a natural experiment	3
A sociotechnical approach to smartphone research: outline for a holistic, qualitative mobile method	3
Subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) original production in Australia: Evolution or revolution?	3
Let's get physical! Instagram engagement and vanity in young people	3
5G common threads and challenges in emerging economies: the cases of Indonesia and Peru	3
Digital arts and culture in Australia: Promissory discourses and uncertain realities in pandemic times	3
Innovation financing in the Australian video game industry	3
The decolonial paradox: negotiating glocal identity in China's Lolita fashion subculture	3
Redefining older Australians: moving beyond stereotypes and consumer narratives in print media representations	3
(Dis)assembling mental health through apps: The sociomaterialities of young adults’ experiences	3