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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The video years: Stuart Cunningham and screen industry research	42
Book Review: Emotions and Virtues in Feature Writing: The Alchemy of Creating Prize-Winning Stories	33
Love your idol in a ‘cleaned’ way: Fans, fundraising platform, and fandom governance in China	23
The corporeality of sound: drag performance, lip-synching and the popular critique of gendered theatrics in Australian film and television	20
How can we measure the creative economy? The Cunningham Project	18
Spiritual opium and the spiritual opium war: a cultural history of arcade games and console games in 1990s China	16
Learning the art of Scholarly Peer-Review: Insights from the Communication Discipline	16
Scott Morrison’s political discourse during crisis: A narrative-semiotic analysis	15
Visibility and invisibility in the aged care sector: visual representation in Australian news from 2018–2021	14
Digital hostility: contemporary crisis, disrupted belonging and self-care practices	13
Practising citizenship through online media: an interpretive case study of Chinese New Zealanders’ civic engagement online	12
Digital Racism and Antiracism Toward Asian and Muslim Communities During the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Australian Experience	12
Book Review: Journalism, Technology and Cultural Practice: A History by Martin Conboy	12
Super aggregators and the media supply chain	11
Book Review: The Production of Global Web Series in a Networked Age	11
Secondary, security threat, and sage: eulogy effect and the framing of female politicians as political martyrs in the elite press of South Asia	11
Playful rehearsals of animal subjugation: The naturalization of animal labour in videogames	10
Exploring a post-truth referendum: Australia's Voice to Parliament and the management of attention on social media	10
Book Review: Setting the Agenda	10
‘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	10
Industry professionals speak: it's all about messages – except when it isn’t	10
The media geographies of Tom O’Regan	10
Making public or quiet listening? Media logics and public inquiries into the abuse of children	9
What Australian research offers the study of digital childhoods: A scoping review of digital media use by families with young children	9
‘African kids can’: challenging the African gangs narrative on social media	9

Teachers of TikTok: Glimpses and gestures in the performance of professional identity	9
Book Review: Subtitling: Concepts and Practices	9
Closing the digital gap for remote First Nations communities: 5G and beyond?	9
Connections, Community, Coconuts: Exploring the History of Regional Community Radio	8
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
Book Review: Feral Media: The Chamberlain Case 40 Years On	7
Chinese digital platforms in Australia: From market and politics to governance	7
Amplifying victim–survivor voices: media power, collective action, and ultra-Orthodox Jewish identity in the Leifer case	7
Exploring the role of political elites in post-truth communication on social media	7
Public service sentiment in Australian digital communities on Reddit and Whirlpool during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Book Review: Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives	6
Strategies for climate change communication through social media: Objectives, approach, and interaction	6
The effect of trust in media and information sources on coronavirus disease 2019 prevention behaviors in Lebanon	6
Professor Tom O’Regan: a guide to his published work	6
Ethnic media, diversity and settlement: a qualitative study	6
Pandemic impacts on cinema industry and over-the-top platforms in China	6
“Epistemic justice” (a memoir)	5
Deplatforming sex education on Meta: sex, power, and content moderation	5
Who is a journalist now? Recognising atypical journalism work in the digital media economy	5
Institutions, platforms and the production of debut success in contemporary book culture	5
The cultural customization of TikTok: subaltern migrant workers and their digital cultures	5
Vernacular Visibility and Algorithmic Resistance in the Public Expression of Latin American Feminism	5
The value of news: A gender gap in paying for news	4
A Sociotechnical Approach to Smartphone Research: Outline for a Holistic, Qualitative Mobile Method	4
Jelena Dokic's suicide-related social media post and the worldwide media's portrayal of a story of survival: a natural experiment	4
Algorithmic resistance as political disengagement	4
‘Big Lies’: understanding the role of political actors and mainstream journalists in the spread of disinformation	4
China’s evolving stance against tech monopolies: A moment of international alignment in an era of digital sovereignty	4
Hyperlocal journalism in the face of the advance of news deserts: scoping review	4
Book Review: Mediatised Terrorism: East-West Narratives of Risk	4
Subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) original production in Australia: Evolution or revolution?	4
We’ve always been antagonistic: algorithmic resistances and dissidences beyond the Global North	4
Redefining older Australians: moving beyond stereotypes and consumer narratives in print media representations	4
Book Review: The Near-Death of the Author: Creativity in the Internet Age by John Potts	4
Balancing digital presents and futures: understanding first-time parents’ practices, plans and perceptions of ‘quality’ and risk in young children's digital engagements	4
News portals as a gateway to civic engagement: the case of South Korea	3
Between culture and industry: re-evaluating the development of the Australian New Eligible Drama Expenditure (NEDE) requirement on Australian pay-TV	3
Exploring health misinformation on WhatsApp within the African migrant and refugee community in Southeast Queensland (SEQ)	3
Wellness communities and vaccine hesitancy	3
WeChat as the coordinator of polymedia: Chinese women maintaining intercultural romantic relationships	3
‘Oh my god this is happening’: how Our Flag Means Death staged an empathic mutiny against the labour of queer reading practices	3
Book Review: Popular Culture and Social Change: The Hidden Work of Public Relations	3
Making Queer content visible: approaches and assumptions of Australian film and television stakeholders working with LGBTQ+ content	3
The Belt and Road Initiative in Australian mainstream media: why did its narratives shift from 2013 to 2021?	3
Digital arts and culture in Australia: Promissory discourses and uncertain realities in pandemic times	3
Brittany Higgins' story or the Brittany Higgins story? Journalism, politics and narrative rhetoric	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
(Dis)assembling mental health through apps: The sociomaterialities of young adults’ experiences	3
Studying WeChat Official Accounts with novel ‘backend-in’ and ‘traceback’ methods: Walking through platforms back-to-front and past-to-present	3

5G common threads and challenges in emerging economies: the cases of Indonesia and Peru	3
#Aboriginallivesmatter: Mapping Black Lives Matter discourse in Australia	3