OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Convergence-The International Journal of Research Into New Media Techn is 5. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Ageism in the era of digital platforms	48
The great replacement: Strategic mainstreaming of far-right conspiracy claims	30
Whose dystopia is it anyway? Deepfakes and social media regulation	29
Pandemic fitness assemblages: The sociomaterialities and affective dimensions of exercising at home during the COVID-19 crisis	29
Far-right conspiracy groups on fringe platforms: a longitudinal analysis of radicalization dynamics on Telegram	28
Exploring ‘digital placemaking’	26
The disconnection turn: Three facets of disconnective work in post-digital capitalism	25
Staying in, rocking out: Online live music portal shows during the coronavirus pandemic	25
Connecting to nature through tech? The case of the iNaturalist app	24
The COVID digital home assemblage: Transforming the home into a work space during the crisis	22
Algorithms and taste-making: Exposing the Netflix Recommender System's operational logics	22
Personalization and the Smart Home: questioning techno-hedonist imaginaries	21
What smartness does in the smart city: From visions to policy	20
The streaming network: Conceptualizing distribution economy, technology, and power in streaming media services	20
The symbol of social media in contemporary protest: Twitter and the Gezi Park movement	20
PewDiePie, racism and Youtube’s neoliberalist interpretation of freedom of speech	19
Livestreaming from the bedroom: Performing intimacy through domestic space on Twitch	19
Intensification, discovery and abandonment: Unearthing global ecologies of dis/connection in pandemic times	18
Digital placemaking and networked corporeality: Embodied mobile media practices in domestic space during Covid-19	17
What is a podcast? Considering innovations in podcasting through the six-tensions framework	16
Advancing digital disconnection research: Introduction to the special issue	16
Fourth VR: Indigenous virtual reality practice	15
The discursive construction of the gamification of journalism	15
To Dally with Dalí: Deepfake (Inter)faces in the Art Museum	15
Locked down through virtual disconnect: Navigating life by staying on/off the health QR code during COVID-19 in China	15

Ways of seeing digital disconnection: A negative sociology of digital culture	14
Automation, wellbeing and Digital Voice Assistants: Older people and Google devices	14
Gamifying fake news: Engaging youth in the participatory design of news literacy games	14
Are you talking to me? Generation X, Y, Z responses to mobile advertising	14
Media labs: Constructing journalism laboratories, innovating the future: How journalism is catalysing its future processes, products and people	14
Children’s gaming involves much more than the gaming itself: A study of the metagame among 12- to 15-year-old children	13
Locative disconnection: The use of location-based technologies to make disconnection easier, enforceable and exclusive	13
Predictors of parasocial interaction and relationships in live streaming	13
‘Weekends became something other people did’: Understanding and intervening in the habitus of video game crunch	12
Deepfaking Keanu: YouTube deepfakes, platform visual effects, and the complexity of reception	12
Placemaking through mobile social media platform Snapchat	11
Understanding digital disconnection beyond media studies	11
Living in, with and beyond the ‘smart home’: Introduction to the special issue	11
Placemaking ‘experiences’ during Covid-19	11
Amplification of regional discrimination on Chinese news portals: An affective critical discourse analysis	10
Framing digital disconnection: Problem definitions, values, and actions among digital detox organisers	10
Conceptualising Augmented Reality: From virtual divides to mediated dynamics	10
Establishing networked misogyny as a counter movement: The analysis of the online anti-Istanbul convention presence	10
Transnationalisation revisited through the Netflix Original: An analysis of investment strategies in Europe	10
Digital placemaking and the datafication of forced migrants	10
Media as the great emancipators? Exploring relations between media repertoires and cultural participation in Flanders	10
Playful approaches to news engagement	10
#NoSnowflakes: The toleration of harassment and an emergent gender-related digital divide, in a UK student online culture	10
Tactical agency? Young people’s (dis)engagement with WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger	10
The machine without the ghost: Early interactive television in Japan	9
How does it ‘sound’? Audiences, broadcasters, and managers on visual radio in Israel	9
Creating opportunities for temporary disconnection: How tourism professionals provide alternatives to being permanently online	9
Digital placemaking as survival tactics: Sub-Saharan migrants’ videos at the Moroccan–Spanish border	9
Social responses to and motivation involving knitting vlog viewing	9
In the mood for disconnection	9
The limits of gamification	9
Distinguishing feast-watching from cringe-watching: Planned, social, and attentive binge-watching predicts increased well-being and decreased regret	9
Technoliberalism and the Complementary Relationships between Humanitarian, Conservation, and Entrepreneurial Dronework in Indonesia	9
The digital resurrection of Margaret Thatcher: Creative, technological and legal dilemmas in the use of deepfakes in screen drama	9
Custom thumbnails: The changing face of personalisation strategies on Netflix	9
Visibility and security in the smart home	9
Remix in the age of ubiquitous remix	9
When journalism and games intersect: Examining news quality, design and mechanics of political newsgames	8
Building participatory counternarratives: Pedagogical interventions through digital placemaking	8
To share or not to share? That is the (social media) dilemma. Expectant mothers questioning and making sense of performing pregnancy on social media	8
The Digital Face and Deepfakes on Screen	8
Media addictions as Apparatgeist: What discourse on TV and smartphone addiction reveals about society	8
‘Hey Alexa, what did I forget?’: Networked devices, Internet search and the delegation of human memory	8
Deep state phobia: Narrative convergence in coronavirus conspiracism on Instagram	8
Rewriting the stars: Surface tensions and gender troubles in the online media production of digital deepfakes	8
Hey Siri, tell me a story: Digital storytelling and AI authorship	8
The artist and the automaton in digital game production	7
Only you can save the world (of videogames): Authoritarian agencies in the heroism of videogame design, play, and culture	7
Netflix in Turkey: Localization and audience expectations from video on demand	7
The emergence of promotional gatekeeping and converged local music professionals on social media	7

Urban furniture in digital placemaking: Adapting a storytelling payphone across Los Angeles	7
Platforms, alternative influence, and networked political brokerage on YouTube	7
‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non-fiction in the home	7
Measuring the diffusion of conspiracy theories in digital information ecologies	7
Ethical judgments of esports spectators regarding cheating in competition	7
Pandemic rhythms: Adults’ gaming in Finland during the spring 2020 COVID-19 restrictions	6
Producing newsgames beyond boundaries: Journalists, game developers, and the news business	6
‘Embodiments of the invention’: Patents and urban diagrammatics in the smart city	6
Rebalancing our regulatory response to Deepfakes with performers’ rights	6
Predictable policing: New technology, old bias, and future resistance in big data surveillance	6
Digital hostility, internet pile-ons and shaming: A case study	6
On the dynamics of Zoom fatigue	6
The domestication of privacy-invasive technology on YouTube: Unboxing the Amazon Echo with the online warm expert	6
The doge worth 88 billion dollars: A case study of Dogecoin	6
The politics of data visualisation and policy making	6
Returning to critical pedagogy in a world of datafication	5
Deep learning analysis of social media content used by Bahraini women: WhatsApp in focus	5
Mindsets of conspiracy: A typology of affinities towards conspiracy myths in digital environments	5
Mixed methods on Instagram research: Methodological challenges in data analysis and visualization	5
The limits of transactional identity: Whiteness and embodiment in digital facial replacement	5
Digital hostility, subjectivity and ethics: Theorising the disruption of identity in instances of mass online abuse and hate speech	5
Rethinking framing and news values in gamified journalistic contexts: A comparative case study of Al Jazeera’s interactive games	5
There is no cure: Paratexts as remediations of agency in Red Dead Redemption 2	5
Collaborative storytelling and canon fluidity in The Adventure Zone podcast	5
Adapting to context: Creative strategies of video streaming services in Nigeria	5
Gendered and generational dynamics of domestic automations	5
Sharing dark sides on game service platforms: Disruptive behaviors and toxicity in DOTA2 through a platform lens	5
Marvinter: A case study of an inclusive transmedia storytelling production	5
Mapping the entertainment ecosystem of Wattpad: Platforms, publishing and adaptation	5
Politics of fun and participatory censorship: China’s reception of Animal Crossing: New Horizons	5
Authority-led conspiracy theories in China during the COVID-19 pandemic – Exploring the thematic features and rhetoric strategies	5
The material politics of mobile virtual reality: Oculus, data, and the technics of sensemaking	5
Dynamic roles of social presence and individual differences in social TV platforms	5
Huanlian, or changing faces: Deepfakes on Chinese digital media platforms	5
Confronting bias in the online representation of pregnancy	5
Visualising policy responses during health emergencies. Learning from the COVID-19 policy trackers	5
Redefining screenshots: Toward critical literacy of screen capture practices	5
RPC-Lex: A dictionary to measure German right-wing populist conspiracy discourse online	5
We love to hate George Soros: A cross-platform analysis of the Globalism conspiracy theory campaign in Brazil	5
Rage against the empathy machine revisited: The ethics of empathy-related affordances of virtual reality	5