International Journal of Cultural Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Cultural Studies is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Cultures of reading: Then and now30
Materializing storyworld, battles of transmedia storytelling: Trans-fandom cultures of The King's Avatar on Chinese social media platform26
Minority representation in the streaming era: An analysis of Jewish identity in competing subscription video on-demand platforms26
Sartorial subversion in subculture of Malaysian female Muslim punks25
‘The pandemic helped me!’ Queer international students’ identity negotiation with family on social media in immobile times19
Representations of mental health and mental health problems in content published by female social media influencers18
Precarious utopia: The affective politics of transcultural entertainment in K-pop Random Play Dance16
Culture is transnational13
Young people's digital drawing practices as cultural heritage12
Spectacular whiteness: The tactics and mediation of white protests for Black Lives11
Humanizing the posthuman: Digital labour, food delivery, and openings for the new human during the pandemic11
Wounded hearts: The affective making of misogynistic male victimhood under the familial sexual contract in precarious China11
Cultural proximity and gender representation: Why Italian women are drawn to Turkish TV serials10
Rethinking the ‘wellness influencer’: Medical doctors, lifestyle expertise and the question of credentials10
Rethinking watching: A viewer-centred approach to understanding the changing audience experience10
Revisiting the subcultural/post-subcultural debate: Assessing the relevance of Hodkinson's subcultural substance in contemporary Goth culture9
‘Platform-ised’ work? The case of neo-craft work9
Stim culture: Outlining anime's appeal to the autistic community9
Physical immobility and virtual mobility: Mediating everyday life from a Karen refugee camp in Thailand8
Uneasy self-promotion and tactics of patience: Finnish MPs’ ambivalent feelings about personalised politics on social media8
Almost South–South solidarity: The frustration of K-pop fans (but not true fans) in South Africa8
Hollywood on the Danube: Location management and the production of place in transnational media production7
Lived religion and digital homemaking: The case of Indonesian marriage migrants7
‘Terebi banare’: Historicising internet-distributed television and the ‘departure from television’ in Japan7
Living my Latin American influencer dream: How racism and nationality shape Latin American influencers within the US7
The media operations of postcolonial mobility regimes: The cases of Filmstichting West Indië and Vereniging Ons Suriname in 1940s and 1950s Netherlands7
Interrogating the ‘African troupe’: The construction of Africanness and Blackness in Chinese consumption of K-pop videos7
Pushing against the panic: Considering the positives of TikTok and children7
Teens on screens: Girls’ negotiations of representations of texting in teen film7
‘Diversity’ as multidisciplinary keyword for the politics of cultural recommender systems in global digital media platforms7
Scenes of precarity: Conditions, dynamics and challenges for the post-pandemic future of cultural labour in Argentina6
Public cultural institutions in Mexico and precarisation of creative labour6
Technology transition within secure message delivery (SMD) systems6
Producing Nollywood portal films: Navigating precarity through informal social relations and hope6
Transcultural fan studies with a ‘Queer Asia’ focus in the 2020s6
“A love-addled brain is an incurable malady”: Online debates on contemporary romantic relationships within a Chinese postfeminist context5
Struggling with platforms: Marxist identities, cultural production, and everyday work in Brazil5
Thanks to Reviewers5
Game of Thrones tourism and the (re)imagination of the new Northern Ireland5
“Not just a game”: Power, politics, and media coverage of Qatar's World Cup 20225
The house cannot be full: Risk, anxiety, and the politics of collective spectatorship in a pandemic5
Chinese medicine as a cure for gayness: Satire as countercultural resistance against heteronormative symbolic violence in the digital public sphere5
Digital labor in the state-led/capitalist complex: State labor and playful workaholics in the Chinese digital space4
Beyond Netflix: Ownership and content strategies among non-US-based video streaming services4
Data solidarity in feminist technology activism and innovation4
Progressive in the West, backward in the East: Shalwar’s trials with modernity4
TikTok and children: An Introduction4
Cooptation, hijacking, or normalization? The discursive concession of body politics on Douyin4
Global perspectives on platforms and cultural production4
Abridged anime and the distance in fan-dubbing: Interpreting culture through parody and fan appropriation4
Discourses of solidarity fatigue as ambivalent recognition among German and Polish actors in relation to Ukrainian displacement4
Cultivating vigilant drivers through TV: On the cultural work of dashcam videos and normalization of surveillance4
Shipping on the edge: Negotiations of precariousness in a Chinese real-person shipping fandom community4
An Antropofagia approach to AI and creativity: Lessons from Latin America to rethink collectivity, process and meaning in creative value4
Masculinity in crisis? Reticent / han-xu politics against danmei and male effeminacy4
A history of New Year’s Eve, Sydney: From ‘the crowd’ to ‘crowded places’4
Exploring everyday resilience in the creative industries through devised theatre: A case of performing arts students and recent graduates in Ghana4
‘If it's held dear, it’ll get pushed through’: Transmedia narratives, play cultures, and soft canon in tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs)4
Interrogating the incel-o-sphere: The state of the subaltern counterpublic sphere in the digital age of extremism4
‘When it comes to the true crime community, Taylor is a legend’: Social and symbolic capital among murderabilia fans4
Where Disney and Hallyu collide: Fashioning transcultural selves through hanbok sartorial fandom3
Vlogging as mediated mobility: Warm Experts 3.0 engaging in peer production and digital labor in the era of short videos3
The digital Creole3
Douyin's playful platform governance: Platform's self-regulation and content creators’ participatory surveillance3
The Paradox of a Mobile Society: Situating Cultural Studies in the Global South Context3
Cultural studies in South Africa, or not3
Thai creative labour solidarity, (post)-pandemic precarity, and directions of production studies in the Global South3
#Values for money? The neoliberal construction of “values” across Instagram language communities3
Creative and cultural work post-Covid-19: Interruptions as space of political re-futuring3
Covid-19: The cultural constructions of a global crisis3
Vicarious expertise: Locating skilled knowing in craft reality competition television3
Locating cultural studies: The limits of translation in knowledge production3
Curating new ethnicities in a digital era: Women and media work in the British South Asian diaspora3
Where are all the Black girls on TikTok?: Exploring in-group community and (in)visibility through #BlackGirlTikTok3
How fan clubs manage the authenticity of fans’ identities in Chinese idol culture3
Sexual and geocultural algorithmic imaginaries: Examining approaches of participatory resignation among LGBTQ+ Instagrammers in Berlin and Montreal3
Crisis-ready responsible selves: National productions of the pandemic3
Localised precarity in social media entertainment: YouTubing in Turkey3
Beyond belonging: A conversation on inauthenticity, third-culture kids, and fandom3
The dead pig's photo album: Affective visual rituals in collective identity formation3
‘Bella ciao’: A portable monument for transnational activism3
Environing media and cultural techniques: From the history of agriculture to AI-driven smart farming3
Soft nationalism and China: A case study of nationalism in short videos by US-Chinese rapper MC Jin3
Rewriting Chineseness: Chinese American films through Chinese eyes2
Healthcare (im)mobilities and the Covid-19 pandemic: Notes on returning to the field2
Reproducing Turkishness in historical dramas: Politics, populism, and Islam2
Streaming and India's film-centred video culture: Linguistic and formal diversity2
Tropicalizing platformization? Tensions in research on algorithms and platforms in Latin America2
Possession, performance, and the rhetoric of belonging: Urban cemeteries as spaces of cultural citizenship2
Reorientation of foreign memories in domestic political speech: Considerations and effects2
TikTok & Children: TikTok Cultures Research Network & TikTok Fireside Chat2
Disposable counterpublics: Women, queers, and Uyghurs in the White Paper Movement2
Worldmaking on digital platforms: A study of Cuban comedy in social media2
Smarter, better, faster, kinder? The problems with claiming that media and popular culture has positive effects2
Precarity revisited: Exploring camming work in Brazil and experiences of precarity in platform-based (erotic) content production2
Struggle over control: Sound in home video2
Revise and Republish Notice2
Filipino migrants in Germany and their diasporic (irony) chronotopes in Facebook2
Digital fashion ideology: Towards a critical public sphere2
I long, therefore I re-watch: Nostalgia and Turkish TV series2
Story-weaving: homo narrans , popular culture and the role of stories in tourism2
Chinese translational fandoms: Transgressing the distributive agency of assemblages in audiovisual media2
An LGTBIQ + archival boom? Grassroot archival activism and memory politics in Latin America2
Decolonizing bodies and the ethics of care: On the significance of embodied vulnerability as the future of cultural studies2
Meaningfully playful: Gender, sexuality, and civic imaginations in Korean and Chinese fandom cultures2
Skinamarink and the algorithmic uncanny interface between children's and horror film TikTok cultures2
The precarities of cultural and creative work through pandemic times2
From local to global: Village YouTubers and rural creator cultures in South India2
Indigenizing feminist rage: The affective formation of rad-feminist politics in digital China2
Selling Otherness on YouTube: Digital inter-Asian Orientalism and YouTube monetization system1
On mediations and the environment: Material, spatial and epistemic considerations1
Remedying disinformation and fake news? The cultural frameworks of fake news crisis responses and solution-seeking1
Bollywood celebrities as bioconsumers of reproductive technologies in neoliberal fertility markets: A study of popular public discourse1
We are not raised by wolves: Decentering human exceptionalism in nature1
Exploring cultural hybridity, questioning cultural appropriation: Peruvian fans’ responses to Latin tropes in K-pop1
Non-digital fan networking: How Japanese animation and comics disseminated in China despite authoritarian deterrence1
Illicit media, reflexivity and sociocultural change in North Korea1
The neoliberal perils of yoga and self-care on apps and platforms1
More than just the regional promotion in Japan: The case of Chita Musume1
Between resistance and commodification: The art and cultural labor of Telangana ‘ Dhoom Dham ’1
Art rocks: Atmospheres of connection and everyday creativity in hybrid public space1
Engaging the present, embracing the past: Pop culture museums and cultural continuity in Fukushima1
‘They are now pocket videos, not home videos’: Streaming and reconfiguration of video consumption in Nigeria1
Breaking the chains of television: Streaming and the ‘Netflix effect’ in Turkey1
Intersectional methods to study the intellectual production of a Black female samba composer1
‘No room for hate in our country’: Constructing the LGBTI-friendly nation in news discourses after the murder of a gay man in Belgium1
The philanthrocapitalism of Google News Initiative in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East – Empirical reflections1
The sad clown paradox: A theory of comic transcendence1
Territories of migrancy and meaning: The emotional politics of borderscapes in the lives of deported Mexican men in Tijuana1
Conjunctions of resilience and the Covid-19 crisis of the creative cultural industries1
Death to Chad and Stacy: Incels and anti-fandom as group identity1
The Vacillating Imagination of ‘Us' in Black Panther (2018)1
Lifestyle, nostalgia, and serial storytelling in the Southern Living South1
Visual artists’ professional and social status: Insights from post-socialist Serbia1
More than a makeover: Discourses of masculinity, hyposexuality, and marriage in Queer Eye: We’re in Japan!1
Conceptualizing gossip as a counterdiscourse: Alternative ways of publicly alleging sexual misconduct in an online groupie community1
“I don’t want my parents to know I do video clips”: Managing familial relations to pursue creative work in Accra, Ghana1
Four concepts to think from the South1
House-sharing as a staged and mediated practice: Representing self and home in Melbourne share-houses1
Performing pregnancy: Comic content, critique and ambivalence in pregnant stand-up comedy1
Convivial reflexivity in the changing city – a tale of hospitality or hostility?1
Beyond peace: Media encounters between Israeli Jews and Palestinians as a new potential for connection in the face of violent conflict1
The creator function, post-structuralism, and the perils of terminological dissonance1
Relocating video cultures1
Turning disaster into crisis1
Multimodal online dissident culture in Instagram: A critique of the Turkish economy1
Apps, mobilities, and migration in the Covid-19 pandemic: Covid technology and the control of migrant workers in Singapore1
Platform lethargy: Relational work perspective on influencer precarity1
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