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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mermaids as market creators: Cultural entrepreneurship in an emerging practice28
Vicarious expertise: Locating skilled knowing in craft reality competition television22
On mediations and the environment: Material, spatial and epistemic considerations19
Researching (im)mobile lives during a lockdown: Reconceptualizing remote interviews as field events18
Young people's digital drawing practices as cultural heritage18
‘They are now pocket videos, not home videos’: Streaming and reconfiguration of video consumption in Nigeria17
Global perspectives on platforms and cultural production16
Locating cultural studies: The limits of translation in knowledge production15
We got you covered: Contextualizing industry insurance practices and the response to Covid-1914
Breaking the chains of television: Streaming and the ‘Netflix effect’ in Turkey13
Conceptualizing gossip as a counterdiscourse: Alternative ways of publicly alleging sexual misconduct in an online groupie community13
Getting to yes: An interview with Igor Vamos10
‘When it comes to the true crime community, Taylor is a legend’: Social and symbolic capital among murderabilia fans10
Materializing storyworld, battles of transmedia storytelling: Trans-fandom cultures of The King's Avatar on Chinese social media platform9
The border as “other space”8
Culture is transnational8
Environing media and cultural techniques: From the history of agriculture to AI-driven smart farming8
“A love-addled brain is an incurable malady”: Online debates on contemporary romantic relationships within a Chinese postfeminist context7
The memefication of Squid Game and mimicry of Asian images7
How fan clubs manage the authenticity of fans’ identities in Chinese idol culture7
Thai creative labour solidarity, (post)-pandemic precarity, and directions of production studies in the Global South7
The digital Creole6
Automated graves: The precarity and prosthetics of caring for the dead in Japan6
Game of Thrones tourism and the (re)imagination of the new Northern Ireland6
Cultures of reading: Then and now6
#Values for money? The neoliberal construction of “values” across Instagram language communities6
Struggling with platforms: Marxist identities, cultural production, and everyday work in Brazil5
Thanks to Reviewers5
Localised precarity in social media entertainment: YouTubing in Turkey5
De-celebrifying the problematic wanghong: Interlocking tensions in Chinese digital anti-fandom5
Introduction: Caring media futures5
Representations of mental health and mental health problems in content published by female social media influencers5
Online gathering in times of physical (im)mobility: Facebook practices of Malagasy mothers in France5
Sartorial subversion in subculture of Malaysian female Muslim punks5
The dead pig's photo album: Affective visual rituals in collective identity formation5
We are not raised by wolves: Decentering human exceptionalism in nature4
Towards inclusive international environmental communication scholarship: The role of Latin America4
‘The pandemic helped me!’ Queer international students’ identity negotiation with family on social media in immobile times4
RETRACTION NOTICE: Reconceptualising a Quandamooka Storyweave of language reclamation4
Soft nationalism and China: A case study of nationalism in short videos by US-Chinese rapper MC Jin4
Minority representation in the streaming era: An analysis of Jewish identity in competing subscription video on-demand platforms4
‘No room for hate in our country’: Constructing the LGBTI-friendly nation in news discourses after the murder of a gay man in Belgium4
“Not just a game”: Power, politics, and media coverage of Qatar's World Cup 20224
Globally connected, nationally restrained: Platform ambiguities and censorship in Turkey's drama production4
The house cannot be full: Risk, anxiety, and the politics of collective spectatorship in a pandemic4
Activism to make and do: The (quiet) politics of textile community groups4
RETRACTED: Reconceptualising a Quandamooka Storyweave of language reclamation4
The neoliberal perils of yoga and self-care on apps and platforms3
Cultural proximity and gender representation: Why Italian women are drawn to Turkish TV serials3
The carnivalesque celebration of a slack laborer icon on a talent show: Civic engagement, commercialization, and political control3
Four concepts to think from the South3
Humanizing the posthuman: Digital labour, food delivery, and openings for the new human during the pandemic3
‘Bella ciao’: A portable monument for transnational activism3
More than a makeover: Discourses of masculinity, hyposexuality, and marriage in Queer Eye: We’re in Japan!3
Engaging the present, embracing the past: Pop culture museums and cultural continuity in Fukushima3
“I made myself a new safety bubble”: Building trans virtual homeplaces3
Not just Netflix: Interventions of Korea's domestic streamers3
Wounded hearts: The affective making of misogynistic male victimhood under the familial sexual contract in precarious China3
Spectacular whiteness: The tactics and mediation of white protests for Black Lives3
The patriarchal Western gaze and the discursive policing of fandom: “Koreaboo” as stigma3
Apps, mobilities, and migration in the Covid-19 pandemic: Covid technology and the control of migrant workers in Singapore3
‘Platform-ised’ work? The case of neo-craft work3
Death to Chad and Stacy: Incels and anti-fandom as group identity3
‘Generic visuals’ of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration3
Chinese medicine as a cure for gayness: Satire as countercultural resistance against heteronormative symbolic violence in digital public sphere3
Girl-instrument: Posthumanism, producers, and virtual performers in Japanese music3
Ambivalence of informality: Covid-19 and unmasked precarity in Nollywood3
Lifestyle, nostalgia, and serial storytelling in the Southern Living South3
Cultural studies in South Africa, or not3
Museums in the age of platform giants: Disconnected policies and practices2
The rise and fall of the Synthetic: The mediatization of Canada's oil sands2
Exploring everyday resilience in the creative industries through devised theatre: A case of performing arts students and recent graduates in Ghana2
Can co-op supermarkets lead the way to sustainability? Potentials and challenges in the shift from food difference to food democracy in Spain2
Struggle over control: Sound in home video2
Turning disaster into crisis2
#Nature is trending: Social media, viral landscapes, and digital environmental activism in Oman2
The Paradox of a Mobile Society: Situating Cultural Studies in the Global South Context2
Between resistance and commodification: The art and cultural labor of Telangana ‘Dhoom Dham’2
Where are all the Black girls on TikTok?: Exploring in-group community and (in)visibility through #BlackGirlTikTok2
Robot death care: A study of funerary practice2
Cultivating vigilant drivers through TV: On the cultural work of dashcam videos and normalization of surveillance2
A global approach to studying platforms and cultural production2
Illicit media, reflexivity and sociocultural change in North Korea2
Beyond Netflix: Ownership and content strategies among non-US-based video streaming services2
Intersectional methods to study the intellectual production of a Black female samba composer2
Curating new ethnicities in a digital era: Women and media work in the British South Asian diaspora2
Rethinking the ‘wellness influencer’: Medical doctors, lifestyle expertise and the question of credentials2
Post-Covid: What is cultural theory useful for?2
A Brazilian Hollywood in the making? Film, tourism and creative city discourse in the hinterland of Paraíba2
Revise and Republish Notice2
A history of New Year’s Eve, Sydney: From ‘the crowd’ to ‘crowded places’2
Smartphones as actors: A new digital disability care actor-network in China2
#MournHub and @GrieveWatch: Mediating monarchy and mourning in the digital age2
Masculinity in crisis? Reticent / han-xu politics against danmei and male effeminacy2
Digital labor in the state-led/capitalist complex: State labor and playful workaholics in the Chinese digital space2
Globalization from above and below: Rejecting superficial multiculturalism and igniting anti-Korean sentiment in Japan2
Mapping globalised Chinese webnovels: Genre blending, cultural hybridity, and the complexity of transcultural storytelling1
Tropicalizing platformization? Tensions in research on algorithms and platforms in Latin America1
Musical resistance and musical bodies in the making: A worker-band from southern China1
Shipping on the edge: Negotiations of precariousness in a Chinese real-person shipping fandom community1
Filipino migrants in Germany and their diasporic (irony) chronotopes in Facebook1
‘What eating disorders are really like’ - Dynamics of lived experience and repetitive aesthetics on TikTok1
Progressive in the West, backward in the East: Shalwar’s trials with modernity1
Stim culture: Outlining anime's appeal to the autistic community1
Possession, performance, and the rhetoric of belonging: Urban cemeteries as spaces of cultural citizenship1
Cooptation, hijacking, or normalization? The discursive concession of body politics on Douyin1
Bollywood celebrities as bioconsumers of reproductive technologies in neoliberal fertility markets: A study of popular public discourse1
“You’re like the cute harmless version of QAnon”: Taylor Swift “Gaylor” subreddits and microconspiracy archives, affects, and aesthetics1
TikTok ‘dogshows’ and the amplification of online incivility among Gen Z influencers in the Philippines1
‘If it's held dear, it’ll get pushed through’: Transmedia narratives, play cultures, and soft canon in tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs)1
Uneasy self-promotion and tactics of patience: Finnish MPs’ ambivalent feelings about personalised politics on social media1
Taking care of business: The routines and rationales of early-career musicians in the Dutch and British music industries1
Abridged anime and the distance in fan-dubbing: Interpreting culture through parody and fan appropriation1
Data solidarity in feminist technology activism and innovation1
‘I cringe at the slave portions’: How fans of Gone with the Wind negotiate anti-racist criticism1
Almost South–South solidarity: The frustration of K-pop fans (but not true fans) in South Africa1
‘I feel the irritation and frustration all over the body’ Affective ambiguities in networked parenting culture1
House-sharing as a staged and mediated practice: Representing self and home in Melbourne share-houses1
Platform capitalisms and platform cultures1
Institutional trauma across the Americas: Covid-19 as slow crisis1
Playing YouTube: How the Nancy YouTuber doll and app position children as aspiring YouTube influencers1
‘The filthy people’: Racism in digital spaces during Covid-19 in the context of South–South migration1
Cultures of (im)mobile entanglements1
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