International Journal of Cultural Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Cultural Studies is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Cultures of reading: Then and now35
Materializing storyworld, battles of transmedia storytelling: Trans-fandom cultures of The King's Avatar on Chinese social media platform33
Culture is transnational29
Minority representation in the streaming era: An analysis of Jewish identity in competing subscription video on-demand platforms25
Precarious utopia: The affective politics of transcultural entertainment in K-pop Random Play Dance21
Representations of mental health and mental health problems in content published by female social media influencers19
‘The pandemic helped me!’ Queer international students’ identity negotiation with family on social media in immobile times19
Young people's digital drawing practices as cultural heritage17
Sartorial subversion in subculture of Malaysian female Muslim punks12
Wounded hearts: The affective making of misogynistic male victimhood under the familial sexual contract in precarious China12
Humanizing the posthuman: Digital labour, food delivery, and openings for the new human during the pandemic11
Spectacular whiteness: The tactics and mediation of white protests for Black Lives11
Rethinking watching: A viewer-centred approach to understanding the changing audience experience11
Cultural proximity and gender representation: Why Italian women are drawn to Turkish TV serials10
‘Platform-ised’ work? The case of neo-craft work10
Revisiting the subcultural/post-subcultural debate: Assessing the relevance of Hodkinson's subcultural substance in contemporary Goth culture10
Rethinking the ‘wellness influencer’: Medical doctors, lifestyle expertise and the question of credentials10
Uneasy self-promotion and tactics of patience: Finnish MPs’ ambivalent feelings about personalised politics on social media9
Stim culture: Outlining anime's appeal to the autistic community9
Physical immobility and virtual mobility: Mediating everyday life from a Karen refugee camp in Thailand9
Almost South–South solidarity: The frustration of K-pop fans (but not true fans) in South Africa9
Hollywood on the Danube: Location management and the production of place in transnational media production8
The media operations of postcolonial mobility regimes: The cases of Filmstichting West Indië and Vereniging Ons Suriname in 1940s and 1950s Netherlands8
Pushing against the panic: Considering the positives of TikTok and children8
‘Terebi banare’: Historicising internet-distributed television and the ‘departure from television’ in Japan7
Public cultural institutions in Mexico and precarisation of creative labour7
Transcultural fan studies with a ‘Queer Asia’ focus in the 2020s7
Interrogating the ‘African troupe’: The construction of Africanness and Blackness in Chinese consumption of K-pop videos7
Technology transition within secure message delivery (SMD) systems7
‘Diversity’ as multidisciplinary keyword for the politics of cultural recommender systems in global digital media platforms7
Lived religion and digital homemaking: The case of Indonesian marriage migrants7
Scenes of precarity: Conditions, dynamics and challenges for the post-pandemic future of cultural labour in Argentina7
“A love-addled brain is an incurable malady”: Online debates on contemporary romantic relationships within a Chinese postfeminist context6
Game of Thrones tourism and the (re)imagination of the new Northern Ireland6
Chinese medicine as a cure for gayness: Satire as countercultural resistance against heteronormative symbolic violence in the digital public sphere6
Thanks to Reviewers6
Producing Nollywood portal films: Navigating precarity through informal social relations and hope6
“Not just a game”: Power, politics, and media coverage of Qatar's World Cup 20226
The house cannot be full: Risk, anxiety, and the politics of collective spectatorship in a pandemic6
Living my Latin American influencer dream: How racism and nationality shape Latin American influencers within the US6
An Antropofagia approach to AI and creativity: Lessons from Latin America to rethink collectivity, process and meaning in creative value5
A history of New Year’s Eve, Sydney: From ‘the crowd’ to ‘crowded places’5
Masculinity in crisis? Reticent / han-xu politics against danmei and male effeminacy5
Struggling with platforms: Marxist identities, cultural production, and everyday work in Brazil5
Digital labor in the state-led/capitalist complex: State labor and playful workaholics in the Chinese digital space5
Cooptation, hijacking, or normalization? The discursive concession of body politics on Douyin5
Global perspectives on platforms and cultural production5
‘When it comes to the true crime community, Taylor is a legend’: Social and symbolic capital among murderabilia fans5
Discourses of solidarity fatigue as ambivalent recognition among German and Polish actors in relation to Ukrainian displacement5
Covid-19: The cultural constructions of a global crisis4
Creative and cultural work post-Covid-19: Interruptions as space of political re-futuring4
‘If it's held dear, it’ll get pushed through’: Transmedia narratives, play cultures, and soft canon in tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs)4
TikTok and children: An Introduction4
Beyond Netflix: Ownership and content strategies among non-US-based video streaming services4
Crisis-ready responsible selves: National productions of the pandemic4
Douyin's playful platform governance: Platform's self-regulation and content creators’ participatory surveillance4
The digital Creole4
Abridged anime and the distance in fan-dubbing: Interpreting culture through parody and fan appropriation4
Exploring everyday resilience in the creative industries through devised theatre: A case of performing arts students and recent graduates in Ghana4
Sexual and geocultural algorithmic imaginaries: Examining approaches of participatory resignation among LGBTQ+ Instagrammers in Berlin and Montreal4
Interrogating the incel-o-sphere: The state of the subaltern counterpublic sphere in the digital age of extremism4
Vlogging as mediated mobility: Warm Experts 3.0 engaging in peer production and digital labor in the era of short videos4
Vicarious expertise: Locating skilled knowing in craft reality competition television4
Progressive in the West, backward in the East: Shalwar’s trials with modernity4
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
Data solidarity in feminist technology activism and innovation4
Where Disney and Hallyu collide: Fashioning transcultural selves through hanbok sartorial fandom4
Localised precarity in social media entertainment: YouTubing in Turkey3
Locating cultural studies: The limits of translation in knowledge production3
How fan clubs manage the authenticity of fans’ identities in Chinese idol culture3
‘Bella ciao’: A portable monument for transnational activism3
Revise and Republish Notice3
Tropicalizing platformization? Tensions in research on algorithms and platforms in Latin America3
Environing media and cultural techniques: From the history of agriculture to AI-driven smart farming3
Thai creative labour solidarity, (post)-pandemic precarity, and directions of production studies in the Global South3
The dead pig's photo album: Affective visual rituals in collective identity formation3
Vulgar livestreaming spectacle? Wanghong urbanism, digital platform and precarity in Laojie, Shenzhen3
Curating new ethnicities in a digital era: Women and media work in the British South Asian diaspora3
Struggle over control: Sound in home video3
Cultural studies in South Africa, or not3
Beyond belonging: A conversation on inauthenticity, third-culture kids, and fandom3
#Values for money? The neoliberal construction of “values” across Instagram language communities3
Soft nationalism and China: A case study of nationalism in short videos by US-Chinese rapper MC Jin3
Where are all the Black girls on TikTok?: Exploring in-group community and (in)visibility through #BlackGirlTikTok3
The Paradox of a Mobile Society: Situating Cultural Studies in the Global South Context3
Possession, performance, and the rhetoric of belonging: Urban cemeteries as spaces of cultural citizenship3
Apps, mobilities, and migration in the Covid-19 pandemic: Covid technology and the control of migrant workers in Singapore2
Conceptualizing gossip as a counterdiscourse: Alternative ways of publicly alleging sexual misconduct in an online groupie community2
Breaking the chains of television: Streaming and the ‘Netflix effect’ in Turkey2
Disposable counterpublics: Women, queers, and Uyghurs in the White Paper Movement2
TikTok & Children: TikTok Cultures Research Network & TikTok Fireside Chat2
Remedying disinformation and fake news? The cultural frameworks of fake news crisis responses and solution-seeking2
Decolonizing bodies and the ethics of care: On the significance of embodied vulnerability as the future of cultural studies2
Digital fashion ideology: Towards a critical public sphere2
Worldmaking on digital platforms: A study of Cuban comedy in social media2
When transcultural fandom meets nationalism: Chinese cosplayers’ identity negotiation between global flows and local places2
Indigenizing feminist rage: The affective formation of rad-feminist politics in digital China2
Precarity revisited: Exploring camming work in Brazil and experiences of precarity in platform-based (erotic) content production2
Between resistance and commodification: The art and cultural labor of Telangana ‘ Dhoom Dham ’2
Four concepts to think from the South2
‘They are now pocket videos, not home videos’: Streaming and reconfiguration of video consumption in Nigeria2
“I don’t want my parents to know I do video clips”: Managing familial relations to pursue creative work in Accra, Ghana2
Streaming and India's film-centred video culture: Linguistic and formal diversity2
Healthcare (im)mobilities and the Covid-19 pandemic: Notes on returning to the field2
Reorientation of foreign memories in domestic political speech: Considerations and effects2
Skinamarink and the algorithmic uncanny interface between children's and horror film TikTok cultures2
Rewriting Chineseness: Chinese American films through Chinese eyes2
An LGTBIQ + archival boom? Grassroot archival activism and memory politics in Latin America2
“Fixing” race across the Pacific: Transcultural reinterpretations in the Genshin Impact fandom2
Chinese translational fandoms: Transgressing the distributive agency of assemblages in audiovisual media2
Lifestyle, nostalgia, and serial storytelling in the Southern Living South2
‘No room for hate in our country’: Constructing the LGBTI-friendly nation in news discourses after the murder of a gay man in Belgium2
The neoliberal perils of yoga and self-care on apps and platforms2
Filipino migrants in Germany and their diasporic (irony) chronotopes in Facebook2
Selling Otherness on YouTube: Digital inter-Asian Orientalism and YouTube monetization system2
From local to global: Village YouTubers and rural creator cultures in South India2
The precarities of cultural and creative work through pandemic times2
Story-weaving: homo narrans , popular culture and the role of stories in tourism2
Smarter, better, faster, kinder? The problems with claiming that media and popular culture has positive effects2
Meaningfully playful: Gender, sexuality, and civic imaginations in Korean and Chinese fandom cultures2
Reproducing Turkishness in historical dramas: Politics, populism, and Islam2
I long, therefore I re-watch: Nostalgia and Turkish TV series2
Turning disaster into crisis2
On mediations and the environment: Material, spatial and epistemic considerations2
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