OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Materializing storyworld, battles of transmedia storytelling: Trans-fandom cultures of The King's Avatar on Chinese social media platform	56
Sartorial subversion in subculture of Malaysian female Muslim punks	33
Cultures of reading: Then and now	32
Young people's digital drawing practices as cultural heritage	24
Minority representation in the streaming era: An analysis of Jewish identity in competing subscription video on-demand platforms	22
Precarious utopia: The affective politics of transcultural entertainment in K-pop Random Play Dance	19
Representations of mental health and mental health problems in content published by female social media influencers	16
Culture is transnational	16
‘The pandemic helped me!’ Queer international students’ identity negotiation with family on social media in immobile times	15
From activist to candidate: Francia Elena Márquez Mina's Instagram discourse on positive Blackness and whiteness in the Colombian political arena	15
Cultural proximity and gender representation: Why Italian women are drawn to Turkish TV serials	14
Spectacular whiteness: The tactics and mediation of white protests for Black Lives	14
Beyond the cards: Exploring youth motives and practices in Moscow's tarot culture	14
Rethinking watching: A viewer-centred approach to understanding the changing audience experience	14
‘Platform- ised ’ work? The case of neo-craft work	14
Wounded hearts: The affective making of misogynistic male victimhood under the familial sexual contract in precarious China	13
From mishearing to belonging: Countertenor voices and the feedback loops of platformed audibility	13
Rethinking the ‘wellness influencer’: Medical doctors, lifestyle expertise and the question of credentials	13
Stim culture: Outlining anime's appeal to the autistic community	11
Revisiting the subcultural/post-subcultural debate: Assessing the relevance of Hodkinson's subcultural substance in contemporary Goth culture	11
Hollywood on the Danube: Location management and the production of place in transnational media production	10
Almost South–South solidarity: The frustration of K-pop fans (but not true fans) in South Africa	10
Physical immobility and virtual mobility: Mediating everyday life from a Karen refugee camp in Thailand	10
Uneasy self-promotion and tactics of patience: Finnish MPs’ ambivalent feelings about personalised politics on social media	10
Pushing against the panic: Considering the positives of TikTok and children	9

Downplay the sexy, emphasize the studious: The inspirational labor of “Study-with-Me” influencers in China	9
‘ Terebi banare ’: Historicising internet-distributed television and the ‘departure from television’ in Japan	9
Interpretive incompleteness in global cultural flows: Ne Zha 2 and Labubu between visibility and decentral	9
Sugar-coated happiness: The affective politics of contemporary Asian American film posters	9
The media operations of postcolonial mobility regimes: The cases of Filmstichting West Indië and Vereniging Ons Suriname in 1940s and 1950s Netherlands	9
Transcultural fan studies with a ‘Queer Asia’ focus in the 2020s	8
‘Diversity’ as multidisciplinary keyword for the politics of cultural recommender systems in global digital media platforms	8
Technology transition within secure message delivery (SMD) systems	8
Lived religion and digital homemaking: The case of Indonesian marriage migrants	8
Public cultural institutions in Mexico and precarisation of creative labour	8
Interrogating the ‘African troupe’: The construction of Africanness and Blackness in Chinese consumption of K-pop videos	8
Living my Latin American influencer dream: How racism and nationality shape Latin American influencers within the US	8
Thanks to Reviewers	7
“A love-addled brain is an incurable malady”: Online debates on contemporary romantic relationships within a Chinese postfeminist context	7
Rethinking the “K” of K-pop: How non-Korean K-pop groups negotiate identity between the Korean market and globalized industry	7
An Antropofagia approach to AI and creativity: Lessons from Latin America to rethink collectivity, process and meaning in creative value	7
“Too tired to sleep”: ASMR, self-care, and contested rest in China's digital landscape	7
Struggling with platforms: Marxist identities, cultural production, and everyday work in Brazil	7
Chinese medicine as a cure for gayness: Satire as countercultural resistance against heteronormative symbolic violence in the digital public sphere	7
Scenes of precarity: Conditions, dynamics and challenges for the post-pandemic future of cultural labour in Argentina	7
Between de-queering and re-queering: Transfiguring ‘bromance’ as a continuum of Boys’ Love in East Asia	6
Global perspectives on platforms and cultural production	6
Cooptation, hijacking, or normalization? The discursive concession of body politics on Douyin	6
“Not just a game”: Power, politics, and media coverage of Qatar's World Cup 2022	6
Buffalo's captured imaginary: Atmosphere, absurdity and the depoliticized imagination of the Rust Belt	6
Abridged anime and the distance in fan-dubbing: Interpreting culture through parody and fan appropriation	6
Digital labor in the state-led/capitalist complex: State labor and playful workaholics in the Chinese digital space	6
‘When it comes to the true crime community, Taylor is a legend’: Social and symbolic capital among murderabilia fans	6
Masculinity in crisis? Reticent / han-xu politics against danmei and male effeminacy	6
Cultivating vigilant drivers through TV: On the cultural work of dashcam videos and normalization of surveillance	6
Discourses of solidarity fatigue as ambivalent recognition among German and Polish actors in relation to Ukrainian displacement	5
Where Disney and Hallyu collide: Fashioning transcultural selves through hanbok sartorial fandom	5
Interrogating the incel-o-sphere: The state of the subaltern counterpublic sphere in the digital age of extremism	5
Shipping on the edge: Negotiations of precariousness in a Chinese real-person shipping fandom community	5
Beyond Netflix: Ownership and content strategies among non-US-based video streaming services	5
Exploring everyday resilience in the creative industries through devised theatre: A case of performing arts students and recent graduates in Ghana	5
‘If it's held dear, it’ll get pushed through’: Transmedia narratives, play cultures, and soft canon in tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs)	5
Creative and cultural work post-Covid-19: Interruptions as space of political re-futuring	5
Sexual and geocultural algorithmic imaginaries: Examining approaches of participatory resignation among LGBTQ+ Instagrammers in Berlin and Montreal	5
A history of New Year’s Eve, Sydney: From ‘the crowd’ to ‘crowded places’	5
From cultural vitality to market marginality: Latin America and the structural contradictions of cultural globalization	5
TikTok and children: An Introduction	5
Old media as an icon of youth: Platform-mediated nostalgia and the revival of the Casio TR camera on Rednote	5
Douyin's playful platform governance: Platform's self-regulation and content creators’ participatory surveillance	5
Data solidarity in feminist technology activism and innovation	5
Beyond belonging: A conversation on inauthenticity, third-culture kids, and fandom	4
Thai creative labour solidarity, (post)-pandemic precarity, and directions of production studies in the Global South	4
The dead pig's photo album: Affective visual rituals in collective identity formation	4
Where are all the Black girls on TikTok?: Exploring in-group community and (in)visibility through #BlackGirlTikTok	4
Curating new ethnicities in a digital era: Women and media work in the British South Asian diaspora	4

Struggle over control: Sound in home video	4
How fan clubs manage the authenticity of fans’ identities in Chinese idol culture	4
Soft nationalism and China: A case study of nationalism in short videos by US-Chinese rapper MC Jin	4
Vulgar livestreaming spectacle? Wanghong urbanism, digital platform and precarity in Laojie, Shenzhen	4
The affective epistemic labor of trans people: Sharing knowledge in media spaces	4
From cultural heritage to platformized craft: Visual participation and cultural governance in China's jade-carving art	4
Cultural studies in South Africa, or not	4
Revise and Republish Notice	4
Vlogging as mediated mobility: Warm Experts 3.0 engaging in peer production and digital labor in the era of short videos	4
#Values for money? The neoliberal construction of “values” across Instagram language communities	4
Identity-of-place: A conceptual framework	4
Localised precarity in social media entertainment: YouTubing in Turkey	4
‘Bella ciao’: A portable monument for transnational activism	4
The Paradox of a Mobile Society: Situating Cultural Studies in the Global South Context	4
Environing media and cultural techniques: From the history of agriculture to AI-driven smart farming	4
Digital voice: Contemporary Chinese voice media and the techno-vocal configurations of embodiment	3
Story-weaving: homo narrans , popular culture and the role of stories in tourism	3
Filipino migrants in Germany and their diasporic (irony) chronotopes in Facebook	3
The uses of immortality: Barbie and popular culture	3
From cultural to toxic capital: Algorithmic and capitalised toxicity in a platformised ACG culture	3
When transcultural fandom meets nationalism: Chinese cosplayers’ identity negotiation between global flows and local places	3
Reproducing Turkishness in historical dramas: Politics, populism, and Islam	3
Meaningfully playful: Gender, sexuality, and civic imaginations in Korean and Chinese fandom cultures	3
Digital fashion ideology: Towards a critical public sphere	3
Skinamarink and the algorithmic uncanny interface between children's and horror film TikTok cultures	3
Voice for justice: Hybrid cultural resistance of hip-hop songs and memes in July mass uprising, Bangladesh	3
Decolonizing bodies and the ethics of care: On the significance of embodied vulnerability as the future of cultural studies	3
“Fixing” race across the Pacific: Transcultural reinterpretations in the Genshin Impact fandom	3
Possession, performance, and the rhetoric of belonging: Urban cemeteries as spaces of cultural citizenship	3
Tropicalizing platformization? Tensions in research on algorithms and platforms in Latin America	3
An LGTBIQ + archival boom? Grassroot archival activism and memory politics in Latin America	3
Worldmaking on digital platforms: A study of Cuban comedy in social media	3
Rewriting Chineseness: Chinese American films through Chinese eyes	3
Healthcare (im)mobilities and the Covid-19 pandemic: Notes on returning to the field	3
Smarter, better, faster, kinder? The problems with claiming that media and popular culture has positive effects	3
Civilizing users through social media corporate curricula	3
Remedying disinformation and fake news? The cultural frameworks of fake news crisis responses and solution-seeking	2
From local to global: Village YouTubers and rural creator cultures in South India	2
The precarities of cultural and creative work through pandemic times	2
Anxious pleasures: Reading Bollywood's item numbers through regional reception cultures	2
“I don’t want my parents to know I do video clips”: Managing familial relations to pursue creative work in Accra, Ghana	2
Engaging the present, embracing the past: Pop culture museums and cultural continuity in Fukushima	2
Lifestyle, nostalgia, and serial storytelling in the Southern Living South	2
From page to screen: A comparative analysis of Ghassan Kanafani's Men in the Sun and Tawfiq Saleh's The Dupes	2
I long, therefore I re-watch: Nostalgia and Turkish TV series	2
Selling Otherness on YouTube: Digital inter-Asian Orientalism and YouTube monetization system	2
Conceptualizing gossip as a counterdiscourse: Alternative ways of publicly alleging sexual misconduct in an online groupie community	2
Precarity revisited: Exploring camming work in Brazil and experiences of precarity in platform-based (erotic) content production	2
Hashtag mourning and moralized affect: Emergence, circulation, and publicity in China's #FarewellAndMemory	2
On mediations and the environment: Material, spatial and epistemic considerations	2
Between resistance and commodification: The art and cultural labor of Telangana ‘ Dhoom Dham ’	2
Four concepts to think from the South	2
‘No room for hate in our country’: Constructing the LGBTI-friendly nation in news discourses after the murder of a gay man in Belgium	2
‘They are now pocket videos, not home videos’: Streaming and reconfiguration of video consumption in Nigeria	2
Indigenizing feminist rage: The affective formation of rad-feminist politics in digital China	2
Disposable counterpublics: Women, queers, and Uyghurs in the White Paper Movement	2
TikTok & Children: TikTok Cultures Research Network & TikTok Fireside Chat	2
Streaming and India's film-centred video culture: Linguistic and formal diversity	2
Apps, mobilities, and migration in the Covid-19 pandemic: Covid technology and the control of migrant workers in Singapore	2
Intersectional methods to study the intellectual production of a Black female samba composer	2
Breaking the chains of television: Streaming and the ‘Netflix effect’ in Turkey	2
Death to Chad and Stacy: Incels and anti-fandom as group identity	2