International Journal of Cultural Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of International Journal of Cultural Studies 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Materializing storyworld, battles of transmedia storytelling: Trans-fandom cultures of The King's Avatar on Chinese social media platform52
Sartorial subversion in subculture of Malaysian female Muslim punks29
Cultures of reading: Then and now26
Young people's digital drawing practices as cultural heritage22
‘The pandemic helped me!’ Queer international students’ identity negotiation with family on social media in immobile times16
Culture is transnational15
Representations of mental health and mental health problems in content published by female social media influencers13
From activist to candidate: Francia Elena Márquez Mina's Instagram discourse on positive Blackness and whiteness in the Colombian political arena13
Minority representation in the streaming era: An analysis of Jewish identity in competing subscription video on-demand platforms13
Wounded hearts: The affective making of misogynistic male victimhood under the familial sexual contract in precarious China13
From mishearing to belonging: Countertenor voices and the feedback loops of platformed audibility13
Precarious utopia: The affective politics of transcultural entertainment in K-pop Random Play Dance13
Rethinking watching: A viewer-centred approach to understanding the changing audience experience13
Cultural proximity and gender representation: Why Italian women are drawn to Turkish TV serials12
Spectacular whiteness: The tactics and mediation of white protests for Black Lives12
Beyond the cards: Exploring youth motives and practices in Moscow's tarot culture11
Rethinking the ‘wellness influencer’: Medical doctors, lifestyle expertise and the question of credentials11
‘Platform- ised ’ work? The case of neo-craft work11
Revisiting the subcultural/post-subcultural debate: Assessing the relevance of Hodkinson's subcultural substance in contemporary Goth culture10
Stim culture: Outlining anime's appeal to the autistic community10
Uneasy self-promotion and tactics of patience: Finnish MPs’ ambivalent feelings about personalised politics on social media9
Almost South–South solidarity: The frustration of K-pop fans (but not true fans) in South Africa9
Pushing against the panic: Considering the positives of TikTok and children8
Downplay the sexy, emphasize the studious: The inspirational labor of “Study-with-Me” influencers in China8
Terebi banare ’: Historicising internet-distributed television and the ‘departure from television’ in Japan8
Rethinking the “K” of K-pop: How non-Korean K-pop groups negotiate identity between the Korean market and globalized industry8
Physical immobility and virtual mobility: Mediating everyday life from a Karen refugee camp in Thailand8
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
Public cultural institutions in Mexico and precarisation of creative labour7
Transcultural fan studies with a ‘Queer Asia’ focus in the 2020s7
‘Diversity’ as multidisciplinary keyword for the politics of cultural recommender systems in global digital media platforms7
Living my Latin American influencer dream: How racism and nationality shape Latin American influencers within the US7
Scenes of precarity: Conditions, dynamics and challenges for the post-pandemic future of cultural labour in Argentina7
Lived religion and digital homemaking: The case of Indonesian marriage migrants7
Technology transition within secure message delivery (SMD) systems7
Interrogating the ‘African troupe’: The construction of Africanness and Blackness in Chinese consumption of K-pop videos7
Thanks to Reviewers6
An Antropofagia approach to AI and creativity: Lessons from Latin America to rethink collectivity, process and meaning in creative value6
“Too tired to sleep”: ASMR, self-care, and contested rest in China's digital landscape6
“A love-addled brain is an incurable malady”: Online debates on contemporary romantic relationships within a Chinese postfeminist context6
Struggling with platforms: Marxist identities, cultural production, and everyday work in Brazil6
Between de-queering and re-queering: Transfiguring ‘bromance’ as a continuum of Boys’ Love in East Asia6
‘When it comes to the true crime community, Taylor is a legend’: Social and symbolic capital among murderabilia fans6
Cultivating vigilant drivers through TV: On the cultural work of dashcam videos and normalization of surveillance5
Shipping on the edge: Negotiations of precariousness in a Chinese real-person shipping fandom community5
Buffalo's captured imaginary: Atmosphere, absurdity and the depoliticized imagination of the Rust Belt5
“Not just a game”: Power, politics, and media coverage of Qatar's World Cup 20225
Beyond Netflix: Ownership and content strategies among non-US-based video streaming services5
TikTok and children: An Introduction5
Discourses of solidarity fatigue as ambivalent recognition among German and Polish actors in relation to Ukrainian displacement5
A history of New Year’s Eve, Sydney: From ‘the crowd’ to ‘crowded places’5
Exploring everyday resilience in the creative industries through devised theatre: A case of performing arts students and recent graduates in Ghana5
Digital labor in the state-led/capitalist complex: State labor and playful workaholics in the Chinese digital space5
Global perspectives on platforms and cultural production5
Cooptation, hijacking, or normalization? The discursive concession of body politics on Douyin5
Data solidarity in feminist technology activism and innovation5
‘If it's held dear, it’ll get pushed through’: Transmedia narratives, play cultures, and soft canon in tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs)5
Chinese medicine as a cure for gayness: Satire as countercultural resistance against heteronormative symbolic violence in the digital public sphere5
From cultural vitality to market marginality: Latin America and the structural contradictions of cultural globalization5
Masculinity in crisis? Reticent / han-xu politics against danmei and male effeminacy5
Abridged anime and the distance in fan-dubbing: Interpreting culture through parody and fan appropriation5
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