International Journal of Cultural Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of International Journal of Cultural Studies is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Cultures of reading: Then and now51
Materializing storyworld, battles of transmedia storytelling: Trans-fandom cultures of The King's Avatar on Chinese social media platform28
Minority representation in the streaming era: An analysis of Jewish identity in competing subscription video on-demand platforms23
‘The pandemic helped me!’ Queer international students’ identity negotiation with family on social media in immobile times22
Sartorial subversion in subculture of Malaysian female Muslim punks22
Young people's digital drawing practices as cultural heritage16
Rethinking watching: A viewer-centred approach to understanding the changing audience experience13
Culture is transnational13
Precarious utopia: The affective politics of transcultural entertainment in K-pop Random Play Dance13
Rethinking the ‘wellness influencer’: Medical doctors, lifestyle expertise and the question of credentials13
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 arena12
Spectacular whiteness: The tactics and mediation of white protests for Black Lives12
‘Platform-ised’ work? The case of neo-craft work12
Cultural proximity and gender representation: Why Italian women are drawn to Turkish TV serials11
From mishearing to belonging: Countertenor voices and the feedback loops of platformed audibility11
Wounded hearts: The affective making of misogynistic male victimhood under the familial sexual contract in precarious China11
Uneasy self-promotion and tactics of patience: Finnish MPs’ ambivalent feelings about personalised politics on social media10
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
Almost South–South solidarity: The frustration of K-pop fans (but not true fans) in South Africa10
Physical immobility and virtual mobility: Mediating everyday life from a Karen refugee camp in Thailand9
Interrogating the ‘African troupe’: The construction of Africanness and Blackness in Chinese consumption of K-pop videos8
Hollywood on the Danube: Location management and the production of place in transnational media production8
‘Terebi banare’: Historicising internet-distributed television and the ‘departure from television’ in Japan8
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
The media operations of postcolonial mobility regimes: The cases of Filmstichting West Indië and Vereniging Ons Suriname in 1940s and 1950s Netherlands8
Rethinking the “K” of K-pop: How non-Korean K-pop groups negotiate identity between the Korean market and globalized industry7
‘Diversity’ as multidisciplinary keyword for the politics of cultural recommender systems in global digital media platforms7
Transcultural fan studies with a ‘Queer Asia’ focus in the 2020s7
Technology transition within secure message delivery (SMD) systems7
Living my Latin American influencer dream: How racism and nationality shape Latin American influencers within the US7
Lived religion and digital homemaking: The case of Indonesian marriage migrants7
“A love-addled brain is an incurable malady”: Online debates on contemporary romantic relationships within a Chinese postfeminist context6
Public cultural institutions in Mexico and precarisation of creative labour6
Scenes of precarity: Conditions, dynamics and challenges for the post-pandemic future of cultural labour in Argentina6
Between de-queering and re-queering: Transfiguring ‘bromance’ as a continuum of Boys’ Love in East Asia6
Thanks to Reviewers6
“Not just a game”: Power, politics, and media coverage of Qatar's World Cup 20226
Chinese medicine as a cure for gayness: Satire as countercultural resistance against heteronormative symbolic violence in the digital public sphere6
An Antropofagia approach to AI and creativity: Lessons from Latin America to rethink collectivity, process and meaning in creative value6
Global perspectives on platforms and cultural production6
‘When it comes to the true crime community, Taylor is a legend’: Social and symbolic capital among murderabilia fans5
Digital labor in the state-led/capitalist complex: State labor and playful workaholics in the Chinese digital space5
Abridged anime and the distance in fan-dubbing: Interpreting culture through parody and fan appropriation5
Exploring everyday resilience in the creative industries through devised theatre: A case of performing arts students and recent graduates in Ghana5
Struggling with platforms: Marxist identities, cultural production, and everyday work in Brazil5
Buffalo's captured imaginary: Atmosphere, absurdity and the depoliticized imagination of the Rust Belt5
Data solidarity in feminist technology activism and innovation5
Cultivating vigilant drivers through TV: On the cultural work of dashcam videos and normalization of surveillance5
Masculinity in crisis? Reticent / han-xu politics against danmei and male effeminacy5
“Too tired to sleep”: ASMR, self-care, and contested rest in China's digital landscape5
A history of New Year’s Eve, Sydney: From ‘the crowd’ to ‘crowded places’5
Discourses of solidarity fatigue as ambivalent recognition among German and Polish actors in relation to Ukrainian displacement5
Shipping on the edge: Negotiations of precariousness in a Chinese real-person shipping fandom community4
Vicarious expertise: Locating skilled knowing in craft reality competition television4
Beyond belonging: A conversation on inauthenticity, third-culture kids, and fandom4
Vulgar livestreaming spectacle? Wanghong urbanism, digital platform and precarity in Laojie, Shenzhen4
Localised precarity in social media entertainment: YouTubing in Turkey4
Interrogating the incel-o-sphere: The state of the subaltern counterpublic sphere in the digital age of extremism4
Cooptation, hijacking, or normalization? The discursive concession of body politics on Douyin4
Beyond Netflix: Ownership and content strategies among non-US-based video streaming services4
Vlogging as mediated mobility: Warm Experts 3.0 engaging in peer production and digital labor in the era of short videos4
The dead pig's photo album: Affective visual rituals in collective identity formation4
#Values for money? The neoliberal construction of “values” across Instagram language communities4
Environing media and cultural techniques: From the history of agriculture to AI-driven smart farming4
Thai creative labour solidarity, (post)-pandemic precarity, and directions of production studies in the Global South4
Sexual and geocultural algorithmic imaginaries: Examining approaches of participatory resignation among LGBTQ+ Instagrammers in Berlin and Montreal4
Douyin's playful platform governance: Platform's self-regulation and content creators’ participatory surveillance4
‘If it's held dear, it’ll get pushed through’: Transmedia narratives, play cultures, and soft canon in tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs)4
Identity-of-place: A conceptual framework4
TikTok and children: An Introduction4
The digital Creole4
How fan clubs manage the authenticity of fans’ identities in Chinese idol culture4
Soft nationalism and China: A case study of nationalism in short videos by US-Chinese rapper MC Jin4
Where Disney and Hallyu collide: Fashioning transcultural selves through hanbok sartorial fandom4
Creative and cultural work post-Covid-19: Interruptions as space of political re-futuring4
Progressive in the West, backward in the East: Shalwar’s trials with modernity4
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