International Journal of Cultural Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of International Journal of Cultural Studies is 3. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Cultures of reading: Then and now29
Minority representation in the streaming era: An analysis of Jewish identity in competing subscription video on-demand platforms21
Materializing storyworld, battles of transmedia storytelling: Trans-fandom cultures of The King's Avatar on Chinese social media platform21
Young people's digital drawing practices as cultural heritage20
Precarious utopia: The affective politics of transcultural entertainment in K-pop Random Play Dance17
Culture is transnational17
Representations of mental health and mental health problems in content published by female social media influencers12
Sartorial subversion in subculture of Malaysian female Muslim punks10
‘The pandemic helped me!’ Queer international students’ identity negotiation with family on social media in immobile times10
Rethinking the ‘wellness influencer’: Medical doctors, lifestyle expertise and the question of credentials9
‘Platform-ised’ work? The case of neo-craft work9
Cultural proximity and gender representation: Why Italian women are drawn to Turkish TV serials9
Humanizing the posthuman: Digital labour, food delivery, and openings for the new human during the pandemic8
Stim culture: Outlining anime's appeal to the autistic community8
Wounded hearts: The affective making of misogynistic male victimhood under the familial sexual contract in precarious China8
Spectacular whiteness: The tactics and mediation of white protests for Black Lives8
Almost South–South solidarity: The frustration of K-pop fans (but not true fans) in South Africa8
Physical immobility and virtual mobility: Mediating everyday life from a Karen refugee camp in Thailand7
Revisiting the subcultural/post-subcultural debate: Assessing the relevance of Hodkinson's subcultural substance in contemporary Goth culture7
Uneasy self-promotion and tactics of patience: Finnish MPs’ ambivalent feelings about personalised politics on social media7
Pushing against the panic: Considering the positives of TikTok and children6
Terebi banare’: Historicising internet-distributed television and the ‘departure from television’ in Japan6
Scenes of precarity: Conditions, dynamics and challenges for the post-pandemic future of cultural labour in Argentina6
Public cultural institutions in Mexico and precarisation of creative labour6
Hollywood on the Danube: Location management and the production of place in transnational media production6
Teens on screens: Girls’ negotiations of representations of texting in teen film6
Living my Latin American influencer dream: How racism and nationality shape Latin American influencers within the US6
The media operations of postcolonial mobility regimes: The cases of Filmstichting West Indië and Vereniging Ons Suriname in 1940s and 1950s Netherlands6
‘Diversity’ as multidisciplinary keyword for the politics of cultural recommender systems in global digital media platforms6
Interrogating the ‘African troupe’: The construction of Africanness and Blackness in Chinese consumption of K-pop videos6
Lived religion and digital homemaking: The case of Indonesian marriage migrants5
Game of Thrones tourism and the (re)imagination of the new Northern Ireland5
“A love-addled brain is an incurable malady”: Online debates on contemporary romantic relationships within a Chinese postfeminist context5
Poetic resistance: Karen long-distance nationalism, rap music, and YouTube5
‘When it comes to the true crime community, Taylor is a legend’: Social and symbolic capital among murderabilia fans5
Chinese medicine as a cure for gayness: Satire as countercultural resistance against heteronormative symbolic violence in the digital public sphere5
Producing Nollywood portal films: Navigating precarity through informal social relations and hope5
Thanks to Reviewers5
The house cannot be full: Risk, anxiety, and the politics of collective spectatorship in a pandemic5
Global perspectives on platforms and cultural production4
Masculinity in crisis? Reticent / han-xu politics against danmei and male effeminacy4
A history of New Year’s Eve, Sydney: From ‘the crowd’ to ‘crowded places’4
Struggling with platforms: Marxist identities, cultural production, and everyday work in Brazil4
An Antropofagia approach to AI and creativity: Lessons from Latin America to rethink collectivity, process and meaning in creative value4
Discourses of solidarity fatigue as ambivalent recognition among German and Polish actors in relation to Ukrainian displacement4
“Not just a game”: Power, politics, and media coverage of Qatar's World Cup 20224
Digital labor in the state-led/capitalist complex: State labor and playful workaholics in the Chinese digital space4
Cooptation, hijacking, or normalization? The discursive concession of body politics on Douyin4
Abridged anime and the distance in fan-dubbing: Interpreting culture through parody and fan appropriation4
Vlogging as mediated mobility: Warm Experts 3.0 engaging in peer production and digital labor in the era of short videos3
Data solidarity in feminist technology activism and innovation3
Beyond Netflix: Ownership and content strategies among non-US-based video streaming services3
Progressive in the West, backward in the East: Shalwar’s trials with modernity3
Interrogating the incel-o-sphere: The state of the subaltern counterpublic sphere in the digital age of extremism3
Leaning in, pushed out: Postfeminist precarity, pandemic labor, and journalistic discourse3
Douyin's playful platform governance: Platform's self-regulation and content creators’ participatory surveillance3
Cultivating vigilant drivers through TV: On the cultural work of dashcam videos and normalization of surveillance3
Exploring everyday resilience in the creative industries through devised theatre: A case of performing arts students and recent graduates in Ghana3
Crisis-ready responsible selves: National productions of the pandemic3
Sexual and geocultural algorithmic imaginaries: Examining approaches of participatory resignation among LGBTQ+ Instagrammers in Berlin and Montreal3
Covid-19: The cultural constructions of a global crisis3
Shipping on the edge: Negotiations of precariousness in a Chinese real-person shipping fandom community3
TikTok and children: An Introduction3
‘If it's held dear, it’ll get pushed through’: Transmedia narratives, play cultures, and soft canon in tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs)3
Creative and cultural work post-Covid-19: Interruptions as space of political re-futuring3
Where Disney and Hallyu collide: Fashioning transcultural selves through hanbok sartorial fandom3
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