OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of New Media & Society is 36. 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.)

Article	Citations
The telephone answering machine: Mediated presence and the participatory condition	164
Futures in mobile communication research: Introduction to the special issue	133
Investigating the experience of viewing extreme real-world violence online: Naturalistic evidence from an online discussion forum	116
The disciplined customer: A video-based study of automated self-service hotels	110
Digitally mediated code-switching in transnational families in Australia: Fathers and children	94
Facing blockchain’s double bind: Trustless technologies and “IRL friends” in Berlin’s NFT community	94
Book Reviews: Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research	86
The social construction of datasets: On the practices, processes, and challenges of dataset creation for machine learning	76
Translocal networked public spheres: Spatial arrangements of metropolitan Twitter	68
A different playbook for the same outcome? Examining Google’s and Meta’s strategic responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code	61
Digital Mary: Religious Mediatization and the Re-Enchantment of a Mega Symbol	58
How offline backgrounds interact with digital capital	55
Walk in my shoes: How perspective-taking and VR enhance telepresence and empathy in a public service announcement for people experiencing homelessness	52
Beyond subcultures: A literature review of gaming communities and sociological analysis	52
Sociotechnical imaginaries of remote personal touch before and during COVID-19: An analysis of UK newspapers	51
Unpacking platform governance through meaningful human agency: How Chinese moderators make discretionary decisions in a dynamic network	49
Enforcing platform sovereignty: A case study of platform responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code	49
Toward an integrated framework for misinformation and correction sharing: A systematic review across domains	48
The high-tech elite? Assessing the values of tech-workers using the European Social Survey 2012–2020	46
Digital detox tourism: Practices of analogization	45
Calls to (what kind of?) action: A framework for comparing political actors’ campaign strategies across social media platforms	45
Formation of social norms in location-based meso-spaces: A study of WeChat neighborhood groups during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown	43
Discourse, digitisation and women’s rights groups in Nigeria and Ghana: Online campaigns for political inclusion and against violence on women and girls	43
Subverting or preserving the institution: Competing IT firm and foundation discourses about open source	43
To let content be or not be: Understanding the decision-making process of content moderators on social media platforms	43

Between anger and love: A multi-level study on the impact of policy issues on user reactions in national election campaigns on Facebook in Germany, Hungary, and Norway	42
Platform visibility and the making of an issue: Vernaculars of hereditary cancer on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter	42
Algorithms as complementary abstractions	39
‘Conspiracy theories should be called spoiler alerts’: Conspiracy, coronavirus and affective community on Russell Brand’s YouTube comment section	38
A “drop in the ocean”? Emerging adults’ experiences and understanding of targeted political advertising on social media	38
Book Review: Social Media and Hate	37
From Indy to ubiquity: Minecraft as platform and infrastructure	37
The social side of cryptocurrency: Exploring the investors’ ideological realities from Romanian Facebook groups	36
Why Am I Seeing This Ad? The affordances and limits of automated user-level explanation in Meta’s advertising system	36
Influence of hate speech about refugees in search algorithms on political attitudes: An online experiment	36
Automated responses to the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic: An overview	36