OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of New Media & Society is 33. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Calls to (what kind of?) action: A framework for comparing political actors’ campaign strategies across social media platforms	185
Investigating the experience of viewing extreme real-world violence online: Naturalistic evidence from an online discussion forum	169
The disciplined customer: A video-based study of automated self-service hotels	139
Futures in mobile communication research: Introduction to the special issue	116
Book Reviews: Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research	113
Subverting or preserving the institution: Competing IT firm and foundation discourses about open source	112
Discourse, digitisation and women’s rights groups in Nigeria and Ghana: Online campaigns for political inclusion and against violence on women and girls	82
Platform visibility and the making of an issue: Vernaculars of hereditary cancer on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter	71
Sociotechnical imaginaries of remote personal touch before and during COVID-19: An analysis of UK newspapers	71
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	62
Walk in my shoes: How perspective-taking and VR enhance telepresence and empathy in a public service announcement for people experiencing homelessness	56
Translocal networked public spheres: Spatial arrangements of metropolitan Twitter	56
Algorithms as complementary abstractions	55
The high-tech elite? Assessing the values of tech-workers using the European Social Survey 2012–2020	52
Unpacking platform governance through meaningful human agency: How Chinese moderators make discretionary decisions in a dynamic network	51
Formation of social norms in location-based meso-spaces: A study of WeChat neighborhood groups during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown	46
Digital Mary: Religious Mediatization and the Re-Enchantment of a Mega Symbol	45
Facing blockchain’s double bind: Trustless technologies and “IRL friends” in Berlin’s NFT community	45
To let content be or not be: Understanding the decision-making process of content moderators on social media platforms	45
Selfies and body dissatisfaction: Using the tripartite influence model to examine adolescents over time	41
Toward an integrated framework for misinformation and correction sharing: A systematic review across domains	40
A different playbook for the same outcome? Examining Google’s and Meta’s strategic responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code	39
Digital detox tourism: Practices of analogization	39
Enforcing platform sovereignty: A case study of platform responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code	36
How offline backgrounds interact with digital capital	36

The telephone answering machine: Mediated presence and the participatory condition	36
Beyond subcultures: A literature review of gaming communities and sociological analysis	36
Book Review: Social Media and Hate	35
Digitally mediated code-switching in transnational families in Australia: Fathers and children	35
From Indy to ubiquity: Minecraft as platform and infrastructure	35
The social construction of datasets: On the practices, processes, and challenges of dataset creation for machine learning	35
Influence of hate speech about refugees in search algorithms on political attitudes: An online experiment	34
Digital twins as space media	34
“Why are you on Tinder if this isn’t what you wanted?” Dating apps as digital brokers of sexual activity in the college hookup sexual market	33
From Comic-Con to Amazon: Fan conventions and digital platforms	33
Pathway to authenticity? The influence of politicians’ gender and multimodal self-presentation in social media on perceived authenticity	33