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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Conjuring algorithms: Understanding the tech industry as stage magicians	147
Historical figures on Instagram: A typology of themes and modes of representation	125
Digital citizenship and disability in the covid era	99
Sowing “seeds of doubt”: Cottage industries of election and medical misinformation in Brazil and the United States	92
Love is love: Reverse isomorphism and the rise of LGBTQ+ romance publishing	89
The production of destruction: How employee values shape platform afterlives	79
Walk in my shoes: How perspective-taking and VR enhance telepresence and empathy in a public service announcement for people experiencing homelessness	78
What does it mean to “do your own research?” A comparative content analysis of DYOR messages in Instagram and Facebook posts about reproductive health, food, and vaccines	77
Exploring older adults’ ICT support: A mismatch between needs and provision	75
mHealth and social mediation: Mobile support among stigmatized people living with HIV and substance use disorder	67
Conceptualizing social media sub-platforms: The case of mourning and memorialization practices on Facebook	66
Book Reviews: Automation is a myth	59
Investigating the experience of viewing extreme real-world violence online: Naturalistic evidence from an online discussion forum	53
Interpretive communities of resistance: Emerging counterpublics of immigration alarmism on social media	50
High-speed broadband availability, Internet activity among older people, quality of life and loneliness	49
Aging differently: How socioemotional reactions to perceived remaining time in life influence older adults’ satisfaction in virtual communities	48
Digitally mediated code-switching in transnational families in Australia: Fathers and children	48
Monopolization and competition under platform capitalism: Analyzing transformations in the computing industry	47
Synthetic versus human voices in audiobooks: The human emotional intimacy effect	46
The computational turn in online mental health research: A systematic review	46
Who relates to whom and according to which rationale? Visibility and advocacy in the Ugandan LGBT+ Twittersphere	45
Taking back and giving back on TikTok: Algorithmic mutual aid in the platform economy	44
Beyond subcultures: A literature review of gaming communities and sociological analysis	44
The whole earth and apartheid: Media, peer-production, segregation	42
(Re)animating the ancestors: Digital personality emulations, ancestor veneration and ethics	40

QR codes and automated decision-making in the COVID-19 pandemic	40
Facing blockchain’s double bind: Trustless technologies and “IRL friends” in Berlin’s NFT community	38
Sociotechnical imaginaries of remote personal touch before and during COVID-19: An analysis of UK newspapers	38
Road to micro-celebration: The role of mutation strategy of micro-celebrity in digital media	38
The effects of augmented reality on prosocial behavior intentions in the disaster news context: The mediating role of physical presence and empathy	37
Translocal networked public spheres: Spatial arrangements of metropolitan Twitter	36
When friction becomes the norm: Antagonism, discourse and planetary data turbulence	34
Nomadic life archiving across platforms: Hyperlinked storage and compartmentalized sharing	34
‘Rankings are all bullsh*t anyway, why not do my own?’: Vloggers and genre remediation	33
Book Reviews: Worn Out: How Retailers Surveil and Exploit Workers in the Digital Age and How Workers Are Fighting Back Madison Van Oort	33