OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of New Media & Society is 35. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The telephone answering machine: Mediated presence and the participatory condition	159
Futures in mobile communication research: Introduction to the special issue	123
Investigating the experience of viewing extreme real-world violence online: Naturalistic evidence from an online discussion forum	104
The disciplined customer: A video-based study of automated self-service hotels	99
Digitally mediated code-switching in transnational families in Australia: Fathers and children	97
Facing blockchain’s double bind: Trustless technologies and “IRL friends” in Berlin’s NFT community	90
Book Reviews: Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research	86
Subverting or preserving the institution: Competing IT firm and foundation discourses about open source	80
Translocal networked public spheres: Spatial arrangements of metropolitan Twitter	74
A different playbook for the same outcome? Examining Google’s and Meta’s strategic responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code	72
Digital Mary: Religious Mediatization and the Re-Enchantment of a Mega Symbol	65
Discourse, digitisation and women’s rights groups in Nigeria and Ghana: Online campaigns for political inclusion and against violence on women and girls	59
Beyond subcultures: A literature review of gaming communities and sociological analysis	54
Algorithms as complementary abstractions	54
Sociotechnical imaginaries of remote personal touch before and during COVID-19: An analysis of UK newspapers	53
Unpacking platform governance through meaningful human agency: How Chinese moderators make discretionary decisions in a dynamic network	52
Enforcing platform sovereignty: A case study of platform responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code	51
Toward an integrated framework for misinformation and correction sharing: A systematic review across domains	49
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	48
The high-tech elite? Assessing the values of tech-workers using the European Social Survey 2012–2020	47
How offline backgrounds interact with digital capital	46
Digital detox tourism: Practices of analogization	45
Walk in my shoes: How perspective-taking and VR enhance telepresence and empathy in a public service announcement for people experiencing homelessness	45
The social construction of datasets: On the practices, processes, and challenges of dataset creation for machine learning	44
‘Conspiracy theories should be called spoiler alerts’: Conspiracy, coronavirus and affective community on Russell Brand’s YouTube comment section	42

Platform visibility and the making of an issue: Vernaculars of hereditary cancer on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter	42
A “drop in the ocean”? Emerging adults’ experiences and understanding of targeted political advertising on social media	42
Calls to (what kind of?) action: A framework for comparing political actors’ campaign strategies across social media platforms	42
Book Review: Social Media and Hate	40
From Indy to ubiquity: Minecraft as platform and infrastructure	40
“Pose”: Examining moments of “digital” dark sousveillance on TikTok	40
Influence of hate speech about refugees in search algorithms on political attitudes: An online experiment	38
The social side of cryptocurrency: Exploring the investors’ ideological realities from Romanian Facebook groups	37
Automated responses to the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic: An overview	37
Why Am I Seeing This Ad? The affordances and limits of automated user-level explanation in Meta’s advertising system	36
Afterword: Medium America and the grounds of a transnational history of farm media	35
Followers, fans, friends, or haters? A typology of the online interactions and relationships between social media influencers and their audiences based on a social capital framework	35
“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	35
(Re)sharing feminisms: Re-sharing Instagram Stories as everyday feminist practices	35
Video games as spaces for providing information and awareness of algorithmic control in the gig economy	35