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
Facing blockchain’s double bind: Trustless technologies and “IRL friends” in Berlin’s NFT community	94
Digitally mediated code-switching in transnational families in Australia: Fathers and children	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
Beyond subcultures: A literature review of gaming communities and sociological analysis	52
Walk in my shoes: How perspective-taking and VR enhance telepresence and empathy in a public service announcement for people experiencing homelessness	52
Sociotechnical imaginaries of remote personal touch before and during COVID-19: An analysis of UK newspapers	51
Enforcing platform sovereignty: A case study of platform responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code	49
Unpacking platform governance through meaningful human agency: How Chinese moderators make discretionary decisions in a dynamic network	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
Calls to (what kind of?) action: A framework for comparing political actors’ campaign strategies across social media platforms	45
Digital detox tourism: Practices of analogization	45
To let content be or not be: Understanding the decision-making process of content moderators on social media platforms	43
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

Platform visibility and the making of an issue: Vernaculars of hereditary cancer on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter	42
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
Algorithms as complementary abstractions	39
A “drop in the ocean”? Emerging adults’ experiences and understanding of targeted political advertising on social media	38
‘Conspiracy theories should be called spoiler alerts’: Conspiracy, coronavirus and affective community on Russell Brand’s YouTube comment section	38
From Indy to ubiquity: Minecraft as platform and infrastructure	37
Book Review: Social Media and Hate	37
Automated responses to the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic: An overview	36
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