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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Extending the Internet meme: Conceptualizing technological mimesis and imitation publics on the TikTok platform	139
Seeing the forest for the trees: Visualizing platformization and its governance	105
The associations of active and passive social media use with well-being: A critical scoping review	90
Believing and sharing misinformation, fact-checks, and accurate information on social media: The role of anxiety during COVID-19	85
Dysfunctional information sharing on WhatsApp and Facebook: The role of political talk, cross-cutting exposure and social corrections	80
A systematic literature review on disinformation: Toward a unified taxonomical framework	80
The unedited public sphere	76
Facebook, news media and platform dependency: The institutional impacts of news distribution on social platforms	73
Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation	67
Future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology: Multiple, contested, commodified	65
Exploring heterogeneous ICT use among older adults: The warm experts’ perspective	63
Vulnerable populations and misinformation: A mixed-methods approach to underserved older adults’ online information assessment	62
Data capitalism and the user: An exploration of privacy cynicism in Germany	59
Terms of inclusion: Data, discourse, violence	59
The outcomes of gaining digital skills for young people’s lives and wellbeing: A systematic evidence review	56
Staying connected while physically apart: Digital communication when face-to-face interactions are limited	53
The third digital divide and Bourdieu: Bidirectional conversion of economic, cultural, and social capital to (and from) digital capital among young people in Madrid	53
The perception of humanness in conversational journalism: An algorithmic information-processing perspective	52
Trump, Twitter, and news media responsiveness: A media systems approach	52
Right-wing populism, social media and echo chambers in Western democracies	51
Upvoting extremism: Collective identity formation and the extreme right on Reddit	50
When viruses and misinformation spread: How young Singaporeans navigated uncertainty in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak	49
The limits of the imaginary: Challenges to intervening in future speculations of memory, data, and algorithms	49
Temporal arbitrage, fragmented rush, and opportunistic behaviors: The labor politics of time in the platform economy	49
Oculus imaginaries: The promises and perils of Facebook’s virtual reality	46

Scientific and subversive: The two faces of the fourth era of political campaigning	44
Artificial intelligence and mass personalization of communication content—An ethical and literacy perspective	44
Anticipating and addressing the ethical implications of deepfakes in the context of elections	44
Understanding podcast users: Consumption motives and behaviors	42
Performing populism: Trump’s transgressive debate style and the dynamics of Twitter response	42
Professional social media usage: Work engagement perspective	39
Twitter and Facebook: Populists’ double-barreled gun?	39
Does the platform matter? Social media and COVID-19 conspiracy theory beliefs in 17 countries	38
Is music streaming bad for musicians? Problems of evidence and argument	36
Loot boxes, problem gambling and problem video gaming: A systematic review and meta-synthesis	36
Populism in the era of Twitter: How social media contextualized new insights into an old phenomenon	35