OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies is 0. 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
No pulse	7
Rhetoric, violence, and the subject of civility	6
The Trump administration’s framing of the MS-13 gang: narrowing the borders of belonging with homeland maternity	6
“Wake up, Boo”: race and the performance of wokeness in Big Brother 22	6
Anniversary memories, a lost critic, and queer future multitudes of critical/cultural studies	6
Postcolonial ecologies in cyberspace: on the “anti-environments” of Singapore Art Week 2022s’ Somewhere in Bedok and Peripheral Spaces	6
Countdown to the apocalypse: the legitimization of white Christian violence in religious programming on the History Channel	5
The dream trainers	5
Cultural politics and public intellectuals in the age of emerging fascism*	5
Reading Moonlight, reading the other	5
Internet.org and the rhetoric of connectivity	4
Celebratory containment, diverse representation, and 9-1-1: Lone Star	4
The duality of platforms as infrastructures for urban politics	4
When Puppies start to hate: the revanchist nostalgia of the Hugo Awards’ PuppyGate controversy	4
De-westernizing mediated city research: display and decay in Zagreb’s urban signage	4
In your most radical imagining	4
Copies without an original: the performativity of biometric bordering technologies	4
The “Keys” to unlocking Eastern European (neo)Nazism: the search for narrative refuge	3
The medicalization of the culture wars	3
Academia’s next top bottom: Title IX as performative advocacy	3
Truth as White property: solidifying White epistemology and owning racial knowledge	3
Memory as everyday critical praxis	3
Imagined communities before the end of the world: the liberation of marginalized beings	3
Introduction: about democratic discourse	3
Visionary: the future welder	3

Amatl: behind the wallpaper	2
Articulating whiteness	2
On the censoring of Dr Ahlam Muhtaseb	2
Whither cultural studies in (US) communication studies? The problem of parochialism	2
Institutional pessimism and optimism in racial repair	2
Accidentally telling the truth: racial capitalism on the college sports plantation	2
Making an urban human? The digital order and its curious human-centrism	2
Speculative fiction, criticality, and futurity: an introduction	2
Masculine elocution, New Oratory, and the voice of Elizabeth Holmes	2
Unmasking the ageism of whiteness during COVID-19	2
An accounting from Dr Ahlam Muhtaseb	1
“Thank you … . Facebook”: neocolonial practices of translation as self-Seduction	1
Mandating work, commanding health, and managing risk: the (bio)politics of Medicaid reform	1
“Change of ‘clothes,’ change of mind?”: affective rhetoric and the dopamine-dressing sensation	1
Taking a stand from the periphery: negotiating and resisting the white gaze in public images of Black women’s civic protest	1
Can You See Her? The Absent Presence of Black Female Subjectivity in Get Out (2017)	1
Subject to/flesh, object/to verb (:) the business of naming	1
Epidemiology as methodology: COVID-19, Ukraine, and the problem of whiteness	1
Fatties	1
Forgetting Fulbright: opposing racist public memory at the University of Arkansas	1
Place is everything: remembering responsibilities between and beyond land acknowledgments	1
Introduction: possibilities of collaboration between public memory scholars and higher education public relations professionals	1
Get Gritty with it: memetic icons and the visual ethos of antifascism	1
Ukraine is Europe? Complicating the concept of the ‘European’ in the wake of an urban protest	1
Naming, blaming, and “Framing”: Kimberlé Crenshaw and the rhetoric of Black feminist pedagogy	1
Mourning and memorializing in the COVID-19 era	1
Compassion and the canine cosmonaut: Laika and the contours of public feeling for others	1
Fictocriticism, futurity, and critical imagination: writing stories as activism	1
Counter-tour as resuscitation: breathing life into the campus memory landscape	1
Protecting women’s sports? Anti-trans youth sports bills and white supremacy	1
A rhetorical praxis of rebellious knowledge production: Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s outsider jurisprudence in Utah v. Strieff	1
Negotiating rhetorics of diversity through performances of propriety: a quare autocritography	1
A sour taste of sick chronicity: pandemic time and the violence of “returning to normal”	1
Forum: (De)centring Europe in urban communication research	1
Discouragement, delay, and doublespeak at southern universities: considerations and context for scholars of cultural studies	1
Rhetorical fractals: an Afrocentric analysis of #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd	0
COVID: a pandemic of metaphor	0
The transracial subject and the emotive regime: Rachel Dolezal, racial phronêsis, and inverted miscegenation	0
Palestine is a futurity: prophecies (cruising Jerusalem)	0
Cultural chronicles of COVID-19, part 2: politics and praxis	0
Introduction: interrogating the memory landscape of higher education	0
Heavenly Loci : gay bar as autoethnographic memory palace	0
Economies of misery: success and surplus in the research university	0
Vicennium: looking back before moving forward	0
Advocacy and civic engagement in protest discourse on Twitter: an examination of Ghana’s #OccupyFlagstaffHouse and #RedFriday campaigns	0
“Open to all people”: upholding radical tolerance in commemorative spaces	0
Hero, adventurer and advocate volunteers: A visual analysis of volunteer tourists’ identities on Instagram	0
Becoming modern: stories of rural women in Chinese women's cinema	0
“Here is the exceptional:” social media sharing and unavailable everydayness	0
The visible city	0

Environmental myth-work: the discursive greening of the Olympic Games	0
“Remaking the world memetically”: interrogating white nationalist subject formation through the circulation of the “Wagecuck” meme	0
Neoliberal masculinity in the Ultimate Fighting Championship	0
Countercurricular rhetorical education: reimagining the university from the inside out	0
Pants on Fyre: parasitic masculinity and the Fyre festival documentaries	0
Doing critical cultural studies in the age of totalitarian thought	0
How to be a (Black woman) journal editor during a pandemic: an introduction to an inaugural issue	0
Diffusion, transformation and hybridization: Taijiquan body culture in the United Kingdom	0
The weapons of civilization: self-technologies and the governance of dissent	0
Contract partner with no rights: the construction of the taxpayer subject in the Belarusian government press	0
Proving authentic femininity: transnormative health narratives in television	0
Unruly traditions of critical/cultural studies	0
Gun violence rhetoric in Milwaukee: racialized violence and the creation of urban space	0
From Hey, you there! to Got you: re-materializing the encoding/decoding model in the computationally mediated city	0
Carnival rhetoric: resisting absurdity qua absurdist performance	0
Saving white women: vulnerability and the immobilized body in Don't Breathe (2016)	0
“They just need to empower themselves:” reproducing queer (neo) liberalism in LGBTS Empowerment discourses of representatives of LGBTS Human Rights NGOs in Ghana	0
Reconnections: remembering land when the university wants us to forget	0
[Black] plastic feelings; feeling [Black]	0
Digital seriality and narrative branching: the podcast Serial, Season One	0
No Justice, No Streets! Black radical placemaking and its political aesthetics in George Floyd Square	0
Communication and race: the paucity of research on anti-Muslim racism	0
Unthinking care	0
Reproducing violence, racism, and erasure in research	0
Violent spectating: Hindutva music and audio-visualizations of hate and terror in Digital India	0
Gutter futures	0
“‘Bach, Please’: Nashville bachelorette party culture’s investments in white Southern femininity”	0
Queene	0
Branding being true: visibility politics and Nike’s engagement with LGBTQ+ communities	0
A racial capitalism approach to communication and critical cultural studies	0
The Ribbon of Light: space-as-media and a transforming barrio	0
Introduction: racism doesn’t care about democracy either	0
Chastising the child of necessity: peace journalism and Almajiri repatriation during COVID-19	0
The incidental progressive politics of the North American Soccer League: a case study in the complex forces behind constraints and possibilities	0
Ambivalent surveillance: teaching in the times of anti-woke	0
Woke country: conceptualizing the tune of race-conscious postracialism	0
F*ck your condolences: the rhetoric of an impossible demand	0
Town/gown hostilities and memory entrepreneurship	0
Denied access: COVID-19, the epidermal border and Black health disparities	0
“Smarties, you know what’s up!”: curating a community and cultivating pleasure as a social justice influencer	0
Radio Free Dixie from Cuba to the Black Belt: mapping Black nationhood through cartographies of sonic rhetoric	0
“Not in My Back Yard”: Democratic rhetorics in spatial gatekeeping	0
Melting mutating territory	0
Xyrs, 6034: sexing and masturbating in/of the future	0
“Spicy Taiwanese sister” against the rise of China: gender, identity politics, and elections in Taiwan	0
White nationalist fairytales: The Little Mermaid and neo-segregation in the Breitbart town square	0
Abolition is here	0
Resisting the rhetoric of indexing: disability, access, and the 2005 Tennessee State Capitol sit-in	0
Disrupting institutional memory sites: racialized counter-memory at the University of Maryland	0
Crafting a technology of recovery: the story of the Virtual Martin Luther King Project	0
Limited self-enterprise: liminality, normativity, and commodity of Chinese game streamers	0
Thick rhetoric: MLK and global cartographies of polyvocal struggle	0
The liminal becomes the real: arts-based translingualism in education	0
The common wind from below: unruly metaphors, radical rhetorics, and pluriversal worlds within/across/beyond the Haitian and Zapatista Revolutions (part 2/2)	0
India’s COVID vaccine gestures: from maitri to coloniality	0
The COVID-19 sensorium and its vectors, victims, and violators	0
#Blackfreedommatters	0
Cultural chronicles of COVID-19, part 1: language	0
“What’s wrong with Blackface?”: theorizing humor ecologies and Blackface as satire	0
Staging progressive dissensus and the politics of Black silence: Black Lives Matter, Bernie Sanders, and the August 2015 rally in Seattle	0
Correction	0
Perfumed platforms, or the common scents of post-Fordism	0