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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Rhetoric, violence, and the subject of civility	10
“Wake up, Boo”: race and the performance of wokeness in Big Brother 22	9
Anniversary memories, a lost critic, and queer future multitudes of critical/cultural studies	9
The Trump administration’s framing of the MS-13 gang: narrowing the borders of belonging with homeland maternity	8
Techno-Pastorality in the new “Golden Age”	8
Reading Moonlight, reading the other	7
Countdown to the apocalypse: the legitimization of white Christian violence in religious programming on the History Channel	7
Postcolonial ecologies in cyberspace: on the “anti-environments” of Singapore Art Week 2022s’ Somewhere in Bedok and Peripheral Spaces	7
Internet.org and the rhetoric of connectivity	6
Cultural politics and public intellectuals in the age of emerging fascism*	6
Celebratory containment, diverse representation, and 9-1-1: Lone Star	5
The “Keys” to unlocking Eastern European (neo)Nazism: the search for narrative refuge	5
Copies without an original: the performativity of biometric bordering technologies	5
When Puppies start to hate: the revanchist nostalgia of the Hugo Awards’ PuppyGate controversy	5
Institutional pessimism and optimism in racial repair	4
The medicalization of the culture wars	4
Academia’s next top bottom: Title IX as performative advocacy	4
Memory as everyday critical praxis	4
Truth as White property: solidifying White epistemology and owning racial knowledge	4
Introduction: about democratic discourse	4
Queering digitally-mediated social reproduction: using Chinese gay couples’ vlogging as an example	4
Affective weapons: targeting trans youth through paternalistic rhetorics of care	3
On the censoring of Dr Ahlam Muhtaseb	3
Articulating whiteness	3
Whither cultural studies in (US) communication studies? The problem of parochialism	3

Negotiating rhetorics of diversity through performances of propriety: a quare autocritography	2
Unmasking the ageism of whiteness during COVID-19	2
Subject to/flesh, object/to verb (:) the business of naming	2
A sour taste of sick chronicity: pandemic time and the violence of “returning to normal”	2
Taking a stand from the periphery: negotiating and resisting the white gaze in public images of Black women’s civic protest	2
Mourning and memorializing in the COVID-19 era	2
Discouragement, delay, and doublespeak at southern universities: considerations and context for scholars of cultural studies	2
Accidentally telling the truth: racial capitalism on the college sports plantation	2
Masculine elocution, New Oratory, and the voice of Elizabeth Holmes	2
Epidemiology as methodology: COVID-19, Ukraine, and the problem of whiteness	2
Get Gritty with it: memetic icons and the visual ethos of antifascism	2
Theorizing refuge as refusal: ethical world-making through Khuv Xim, Muaj Chaw , and Ua Ib Siab	2
The plausible deniability playbook: how white victimhood narratives evade moderation	2
Naming, blaming, and “Framing”: Kimberlé Crenshaw and the rhetoric of Black feminist pedagogy	2
Can You See Her? The Absent Presence of Black Female Subjectivity in Get Out (2017)	2
Compassion and the canine cosmonaut: Laika and the contours of public feeling for others	1
Migrant rhetoric as refuge ness	1
Mandating work, commanding health, and managing risk: the (bio)politics of Medicaid reform	1
Forgetting Fulbright: opposing racist public memory at the University of Arkansas	1
Place is everything: remembering responsibilities between and beyond land acknowledgments	1
Saving white women: vulnerability and the immobilized body in Don't Breathe (2016)	1
Introduction: possibilities of collaboration between public memory scholars and higher education public relations professionals	1
Refuge amidst the ruins	1
Refuge: returning home with displaced coal communities	1
An accounting from Dr Ahlam Muhtaseb	1
“Change of ‘clothes,’ change of mind?”: affective rhetoric and the dopamine-dressing sensation	1
From allyship to erasure: German media and LGBTQ+ politics at the 2022 Men’s World Cup	1
“Not in My Back Yard”: Democratic rhetorics in spatial gatekeeping	1
Counter-tour as resuscitation: breathing life into the campus memory landscape	1
A rhetorical praxis of rebellious knowledge production: Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s outsider jurisprudence in Utah v. Strieff	1
“Thank you … . Facebook”: neocolonial practices of translation as self-Seduction	1
Toward Critical Refugee Studies	1
Protecting women’s sports? Anti-trans youth sports bills and white supremacy	1
“Smarties, you know what’s up!”: curating a community and cultivating pleasure as a social justice influencer	1
Africa as con/tested refuge for African Americans: revisiting the “Back-to-Africa” rhetorics in twenty-first century Africa	1
Town/gown hostilities and memory entrepreneurship	0
Doing critical cultural studies in the age of totalitarian thought	0
Introduction: interrogating the memory landscape of higher education	0
Crafting a technology of recovery: the story of the Virtual Martin Luther King Project	0
Diffusion, transformation and hybridization: Taijiquan body culture in the United Kingdom	0
Digital seriality and narrative branching: the podcast Serial, Season One	0
Correction	0
Becoming modern: stories of rural women in Chinese women's cinema	0
Cultural chronicles of COVID-19, part 1: language	0
To Russia with(out) love: Ukrainian war refugees migrating to the land of the aggressor	0
Rhetorical fractals: an Afrocentric analysis of #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd	0
“Here is the exceptional:” social media sharing and unavailable everydayness	0
“Spicy Taiwanese sister” against the rise of China: gender, identity politics, and elections in Taiwan	0
Hero, adventurer and advocate volunteers: A visual analysis of volunteer tourists’ identities on Instagram	0
Trump, the (absent) “Father of IVF”: interrogating political rhetoric, capitalist barriers, and reproductive realities in the 2024 US presidential election	0

Woke country: conceptualizing the tune of race-conscious postracialism	0
[Black] plastic feelings; feeling [Black]	0
Environmental myth-work: the discursive greening of the Olympic Games	0
Vicennium: looking back before moving forward	0
“What’s wrong with Blackface?”: theorizing humor ecologies and Blackface as satire	0
F*ck your condolences: the rhetoric of an impossible demand	0
Shitposting to the Senate: humor, affect, and the working class in the Fetterman–Oz race	0
Unruly traditions of critical/cultural studies	0
In here and out there: feminist militarism and U.S. presidential politics	0
Ambivalent surveillance: teaching in the times of anti-woke	0
Economies of misery: success and surplus in the research university	0
Pants on Fyre: parasitic masculinity and the Fyre festival documentaries	0
Reconnections: remembering land when the university wants us to forget	0
Disrupting institutional memory sites: racialized counter-memory at the University of Maryland	0
“Open to all people”: upholding radical tolerance in commemorative spaces	0
Communication and race: the paucity of research on anti-Muslim racism	0
Correction	0
COVID: a pandemic of metaphor	0
India’s COVID vaccine gestures: from maitri to coloniality	0
The incidental progressive politics of the North American Soccer League: a case study in the complex forces behind constraints and possibilities	0
The transracial subject and the emotive regime: Rachel Dolezal, racial phronêsis, and inverted miscegenation	0
Cultural chronicles of COVID-19, part 2: politics and praxis	0
Unthinking care	0
Gun violence rhetoric in Milwaukee: racialized violence and the creation of urban space	0
No Justice, No Streets! Black radical placemaking and its political aesthetics in George Floyd Square	0
Gift or gilded cage? Performing gratitude and the “respectability politics of refuge”	0
Contract partner with no rights: the construction of the taxpayer subject in the Belarusian government press	0
Heavenly Loci : gay bar as autoethnographic memory palace	0
Perfumed platforms, or the common scents of post-Fordism	0
Reproducing violence, racism, and erasure in research	0
Introduction: racism doesn’t care about democracy either	0
Radio Free Dixie from Cuba to the Black Belt: mapping Black nationhood through cartographies of sonic rhetoric	0
Chastising the child of necessity: peace journalism and Almajiri repatriation during COVID-19	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
Daddy's home: sexual politics, authoritarian desire, and the re-election of Donald Trump	0
“‘Bach, Please’: Nashville bachelorette party culture’s investments in white Southern femininity”	0
The Ribbon of Light: space-as-media and a transforming barrio	0
White nationalist fairytales: The Little Mermaid and neo-segregation in the Breitbart town square	0
Proving authentic femininity: transnormative health narratives in television	0
Resisting the rhetoric of indexing: disability, access, and the 2005 Tennessee State Capitol sit-in	0
Carnival rhetoric: resisting absurdity qua absurdist performance	0
Violent spectating: Hindutva music and audio-visualizations of hate and terror in Digital India	0
Staging progressive dissensus and the politics of Black silence: Black Lives Matter, Bernie Sanders, and the August 2015 rally in Seattle	0
Limited self-enterprise: liminality, normativity, and commodity of Chinese game streamers	0
Advocacy and civic engagement in protest discourse on Twitter: an examination of Ghana’s #OccupyFlagstaffHouse and #RedFriday campaigns	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
Suturing rhetoric: synecdoche sustaining black history in Langston Hughes’ “Harlem”	0
Branding being true: visibility politics and Nike’s engagement with LGBTQ+ communities	0
Neoliberal masculinity in the Ultimate Fighting Championship	0
Countercurricular rhetorical education: reimagining the university from the inside out	0
Thick rhetoric: MLK and global cartographies of polyvocal struggle	0
How to be a (Black woman) journal editor during a pandemic: an introduction to an inaugural issue	0
The COVID-19 sensorium and its vectors, victims, and violators	0
“Remaking the world memetically”: interrogating white nationalist subject formation through the circulation of the “Wagecuck” meme	0
The weapons of civilization: self-technologies and the governance of dissent	0
Denied access: COVID-19, the epidermal border and Black health disparities	0
A racial capitalism approach to communication and critical cultural studies	0