OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Television & New Media is 2. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Your Home Made Perfect	41
Book Review: Pain Generation, Social Media Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie, by L. Ayu Saraswati	28
The Kardashians, Live! Fabricating Liveness in the Sex-Tape-Derived Reality Series	21
“Love You, Bro”: Performing Homosocial Intimacies on Twitch	20
Bilingualism and the Televisual Architecture of Linguistic (dis-) Encounters in the Israeli Television Show Arab Labor	20
Introduction to the Special Issue: Pandemic TV, Then and Now	18
Data Trafficking and the International Risks of Surveillance Capitalism: The Case of Grindr and China	18
Post-Procedural Form and Rape Ambiance: Policing Sexual Violence in Mare of Easttown	16
Book Review: Translation Studies on Chinese Films and TV Shows , by Feng Yue Translation Studies on Chinese Films and TV Shows, edited by YueFeng, Singapore, SG, Springe	13
Just on the Right Side of Wrong: (De)Legitimizing Feminism in Video Game Live Streaming	12
Book Review: Television before TV: New Media and Exhibition Culture in Europe and the USA, 1928-1939 , by Anne-Katrin Weber Television before TV: New Media and Exhibitio	12
Book Review: The Authenticity Industries: Keeping It “Real” in Media, Culture, and Politics	12
The Millennial Medium: The Interpretive Community of Early Podcast Professionals	11
The Haunted Broadcast: Using Static to Understand Broadcast’s History and Present	11
The Contemporary Afterlives of Serial Drama: Considering New Audience Readings of “Old” Television	11
The Theme Park as Simulation of American Rape Culture: #MeToo and the Problem of Justice in HBO’s Westworld	11
Politics As Fun: Countering Indian Digital Nationalism With Viral Videos	10
Make Room for VR: Constructing Domestic Space and Accessibility in Virtual Reality Headset Tutorials	10
Calling out Feminists: Antifeminist Hijacking of Cancel Culture in South Korea	9
Music Video, Remediation, and Generic Recombination	9
Era of the Individual Viewer? Taste, Value, and Creative Media Work in India’s Streaming Industries	8
“Post-Pandemic Political Television and the End of One Day at a Time”	8
The Technological Carnivalesque in Niantic’s Pokémon Go	7
Living the American Dream? Satirizing Neoliberal Capitalism in Killing It and Severance	7
The “Reality” of Living Off the Land	7

Emplacement and Emplotment: Media Production in Pandemic Times	7
The Netflix Paradox in the Middle East: Diversity, Inclusivity, and Authenticity?	6
Invisible Roots: Re-examining Soap Opera’s Influence on the Narrative Complexity of Contemporary Television Drama	6
Deinfluencing TikTok During the Cost-of-Living Crisis: Neoliberal Logics of (Over) Consumption Across Popular Media	6
Online Performance of Civic Participation: What Bot-like Activity in the Persian Language Twittersphere Reveals About Political Manipulation Mechanisms	5
The Politics of Female Anger in Older Age: The Good Fight, Older Femininity and Political Change	5
“Shudder” and the Aesthetics and Platform Logics of Genre-Specific SVOD services	5
Why Do We Only Get Anime Girl Avatars? Collective White Heteronormative Avatar Design in Live Streams	5
Genre in Transnational Television: A Case of Netflix Originals Korean Dramas	5
Ideology as/of Platform Affordance and Black Feminist Conceptualizations of “Canceling”: Reading Twitter	5
Immigrants on Chinese Television and Limitations of China’s Globalist Discourse	4
Participatory Propaganda and Politics From the Bedroom (Studio): The Semiotics of Conservative Influencers on YouTube	4
The Lure of Cultural Authenticity: Netflix and Speculative Koreanness in the Global Media Market	4
De-/Re-Whitening Russianness: A Liminal Space of White Privileges Represented in Non-Summit	4
Digital Domestic (Im)material Labor: Managing Waste and Self While Producing Closet Decluttering Videos	4
Journalistic Practices in Difficult Times: The Cases of Fictional Television Series Borgen and El Caso in Denmark and Spain	3
The Pluralism of Thai Boys Love Industry: Auteur Migration, Fan Showrunners, Labor Vulnerability, and Queer Potentiality	3
The “Unsing Heroes” of the “Infocalypse”: Company Representations of Commercial Content Moderators	3
Book Review: TV Snapshots: An Archive of Everyday Life , by Lynn Spigel TV Snapshots: An Archive of Everyday Life, by SpigelLynn. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022, pp	3
Always-On: The Gendered Economies of Filipina Migrant Care Work and Social Media Platforms	3
The L Word ’s Afterlives: Queer Media Convergence and the Logics of Diversitainment	3
First-Run Syndication and Unwired Networks in the 1980s: Viacom’s Superboy and Buena Vista TV’s DuckTales	3
Review Essay: Feminist Television Studies of Complex and Disruptive Women	3
New Encounters: Localization of Global TV Drama Genres on Turkish OTT Platforms	3
Contingency, Precarity and Short-Video Creativity: Platformization Based Analysis of Chinese Online Screen Industry	2
Audiovisual Self-Confrontation: Psychiatric and Psychotherapeutic Uses of Television and Video in (West) Germany 1970s–1990s	2
History, Horror, and Peak TV: Experimental History Series	2
“Insensitivity Training”	2
Book Review: Food Instagram: Identity, Influence & Negotiation	2
Book Review: Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media, by Jason Hannan	2
Making a “Hate-Watch”: Netflix’s Indian Matchmaking and the Stickiness of “Cringe Binge TV”	2
Introduction to the special issue Genre After Media	2
Creative Genre Matters: Trendy Drama and the Rise of the East Asian Global Media Market	2
Book Review: Pandemics in the Age of Social Media: Information and Misinformation in Developing Nations , by Vikas Kumar and Mohit Rewari Pandemics in the Age of Social	2
When Brands Become Stans: Netflix, Originals, and Enacting a Fannish Persona on Instagram	2
Book Review: New Media in the Margins: Lived Realities and Experiences From the Malaysian Peripheries by Benjamin YH Loh and James Chin	2
Unplayable: Why Video Games Can’t and Won’t Be Played	2
From Brand to Genre: The Hallmark Movie	2
From After School Specials to After School Threesomes: Industrial Shifts in the Depiction of Sex on Teen TV and its Formation of the Sex Positive Teen Girl	2
Book Review: Art vs. TV, A Brief History of Contemporary Artists’ Response to Television, by Francesco Spampinato	2
Netflix and the Transnationalisation of Teen Television	2
Film Heritage on Demand? Curation and Discoverability of “Classic Movies” on Netflix	2
The Ambivalence of Mother Love: Navigating Maternal Subjects Through the TV Drama A Love for Dilemma	2
Review: Televising Chineseness: Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity, by Geng Song	2
Beauty From the Waist Up: Twitch Drag, Digital Labor, and Queer Mediated Liveness	2
Rip It Up and Start Again: Creative Labor and the Industrialization of Remix	2
(De-)Stigmatizing Teen Moms: Contentious Teenage Parents and Policy Shift Reflecting After Neoliberalism in South Korea	2