OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Learning Media and Technology is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Legends’ teaching and learning with technology in teen space	151
Theorizing the future of generative AI in education	93
Mapping rentiership and assetisation in the digitalisation of education	71
Affordances and agency in students’ use of online platforms and resources beyond curricular boundaries	51
Problematizing feedback loops: ‘on’, ‘with’, and ‘beyond’ analytics dashboards in MOOCs	46
In search of humanness: professional identities of qualitative research educators in the age of generative AI	46
Power structures and perceptions of AI fairness in high-stakes language testing: the Pearson Test of English (PTE Academic) as case study	45
Tracing the infrastructural unfolding of (edtech) events through hybrid team ethnography	34
Coming to critical technology consciousness: a phenomenological study of educators	32
Enforcing unwarranted optimism: critical frame analysis on educational digitalisation policies in South Korea	29
What do we know about YouTube content about academic writing? A multimodal analysis	27
‘It’s just another nightmare to manage:’ Australian parents’ perspectives on BYOD and ‘ed-tech’ at school and at home	25
Reading internationally: if citing is a political practice, who are we reading and who are we citing?	23
Taking play and tinkering seriously in AI education: cases from Drag vs AI teen workshops	20
Social classification and the changing boundaries of learning. A neopragmatic perspective on social sorting in digital education	19
Sociomaterial explorations of attendance practices in ‘schooling without schools’	19
Digital cultural knowledge and curriculum: the experiences of international students as they moved from on-campus to on-line education during the pandemic	19
Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment	18
Stories from the future of lifelong learning: fiction, technology and speculative pedagogies	17
The educational robotics imaginary. EdTech industry, educational timescapes and the tyranny of connectivity	17
Gender and the lived body experience of academic work during COVID-19	17
Different voices, different bodies: presence–absence in the digital university	17
Governance on, with, behind, and beyond the Discord platform: a study of platform practices in an informal learning context	16
Rethinking the boundaries of learning in a digital age	16
Stories we make: speculative fiction and rememorative futures in civic learning	16

Of teachers and centaurs: Exploring the interactions and intra-actions of educators on AI education platforms	16
‘We have- we had a digital debt’: a case of digitalized school leadership practice	16
Responding to sociotechnical controversies in education: a modest proposal toward technical democracy	15
Feminisms, technologies and learning: continuities and contestations	15
The EU policy discourse on EdTech and constructing the image of an excellent teacher	15
Media literacy education nurturing civic participation of disadvantaged youth, or not?	15
Challenging the inequitable impacts of edtech	14
Returning the data gaze in higher education	14
Socio-material mangles: the learning management system and lecturer positioning	14
The form and function of education fiction: a design heuristic to foster convivial forms of inquiry	14
Shouts from Acro: contradictions, imaginations, and educational futures	13
‘We are not cheating. We are helping each other out:’ digital collective cheating in secondary education	13
Perspectives on restorative practices and online-mediated harm in schools: implementation challenges	13
Privacy and distance learning in turbulent times: a comparison of German and Israeli schools during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Digitally Un/Free: the everyday impact of social media on the lives of young people	12
Edunudge	12
Media literacy and the concept of ‘technologies’ in primary school classrooms: moving beyond technical skills	12
Misrepresentation or inclusion: promises of generative artificial intelligence in climate change education	12
Introducing computers in Indian schools: institutional resistances and the making of a digital divide	11
Subterfuge: a parental strategy for mediating young children’s digital media practices in Azerbaijan	11
Understanding youths’ civic participation online: a digital multimodal composing perspective	11
On the ‘university of the future': a critical analysis of cohort-based course platform Maven	11
Smartphones in the Swedish upper-secondary classroom: A policy enactment perspective	11
Big EdTech	11
Assetisation as a means to solve public problems: the research excellence framework and competitive future-making	11
Playce-making: transformation of space in a participatory game design project within a Canadian junior high school	10
Alone-together: intergenerational mapping of digital and analogue spaces of self	10
Religious ideologies of minimal computing: negotiating digital technology in religious nationalist education	10
Education as a co-developed commodity in Finland? A rhetorical discourse analysis on business accelerator for EdTech startups	10
Egyptian female podcasters: shaping feminist identities	10
Beyond the screen: student experiences of social connection in a hybrid university learning environment	10
Autoroll: scripting the emergence of classroom facial recognition technology	9
The forgotten African American innovators of educational technology: stories of education, technology, and civil rights	9
Virtual supremacy and electronic imperialism: the hegemonies of e-learning and computer assisted language learning (CALL)	9
The life and times of university teachers in the era of digitalization: A tragedy	9
The construction of legitimacy: a critical discourse analysis of the rhetoric of educational technology in post-pandemic higher education	9
Discursive construction of online teacher identity and legitimacy in English language teaching	9
Tell me a story: a framework for critically investigating AI language models	9
Imagining the future of artificial intelligence in education: a review of social science fiction	9
Technical agonism: embracing democratic dissensus in the datafication of education	9
Who cares about learning design? Near future superheroes and villains of an educational ethics of care	9
‘I hope this email finds you well’: how synthetic affect circulates through MagicSchool AI	8
Socially shared inquiry with media and information literacy teachers: gaps and ways forward	8
Decoding school marketisation – exploring computational analytics in large-scale policy data	8
Lecturer professional identities in gamification: a socio-material perspective	8
Teaching scientific inquiry as a situated practice: A framework for analyzing and designing Science games	7
Online religious learning: digital epistemic authority and self-socialization in religious communities	7
What is the problem with generative artificial intelligence in higher education? – a critical analysis of educator responsibility in the Swedish policy landscape	7
Towards global and local histories of educational technologies: introduction	7
Digital degrowth: toward radically sustainable education technology	7

Blurring the boundaries of current and future selves: students’ STEM identity exploration in a multimodal composing learning environment	7
Algorithmic-authors in academia: blurring the boundaries of human and machine knowledge production	7
Hackerspaces as technofeminist sites for experiential learning	7
Bridging inquiry and critique: a neo-pragmatic perspective on the making of educational futures and the role of social research	7
Platform bureaucratization as pedagogy in highly platformized classrooms	7
Creative intra-actions: co-creating with generative AI in the age of climate change	7
Conflicting motives: challenges of generative AI in education	7
How platformised data collection practices in state primary schools in England mediate the parent–child relationship	7
Introduction: Minimal Computing and EdTech	7
‘I'm a resourceful person and I ask questions everywhere I go:’ adult job seekers’ adaptive literacy practices in the platformized workforce development system	6
Decolonising data in higher education: critical issues and future directions	6
Homo medialiteratus and the media literacy proxy war: mapping the U.S. response to digital dismisinfo	6
Rebusque and minimal computing in rural Colombia: LibreEscuela, an OER co-creation project	6
Digital compliance or professional competence? Representations of teachers and digital futures in the Norwegian Qualification Framework	6
Time matters: a critical multimodal study of an English learning app for children in China	6
Data as asset, data as rent? Rentiership practices in EdTech startups	6
The device on the desk – a sociomaterial analysis of how Snapchat adapts to and participates in the classroom	6
Class of 2025: a speculative biography of university graduate futures	5
In/equalities in digital education policy – sociotechnical imaginaries from three world regions	5
Valuable data? Using walkthrough methods to understand the impact of digital reading platforms in Australian primary schools	5
How young children’s play is shaped through common iPad applications: a study of 2 and 4–5 year-olds	5
Collectively produced epistemic objects and their necessary incompleteness for professional learning on a large-scale online platform	5
Format research. On the epistemic effects of changing forms and formats in education research	5
Instituting socio-technical education futures: encounters with/through technical democracy, data justice, and imaginaries	5
Problematising ClassDojo as a digital tool for behaviour management and home-school communication	5
Edtech platforms from below: a family ethnography of marginalized communities and their digital learning post-pandemic	5
A critical AI media literacy framework: understanding layered bias and empowerment in artificial intelligence	5
Blind and low-vision students as surveyors of in/accessibility in technology-mediated formal education	5
Digital education utopia	4
Parents’ ontological beliefs regarding the use of conversational agents at home: resisting the neoliberal discourse	4
Who controls children’s education data? A socio-legal analysis of the UK governance regimes for schools and EdTech	4
Beyond the story: a three-lens analysis of education fiction	4
Agency as an emerging phenomenon in the construction of massive open online courses: a discursive–material approach to the techno-pedagogical edX platform and its forums	4
One thing can be more than one thing: a comparative study of the teacher professionalization app ‘TeacherTapp’	4
What is mobile documentation doing through social media in early childhood education in-between the boundaries of a teacher’s personal and professional subjectivities?	4
Screens, teens and their brains. Discourses about digital media, learning and cognitive development in popular science neuroeducation	4
Educational data brokers: using the walkthrough method to identify data brokering by edtech platforms	4
Googlization(s) of education: intermediary work brokering platform dependence in three national school systems	4
Crafting the consumer teacher: education influencers and the figured world of K-12 teaching	4
Predictive analytics and the creation of the permanent present	4
Configuring the body as pedagogical site: towards a conceptual tool to unpack and situate multiple ontologies of the body in self-tracking apps	4
Making education manageable: school management systems and the discursive construction of data-driven classrooms	4
Media literacy provision from the perspective of policymakers and civil society organisations in five areas of the UK: a case study approach	4
Navigating open-source platforms in schools: an inquiry into changing teacher professionality	4
Future classrooms and ed-tech imaginaries. Notes from the Estonian pavilion at EXPO 2020 and beyond	3
In their own words: 41 stories of young people’s digital citizenship	3
Critical and participatory design in-between the tensions of daily schooling: working towards sustainable and reflective digital school development	3
Families’ perceptions of corporate influence in career and technical education through data extraction	3
‘Help!? My students created an evil AI’: on the irony of speculative methods and design fiction	3
Living with digital materialisations of self	3
Who cites whom? U.S.-American authored research syntheses in the field of educational technology: a bibliometric analysis	3
Missing in action: queer(y)ing the educational implications of data justice in an age of automation	3
A patchwork of platforms: mapping data infrastructures in schools	3
Imagining personalisation: EdTech and the shift towards neuroliberal governance	3
Digital remix as a pedagogical platform intervention	3
Defining ‘the Force’ of artificial intelligence in education: exploring the future of teaching through informed speculation	3
The hidden costs of free services: how donations support the corporate platformization of education	3
Oscillating between the techniques of discipline and self: how Chinese policy papers on the digitalization of education subjectivize educators and the educated	3
Reforming education via radio lessons for teachers? The promise and problems of distance learning in Cameroon, 1960–1995	3
Developing children’s algorithmic literacies through curatorship as media literacy	3
Assessing film in higher education: straddling academic and professional conventions	3
Relational dynamics at the intersection of technology and higher education: perspectives on GenAI use among humanities master’s students	3
‘Daddy should search for help on Google instead of swearing … ’: escaping the boundaries of technologically mediated learning	3
Correction	3
Assembling desire. Analyzing the rollout of self-tracking devices in early childhood education	3
Using ethical scenarios to explore the future of artificial intelligence in primary and secondary education	3
Everyday approaches to platform-mediated personalized learning in secondary schools	3
Dualized modernization: USAID and the educational television in South Korea	3
Educational technologies as matters of care	3