OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Learning Media and Technology 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Someone else in the universe is trying to teach you’: teachers’ experiences with platformized instruction	90
Socially shared inquiry with media and information literacy teachers: gaps and ways forward	59
Disabled children and digital technologies: learning in the context of inclusive education	53
Toward ‘more participatory' participatory video: A thematic review of literature	51
Digitally Un/Free: the everyday impact of social media on the lives of young people	38
AI hyped? A horizon scan of discourse on artificial intelligence in education (AIED) and development	36
Measuring the implementation of media literacy instructional practices in schools: community stakeholder perspectives	35
Media literacy and the concept of ‘technologies’ in primary school classrooms: moving beyond technical skills	35
Online religious learning: digital epistemic authority and self-socialization in religious communities	35
Edunudge	34
Conflicting motives: challenges of generative AI in education	30
Curation and collaboration as activism: emerging critical practices of #FemEdTech	29
Lecturer professional identities in gamification: a socio-material perspective	26
Misrepresentation or inclusion: promises of generative artificial intelligence in climate change education	26
Educational data brokers: using the walkthrough method to identify data brokering by edtech platforms	24
Towards a typology of touch in multisensory makerspaces	24
The co-construction of data in-time: collaborative pedagogical encounters of golf instructors and students with data	23
Mapping rentiership and assetisation in the digitalisation of education	23
Algorithmic futuring: predictive infrastructures of valuation and investment in the assetization of edtech	21
The selfie as production and self-design	18
Honoring practices of community-based educators: lessons learned from the collaborative design of a creative mobile app	18
A TechnoEthical Framework for Teachers	17
Perspectives on restorative practices and online-mediated harm in schools: implementation challenges	17
Privacy and distance learning in turbulent times: a comparison of German and Israeli schools during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic	17
‘Legends’ teaching and learning with technology in teen space	15

One thing can be more than one thing: a comparative study of the teacher professionalization app ‘TeacherTapp’	14
‘We are not cheating. We are helping each other out:’ digital collective cheating in secondary education	13
Boys’ gaming identities and opportunities for learning	13
A technological bridge to equity: how VR designed through culturally relevant principles impact students appreciation of science	13
A decolonial approach to AI in higher education teaching and learning: strategies for undoing the ethics of digital neocolonialism	12
Pedagogic encounters with algorithmic system controversies: a toolkit for democratising technology	12
By-passing teachers in the marketing of digital technologies: the synergy of educational technology discourse and new public management practices	12
Googlization(s) of education: intermediary work brokering platform dependence in three national school systems	11
Understanding youths’ civic participation online: a digital multimodal composing perspective	11
Highly cited educational technology journal articles: a descriptive and critical analysis	11
Affordances and agency in students’ use of online platforms and resources beyond curricular boundaries	11
Digital masks: screens, selves and symbolic hygiene in online higher education	10
Those magnificent men with their teaching machines: Watters, Audrey: Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning	10
Systematic review of 15 years of research on digital citizenship: 2004–2019	10
Keywords, citations and ‘algorithm magic’: exploring assumptions about ranking in academic literature searches online	10
Big EdTech	10
Multimodality and socio-materiality of lectures in global universities’ media: accounting for bodies and things	10
What do we know about YouTube content about academic writing? A multimodal analysis	10
Hacking the learning: possible pathways for a feminist pedagogy of free software in activist experiences in Argentina	9
Tracing the infrastructural unfolding of (edtech) events through hybrid team ethnography	9
Navigating open-source platforms in schools: an inquiry into changing teacher professionality	9
Advancing data justice in education: some suggestions towards a deontological framework	9
Another brick in the wall of ed-tech failures? A systematic literature review of the FATIH project in Turkey from the perspective of in-service teachers	9
Snapshots of learning: exploring the meaning making potential of everyday visual literacy practices	9
Crafting the consumer teacher: education influencers and the figured world of K-12 teaching	8
Teaching scientific inquiry as a situated practice: A framework for analyzing and designing Science games	8
The state as an agency in the assetisation of knowledge: the case of the Finnish education export	8
The mothering/scholaring self: entangled digital representations in pandemic times	8
Coming to critical technology consciousness: a phenomenological study of educators	8
Enforcing unwarranted optimism: critical frame analysis on educational digitalisation policies in South Korea	7
Relatability, consumerism, and legitimated advice: mental health talk by female social media influencers	7
Algorithmic - authors in academia: blurring the boundaries of human and machine knowledge production	7
‘Technology is not created by the sky’: datafication and educator unease	7
Smart teachers in smart schools in a smart city: teachers as adaptive agents of educational technology reforms	7
Beyond risk: reducing the gap between diaspora youth digital citizenship needs and school curricula	7
The epistemic machinery of educational platforms	7
Consulting the CDC and TikTok: asynchronous modes of joint media engagement for COVID-19 learning in families	7
Generative AI and the (Re)turn to Luddism	7
How ‘much’ engaged are you? A case-study of the datafication of student engagement	7
Lifting the veil on TeachersPayTeachers.com: an investigation of educational marketplace offerings and downloads	7
Blurring the boundaries of current and future selves: students’ STEM identity exploration in a multimodal composing learning environment	6
Academics’ perceptions of research impact and engagement through interactions on social media platforms	6
‘Because I’m always moving’: a mobile ethnography study of adolescent girls’ everyday print and digital reading practices	6
Immersive virtual reality (VR) for digital media making: transmediation is key	6
(Re)politicising data-driven education: from ethical principles to radical participation	6
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	6
On the ‘university of the future': a critical analysis of cohort-based course platform Maven	6
‘It’s just another nightmare to manage:’ Australian parents’ perspectives on BYOD and ‘ed-tech’ at school and at home	6
Problematizing feedback loops: ‘on’, ‘with’, and ‘beyond’ analytics dashboards in MOOCs	6
Sticky, slippery, and smooth access – exploring the affective potentials of access to writing technology in lower secondary classrooms	6

Living with digital materialisations of self	5
Educational technologies as matters of care	5
Micro studies in macro digital ecosystems: AI dystopias, assemblages, and qualitative research in challenging times	5
The only option? Distance learning in North India during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Sociomaterial explorations of attendance practices in ‘schooling without schools’	5
Digital degrowth: toward radically sustainable education technology	5
Lurkers or posters? How teacher identity influences self-presentation on social networking sites	5
The materiality of the virtual professorial ‘self’ in pandemic Zoom teaching: a mnemonic ethnographic method	5
Learning in and about a filtered universe: young people’s awareness and control of algorithms in social media	4
Oscillating between the techniques of discipline and self: how Chinese policy papers on the digitalization of education subjectivize educators and the educated	4
Reforming education via radio lessons for teachers? The promise and problems of distance learning in Cameroon, 1960–1995	4
Reading internationally: if citing is a political practice, who are we reading and who are we citing?	4
How educational institutions reveal students’ personally identifiable information on Facebook	4
‘Help!? My students created an evil AI’: on the irony of speculative methods and design fiction	4
Dualized modernization: USAID and the educational television in South Korea	4
Migration narratives in educational digital storytelling: which stories can be told?	4
Introducing computers in Indian schools: institutional resistances and the making of a digital divide	4
#REALTALK: Facebook Confessions pages as a data resource for academic and student support services at universities	4
‘The punched cards were sent yesterday, we hope they arrive undamaged.’ Computers and international large-scale assessments during the 1960s and 1970s	3
Interoperability and data standards in the K-12 education sector: intersections with data justice	3
High school students’ data modeling practices and processes: from modeling unstructured data to evaluating automated decisions	3
Digital cultural knowledge and curriculum: the experiences of international students as they moved from on-campus to on-line education during the pandemic	3
Hackerspaces as technofeminist sites for experiential learning	3
Everyday approaches to platform-mediated personalized learning in secondary schools	3
Smartphones in the Swedish upper-secondary classroom: A policy enactment perspective	3
Shifting scales of research on learning, media and technology	3
Bridging inquiry and critique: a neo-pragmatic perspective on the making of educational futures and the role of social research	3
Assessing film in higher education: straddling academic and professional conventions	3
Family mediation of preschool children’s digital media practices at home	3
#Quiltsforpulse: connected and shared socio-political activism through craftivism	3
Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment	3
Facilitating critical dialogues with bilingual kindergartners through animated books: a qualitative case study	3
Social classification and the changing boundaries of learning. A neopragmatic perspective on social sorting in digital education	3
Education, automation and AI: a genealogy of alternative futures	3
Towards global and local histories of educational technologies: introduction	3
The Smaky school computer. Technology and education in the ruins of Switzerland’s watch industry, 1973–1997	3
Data as asset, data as rent? Rentiership practices in EdTech startups	2
Subterfuge: a parental strategy for mediating young children’s digital media practices in Azerbaijan	2
Taking play and tinkering seriously in AI education: cases from Drag vs AI teen workshops	2
The possibilities and limits of explicable artificial intelligence (XAI) in education: a socio-technical perspective	2
Neoliberal education and the neoliberal digital classroom	2
Rebusque and minimal computing in rural Colombia: LibreEscuela, an OER co-creation project	2
Digital compliance or professional competence? Representations of teachers and digital futures in the Norwegian Qualification Framework	2
Beyond the screen: student experiences of social connection in a hybrid university learning environment	2
The hidden costs of free services: how donations support the corporate platformization of education	2
Exercising space : re-examining young people’s use of digitised health and physical education (HPE) technologies through a spatial lens	2
Time matters: a critical multimodal study of an English learning app for children in China	2
Re-examining AI, automation and datafication in education	2
‘I'm a resourceful person and I ask questions everywhere I go:’ adult job seekers’ adaptive literacy practices in the platformized workforce development system	2
Different voices, different bodies: presence–absence in the digital university	2
Decolonising data in higher education: critical issues and future directions	2
Missing in action: queer(y)ing the educational implications of data justice in an age of automation	2
Future classrooms and ed-tech imaginaries. Notes from the Estonian pavilion at EXPO 2020 and beyond	2
Blind and low-vision students as surveyors of in/accessibility in technology-mediated formal education	2
Alone-together: intergenerational mapping of digital and analogue spaces of self	2
Educational data advocates: emerging forms of teacher agency in postdigital classrooms	2
Against contextlessness in Learning, Media and Technology	2
Infrastructural dependency in the datafied welfare state: the case of Google Chromebooks	2
Mapping the imaginary of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in education: the case of Botswana	2
Introduction: Minimal Computing and EdTech	2
Religious ideologies of minimal computing: negotiating digital technology in religious nationalist education	2
Decolonizing digital accessibility within land/water realities using minimal computing	2
Navigating datascapes: mapping testing practices within and across national and global contexts	2