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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Legends’ teaching and learning with technology in teen space	172
Mapping rentiership and assetisation in the digitalisation of education	119
Theorizing the future of generative AI in education	87
Affordances and agency in students’ use of online platforms and resources beyond curricular boundaries	62
Problematizing feedback loops: ‘on’, ‘with’, and ‘beyond’ analytics dashboards in MOOCs	52
Tracing the infrastructural unfolding of (edtech) events through hybrid team ethnography	36
Power structures and perceptions of AI fairness in high-stakes language testing: the Pearson Test of English (PTE Academic) as case study	36
Enforcing unwarranted optimism: critical frame analysis on educational digitalisation policies in South Korea	35
In search of humanness: professional identities of qualitative research educators in the age of generative AI	30
What do we know about YouTube content about academic writing? A multimodal analysis	29
Coming to critical technology consciousness: a phenomenological study of educators	27
Social classification and the changing boundaries of learning. A neopragmatic perspective on social sorting in digital education	21
Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment	21
Digital cultural knowledge and curriculum: the experiences of international students as they moved from on-campus to on-line education during the pandemic	21
Taking play and tinkering seriously in AI education: cases from Drag vs AI teen workshops	20
Navigating education and work futures through generative AI: transmaterial philosophy, education, and the algorithmic arts	20
Reading internationally: if citing is a political practice, who are we reading and who are we citing?	20
The educational robotics imaginary. EdTech industry, educational timescapes and the tyranny of connectivity	20
Stories from the future of lifelong learning: fiction, technology and speculative pedagogies	19
‘We have- we had a digital debt’: a case of digitalized school leadership practice	19
Different voices, different bodies: presence–absence in the digital university	19
Of teachers and centaurs: Exploring the interactions and intra-actions of educators on AI education platforms	18
Restorying trans futures: virtual world-becoming through VR painting and speculative storytelling	18
Stories we make: speculative fiction and rememorative futures in civic learning	17
The EU policy discourse on EdTech and constructing the image of an excellent teacher	17

Rethinking the boundaries of learning in a digital age	17
Responding to sociotechnical controversies in education: a modest proposal toward technical democracy	16
Socio-material mangles: the learning management system and lecturer positioning	16
The form and function of education fiction: a design heuristic to foster convivial forms of inquiry	15
Returning the data gaze in higher education	15
Edunudge	14
Perspectives on restorative practices and online-mediated harm in schools: implementation challenges	14
Challenging the inequitable impacts of edtech	14
‘We are not cheating. We are helping each other out:’ digital collective cheating in secondary education	14
Shouts from Acro: contradictions, imaginations, and educational futures	14
Privacy and distance learning in turbulent times: a comparison of German and Israeli schools during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Media literacy and the concept of ‘technologies’ in primary school classrooms: moving beyond technical skills	13
Digitally Un/Free: the everyday impact of social media on the lives of young people	12
Correction	12
Misrepresentation or inclusion: promises of generative artificial intelligence in climate change education	12
On the ‘university of the future': a critical analysis of cohort-based course platform Maven	12
Introducing computers in Indian schools: institutional resistances and the making of a digital divide	12
Assetisation as a means to solve public problems: the research excellence framework and competitive future-making	11
Technical agonism: embracing democratic dissensus in the datafication of education	11
Alone-together: intergenerational mapping of digital and analogue spaces of self	11
Education as a co-developed commodity in Finland? A rhetorical discourse analysis on business accelerator for EdTech startups	11
Religious ideologies of minimal computing: negotiating digital technology in religious nationalist education	11
Smartphones in the Swedish upper-secondary classroom: A policy enactment perspective	11
Beyond the screen: student experiences of social connection in a hybrid university learning environment	11
The construction of legitimacy: a critical discourse analysis of the rhetoric of educational technology in post-pandemic higher education	10
The forgotten African American innovators of educational technology: stories of education, technology, and civil rights	10
Subterfuge: a parental strategy for mediating young children’s digital media practices in Azerbaijan	10
Developing teacher understandings of digital play in the early years of schooling	10
Reimagining learning futures through lenses of speculative fiction, scholarly analysis, and public dialogue	10
Virtual supremacy and electronic imperialism: the hegemonies of e-learning and computer assisted language learning (CALL)	10
Discursive construction of online teacher identity and legitimacy in English language teaching	9
Imagining the future of artificial intelligence in education: a review of social science fiction	9
Decoding school marketisation – exploring computational analytics in large-scale policy data	9
Who cares about learning design? Near future superheroes and villains of an educational ethics of care	9
Tell me a story: a framework for critically investigating AI language models	9
When platformisation meets schooling: exploring teachers, students and parents’ experiences of digital platform use	9
Lecturer professional identities in gamification: a socio-material perspective	8
Platform bureaucratization as pedagogy in highly platformized classrooms	8
Online religious learning: digital epistemic authority and self-socialization in religious communities	8
‘I hope this email finds you well’: how synthetic affect circulates through MagicSchool AI	8
Conflicting motives: challenges of generative AI in education	8
Blurring the boundaries of current and future selves: students’ STEM identity exploration in a multimodal composing learning environment	8
‘I'm a resourceful person and I ask questions everywhere I go:’ adult job seekers’ adaptive literacy practices in the platformized workforce development system	7
Towards global and local histories of educational technologies: introduction	7
What is the problem with generative artificial intelligence in higher education? – a critical analysis of educator responsibility in the Swedish policy landscape	7
Digital degrowth: toward radically sustainable education technology	7
How platformised data collection practices in state primary schools in England mediate the parent–child relationship	7
Digital compliance or professional competence? Representations of teachers and digital futures in the Norwegian Qualification Framework	7
Algorithmic-authors in academia: blurring the boundaries of human and machine knowledge production	7
Creative intra-actions: co-creating with generative AI in the age of climate change	7

Data as asset, data as rent? Rentiership practices in EdTech startups	7
Rebusque and minimal computing in rural Colombia: LibreEscuela, an OER co-creation project	7
Schools as enablers and constrainers: teachers’ perceptions and practices of digital citizenship education in New Zealand	7
Bridging inquiry and critique: a neo-pragmatic perspective on the making of educational futures and the role of social research	7
Time matters: a critical multimodal study of an English learning app for children in China	6
Blind and low-vision students as surveyors of in/accessibility in technology-mediated formal education	6
Introduction: Minimal Computing and EdTech	6
Class of 2025: a speculative biography of university graduate futures	6
Decolonising data in higher education: critical issues and future directions	6
Valuable data? Using walkthrough methods to understand the impact of digital reading platforms in Australian primary schools	6
Homo medialiteratus and the media literacy proxy war: mapping the U.S. response to digital dismisinfo	6
Edtech platforms from below: a family ethnography of marginalized communities and their digital learning post-pandemic	6
How young children’s play is shaped through common iPad applications: a study of 2 and 4–5 year-olds	6
Collectively produced epistemic objects and their necessary incompleteness for professional learning on a large-scale online platform	6
The (im)possibility of AI literacy	6
In/equalities in digital education policy – sociotechnical imaginaries from three world regions	5
Format research. On the epistemic effects of changing forms and formats in education research	5
Screens, teens and their brains. Discourses about digital media, learning and cognitive development in popular science neuroeducation	5
Problematising ClassDojo as a digital tool for behaviour management and home-school communication	5
What is mobile documentation doing through social media in early childhood education in-between the boundaries of a teacher’s personal and professional subjectivities?	5
Parents’ ontological beliefs regarding the use of conversational agents at home: resisting the neoliberal discourse	5
Instituting socio-technical education futures: encounters with/through technical democracy, data justice, and imaginaries	5
Beyond products and policies: transformative consultancy for schooling in the digital age	5
Turning back the page on digital literacy: the role of traditional literacy in shaping digital practices	5
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
Making education manageable: school management systems and the discursive construction of data-driven classrooms	4
Who cites whom? U.S.-American authored research syntheses in the field of educational technology: a bibliometric analysis	4
A critical AI media literacy framework: understanding layered bias and empowerment in artificial intelligence	4
Educational data brokers: using the walkthrough method to identify data brokering by edtech platforms	4
Navigating open-source platforms in schools: an inquiry into changing teacher professionality	4
Reforming education via radio lessons for teachers? The promise and problems of distance learning in Cameroon, 1960–1995	4
Assessing film in higher education: straddling academic and professional conventions	4
Googlization(s) of education: intermediary work brokering platform dependence in three national school systems	4
Digital education utopia	4
One thing can be more than one thing: a comparative study of the teacher professionalization app ‘TeacherTapp’	4
Crafting the consumer teacher: education influencers and the figured world of K-12 teaching	4
Living with digital materialisations of self	4
Media literacy provision from the perspective of policymakers and civil society organisations in five areas of the UK: a case study approach	4
Who controls children’s education data? A socio-legal analysis of the UK governance regimes for schools and EdTech	4
Defining ‘the Force’ of artificial intelligence in education: exploring the future of teaching through informed speculation	3
Everyday approaches to platform-mediated personalized learning in secondary schools	3
Using ethical scenarios to explore the future of artificial intelligence in primary and secondary education	3
Imagining personalisation: EdTech and the shift towards neuroliberal governance	3
‘Daddy should search for help on Google instead of swearing … ’: escaping the boundaries of technologically mediated learning	3
Relational dynamics at the intersection of technology and higher education: perspectives on GenAI use among humanities master’s students	3
Correction	3
Future classrooms and ed-tech imaginaries. Notes from the Estonian pavilion at EXPO 2020 and beyond	3
Critical and participatory design in-between the tensions of daily schooling: working towards sustainable and reflective digital school development	3
Oscillating between the techniques of discipline and self: how Chinese policy papers on the digitalization of education subjectivize educators and the educated	3
Missing in action: queer(y)ing the educational implications of data justice in an age of automation	3
Reframing AI governance in education: insights from the social model of disability	3
Schools, space and atmospheres: the value of student videos in negotiating contested spaces in new urban vertical schools	3
Assembling desire. Analyzing the rollout of self-tracking devices in early childhood education	3
Developing children’s algorithmic literacies through curatorship as media literacy	3
The hidden costs of free services: how donations support the corporate platformization of education	3
Dualized modernization: USAID and the educational television in South Korea	3
‘Help!? My students created an evil AI’: on the irony of speculative methods and design fiction	3
Digital remix as a pedagogical platform intervention	3
Future challenges for critical research on educational technologies	3
Teachers without borders: professional learning spanning social media, place, and time	3