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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Legends’ teaching and learning with technology in teen space	133
Affordances and agency in students’ use of online platforms and resources beyond curricular boundaries	78
Mapping rentiership and assetisation in the digitalisation of education	68
Theorizing the future of generative AI in education	52
Coming to critical technology consciousness: a phenomenological study of educators	45
Enforcing unwarranted optimism: critical frame analysis on educational digitalisation policies in South Korea	45
Tracing the infrastructural unfolding of (edtech) events through hybrid team ethnography	43
Problematizing feedback loops: ‘on’, ‘with’, and ‘beyond’ analytics dashboards in MOOCs	34
Power structures and perceptions of AI fairness in high-stakes language testing: the Pearson Test of English (PTE Academic) as case study	30
‘It’s just another nightmare to manage:’ Australian parents’ perspectives on BYOD and ‘ed-tech’ at school and at home	26
Those magnificent men with their teaching machines: Watters, Audrey: Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning	26
In search of humanness: professional identities of qualitative research educators in the age of generative AI	26
Reading internationally: if citing is a political practice, who are we reading and who are we citing?	25
What do we know about YouTube content about academic writing? A multimodal analysis	25
Sociomaterial explorations of attendance practices in ‘schooling without schools’	23
Social classification and the changing boundaries of learning. A neopragmatic perspective on social sorting in digital education	19
Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment	19
Taking play and tinkering seriously in AI education: cases from Drag vs AI teen workshops	17
Digital cultural knowledge and curriculum: the experiences of international students as they moved from on-campus to on-line education during the pandemic	16
‘We have- we had a digital debt’: a case of digitalized school leadership practice	15
Gender and the lived body experience of academic work during COVID-19	15
Different voices, different bodies: presence–absence in the digital university	15
Of teachers and centaurs: Exploring the interactions and intra-actions of educators on AI education platforms	14
The EU policy discourse on EdTech and constructing the image of an excellent teacher	14
Socio-material mangles: the learning management system and lecturer positioning	14

Rethinking the boundaries of learning in a digital age	14
Responding to sociotechnical controversies in education: a modest proposal toward technical democracy	14
Challenging the inequitable impacts of edtech	14
Media literacy education nurturing civic participation of disadvantaged youth, or not?	14
Governance on, with, behind, and beyond the Discord platform: a study of platform practices in an informal learning context	14
Returning the data gaze in higher education	14
Feminisms, technologies and learning: continuities and contestations	14
The platform classroom: troubling student configurations in a Danish primary school	14
Perspectives on restorative practices and online-mediated harm in schools: implementation challenges	13
‘We are not cheating. We are helping each other out:’ digital collective cheating in secondary education	13
Understanding youths’ civic participation online: a digital multimodal composing perspective	13
Shouts from Acro: contradictions, imaginations, and educational futures	12
Media literacy and the concept of ‘technologies’ in primary school classrooms: moving beyond technical skills	12
Digitally Un/Free: the everyday impact of social media on the lives of young people	12
Edunudge	12
Privacy and distance learning in turbulent times: a comparison of German and Israeli schools during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Big EdTech	11
Smartphones in the Swedish upper-secondary classroom: A policy enactment perspective	11
On the ‘university of the future': a critical analysis of cohort-based course platform Maven	11
Introducing computers in Indian schools: institutional resistances and the making of a digital divide	11
Misrepresentation or inclusion: promises of generative artificial intelligence in climate change education	11
Subterfuge: a parental strategy for mediating young children’s digital media practices in Azerbaijan	10
Playce-making: transformation of space in a participatory game design project within a Canadian junior high school	10
Assetisation as a means to solve public problems: the research excellence framework and competitive future-making	10
Education, automation and AI: a genealogy of alternative futures	10
Religious ideologies of minimal computing: negotiating digital technology in religious nationalist education	10
Technical agonism: embracing democratic dissensus in the datafication of education	9
The construction of legitimacy: a critical discourse analysis of the rhetoric of educational technology in post-pandemic higher education	9
Beyond the screen: student experiences of social connection in a hybrid university learning environment	9
Health education, social media, and tensions of authenticity in the ‘influencer pedagogy’ of health influencer Ashy Bines	9
Alone-together: intergenerational mapping of digital and analogue spaces of self	9
Education as a co-developed commodity in Finland? A rhetorical discourse analysis on business accelerator for EdTech startups	9
Egyptian female podcasters: shaping feminist identities	9
The forgotten African American innovators of educational technology: stories of education, technology, and civil rights	8
The life and times of university teachers in the era of digitalization: A tragedy	8
Who cares about learning design? Near future superheroes and villains of an educational ethics of care	8
Autoroll: scripting the emergence of classroom facial recognition technology	8
Decoding school marketisation – exploring computational analytics in large-scale policy data	8
Discursive construction of online teacher identity and legitimacy in English language teaching	8
Imagining the future of artificial intelligence in education: a review of social science fiction	8
Virtual supremacy and electronic imperialism: the hegemonies of e-learning and computer assisted language learning (CALL)	8
Tell me a story: a framework for critically investigating AI language models	8
Socially shared inquiry with media and information literacy teachers: gaps and ways forward	7
Lecturer professional identities in gamification: a socio-material perspective	7
Blurring the boundaries of current and future selves: students’ STEM identity exploration in a multimodal composing learning environment	7
Conflicting motives: challenges of generative AI in education	7
Online religious learning: digital epistemic authority and self-socialization in religious communities	7
Teaching scientific inquiry as a situated practice: A framework for analyzing and designing Science games	7
‘I hope this email finds you well’: how synthetic affect circulates through MagicSchool AI	7
How platformised data collection practices in state primary schools in England mediate the parent–child relationship	6

Digital degrowth: toward radically sustainable education technology	6
Towards global and local histories of educational technologies: introduction	6
Homo medialiteratus and the media literacy proxy war: mapping the U.S. response to digital dismisinfo	6
Bridging inquiry and critique: a neo-pragmatic perspective on the making of educational futures and the role of social research	6
Hackerspaces as technofeminist sites for experiential learning	6
Blind and low-vision students as surveyors of in/accessibility in technology-mediated formal education	6
Rebusque and minimal computing in rural Colombia: LibreEscuela, an OER co-creation project	6
Algorithmic-authors in academia: blurring the boundaries of human and machine knowledge production	6
Creative intra-actions: co-creating with generative AI in the age of climate change	6
Digital compliance or professional competence? Representations of teachers and digital futures in the Norwegian Qualification Framework	6
Data as asset, data as rent? Rentiership practices in EdTech startups	5
How young children’s play is shaped through common iPad applications: a study of 2 and 4–5 year-olds	5
In/equalities in digital education policy – sociotechnical imaginaries from three world regions	5
Collectively produced epistemic objects and their necessary incompleteness for professional learning on a large-scale online platform	5
Time matters: a critical multimodal study of an English learning app for children in China	5
Decolonising data in higher education: critical issues and future directions	5
Edtech platforms from below: a family ethnography of marginalized communities and their digital learning post-pandemic	5
‘I'm a resourceful person and I ask questions everywhere I go:’ adult job seekers’ adaptive literacy practices in the platformized workforce development system	5
The device on the desk – a sociomaterial analysis of how Snapchat adapts to and participates in the classroom	5
Introduction: Minimal Computing and EdTech	5
Class of 2025: a speculative biography of university graduate futures	5
Instituting socio-technical education futures: encounters with/through technical democracy, data justice, and imaginaries	5
Format research. On the epistemic effects of changing forms and formats in education research	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
Predictive analytics and the creation of the permanent present	4
The politics and reciprocal (re)configuration of accountability and fairness in data-driven education	4
A critical AI media literacy framework: understanding layered bias and empowerment in artificial intelligence	4
‘Way more relevant and a little less theoretical’: how teaching artists designed for online learning in a pandemic	4
Digital education utopia	4
Valuable data? Using walkthrough methods to understand the impact of digital reading platforms in Australian primary schools	4
Parents’ ontological beliefs regarding the use of conversational agents at home: resisting the neoliberal discourse	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
Who controls children’s education data? A socio-legal analysis of the UK governance regimes for schools and EdTech	4
Who cites whom? U.S.-American authored research syntheses in the field of educational technology: a bibliometric analysis	3
Everyday approaches to platform-mediated personalized learning in secondary schools	3
One thing can be more than one thing: a comparative study of the teacher professionalization app ‘TeacherTapp’	3
A decolonial approach to AI in higher education teaching and learning: strategies for undoing the ethics of digital neocolonialism	3
Dualized modernization: USAID and the educational television in South Korea	3
Educational technologies as matters of care	3
Educational data brokers: using the walkthrough method to identify data brokering by edtech platforms	3
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	3
Assessing film in higher education: straddling academic and professional conventions	3
Oscillating between the techniques of discipline and self: how Chinese policy papers on the digitalization of education subjectivize educators and the educated	3
Navigating open-source platforms in schools: an inquiry into changing teacher professionality	3
Googlization(s) of education: intermediary work brokering platform dependence in three national school systems	3
Crafting the consumer teacher: education influencers and the figured world of K-12 teaching	3