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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Legends’ teaching and learning with technology in teen space	176
Affordances and agency in students’ use of online platforms and resources beyond curricular boundaries	121
Theorizing the future of generative AI in education	91
Mapping rentiership and assetisation in the digitalisation of education	67
Problematizing feedback loops: ‘on’, ‘with’, and ‘beyond’ analytics dashboards in MOOCs	53
What do we know about YouTube content about academic writing? A multimodal analysis	40
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	31
Coming to critical technology consciousness: a phenomenological study of educators	30
In search of humanness: professional identities of qualitative research educators in the age of generative AI	30
Tracing the infrastructural unfolding of (edtech) events through hybrid team ethnography	24
Reading internationally: if citing is a political practice, who are we reading and who are we citing?	22
Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment	22
Digital cultural knowledge and curriculum: the experiences of international students as they moved from on-campus to on-line education during the pandemic	22
Taking play and tinkering seriously in AI education: cases from Drag vs AI teen workshops	21
Navigating education and work futures through generative AI: transmaterial philosophy, education, and the algorithmic arts	21
Different voices, different bodies: presence–absence in the digital university	21
Social classification and the changing boundaries of learning. A neopragmatic perspective on social sorting in digital education	21
‘We have- we had a digital debt’: a case of digitalized school leadership practice	20
The educational robotics imaginary. EdTech industry, educational timescapes and the tyranny of connectivity	19
Stories from the future of lifelong learning: fiction, technology and speculative pedagogies	19
Of teachers and centaurs: Exploring the interactions and intra-actions of educators on AI education platforms	19
Stories we make: speculative fiction and rememorative futures in civic learning	18
Restorying trans futures: virtual world-becoming through VR painting and speculative storytelling	18
Responding to sociotechnical controversies in education: a modest proposal toward technical democracy	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	16
Returning the data gaze in higher education	16
Challenging the inequitable impacts of edtech	15
The form and function of education fiction: a design heuristic to foster convivial forms of inquiry	15
Socio-material mangles: the learning management system and lecturer positioning	15
Designing for reciprocity: participatory online professional learning after platformization	14
Profaning platforms: deactivating and reimagining digital ecosystems in education through playful misuse	14
Privacy and distance learning in turbulent times: a comparison of German and Israeli schools during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic	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
Shouts from Acro: contradictions, imaginations, and educational futures	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
Smartphones in the Swedish upper-secondary classroom: A policy enactment perspective	11
Subterfuge: a parental strategy for mediating young children’s digital media practices in Azerbaijan	11
Introducing computers in Indian schools: institutional resistances and the making of a digital divide	11
Assetisation as a means to solve public problems: the research excellence framework and competitive future-making	11
On the ‘university of the future': a critical analysis of cohort-based course platform Maven	11
Correction	11
Beyond the screen: student experiences of social connection in a hybrid university learning environment	11
Alone-together: intergenerational mapping of digital and analogue spaces of self	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
Education as a co-developed commodity in Finland? A rhetorical discourse analysis on business accelerator for EdTech startups	10
Technical agonism: embracing democratic dissensus in the datafication of education	10
What we imagine when we imagine AI: a framework for analyzing speculative storytelling on education and technology	10
Religious ideologies of minimal computing: negotiating digital technology in religious nationalist education	10
Unearthing imaginaries: drama-based pedagogy for speculative futures of AI in higher education	10
Imagining the future of artificial intelligence in education: a review of social science fiction	9
Tell me a story: a framework for critically investigating AI language models	9
The forgotten African American innovators of educational technology: stories of education, technology, and civil rights	9
Developing teacher understandings of digital play in the early years of schooling	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	8
Online religious learning: digital epistemic authority and self-socialization in religious communities	8
Conflicting motives: challenges of generative AI in education	8
Decoding school marketisation – exploring computational analytics in large-scale policy data	8
‘I hope this email finds you well’: how synthetic affect circulates through MagicSchool AI	8
Lecturer professional identities in gamification: a socio-material perspective	8
When platformisation meets schooling: exploring teachers, students and parents’ experiences of digital platform use	8
Blurring the boundaries of current and future selves: students’ STEM identity exploration in a multimodal composing learning environment	8
Creative intra-actions: co-creating with generative AI in the age of climate change	7
Platform bureaucratization as pedagogy in highly platformized classrooms	7
How platformised data collection practices in state primary schools in England mediate the parent–child relationship	7
Bridging inquiry and critique: a neo-pragmatic perspective on the making of educational futures and the role of social research	7
What is the problem with generative artificial intelligence in higher education? – a critical analysis of educator responsibility in the Swedish policy landscape	7
Algorithmic-authors in academia: blurring the boundaries of human and machine knowledge production	7

Towards global and local histories of educational technologies: introduction	7
Schools as enablers and constrainers: teachers’ perceptions and practices of digital citizenship education in New Zealand	7
Digital degrowth: toward radically sustainable education technology	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
‘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
Data as asset, data as rent? Rentiership practices in EdTech startups	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
Decolonising data in higher education: critical issues and future directions	6
Introduction: Minimal Computing and EdTech	6
Digital compliance or professional competence? Representations of teachers and digital futures in the Norwegian Qualification Framework	6
Edtech platforms from below: a family ethnography of marginalized communities and their digital learning post-pandemic	5
Valuable data? Using walkthrough methods to understand the impact of digital reading platforms in Australian primary schools	5
Collectively produced epistemic objects and their necessary incompleteness for professional learning on a large-scale online platform	5
In/equalities in digital education policy – sociotechnical imaginaries from three world regions	5
Beyond products and policies: transformative consultancy for schooling in the digital age	5
Class of 2025: a speculative biography of university graduate futures	5
How young children’s play is shaped through common iPad applications: a study of 2 and 4–5 year-olds	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
Transforming methodologies – reconsidering the tools and logics of educational research in the digital era	5
The (im)possibility of AI literacy	5
Parents’ ontological beliefs regarding the use of conversational agents at home: resisting the neoliberal discourse	4
Digital education utopia	4
Educational data brokers: using the walkthrough method to identify data brokering by edtech platforms	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
Assessing film in higher education: straddling academic and professional conventions	4
Turning back the page on digital literacy: the role of traditional literacy in shaping digital practices	4
Who controls children’s education data? A socio-legal analysis of the UK governance regimes for schools and EdTech	4
Screens, teens and their brains. Discourses about digital media, learning and cognitive development in popular science neuroeducation	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
Navigating open-source platforms in schools: an inquiry into changing teacher professionality	4
Dualized modernization: USAID and the educational television in South Korea	4
Format research. On the epistemic effects of changing forms and formats in education research	4
A critical AI media literacy framework: understanding layered bias and empowerment in artificial intelligence	4
Beyond the story: a three-lens analysis of education fiction	4
One thing can be more than one thing: a comparative study of the teacher professionalization app ‘TeacherTapp’	4
Media literacy provision from the perspective of policymakers and civil society organisations in five areas of the UK: a case study approach	4
Living with digital materialisations of self	4
Oscillating between the techniques of discipline and self: how Chinese policy papers on the digitalization of education subjectivize educators and the educated	4
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
Who cites whom? U.S.-American authored research syntheses in the field of educational technology: a bibliometric analysis	3
The hidden costs of free services: how donations support the corporate platformization of education	3
Future challenges for critical research on educational technologies	3
We need a curricular cooperative: envisioning a future beyond teachers paying teachers	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
Defining ‘the Force’ of artificial intelligence in education: exploring the future of teaching through informed speculation	3
‘Help!? My students created an evil AI’: on the irony of speculative methods and design fiction	3
Reforming education via radio lessons for teachers? The promise and problems of distance learning in Cameroon, 1960–1995	3
Imagining personalisation: EdTech and the shift towards neuroliberal governance	3
Using more-than-human approaches to study the politics of AI in the automating of decision making in education	3
Locating critical play on Roblox: glitching and (re)placement as methods of public access and transnational belonging	3
Teachers without borders: professional learning spanning social media, place, and time	3
Schools, space and atmospheres: the value of student videos in negotiating contested spaces in new urban vertical schools	3
Missing in action: queer(y)ing the educational implications of data justice in an age of automation	3
Developing children’s algorithmic literacies through curatorship as media literacy	3
Everyday approaches to platform-mediated personalized learning in secondary schools	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
Metacognitive AI literacy: going beyond the AI skills gap agenda	3
Reframing AI governance in education: insights from the social model of disability	3
Digital remix as a pedagogical platform intervention	3