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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Legends’ teaching and learning with technology in teen space	111
Affordances and agency in students’ use of online platforms and resources beyond curricular boundaries	68
Systematic review of 15 years of research on digital citizenship: 2004–2019	59
Tracing the infrastructural unfolding of (edtech) events through hybrid team ethnography	42
Mapping rentiership and assetisation in the digitalisation of education	42
Coming to critical technology consciousness: a phenomenological study of educators	40
Enforcing unwarranted optimism: critical frame analysis on educational digitalisation policies in South Korea	39
Problematizing feedback loops: ‘on’, ‘with’, and ‘beyond’ analytics dashboards in MOOCs	38
Those magnificent men with their teaching machines: Watters, Audrey: Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning	37
‘It’s just another nightmare to manage:’ Australian parents’ perspectives on BYOD and ‘ed-tech’ at school and at home	34
What do we know about YouTube content about academic writing? A multimodal analysis	33
Digital cultural knowledge and curriculum: the experiences of international students as they moved from on-campus to on-line education during the pandemic	30
#REALTALK: Facebook Confessions pages as a data resource for academic and student support services at universities	28
Sociomaterial explorations of attendance practices in ‘schooling without schools’	26
Social classification and the changing boundaries of learning. A neopragmatic perspective on social sorting in digital education	25
Reading internationally: if citing is a political practice, who are we reading and who are we citing?	25
Taking play and tinkering seriously in AI education: cases from Drag vs AI teen workshops	24
Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment	24
‘We have- we had a digital debt’: a case of digitalized school leadership practice	23
Different voices, different bodies: presence–absence in the digital university	21
Gender and the lived body experience of academic work during COVID-19	20
Responding to sociotechnical controversies in education: a modest proposal toward technical democracy	18
Rethinking the boundaries of learning in a digital age	17
Of teachers and centaurs: Exploring the interactions and intra-actions of educators on AI education platforms	17
The EU policy discourse on EdTech and constructing the image of an excellent teacher	15

Socio-material mangles: the learning management system and lecturer positioning	15
Governance on, with, behind, and beyond the Discord platform: a study of platform practices in an informal learning context	15
Feminisms, technologies and learning: continuities and contestations	14
Challenging the inequitable impacts of edtech	14
The platform classroom: troubling student configurations in a Danish primary school	14
Misrepresentation or inclusion: promises of generative artificial intelligence in climate change education	13
Media literacy education nurturing civic participation of disadvantaged youth, or not?	13
‘We are not cheating. We are helping each other out:’ digital collective cheating in secondary education	13
Returning the data gaze in higher education	13
Perspectives on restorative practices and online-mediated harm in schools: implementation challenges	13
Understanding youths’ civic participation online: a digital multimodal composing perspective	12
Digitally Un/Free: the everyday impact of social media on the lives of young people	12
Privacy and distance learning in turbulent times: a comparison of German and Israeli schools during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic	11
On the ‘university of the future': a critical analysis of cohort-based course platform Maven	11
Edunudge	11
Big EdTech	11
Media literacy and the concept of ‘technologies’ in primary school classrooms: moving beyond technical skills	11
Shouts from Acro: contradictions, imaginations, and educational futures	11
Neoliberal education and the neoliberal digital classroom	10
Introducing computers in Indian schools: institutional resistances and the making of a digital divide	10
Technical agonism: embracing democratic dissensus in the datafication of education	10
Education, automation and AI: a genealogy of alternative futures	10
Lifting the veil on TeachersPayTeachers.com: an investigation of educational marketplace offerings and downloads	10
Education as a co-developed commodity in Finland? A rhetorical discourse analysis on business accelerator for EdTech startups	10
Smartphones in the Swedish upper-secondary classroom: A policy enactment perspective	10
Assetisation as a means to solve public problems: the research excellence framework and competitive future-making	9
Beyond the screen: student experiences of social connection in a hybrid university learning environment	9
The construction of legitimacy: a critical discourse analysis of the rhetoric of educational technology in post-pandemic higher education	9
Subterfuge: a parental strategy for mediating young children’s digital media practices in Azerbaijan	9
Religious ideologies of minimal computing: negotiating digital technology in religious nationalist education	9
Playce-making: transformation of space in a participatory game design project within a Canadian junior high school	9
Health education, social media, and tensions of authenticity in the ‘influencer pedagogy’ of health influencer Ashy Bines	9
Virtual supremacy and electronic imperialism: the hegemonies of e-learning and computer assisted language learning (CALL)	9
Alone-together: intergenerational mapping of digital and analogue spaces of self	9
Egyptian female podcasters: shaping feminist identities	9
Conflicting motives: challenges of generative AI in education	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
Discursive construction of online teacher identity and legitimacy in English language teaching	8
The life and times of university teachers in the era of digitalization: A tragedy	8
Youtube musicians and self-perceived multimedia, hypermedia, intertextual and transmedia competencies	8
The co-construction of data in-time: collaborative pedagogical encounters of golf instructors and students with data	8
Tell me a story: a framework for critically investigating AI language models	8
The forgotten African American innovators of educational technology: stories of education, technology, and civil rights	8
Imagining the future of artificial intelligence in education: a review of social science fiction	8
Socially shared inquiry with media and information literacy teachers: gaps and ways forward	7
Blurring the boundaries of current and future selves: students’ STEM identity exploration in a multimodal composing learning environment	7
Online religious learning: digital epistemic authority and self-socialization in religious communities	7
A technological bridge to equity: how VR designed through culturally relevant principles impact students appreciation of science	7
Decoding school marketisation – exploring computational analytics in large-scale policy data	7

Lecturer professional identities in gamification: a socio-material perspective	7
Algorithmic - authors in academia: blurring the boundaries of human and machine knowledge production	7
Towards global and local histories of educational technologies: introduction	6
Hackerspaces as technofeminist sites for experiential learning	6
Digital compliance or professional competence? Representations of teachers and digital futures in the Norwegian Qualification Framework	6
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
Theorising on covid-19 educational emergency: magnifying glasses for the field of educational technology	6
Bridging inquiry and critique: a neo-pragmatic perspective on the making of educational futures and the role of social research	6
Teaching scientific inquiry as a situated practice: A framework for analyzing and designing Science games	6
Homo medialiteratus and the media literacy proxy war: mapping the U.S. response to digital dismisinfo	5
The device on the desk – a sociomaterial analysis of how Snapchat adapts to and participates in the classroom	5
Blind and low-vision students as surveyors of in/accessibility in technology-mediated formal education	5
Data as asset, data as rent? Rentiership practices in EdTech startups	5
Rebusque and minimal computing in rural Colombia: LibreEscuela, an OER co-creation project	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
‘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
How young children’s play is shaped through common iPad applications: a study of 2 and 4–5 year-olds	4
‘Way more relevant and a little less theoretical’: how teaching artists designed for online learning in a pandemic	4
The politics and reciprocal (re)configuration of accountability and fairness in data-driven education	4
Screens, teens and their brains. Discourses about digital media, learning and cognitive development in popular science neuroeducation	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
Collectively produced epistemic objects and their necessary incompleteness for professional learning on a large-scale online platform	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
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
Who controls children’s education data? A socio-legal analysis of the UK governance regimes for schools and EdTech	4
Introduction: Minimal Computing and EdTech	4
Edtech platforms from below: a family ethnography of marginalized communities and their digital learning post-pandemic	4
Instituting socio-technical education futures: encounters with/through technical democracy, data justice, and imaginaries	4
Format research. On the epistemic effects of changing forms and formats in education research	4
Predictive analytics and the creation of the permanent present	4
In/equalities in digital education policy – sociotechnical imaginaries from three world regions	4
#Quiltsforpulse: connected and shared socio-political activism through craftivism	3
Who cites whom? U.S.-American authored research syntheses in the field of educational technology: a bibliometric analysis	3
Reforming education via radio lessons for teachers? The promise and problems of distance learning in Cameroon, 1960–1995	3
Digital education utopia	3
A decolonial approach to AI in higher education teaching and learning: strategies for undoing the ethics of digital neocolonialism	3
Migration narratives in educational digital storytelling: which stories can be told?	3
Dualized modernization: USAID and the educational television in South Korea	3
Oscillating between the techniques of discipline and self: how Chinese policy papers on the digitalization of education subjectivize educators and the educated	3
Living with digital materialisations of self	3
One thing can be more than one thing: a comparative study of the teacher professionalization app ‘TeacherTapp’	3
Googlization(s) of education: intermediary work brokering platform dependence in three national school systems	3
Navigating open-source platforms in schools: an inquiry into changing teacher professionality	3
Assessing film in higher education: straddling academic and professional conventions	3
‘Help!? My students created an evil AI’: on the irony of speculative methods and design fiction	3
Crafting the consumer teacher: education influencers and the figured world of K-12 teaching	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