OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Learning Media and Technology is 8. 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
Enforcing unwarranted optimism: critical frame analysis on educational digitalisation policies in South Korea	45
Coming to critical technology consciousness: a phenomenological study of educators	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
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
‘It’s just another nightmare to manage:’ Australian parents’ perspectives on BYOD and ‘ed-tech’ at school and at home	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
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
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
‘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
Perspectives on restorative practices and online-mediated harm in schools: implementation challenges	13
Digitally Un/Free: the everyday impact of social media on the lives of young people	12
Edunudge	12
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
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
Privacy and distance learning in turbulent times: a comparison of German and Israeli schools during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic	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
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
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