OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Communication Culture & Critique is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Empathy and Its Alternatives: Deconstructing the Rhetoric of “Empathy” in Video Games	35
Structural Limits to the De-Westernization of the Communication Field: The Editorial Board in Clarivate's JCR System	27
#CommunicationSoWhite: Race and Power in the Academy and Beyond	24
Civil Society Must Be Defended: Misinformation, Moral Panics, and Wars of Restoration	24
Between Commerciality and Authenticity: The Imaginary of Social Media Influencers in the Platform Economy	21
“Famous, Beloved, Reviled, Respected, Feared, Celebrated:” Media Construction of Greta Thunberg	16
Technocracy Meets Populism: The Dominant Technological Imaginary of Silicon Valley	15
On the Margins of the Margins: #CommunicationSoWhite—Canadian Style	15
Of Experts and Tokens: Mapping a Critical Race Archaeology of Communication	14
Making #BlackLivesMatter in the Shadow of Selma: Collective Memory and Racial Justice Activism in U.S. News	11
Academic Caregivers on Organizational and Community Resilience in Academia (Fuck Individual Resilience)	11
Viral Borders: Migration, Deceleration, and the Re-Bordering of Mobility during the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
The Affordances of Interview Research on Zoom: New Intimacies and Active Listening	10
Prison Tech: Imagining the Prison as Lagging Behind and as a Test Bed for Technology Advancement	9
Examining Whiteness in Interpersonal Communication Textbooks	8
To Affinity and Beyond: Clicking as Communicative Gesture on the Experimentation Platform	8
Careful Digital Kinship: Understanding Multispecies Digital Kinship, Choreographies of Care and Older Adults During the Pandemic in Australia	7
Pandemic Pedagogy, Zoom, and the Surveillant Classroom: The Challenges of Living Our Advocacies in a Pandemic	6
Digital Migration Practices and the Everyday	6
Remaking the #Syllabus: Crowdsourcing Resistance Praxis as Critical Public Pedagogy	6
Telecocooning in the age of (im)mobility	6
Power, Agency and Resistance in Public Relations: A Queer of Color Critique of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance	6
From Hashtag Activism to Inclusion and Diversity in a Discipline	6
Gendering National Sacrifices: The Making of New Heroines in China’s Counter-COVID-19 TV Series	5
From “Mine” to “Ours”: Gendered Hierarchies of Authorship and the Limits of Taylor Swift’s Paratextual Feminism	5

Digital Diasporas: Staying with the Trouble	5
A Digital Postracial Parity? Black Women’s Everyday Resistance and Rethinking Online Media Culture	5
An African City: Black Women's Creativity, Pleasure, Diasporic (Dis)Connections and Resistance Through Aesthetic and Media Practices and Scholarship	5
Precarity in the Academy and Solidarity Amidst COVID-19: Resisting Employment Restrictions on International Graduate Students	5
Extractive Humanitarianism: Participatory Confinement and Unpaid Labor in Refugees Governmentality	5
Tactical Trolling: Understanding Journalist Trolling as a New Online Resistance in South Korea	4
“My Money and My Heart”: Buying a Birkin and Boundary Work Online	4
Chronicles of a Meme Foretold: Political Memes as Folk Memory in India	4
The reproduction of canonical silences: re-reading Habermas in the context of slavery and the slave trade	4
Media, Affect, and Authoritarian Futures in “New Turkey:” Spectacular Confessions on Television in the Post-Coup Era	4
Digitalization, Digitization and Datafication: The "Three D" Transformation of Forced Migration Management	4
#CommunicationSoWhite in the Age of Ultra-Nationalisms	4
Biometric Bordering and Automatic Gender Recognition: Challenging Binary Gender Norms in Everyday Biometric Technologies	4
Tiger King’s Meme-ification of White Grievance and the Normalization of Misogyny	4
Media Censorship: Obscuring Autocracy and Hindutva-ideology in Indian Governance	4
Glocal intimacies: theorizing mobile media and intimate relationships	3
Mapping Interventions: Toward a Decolonial and Indigenous Praxis across Communication Subfields	3
Examining Inequitable Workload in a Time of Crisis: A COVID-19 “Sabbatical”	3
Troll Tracking: Examining Rhetorical Circulation of Anti-Intellectual Ideologies in Right-Wing Media Attacks	3
“Lockdown Within a Lockdown”: The “Digital Redlining” and Paralyzed Online Teaching During COVID-19 in Kashmir, A Conflict Territory	3
“We Act as One Lest We Perish Alone”: A Case Study in Mediated White Nationalist Activism	3
“Come On, Put Viber, We Can Drink Coffee Together”: Performing (Im)mobile Intimacy in Turbulent Times Among Aging Migrants	3
Setting the Record Straight: Conservative Populism, Swampiness, and Journalistic Practice	3
Doing it Like a Tomboy on Post-2010 Chinese TV	3
“How Do We Live Together Without Killing Each Other?” Indigenous and Feminist Perspectives on Relationality	3
Feminist accountability: deconstructing feminist praxes, solidarities and LGBTQI+ activisms in Ghana	3
Not just platform, nor cooperatives: worker-owned technologies from below	3
The Robert Capa Myth: Hegemonic Masculinity in Photojournalism’s Professional Indoctrination	2
Squid Game’s foreigners: Orientalism, Occidentalism, sub-imperialism	2
Journalists’ Mnemonic Techniques and the Rise of Trumpism*	2
The Discursive Construction of Crisis: Hungary’s Spiral to Populism	2
The politics of representation in Squid Game and the promise and peril of its transnational reception	2
Racial privilege as a function of White supremacy and contextual advantages for Asian Americans	2
The Burden of Empathy and Blurred Boundaries	2
Mentorship and Relationality	2
Talking Through Race: Two Raced Women’s Tinder Stories	2
Instagramming Diasporic Mobilities: The Black Travel Movement and Differential Spatial Racialization	2
Women on and Behind Chinese Entertainment Television: De/Constructing the Female Authorship of National Treasure	2
Introduction: Centering Women on Post-2010 Chinese TV	2
Creative Action Under Two Copyright Regimes: Filmmaking and Visual Arts in Australia and the United States	2
Affect, Creativity and Migrant Belonging	2
A Lot of Straddling and Squirming: Taking Queer Migrant Stories beyond the Academic and Digital Walls	2
Enshrining Terror for the Nation: Affect and Nationalism at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum	2
Intersectionality and Mentoring as Organic Praxis: When Feminist Killjoys are Too Hot to be Mentors	2
Migration and theDeep Timeof Media Infrastructures	2
Beyond “Commercial Realism”: Extending Goffman’s Gender Display Framework to Networked Media Contexts	2
On Rhythms and Rhymes: Poetics of Identity in Postcolonial Italy	2
Why are you just watching?: polyvalent Korean spectatorship and critical Western spectatorship in Squid Game	2
The “Little Third”: Changing Images of Women Characters Involved in Extramarital Affairs on Chinese TV	2
This Ain’t So Bad, or, Everything Getting Me Through this Pandemic I Learned from Being Queer	2

Digital (in-)Visibilities: Spatializing and Visualizing Politics of Voice	2
Beyond the Meaning of Zines: A Case Study of the Role of Materiality in four Prague-Based Zine Assemblages	2
Popping the Bubble: Escaping the United States in a Pandemic	1
Mass Media and Social Media Configuration Under Hugo Chavez Populist Discourse: Differences and Contrasts	1
Pandemic Panic on the Tenure Track: Why Early Career Scholars Need Transformative Support After COVID-19	1
Stifled, invisible, and threatened: cultural appropriation in K-pop through the lens of identity-negotiating fans of color	1
Streaming books: confluencers, Kindle Unlimited and the platform imaginary	1
Digital Pitfalls: The Politics of Digitalization in Bangladesh	1
Neoliberalism From Above and Cosmopolitanism From Below: A Korean-English Meetup Group in the United States	1
Counter-documentation tactics: participatory, visual, and walking research with undocumented migrants	1
Infrastructure in the Jungle: Infrastructure and Ideology in the Refugee Camps in Calais and Along the U.S.–Mexico Border	1
Working with “Wogs”: Aliens, Denizens and the Machinations of Denialism	1
“We bet on humans; you’re our horses”: the second phase of neo-poverty in South Korea as portrayed in Squid Game	1
Imperial Play	1
Imagining the Perfect Asian Woman Through Hate: Michelle Phan, Anti-Phandom, and Asian Diasporic Beauty Cultures	1
Shadow Politics: Front Stage and the Veneer of Volunteerism	1
Mediating Nostalgia: The Meaning of Ranchera Music at a Mexican Community Radio Station	1
At the center of its world, the U.S. empire forgets itself: Squid Game and the Hollywood press’ melodramatic gaze	1
“Activists” contra democracy: the dangers of rightwing activism and its strategic disavowal	1
Tiger King as Accidental Allegory	1
Cartoons as bridge builders: dialoguing on radicalization with the “suspect community”	1
Negotiating Community–Academic–Activist Relationships Amidst the Pandemic	1
Introduction to the Special Issue Forum “Digital Cultures of South Asia: Inequalities, Informatization, Infrastructures”	1
Mentorship, Critical Autoethnography and the Practices of Self-Reflexivity: Investing in an Academy that Does Not Yet Exist	1
Squid Game and the imagining of Afro-Asian connections through Black Twitter memescapes	1
Depoliticizing Politics: Egypt’s Media Boycotts in the Turkish Media	1
Anticipatory Futures: Framing the Socio-technical Visions of Online Ratings and Reviews inWired	1
Unmasking the Strongblackwoman in Mentoring	1
Support local: Google Maps’ local guides platform, spatial power and constructions of “the local”	1
Media populism and the metanarrative of God in the Philippines	1
“She is as feminine as my mother, as my sister, as my biologically female friends”: On the promise and limits of transgender visibility in fashion media	1
The Researcher of/in Crisis: Writing Resistances During the Pandemic	1
The Pandemic Sabbatical: Writing after Midnight	1
Anointments and Prestige: Reflecting on #CommunicationSoWhite with Herman Gray and Oscar Gandy	1
When the locals are Othered: hybridized representations of Latin American cultures and identities through nation branding	1
Branding the Geospatial Industry	1
Coalitions of Socio-Technical Infrastructure: Platforms as Essential Services	1
“Are you me?”: understanding the political potential of feminist identity spaces on Reddit during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
“K-pop is Rupturing Chilean Society”: Fighting With Globalized Objects in Localized Conflicts	1
“Beyond BAME, WOC, and ‘political blackness’”: diasporic digital communing practices	1
Prying the Doors Open: Women of Color Mentoring in the Field of Communication	1
A tale of two homosocialities: gender, sexuality, and global political economy in Squid Game	1
Stream(Age) Queens: Zoom-Bombs, Glitter Bombs & Other Doctoral Fairy Tales	1
Climate Strikes in Millennial India: Social Capital and “On-Ground” Networks in Digital-First Movements	1
“We should be addressing whiteness less, and affirming blackness more”:Random Acts of Flyness, Afrosurrealism, and Quality Programming	1
Three Vignettes in Pursuit of Accessible Pandemic Teaching	1
Pitchfork’s authenticity problem: the critical reception of Vampire Weekend and Lil Wayne	1