OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Communication Culture & Critique 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 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
Civil Society Must Be Defended: Misinformation, Moral Panics, and Wars of Restoration	24
#CommunicationSoWhite: Race and Power in the Academy and Beyond	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
On the Margins of the Margins: #CommunicationSoWhite—Canadian Style	15
Technocracy Meets Populism: The Dominant Technological Imaginary of Silicon Valley	15
Of Experts and Tokens: Mapping a Critical Race Archaeology of Communication	14
Academic Caregivers on Organizational and Community Resilience in Academia (Fuck Individual Resilience)	11
Making #BlackLivesMatter in the Shadow of Selma: Collective Memory and Racial Justice Activism in U.S. News	11
The Affordances of Interview Research on Zoom: New Intimacies and Active Listening	10
Viral Borders: Migration, Deceleration, and the Re-Bordering of Mobility during the COVID-19 Pandemic	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
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
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
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
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
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
Glocal intimacies: theorizing mobile media and intimate relationships	3
Mapping Interventions: Toward a Decolonial and Indigenous Praxis across Communication Subfields	3