OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Communication Culture & Critique is 2. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Digital (in-)Visibilities: Spatializing and Visualizing Politics of Voice	63
Support local: Google Maps’ local guides platform, spatial power and constructions of “the local”	17
Interrogating colonial narratives about genocide and war in Africa: perspectives from Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo	15
“How crazy is your maid?” Domestic workers in the “new India”	13
Mentoring at the Boundary: Interdisciplinarity and the International Student of Color in Communication	12
Media populism and the metanarrative of God in the Philippines	12
Borders of Affect: Mobilizing Border Imagery as Civic Engagement	11
“We are just with each other, everything is going to be okay”—BlackQueer rural–urban migration, danger and digital sexual desires	10
“Fight as a little girl!”: Chilean feminist cyberactivism and its outcome on the agenda	10
The Mad King: violence and vulnerability in professional wrestling	9
Prying the Doors Open: Women of Color Mentoring in the Field of Communication	8
Composing an Oppositional Discourse inCoke Studio Pakistan	7
Affect, Creativity and Migrant Belonging	7
Extractive Humanitarianism: Participatory Confinement and Unpaid Labor in Refugees Governmentality	6
Using racial discourse communities to audit personalization algorithms	6
Correction to: Negotiating content: the interplay of politics, audience, and gender in Internet-based production cultures in India	6
Tokenism and women’s political communication in the pursuit of gender egalitarianism in Nigeria	5
The poster boys of aspirational labor: parables of success and failure in The Viral Fever’s web shows	5
Doing it Like a Tomboy on Post-2010 Chinese TV	5
Stifled, invisible, and threatened: cultural appropriation in K-pop through the lens of identity-negotiating fans of color	5
Working in precarity: examining mainstream discourses about street hawking in Ghana	5
Between Commerciality and Authenticity: The Imaginary of Social Media Influencers in the Platform Economy	5
From Atalanta to Angelina: Smith & Wesson feminism, white heteropatriarchy, and intimate partner violence	5
“The Year of the Cheerleader Lawsuits”: Paradoxical Sensemaking and Postfeminism in Reporting on Gender-Based Harassment	5
Feminist accountability: deconstructing feminist praxes, solidarities and LGBTQI+ activisms in Ghana	4

The Robert Capa Myth: Hegemonic Masculinity in Photojournalism’s Professional Indoctrination	4
The urgency of producing Palestine	4
Developing a framework for equitable media literacy practice: Voices from the field	4
Ludic cybermilitias: shadow play and computational propaganda in the Indonesian predatory state	4
Hacia un análisis comparativo de la política autoritaria de derechas: Argentina, India y Estados Unidos	4
Gendering National Sacrifices: The Making of New Heroines in China’s Counter-COVID-19 TV Series	4
At the center of its world, the U.S. empire forgets itself: Squid Game and the Hollywood press’ melodramatic gaze	4
Between incursions and appropriations: digital technologies and pluriversal modernities in the Global South	3
The anti-caste alter-network: equality labs and anti-caste activism in the US	3
Beyond Benson: From Law & Order: SVU to Holland’s Grenslanders, Female Masculinity in Crime Dramas Fall Victim to Feminized Tropes	3
A Lot of Straddling and Squirming: Taking Queer Migrant Stories beyond the Academic and Digital Walls	3
“An Australian beauty-lover based in Singapore”: negotiating Asian Australian identity in the beauty vlogosphere	3
Glocal intimacies: theorizing mobile media and intimate relationships	3
More than money and algorithms: the cultural roots of Trump’s alt-media strategy	3
Female Masculinity and Transgressive Temporality: HowOrange is the New BlackRecontextualizes Prisoner Agency	3
Gay for pay: homocapitalism and LGBTQ employees in the transnational corporate landscape	3
Oil, life, and everyday fossil fascism: appropriative signification in U.S. petroleum supremacy	3
A comparative study on the transcultural (re-)reception of The Untamed and its queerness with Chinese characteristics	3
Kamala is for they/them: liberalism, fascism, and nonsense	3
Spraying the walls, feeds and laws: graffiti as memetic technologies of contentious politics	2
Unlocked doors: the trans glitch in Kitty Horrorshow’s Anatomy	2
The racialized celebrity other in perfume advertisements	2
Eurocentrism in a YouTube video on the Jakarta–Bandung railway: a critical examination of discourse across race, gender, and class	2
Assessing Programmatic Mentoring: Requiem for Carmen	2
“We bet on humans; you’re our horses”: the second phase of neo-poverty in South Korea as portrayed in Squid Game	2
Caste concealment, loss, and humanity	2
“The harder I work, the luckier I get”: how rural streamers perceive and cope with the algorithmic gaze on Taobao Live	2
Streaming books: confluencers, Kindle Unlimited and the platform imaginary	2
“White at heart”: making race in Marine Corps recruitment advertising	2
Cartoons as bridge builders: dialoguing on radicalization with the “suspect community”	2
Working with “Wogs”: Aliens, Denizens and the Machinations of Denialism	2
Shared identity endorsement narratives: a framework for studying celebrity endorsements of minority political candidates in the US	2
The politics of representation in Squid Game and the promise and peril of its transnational reception	2
Taming the Barbarian Empress: Post-alteric Imaginary of Gender Egalitarianism and Pan-Chinese Nationalism in the Legend of Xiao Chuo	2
“We are no longer using the term BAME:” a qualitative analysis exploring how activists position and mobilize naming of minority ethnic groups in Britain	2
From one-child policy to three-children initiative: a feminist critique of the population planning policies in China	2
“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	2
Controlled connection: Substack and writers of color	2
The roots of reactionary tech oligarchy and the need for radical democratic alternatives	2
Intersectionality in/through Nigeria’s feminist hashtag activism	2