OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Internet 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	78
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Withdrawn: Power Relationships in China's Internet Governance	45
Unpacking government social media messaging strategies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China	35
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Back from the dead (again): The specter of the Fairness Doctrine and its lesson for social media regulation	24
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The Trichan takedown: Lessons in the governance and regulation of child sexual abuse material	20
Digital currencies, monetary sovereignty, and U.S.–China power competition	19
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Digital policy in European countries from the perspective of the Digital Economy and Society Index	18
Governing with health code: Standardising China's data network systems during COVID‐19	15
Who is leading China's family planning policy discourse in Weibo? A social media text mining analysis	15
Data protection and tech startups: The need for attention, support, and scrutiny	15
Content takedowns and activist organizing: Impact of social media content moderation on activists and organizing	14
Digital diplomacy: Face management in MFA Twitter accounts	14
Effects of online citizen participation on legitimacy beliefs in local government. Evidence from a comparative study of online participation platforms in three German municipalities	13
The pursuit of ‘good’ Internet policy	12
The Instagram/Facebook ban on graphic self‐harm imagery: A sentiment analysis and topic modeling approach	12
What can drive a digital governance transformation? Greece, the Covid‐19 crisis and “a jump‐started Lamborghini”	12
How harassment and hate speech policies have changed over time: Comparing Facebook, Twitter and Reddit (2005–2020)	12
The (complex) effect of internet voting on turnout: Theoretical and methodological considerations	11
Content moderation and the digital transformations of gatekeeping	11

In AI we trust? Citizen perceptions of AI in government decision making	11
Understanding Chinese Internet users' information sensitivity in big data and artificial intelligence era	10
Shedding light on transparency: A comprehensive study of state‐level transparency portals in Mexico	10
The client net state: Trajectories of state control over cyberspace	10
An evaluation of digital inclusion response policies for elderly in China	10
Regulating datafication and platformization: Policy silos and tradeoffs in international platform inquiries	8
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Moderating borderline content while respecting fundamental values	8
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Mediated trust, the internet and artificial intelligence: Ideas, interests, institutions and futures	8
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Social imaginaries of digital technology in South Korea during the COVID‐19 pandemic	7
Social media and politics on the local level	7
Transitional affordances: A longitudinal mixed‐method study on the context and effects of changing mode of online access	7
The cloud sovereignty nexus: How the European Union seeks to reverse strategic dependencies in its digital ecosystem	7
Quantifying water effluent violations and enforcement impacts using causal AI	7
Follow to be followed: The centrality of MFAs in Twitter networks	6
China's Internet sector reforms and the rise of ESG in the state techno‐nationalist agenda	6
The neo‐regulation of internet platforms in the United Kingdom	6
GAFA's information infrastructure distribution: Interconnection dynamics in the global North versus global South	6
What is the role of civil society in Internet governance? Confronting institutional passive perspectives with resource mobilization in Portugal	6
A legal cure for news choice overload: Regulating algorithms and AI with ‘light patterns’ to foster autonomy and democracy	6
National markets in a world of global platform giants: The persistence of Russian domestic competitors	6
Lessons from France on the regulation of Internet pornography: How displacement effects, circumvention, and legislative scope may limit the efficacy of Article 23	6
Protecting Children of the TikTok Era: A Discourse Analysis in the Absence of Law	6
A policy impact tool: Measuring the policy impact of public participation in deliberative e‐rulemaking	6
Political online participation and its effects: Theory, measurement, and results	6
Influencing the influencers: Regulating the morality of online conduct in Indonesia	6
Who is listening? Profiles of policymaker engagement with scientific communication	5
Broadcasting anti‐media populism in the Philippines: YouTube influencers, networked political brokerage, and implications for governance	5
A process model of the public sphere: A case of municipal policy debates on Sina Weibo	5
Rage or rationality: Exposure to Internet censorship and the impact on individual information behaviors in China	5
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Resisting and Claiming Digital Sovereignty: The Cases of Civil Society and Indigenous Groups	4
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“Never good enough.” A situated understanding of the impact of digitalization on citizens living in a low socioeconomic position	4
Enhancing Public Health Policy Communication Through Government–Citizen Social Media Interactions: The Impact of Replying Agents, Inquiry Tone, and Institutional Trust	4
Transparency as an empty signifier? Assessing transparency in EU and platform initiatives on online political advertising and actors	4
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Safe from “harm”: The governance of violence by platforms	4
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Consumer IoT and its under‐regulation: Findings from an Australian study	4
A conceptual framework to explore considerations of the social implications in internet of things and smart city governance and policy: The case of Thailand	4
From content moderation to visibility moderation: A case study of platform governance on TikTok	4
Gatekeepers of toxicity: Reconceptualizing Twitter's abuse and hate speech policies	3
Accepting but not engaging with it: Digital participation in local government‐run social credit systems in China	3
Bridging digital and knowledge divides: Concepts, frameworks and ethical concerns	3
Models of State Digital Sovereignty From the Global South: Diverging Experiences From China, India and South Africa	3
Impact of free trade agreements on Internet domain name arbitration cases: A cross‐national comparison of the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy	3

Research themes in big data analytics for policymaking: Insights from a mixed‐methods systematic literature review	3
Reciprocity and asymmetry in digital diplomacy: Geopolitics of national identity in South Korea–Japan and South Korea–US relations	3
Sanctions and infrastructural ideologies: Assessing the material shaping of EU digital sovereignty in response to the war in Ukraine	3
Hate speech on social media against German mayors: Extent of the phenomenon, reactions, and implications	3
The capricious relationship between technology and democracy: Analyzing public policy discussions in the UK and US	3
Immigrants, deviants, and drug users: A rhetorical analysis of President Trump's fear‐driven tweets during the 2019 government shutdown	3
Scholarly research and user‐centred policy design	3
Structuring different manifestations of misinformation for better policy development using a decision tree‐based approach	3
Recommending instead of taking down: YouTube hyperpartisan content promotion amid the Brazilian general elections	3
Influencer regulations, governance and sociocultural issues in Asia	2
Governing social eating (chibo) influencers: Policies, approach and politics of influencer governance in China	2
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Producing entrepreneurial citizens: Governmentality over and through Hong Kong influencers onXiaohongshu (Red)	2
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The Internet and public policy: Future directions	2
The Internet regulation turn? Policy, Internet and technology	2
Data justice in the “twin objective” of market and risk: How discrimination is formulated in EU's AI policy	2
Invisible transparency: How different types of ad disclaimers on Facebook affect whether and how digital political advertising is perceived	2
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Where are the ethical guidelines? Examining the governance of digital technologies and AI in Nigeria	2
Platform governance by competing systems of political economy: The United States and China	2
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The News Media Bargaining Code: Impacts on Australian journalism one year on	2
Digital inclusion and the internet of things: Convenience and the choice‐compulsion continuum	2
The unjust burden of digital inclusion for low‐income migrant parents	2
The Chinese metaverse: An analysis of China's policy agenda for extended reality (XR)	2
Empowered but Challenged: The Impact of Task Expansion on Data Protection Authorities	2
An exploratory study of social media's role in facilitating public participation in e‐rulemaking using computational text analysis tools	2
The political origins of platform economy regulations. Understanding variations in governing Airbnb and Uber across cities in Switzerland	2
Digital Regulation and Questions of Legitimacy	2
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The false promise of individual digital sovereignty in Europe: Comparing artificial intelligence and data regulations in China and the European Union	2
Promotion of hate speech by Spanish political actors on Twitter	2