OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Internet 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
Social Media, Web, and Panel Surveys: Using Non‐Probability Samples in Social and Policy Research	140
Conceptualizing the Gig Economy and Its Regulatory Problems	50
Countering Extremists on Social Media: Challenges for Strategic Communication and Content Moderation	37
From content moderation to visibility moderation: A case study of platform governance on TikTok	32
Crowdsourcing: Citizens as coproducers of public services	30
Digital currencies, monetary sovereignty, and U.S.–China power competition	26
Australia's News Media Bargaining Code and the global turn towards platform regulation	21
In AI we trust? Citizen perceptions of AI in government decision making	21
What Drives U.S. Congressional Members’ Policy Attention on Twitter?	19
How Online Content Providers Moderate User‐Generated Content to Prevent Harmful Online Communication: An Analysis of Policies and Their Implementation	19
Regulating the European Data‐Driven Economy: A Case Study on the General Data Protection Regulation	17
‘Too smart’: Infrastructuring the Internet through regional and rural smart policy in Australia	15
Unpacking government social media messaging strategies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China	14
Digital policy in European countries from the perspective of the Digital Economy and Society Index	14
Centrality and power. The struggle over the techno‐political configuration of the Internet and the global digital order	12
Who is responsible for interventions against problematic comments? Comparing user attitudes in Germany and the United States	12
The neo‐regulation of internet platforms in the United Kingdom	11
Consumer IoT and its under‐regulation: Findings from an Australian study	11
Safe from “harm”: The governance of violence by platforms	11
Regulation of platform market access by the United States and China: Neo‐mercantilism in digital services	10
The Internet and public policy: Future directions	10
Regulating datafication and platformization: Policy silos and tradeoffs in international platform inquiries	9
Governing with health code: Standardising China's data network systems during COVID‐19	9
Open Government Data: The OECD's Swiss army knife in the transformation of government	8
Gatekeepers of toxicity: Reconceptualizing Twitter's abuse and hate speech policies	8

Battle for Britain: Analyzing Events as Drivers of Political Tribalism in Twitter Discussions of Brexit	7
The regulation of internet pornography: What a survey of under‐18s tells us about the necessity for and potential efficacy of emerging legislative approaches	7
Super‐amplifiers! The role of Twitter extended party networks in political elections	7
The making of “good” citizens: China's Social Credit Systems and infrastructures of social quantification	6
The Social Network: How Friends’ Online Behavior and Belongingness Needs Influence Political Activity	6
Regulating the platform giants: Building and governing China's online economy	6
GAFA's information infrastructure distribution: Interconnection dynamics in the global North versus global South	6
A comparative study on false information governance in Chinese and American social media platforms	6
The Instagram/Facebook ban on graphic self‐harm imagery: A sentiment analysis and topic modeling approach	6
Data protection and tech startups: The need for attention, support, and scrutiny	5
Credibility in enhanced self‐regulation: The case of the European data protection regime	5
Governing social eating (chibo) influencers: Policies, approach and politics of influencer governance in China	5
Moving toward a “middle ground”?—The governance of platforms in the United States and China	5
Political online participation and its effects: Theory, measurement, and results	5
How does fake news spread? Understanding pathways of disinformation spread through APIs	5
Accepting but not engaging with it: Digital participation in local government‐run social credit systems in China	5
Rethinking the legal regulation of Internet platform monopoly in China	4
Research themes in big data analytics for policymaking: Insights from a mixed‐methods systematic literature review	4
Back from the dead (again): The specter of the Fairness Doctrine and its lesson for social media regulation	4
Digitalization and e‐government in the lives of urban migrants: Evidence from Bogotá	4
Democratic Innovation in Times of Crisis: Exploring Changes in Social and Political Trust	4
Broadcasting anti‐media populism in the Philippines: YouTube influencers, networked political brokerage, and implications for governance	4
Digital diplomacy: Face management in MFA Twitter accounts	4
Living in media and the era of regulation: Policy and Internet during a pandemic	4
The Internet regulation turn? Policy, Internet and technology	4
A policy impact tool: Measuring the policy impact of public participation in deliberative e‐rulemaking	4
E‐Government maturity assessment: Evidence from Greek municipalities	3
“Dual‐Track” platform governance on content: A comparative study between China and United States	3
Producing entrepreneurial citizens: Governmentality over and through Hong Kong influencers on Xiaohongshu (Red)	3
Who is listening? Profiles of policymaker engagement with scientific communication	3
Who is leading China's family planning policy discourse in Weibo? A social media text mining analysis	3
Platform regulation from the bottom up: Judicial redress in the United States and China	3
Procedural rights as safeguard for human rights in platform regulation	3
“Never good enough.” A situated understanding of the impact of digitalization on citizens living in a low socioeconomic position	3
A process model of the public sphere: A case of municipal policy debates on Sina Weibo	3
The barriers to regulating the online world: Insights from UK debates on online political advertising	3
Immigrants, deviants, and drug users: A rhetorical analysis of President Trump's fear‐driven tweets during the 2019 government shutdown	3
Rage or rationality: Exposure to Internet censorship and the impact on individual information behaviors in China	3
The Trichan takedown: Lessons in the governance and regulation of child sexual abuse material	3
Hate speech on social media against German mayors: Extent of the phenomenon, reactions, and implications	2
Investigating the potential of civil disagreement to decrease issue polarization in China	2
A new social contract for technology	2
The capricious relationship between technology and democracy: Analyzing public policy discussions in the UK and US	2
Hypernudging in the changing European regulatory landscape for digital markets	2
Invisible transparency: How different types of ad disclaimers on Facebook affect whether and how digital political advertising is perceived	2
Ghosts of YouTube: Rules and conventions in Japanese YouTube content creation outsourcing	2
Influencing the influencers: Regulating the morality of online conduct in Indonesia	2
Oegugin Influencers and pop nationalism through government campaigns: Regulating foreign‐nationals in the South Korean YouTube ecology	2
Multisolving innovations: How digital equity, e‐waste, and right‐to‐repair policies can increase the supply of affordable computers	2
Social media governance and strategies to combat online hatespeech in Germany	1

The weaponization of platform governance: Mass reporting and algorithmic punishments in the creator economy	1
Regulating social media and influencers within Vietnam	1
Platform governance by competing systems of political economy: The United States and China	1
Bridging the digital divide for Native American tribes: Roadblocks to broadband and community resilience	1
Reciprocity and asymmetry in digital diplomacy: Geopolitics of national identity in South Korea–Japan and South Korea–US relations	1
Lessons from France on the regulation of Internet pornography: How displacement effects, circumvention, and legislative scope may limit the efficacy of Article 23	1
Power Relationships in China's internet Governance	1
Prospects of blockchain governance: Understanding key public values, principles, challenges, and opportunities	1
Feminist struggles against criminalization of digital violence: Lessons for Internet governance from the global south	1
“Highly nuanced policy is very difficult to apply at scale”: Examining researcher account and content takedowns online	1
The success of e‐participation. Learning lessons from Decide Madrid and We asked, You said, We did in Scotland	1
Influencer regulations, governance and sociocultural issues in Asia	1
Regulating Zhibo in China: Exploring multiple levels of self‐regulation and stakeholder dynamics	1
Scholarly research and user‐centred policy design	1
Content takedowns and activist organizing: Impact of social media content moderation on activists and organizing	1
Moderating manipulation: Demystifying extremist tactics for gaming the (regulatory) system	1
Content moderation through removal of service: Content delivery networks and extremist websites	1
Racial harmony and sexual violence: Uneven regulation and legal protection gaps for influencers in Singapore	1
An exploratory study of social media's role in facilitating public participation in e‐rulemaking using computational text analysis tools	1
Countering online terrorist content: A social regulation approach	1
Recommending instead of taking down: YouTube hyperpartisan content promotion amid the Brazilian general elections	1
The political origins of platform economy regulations. Understanding variations in governing Airbnb and Uber across cities in Switzerland	1
Social media and politics on the local level	1
The client net state: Trajectories of state control over cyberspace	1