OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Media Culture & Society is 25. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Legislating in the media spotlight: The Digital Markets Act in EU news coverage	203
Racism, social media, and the coronial jurisdiction: An analysis of user interactions on Facebook	113
The “gendered price” of press freedom in the digital age: Documenting threats and challenges for female journalists in western media systems	98
Platformized childhood: How app stores construct children’s software audiences through platform governance and industry lore	65
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths	60
Scripting Disability as the ‘New’ Bollywood: Pitching, reflecting, researching and negotiating	57
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media	57
‘We cracked a hole in this very white structure’: Indigenous journalism practices in mainstream Australian news organisations	55
Attention, ambivalence and algorithms: Publishers in the era of ubiquitous connectivity and expanding platforms	47
Day of Rage : Forensic journalism and the US Capitol riot	47
Proactive governance by official administrators on Chinese social media platforms: Boundary discourse and governance legitimacy	43
Reconsidering trauma and symbolic wounds in times of online misogyny and platforms	42
Media and cultural systems: Connecting national news dynamics and the cultures of social problems through a case study of climate change in the U.S. and U.K.	38
Fake digital identity and cyberbullying	35
A global communications standpoint: What might that mean?	33
Happiness in newsroom contracts: communicative resistance for digital work and life satisfaction	33
We are stronger when we are connected: Queer counterpublics and the Korean Queer Culture Festival	32
Commemorative stickers: A repurposing of an ephemeral medium	31
Media reporting of industrial wastewater issues in Kenya	31
The temporal identity work of digitally connected migrants: A study of young Syrian migrants in Sweden	30
Discostan and Hamnawa: Between erasure and preservation in South Asian digital diasporic archives	30
“That’s PEGI, the American system!”: Perceptions of video game age ratings among families in Norway	28
Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state	28
The manufacture of militarized masculinity in Chinese series You Are My Hero (2021)	27
The erosion of media freedom in Ghana: A signal democratic backsliding?	26

Strategic methodological essentialism: An approach to transnational LGBTQ+ audience research