OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Media Culture & Society is 5. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Folk theories of algorithms: Understanding digital irritation	84
Infrastructuralization of Tik Tok: transformation, power relationships, and platformization of video entertainment in China	77
After the post-public sphere	62
Rebel with a cause: the framing of climate change and intergenerational justice in the German press treatment of the Fridays for Future protests	57
‘Absentmindedly scrolling through nothing’: liveness and compulsory continuous connectedness in social media	47
Global online platforms, COVID-19, and culture: The global pandemic, an accelerator towards which direction?	44
Platform governance at the margins: Social media creators’ experiences with algorithmic (in)visibility	41
Commemorating from a distance: the digital transformation of Holocaust memory in times of COVID-19	40
The virtual stages of hate: Using Goffman’s work to conceptualise the motivations for online hate	39
Digital labour: an empty signifier?	35
English as lingua franca. Or the sterilisation of scientific work	34
The shadow banning controversy: perceived governance and algorithmic folklore	33
Hooking up with friends: LGBTQ+ young people, dating apps, friendship and safety	32
Public service media in the age of SVoDs: A comparative study of PSM strategic responses in Flanders, Italy and the UK	32
Mutual affordances: the dynamics between social media and populism	30
Work, play, and precariousness: An overview of the labour ecosystem of esports	26
Ethics for the majority world: AI and the question of violence at scale	25
Browsing with Alexa: Interrogating the impact of voice assistants as web interfaces	25
Netflix audience data, streaming industry discourse, and the emerging realities of ‘popular’ television	25
Social media dissidence and activist resistance in Zimbabwe	24
Misogynoir in women’s sport media: race, nation, and diaspora in the representation of Naomi Osaka	23
Rethinking creativity: creative industries, AI and everyday creativity	23
The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains	21
Hiding hate speech: political moderation on Facebook	21
Algorithmic logics and the construction of cultural taste of the Netflix Recommender System	20

Transgender identity management across social media platforms	20
Media power in digital Asia: Super apps and megacorps	19
Right-wing populism and the criminalization of sea-rescue NGOs: the ‘Sea-Watch 3’ case in Italy, and Matteo Salvini’s communication on Facebook	19
Post-gay television: LGBTQ representation and the negotiation of ‘normal’ in MTV’sFaking It	18
Whose pedagogy is it anyway? Decolonizing the syllabus through a critical embrace of difference	17
BTS as method: a counter-hegemonic culture in the network society	17
Remembering COVID-19: memory, crisis, and social media	17
Rethinking journalism standards in the era of post-truth politics: from truth keepers to truth mediators	17
Digital mourning on Facebook: the case of Filipino migrant worker live-in caregivers in Israel	16
Reclaiming the human in machine cultures: Introduction	16
A regional and historical approach to platform capitalism: The cases of Alibaba and Tencent	15
Influencers as ideological intermediaries: promotional politics and authenticity labour in influencer collaborations	15
Domesticating dating apps: Non-single Chinese gay men’s dating app use and negotiations of relational boundaries	15
Ideal technologies, ideal women: AI and gender imaginaries in Redditors’ discussions on the Replika bot girlfriend	15
Chatting with the dead: The hermeneutics of thanabots	14
Media framing of COVID-19 pandemic in the transitional regime of Serbia: Exploring discourses and strategies	14
Fake news as fake politics: the digital materialities of YouTube misinformation videos about Brazilian oil spill catastrophe	14
The institutional basis of anglophone western centrality	14
Pathway outta pigeonhole? De-contextualizing Majority World Countries	14
Marginality and otherness: the discursive construction of LGBT issues/people in the Ghanaian news media	13
The end of social media? How data attraction model in the algorithmic media reshapes the attention economy	13
Domestication outside of the domestic: shaping technology and child in an educational moral economy	13
“Dangerous organizations: Facebook’s content moderation decisions and ethnic visibility in Myanmar”	13
Democratic backsliding and the media: the convergence of news narratives in Turkey	13
Hierarchies of deservingness and the limits of hospitality in the ‘refugee crisis’	13
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences	12
Laughing to forget or to remember? Anne Frank memes and mediatization of Holocaust memory	12
Public intimacy in social media: The mass audience as a third party	12
The hypervisibility and discourses of ‘wokeness’ in digital culture	12
Fostering intimacy on TikTok: a platform that ‘listens’ and ‘creates a safe space’	12
Tweeting ourselves to death: the cultural logic of digital capitalism	11
Queering the Map: Stories of love, loss and (be)longing within a digital cartographic archive	11
Friction-free authenticity: mobile social networks and transactional affordances	11
Buying on Weixin/WeChat: Proposing a sociomaterial approach of platform studies	11
#BlackLivesMatter: Exploring the digital practises of African Australian youth on social media	11
An autoethnography of automated powerlessness: lacking platform affordances in Instagram and TikTok account deletions	11
Dual ambivalence:The UntamedGirls as a counterpublic	10
The conquest of the world as meme: memetic visuality and political humor in critiques of the hindu right wing in India	10
Techno-emotional mediations of transnational intimacy: social media and care relations in long-distance Romanian families	10
Defusing moral panic: Legitimizing binge-watching as manageable, high-quality, middle-class hedonism	10
Anatomy of a precarious newsroom: precarity and agency in Syrian exiled journalism in Turkey	10
Toward a non-binary sense of mobility: insights from self-presentation in Instagram photography during COVID-19 pandemic	10
Traces of orientalism in media studies	10
Film distribution by video streaming platforms across Southeast Asia during COVID-19	10
Legalization of press control under democratic backsliding: The case of post-national security law Hong Kong	9
Keep it Oakland: e-commerce meets social justice	9
From audiences to data points: The role of media agencies in the platformization of the news media industry	9
Media and information literacy for developing resistance to ‘infodemic’: lessons to be learnt from the binge of misinformation during COVID-19 pandemic	9
On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy	9
Towards the engagement economy: interconnected processes of commodification on YouTube	8

Agency and servitude in platform labour: a feminist analysis of blended cultures	8
Alt-right and authoritarian memetic alliances: global mediations of hate within the rising Farsi manosphere on Iranian social media	8
The show must go on? The entertainment industry during (and after) COVID-19	8
From scheduling to trans-programming	8
The platformization of misogyny: Popular media, gender politics, and misogyny in China’s state-market nexus	8
Migration, non-use, and the ‘Tumblrpocalypse’: Towards a unified theory of digital exodus	8
Three narrative patterns of the city image visually presented on Instagram under the influence of self-presentation	7
Google’s lens: computational photography and platform capitalism	7
Hardware and data in the platform era: Chinese smartphones in Africa	7
Beyond platform capitalism: critical perspectives on Facebook markets from Melanesia	7
Encounters with Western media theory: Asian perspectives	7
Embedded authoritarianism: the politics of poor press freedom in Indian Kashmir	7
How to think about media policy silence	6
How to train your algorithm: The struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok	6
Rethinking participatory video in the times of YouTube	6
Sinclair broadcasting as mini-media empire: media regulation, disinfomercials, and the rise of Trumpism	6
Facing AI: conceptualizing ‘fAIce communication’ as the modus operandi of facial recognition systems	6
Mainstream media use for far-right mobilisation on the alt-tech online platform Gab	6
The trouble with ‘quiet advocacy’: local journalism and reporting climate change in rural and regional Australia	6
From user-generated content to a user-generated aesthetic: Instagram, corporate vernacularization, and the intimate life of brands	6
Why journalism’s default neglect of temporality is a problem	6
How propagames work as a part of digital authoritarianism: an analysis of a popular Chinese propagame	6
French theoretical and methodological influences on Brazilian journalism research	5
Framing safety of women in public transport: A media discourse analysis of sexual harassment cases in Bangladesh	5
Youth and social media: the affordances and challenges of online graffiti practice	5
Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance	5
Framing the Israel-Palestine conflict 2021: Investigation of CNN’s coverage from a peace journalism perspective	5
Opinions that matter: the hybridization of opinion and reputation measurement in social media listening software	5
Media coverage of COVID-19 state surveillance in Israel: the securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis	5
Themes and tones of cannabis news reports and legalization outcomes	5
The criminal trial as a live event: Exploring how and why live blogs change the professional practices of judges, defence lawyers and prosecutors	5
Cultural politics of Netflix in local contexts: A case of the Korean media industries	5
Platform ecosystems, market hierarchies and the megacorp: The case of Reliance Jio	5
Compulsory interracial intimacy: Why does removing the ethnicity filter on dating apps not benefit racial minorities?	5
Algorithmic power and African indigenous languages: search engine autocomplete and the global multilingual Internet	5
Games and data capture culture: play in the era of accelerated neoliberalism	5
Embodiment in activist images: addressing the role of the body in digital activism	5
Rural media studies: making the case for a new subfield	5
Mediating a regime in crisis: corruption and succession in Zimbabwe’s state media	5
Translating a Chinese approach? Rural distribution and marketing in Ghana’s phone industry	5
Drone trauma: violent mediation and remote warfare	5
Traumatic past in the present: COVID-19 and Holocaust memory in Israeli media, digital media, and social media	5
Social personalities in sports: an analysis of the differences in individuals’ self-presentation on social networks	5