OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Media Culture & Society is 7. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Legislating in the media spotlight: The Digital Markets Act in EU news coverage	121
Platformized childhood: How app stores construct children’s software audiences through platform governance and industry lore	108
Scripting Disability as the ‘New’ Bollywood: Pitching, reflecting, researching and negotiating	69
‘We cracked a hole in this very white structure’: Indigenous journalism practices in mainstream Australian news organisations	67
Attention, ambivalence and algorithms: Publishers in the era of ubiquitous connectivity and expanding platforms	63
Proactive governance by official administrators on Chinese social media platforms: Boundary discourse and governance legitimacy	60
Racism, social media, and the coronial jurisdiction: An analysis of user interactions on Facebook	59
Day of Rage : Forensic journalism and the US Capitol riot	53
The “gendered price” of press freedom in the digital age: Documenting threats and challenges for female journalists in western media systems	53
We are stronger when we are connected: Queer counterpublics and the Korean Queer Culture Festival	52
Media reporting of industrial wastewater issues in Kenya	47
The temporal identity work of digitally connected migrants: A study of young Syrian migrants in Sweden	42
“That’s PEGI, the American system!”: Perceptions of video game age ratings among families in Norway	39
Fake digital identity and cyberbullying	38
Happiness in newsroom contracts: communicative resistance for digital work and life satisfaction	38
Discostan and Hamnawa: Between erasure and preservation in South Asian digital diasporic archives	36
Reconsidering trauma and symbolic wounds in times of online misogyny and platforms	34
Commemorative stickers: A repurposing of an ephemeral medium	32
A global communications standpoint: What might that mean?	30
The manufacture of militarized masculinity in Chinese series You Are My Hero (2021)	28
Spaces of digital disconnection: A go-along study of dining areas, libraries, and movie theaters	28
Strategic methodological essentialism: An approach to transnational LGBTQ+ audience research	27
Reviewer Thank You List	26
LGBT+ mainstreaming on strictly come dancing: Queering the norms of ballroom dancing	26
The possibilities Jesús Martín-Barbero left for us to understand Latin America	26

Remembering a disastrous past to imagine catastrophic future(s) on social media: The expected Istanbul earthquake	25
Can the other be heard?	25
Composite Anne: The remembrance of Anne Frank and Holocaust commemoration in the digital age	25
A gathering with fire: Exploring the audience reception of internet memes about Belfast riots	25
(Dis)Affordances: Publicness and the Question of Absence	23
The erosion of media freedom in Ghana: A signal democratic backsliding?	22
Negotiating historical television in an era of political fragmentation and austerity: Tactics of heritage practitioners in Flanders, Belgium	21
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences	21
National discourse in Chinese cyberspace: Rethinking the roles of and dynamics between the state, digital platforms, and non-state actors	21
Navigating the digital age: The gray digital divide and digital inclusion in China	20
‘There’s a lot of freedom you can have with that kind of thing’: vinyl and cassette split releases in the digital age	20
TikTok and the platformisation from China: Geopolitical anxieties, repetitive creativities and future imaginaries	20
Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state	20
Exploring the intersection of digital and environmental challenges: Understanding their convergence through habitus	20
Young adults’ perceptions of entertainment consumption in their everyday lives during the COVID-19 pandemic: Negotiating versatility, emotions, and agency in times of limited choice	19
Towards a new progressive labour culture? Industry-oriented channels, bitter and precarious structure of feeling and worker solidarity in China	19
Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news	18
The financial ecologies of transnational television production: “Following the money” from private equity to Sky Germany’s Pagan Peak	18
Hashtag nationalism: a discursive and networked digital activism	18
Esports is a riot games: A critical political economic analysis of the closure of the world’s first esports TV network in South Korea	18
Default viewing: Reconceptualising choice and habit in television audience research	18
Bringing #LinaBell to life online: A case study in the creative and collaborative dynamics of Chinese online fandom	18
On losing the “dispensable” sense: TikTok imitation publics and COVID-19 smell loss challenges	17
Rural media studies: making the case for a new subfield	17
Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond COVID-19: Editorial	16
Between cultural promotion and nation building: Analysing the drivers of Basque public television consumption over a decade	16
Regulatory barriers in the attention economy: Lack of support, trust, and measures	16
Defining displaced publics	16
ADHD and digital disconnection: Exploring inclusive and practical approaches	15
Social media’s canaries: content moderators between digital labor and mediated trauma	15
How “original” are Netflix Original films? Mapping and understanding the recycling of content in the age of streaming cinema	15
Overlapping care and control: Insights from Romanian smart speaker users	14
Are video streaming services offering incomplete entertainment?	14
Newspaper framing of attempts to ban LGTBQ books in the U.S., U.K., and Ireland	14
Reimagining digital inclusion through platform economies in Brazil	14
Celebrating women’s autonomy, embracing patriarchal norms: The transnational manifestation of postfeminism in China	14
Ethopolitical media: Organizing Assistive Technology, disability and care in the platform society	14
Dirty dancing: Gender, aging, and sexuality during Hong Kong’s COVID-19 pandemic	14
The weaponisation of antisemitism: The Jewish Chronicle and the production of a moral panic	14
How to train your algorithm: The struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok	13
Making America hot again: Aesthetic politics, from Walter Benjamin to Sydney Sweeney	13
Digital disconnective practice: Online platform migration and technology non-use in the age of emerging social media and polarized societies	12
‘Something else’?: international co-production, postcolonial crime fiction and the representation of sexual orientation in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency	12
Cable news advertising: Applying formal analysis to uncover current trends in self-promotional marketing	12
Why the everyday is essential: Navigating censorship and surveillance on WeChat in China	12
The details that matter: Racism in Norwegian media during the Covid-19 pandemic	12
Interracial romances and colorblindness in Shondaland’s Bridgerton	12
Creative compliance and selective visibility: How Chinese queer uploaders performing identities on the Douyin platform	11
Sexual abuse, celebrity bhaktas , and counterpublics in the digital sphere	11
Transcoding a wanghong city: Mediatized culturalization of urban places in China	11

The Queer Clubhouse? Bar culture, sports media, and LGBTQ+ communities	10
Being Chinese or becoming Chinese? Discursive imaginations of Eileen Gu across media platforms	10
From mainstream to the margins: Regime-driven delegitimisation of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy critical journalistic norms	10
Standpointing global communication	10
Framing post-disaster collective action as ‘good news’: Possibilities and tensions	10
Human directing the Loop? Rethinking automation through Chinese transnational platform expansion in Oceania	9
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Colonial shadows: From mobile cinemas to digital platforms: scales of cultural influence in Sudanese foreign media consumption	9
On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy	9
Editorial: encounters with Western media theory	9
By sharing our loss, we fight: Collective expressions of grief in the digital age	9
Always-on authenticity: Challenging the BeReal ideal of “being real”	8
Adjustments in sociotechnical imaginaries: The role of loudspeakers in China’s public health emergencies	8
Remembering Marielle Franco: Haunting online presence and the memorialization of resistance on social media	8
Reawakenings to the improbable: Offerings of the limit situation for media theory in a disorderly world	8
Global influencers’ content creation strategies: Negotiating with platform affordances to practice vernacular creativity	8
Disablement in figure skating: Media, celebrity, spectacle	8
Intimate platform biographies on, off and underneath Instagram	8
Misinformation’s missing human	8
‘You’re too smart to be a publicist’: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity	8
Digital technologies and the protest paradigm: The discursive construction of the #WomanLifeFreedom protests in Time and Wired	8
My journey with western theory in the university in Africa	8
“Cloning Myself with AI”: AI Avatar as the affective infrastructures of the platform economy	8
Borderline practices on Douyin/TikTok: Content transfer and algorithmic manipulation	7
Environmental and social issues and the media game: Four ways to address mediated (in)visibility	7
“My body has gone out of style”: A critical examination of fashion magazines’ GLP-1 agonist drug discourse	7
‘Hypocrite!’ Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack	7
The life-transition perspective in mediatization research: Exploring lived experiences of media-related social changes through transitioning social roles	7
Rethinking news disengagement: Epistemic disconnection from news	7
Danish public service online weather from 2005 to 2022: From meteorological data and information to leisurely commonality	7
Scrutinising South African media companies’ strategies for Generation Z’s news consumption	7
AI-generated podcasts: Synthetic intimacy and cultural mistranslation in audio overviews from Google’s NotebookLM	7
Crosscurrents: Welfare	7
Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance	7
Martín-Barbero’s style	7