OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Media Culture & Society is 6. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Proactive governance by official administrators on Chinese social media platforms: Boundary discourse and governance legitimacy	137
Attention, ambivalence and algorithms: Publishers in the era of ubiquitous connectivity and expanding platforms	98
Circulating cassettes of ceremony: Indigenous peer-to-peer networks in Arnhem Land	72
‘We cracked a hole in this very white structure’: Indigenous journalism practices in mainstream Australian news organisations	72
Platformized childhood: How app stores construct children’s software audiences through platform governance and industry lore	70
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media	65
Day of Rage: Forensic journalism and the US Capitol riot	50
Scripting Disability as the ‘New’ Bollywood: Pitching, reflecting, researching and negotiating	43
Legislating in the media spotlight: The Digital Markets Act in EU news coverage	40
We are stronger when we are connected: Queer counterpublics and the Korean Queer Culture Festival	39
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths	39
“That’s PEGI, the American system!”: Perceptions of video game age ratings among families in Norway	38
Happiness in newsroom contracts: communicative resistance for digital work and life satisfaction	36
Media reporting of industrial wastewater issues in Kenya	33
Reconsidering trauma and symbolic wounds in times of online misogyny and platforms	33
Fake digital identity and cyberbullying	33
A global communications standpoint: What might that mean?	33
Discostan and Hamnawa: Between erasure and preservation in South Asian digital diasporic archives	32
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.	30
Remembering a disastrous past to imagine catastrophic future(s) on social media: The expected Istanbul earthquake	29
(Dis)Affordances: Publicness and the Question of Absence	28
Making sense of the invisible: cognitive mapping, affective realities and the Irish/Northern Irish Border	25
Composite Anne: The remembrance of Anne Frank and Holocaust commemoration in the digital age	24
Can the other be heard?	23
LGBT+ mainstreaming on strictly come dancing: Queering the norms of ballroom dancing	22

Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state	21
The erosion of media freedom in Ghana: A signal democratic backsliding?	21
The possibilities Jesús Martín-Barbero left for us to understand Latin America	21
The manufacture of militarized masculinity in Chinese series You Are My Hero (2021)	20
A gathering with fire: Exploring the audience reception of internet memes about Belfast riots	19
Navigating the digital age: The gray digital divide and digital inclusion in China	19
A mask between you and me	18
Bringing #LinaBell to life online: A case study in the creative and collaborative dynamics of Chinese online fandom	18
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences	18
Towards a new progressive labour culture? Industry-oriented channels, bitter and precarious structure of feeling and worker solidarity in China	18
Connecting the individual and the other in disconnection studies	17
The financial ecologies of transnational television production: “Following the money” from private equity to Sky Germany’s Pagan Peak	17
‘There’s a lot of freedom you can have with that kind of thing’: vinyl and cassette split releases in the digital age	17
Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news	16
TikTok and the platformisation from China: Geopolitical anxieties, repetitive creativities and future imaginaries	15
Exploring the intersection of digital and environmental challenges: Understanding their convergence through habitus	15
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	14
Hashtag nationalism: a discursive and networked digital activism	14
The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains	13
Hegemonic meanings of populism: Populism as a signifier in legacy dailies of six countries 2000–2018	13
The show must go on? The entertainment industry during (and after) COVID-19	13
ADHD and digital disconnection: Exploring inclusive and practical approaches	12
Ethopolitical media: Organizing Assistive Technology, disability and care in the platform society	12
On losing the “dispensable” sense: TikTok imitation publics and COVID-19 smell loss challenges	12
How “original” are Netflix Original films? Mapping and understanding the recycling of content in the age of streaming cinema	12
Default viewing: Reconceptualising choice and habit in television audience research	12
Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond COVID-19: Editorial	12
Regulatory barriers in the attention economy: Lack of support, trust, and measures	11
Are video streaming services offering incomplete entertainment?	11
Between cultural promotion and nation building: Analysing the drivers of Basque public television consumption over a decade	11
Social media’s canaries: content moderators between digital labor and mediated trauma	11
Rural media studies: making the case for a new subfield	11
The details that matter: Racism in Norwegian media during the Covid-19 pandemic	11
‘Something else’?: international co-production, postcolonial crime fiction and the representation of sexual orientation in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency TV series	10
Interracial romances and colorblindness in Shondaland’s Bridgerton	10
Reimagining digital inclusion through platform economies in Brazil	10
How to train your algorithm: The struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok	9
The pandemic shock doctrine in an authoritarian context: the economic, bodily, and political precarity of Turkey’s journalists during the pandemic	9
Cable news advertising: Applying formal analysis to uncover current trends in self-promotional marketing	9
Digital disconnective practice: Online platform migration and technology non-use in the age of emerging social media and polarized societies	9
Transcoding a wanghong city: Mediatized culturalization of urban places in China	9
Newspaper framing of attempts to ban LGTBQ books in the U.S., U.K., and Ireland	9
Why the everyday is essential: Navigating censorship and surveillance on WeChat in China	9
Dirty dancing: Gender, aging, and sexuality during Hong Kong’s COVID-19 pandemic	9
Creative compliance and selective visibility: How Chinese queer uploaders performing identities on the Douyin platform	9
Overlapping care and control: Insights from Romanian smart speaker users	9
The weaponisation of antisemitism: The Jewish Chronicle and the production of a moral panic	9
Framing post-disaster collective action as ‘good news’: Possibilities and tensions	8
By sharing our loss, we fight: Collective expressions of grief in the digital age	8
Standpointing global communication	8

On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy	8
Digital technologies and the protest paradigm: The discursive construction of the #WomanLifeFreedom protests in Time and Wired magazine	8
Sexual abuse, celebrity bhaktas , and counterpublics in the digital sphere	8
Constructing ‘race/ethnicity’ and nationality in Spanish media: a content analysis of international football coverage	8
The Queer Clubhouse? Bar culture, sports media, and LGBTQ+ communities	8
Misinformation’s missing human	8
Being Chinese or becoming Chinese? Discursive imaginations of Eileen Gu across media platforms	8
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Disablement in figure skating: Media, celebrity, spectacle	8
Reawakenings to the improbable: Offerings of the limit situation for media theory in a disorderly world	8
Always-on authenticity: Challenging the BeReal ideal of “being real”	7
My journey with western theory in the university in Africa	7
‘Hypocrite!’ Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack	7
Protecting the people, or the Olympics? Agenda-cutting of the COVID-19 risk in the news coverage of Japan’s public broadcaster	7
‘You’re too smart to be a publicist’: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity	7
Remembering Marielle Franco: Haunting online presence and the memorialization of resistance on social media	7
Editorial: encounters with Western media theory	7
Martín-Barbero’s style	7
Borderline practices on Douyin/TikTok: Content transfer and algorithmic manipulation	7
Crosscurrents: Welfare	7
The life-transition perspective in mediatization research: Exploring lived experiences of media-related social changes through transitioning social roles	7
Environmental and social issues and the media game: Four ways to address mediated (in)visibility	7
Rethinking creativity: creative industries, AI and everyday creativity	7
Media research and proposals for media change: Notes on a key variable	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
Adjustments in sociotechnical imaginaries: The role of loudspeakers in China’s public health emergencies	7
Global influencers’ content creation strategies: Negotiating with platform affordances to practice vernacular creativity	7
Media representations of naturalized athletes: Sentiment variations and trends in Turkish media	6
Culture, commerce and crowdfunding: Artists’ experiences of crowdfunding and lessons from Japan	6
Can African scholars speak? Situating African voices in International Communication scholarship	6
Leaving North Korea: Illicit cultural globalization and mediated migration in the digital age	6
Paradoxical inclusion of India’s ex-untouchables in New Casteist media	6
Corrigendum to “Crosscurrents: Welfare”	6
Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance	6
Legalization of press control under democratic backsliding: The case of post-national security law Hong Kong	6
Caring for others who look just like us: The representation of Ukrainian refugees on Dutch television	6
Towards a theory of participatory diplomacy via the Eurovision Song Contest	6
Interviewing out lesbian, gay and bisexual creatives and executives about getting queer stories in mainstream Australian scripted television	6
Neoliberalism and authoritarian media cultures: a Vietnamese perspective	6
TikTok and its mediatic split: the promotion of ecumenical user-generated content alongside Sinocentric media globalization	6
Onlife intersectionalities as flows of playbour: The case of women in gaming	6
Discourse, incivility and language aggression in social media debates on Biafra separatist agitation: Implications for Nigeria’s democratic future	6
Balancing boundaries: Mapping parents’ perceived concerns and opportunities of LGBTQ storylines in children’s television	6