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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Folk theories of algorithms: Understanding digital irritation	76
Infrastructuralization of Tik Tok: transformation, power relationships, and platformization of video entertainment in China	69
After the post-public sphere	54
Access granted: Facebook’s free basics in Africa	53
Rebel with a cause: the framing of climate change and intergenerational justice in the German press treatment of the Fridays for Future protests	53
Artificial companions, social bots and work bots: communicative robots as research objects of media and communication studies	51
‘Absentmindedly scrolling through nothing’: liveness and compulsory continuous connectedness in social media	40
Global online platforms, COVID-19, and culture: The global pandemic, an accelerator towards which direction?	39
Commemorating from a distance: the digital transformation of Holocaust memory in times of COVID-19	38
The virtual stages of hate: Using Goffman’s work to conceptualise the motivations for online hate	37
Nothing to disconnect from? Being singular plural in an age of machine learning	35
English as lingua franca. Or the sterilisation of scientific work	32
De-territorialized digital capitalism and the predicament of the nation-state: Netflix in Arabia	30
The turn to regulation in digital communication: the ACCC’s digital platforms inquiry and Australian media policy	29
Digital labour: an empty signifier?	29
Mutual affordances: the dynamics between social media and populism	28
Public service media in the age of SVoDs: A comparative study of PSM strategic responses in Flanders, Italy and the UK	28
Hooking up with friends: LGBTQ+ young people, dating apps, friendship and safety	26
Platform governance at the margins: Social media creators’ experiences with algorithmic (in)visibility	26
The limits and boundaries of digital disconnection	25
The shadow banning controversy: perceived governance and algorithmic folklore	25
Vinyl won’t save us: reframing disconnection as engagement	25
Work, play, and precariousness: An overview of the labour ecosystem of esports	23
Browsing with Alexa: Interrogating the impact of voice assistants as web interfaces	23
Coextensive space: virtual reality and the developing relationship between the body, the digital and physical space	23

Dealing with digital: the economic organisation of streamed music	22
Social media dissidence and activist resistance in Zimbabwe	21
Understanding and interpreting algorithms: toward a hermeneutics of algorithms	21
Misogynoir in women’s sport media: race, nation, and diaspora in the representation of Naomi Osaka	21
Netflix audience data, streaming industry discourse, and the emerging realities of ‘popular’ television	21
Hiding hate speech: political moderation on Facebook	20
Ethics for the majority world: AI and the question of violence at scale	20
Facebook and politics in Africa: Zimbabwe and Kenya	20
Algorithmic logics and the construction of cultural taste of the Netflix Recommender System	18
Post-gay television: LGBTQ representation and the negotiation of ‘normal’ in MTV’sFaking It	17
Remembering COVID-19: memory, crisis, and social media	17
The politics and perils of dis/connection in the Global South	17
Rethinking creativity: creative industries, AI and everyday creativity	16
Digital mourning on Facebook: the case of Filipino migrant worker live-in caregivers in Israel	16
Right-wing populism and the criminalization of sea-rescue NGOs: the ‘Sea-Watch 3’ case in Italy, and Matteo Salvini’s communication on Facebook	15
The Janus face of social media and democracy? Reflections on Africa	15
Transgender identity management across social media platforms	15
Whose pedagogy is it anyway? Decolonizing the syllabus through a critical embrace of difference	15
A regional and historical approach to platform capitalism: The cases of Alibaba and Tencent	14
13 Reasons Why: can a TV show about suicide be ‘dangerous’? What are the moral obligations of a producer?	14
The institutional basis of anglophone western centrality	14
Media power in digital Asia: Super apps and megacorps	14
Rethinking journalism standards in the era of post-truth politics: from truth keepers to truth mediators	14
Domesticating dating apps: Non-single Chinese gay men’s dating app use and negotiations of relational boundaries	14
Pathway outta pigeonhole? De-contextualizing Majority World Countries	14
The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains	13
Domestication outside of the domestic: shaping technology and child in an educational moral economy	12
“Dangerous organizations: Facebook’s content moderation decisions and ethnic visibility in Myanmar”	12
Democratic backsliding and the media: the convergence of news narratives in Turkey	12
Media framing of COVID-19 pandemic in the transitional regime of Serbia: Exploring discourses and strategies	12
Fake news as fake politics: the digital materialities of YouTube misinformation videos about Brazilian oil spill catastrophe	12
The end of social media? How data attraction model in the algorithmic media reshapes the attention economy	11
BTS as method: a counter-hegemonic culture in the network society	11
Public intimacy in social media: The mass audience as a third party	11
Influencers as ideological intermediaries: promotional politics and authenticity labour in influencer collaborations	11
Fostering intimacy on TikTok: a platform that ‘listens’ and ‘creates a safe space’	11
Traces of orientalism in media studies	10
Laughing to forget or to remember? Anne Frank memes and mediatization of Holocaust memory	10
Buying on Weixin/WeChat: Proposing a sociomaterial approach of platform studies	10
Marginality and otherness: the discursive construction of LGBT issues/people in the Ghanaian news media	10
The hypervisibility and discourses of ‘wokeness’ in digital culture	10
Reclaiming the human in machine cultures: Introduction	10
Tweeting ourselves to death: the cultural logic of digital capitalism	10
Toward a non-binary sense of mobility: insights from self-presentation in Instagram photography during COVID-19 pandemic	10
#BlackLivesMatter: Exploring the digital practises of African Australian youth on social media	10
Hierarchies of deservingness and the limits of hospitality in the ‘refugee crisis’	10
Defusing moral panic: Legitimizing binge-watching as manageable, high-quality, middle-class hedonism	9
Digital games, developing democracies, and civic engagement: a study of games in Kenya and Nigeria	9
Ideal technologies, ideal women: AI and gender imaginaries in Redditors’ discussions on the Replika bot girlfriend	9
From concrete walls to digital walls: transmedia construction of place myth in Ihwa Mural Village, South Korea	9

The conquest of the world as meme: memetic visuality and political humor in critiques of the hindu right wing in India	9
An autoethnography of automated powerlessness: lacking platform affordances in Instagram and TikTok account deletions	9
Film distribution by video streaming platforms across Southeast Asia during COVID-19	9
Techno-emotional mediations of transnational intimacy: social media and care relations in long-distance Romanian families	9
Anatomy of a precarious newsroom: precarity and agency in Syrian exiled journalism in Turkey	9
Queering the Map: Stories of love, loss and (be)longing within a digital cartographic archive	9
Agency and servitude in platform labour: a feminist analysis of blended cultures	8
Keep it Oakland: e-commerce meets social justice	8
Chatting with the dead: The hermeneutics of thanabots	8
From audiences to data points: The role of media agencies in the platformization of the news media industry	8
Friction-free authenticity: mobile social networks and transactional affordances	8
Social media in Uganda: revitalising news journalism?	8
Google’s lens: computational photography and platform capitalism	7
Radio via mobile phones: the intersecting logics of media technologies in Ghana	7
Three narrative patterns of the city image visually presented on Instagram under the influence of self-presentation	7
Journalism matters: reporting peace in Cyprus	7
The platformization of misogyny: Popular media, gender politics, and misogyny in China’s state-market nexus	7
Migration, non-use, and the ‘Tumblrpocalypse’: Towards a unified theory of digital exodus	7
From scheduling to trans-programming	7
Not quite an echo chamber: ethnic debate on Ethiopian Facebook pages during times of unrest	7
From repression to oppression: news journalism in Turkey 2013–2018	7
On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy	7
Hardware and data in the platform era: Chinese smartphones in Africa	6
Rethinking participatory video in the times of YouTube	6
How propagames work as a part of digital authoritarianism: an analysis of a popular Chinese propagame	6
Why journalism’s default neglect of temporality is a problem	6
Dual ambivalence:The UntamedGirls as a counterpublic	6
Sinclair broadcasting as mini-media empire: media regulation, disinfomercials, and the rise of Trumpism	6
Beyond platform capitalism: critical perspectives on Facebook markets from Melanesia	6
Encounters with Western media theory: Asian perspectives	6
Resisting subalternity: Palestinian mimicry and passing in the Israeli cultural industries	6
How to think about media policy silence	6