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 2022-06-01 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
Day of Rage : Forensic journalism and the US Capitol riot	47
Attention, ambivalence and algorithms: Publishers in the era of ubiquitous connectivity and expanding platforms	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
Happiness in newsroom contracts: communicative resistance for digital work and life satisfaction	33
A global communications standpoint: What might that mean?	33
We are stronger when we are connected: Queer counterpublics and the Korean Queer Culture Festival	32
Media reporting of industrial wastewater issues in Kenya	31
Commemorative stickers: A repurposing of an ephemeral medium	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
Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state	28
“That’s PEGI, the American system!”: Perceptions of video game age ratings among families in Norway	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	25
Reviewer Thank You List	24
National discourse in Chinese cyberspace: Rethinking the roles of and dynamics between the state, digital platforms, and non-state actors	24
A gathering with fire: Exploring the audience reception of internet memes about Belfast riots	23
The possibilities Jesús Martín-Barbero left for us to understand Latin America	23
Remembering a disastrous past to imagine catastrophic future(s) on social media: The expected Istanbul earthquake	23
Spaces of digital disconnection: A go-along study of dining areas, libraries, and movie theaters	23
LGBT+ mainstreaming on strictly come dancing: Queering the norms of ballroom dancing	23
Composite Anne: The remembrance of Anne Frank and Holocaust commemoration in the digital age	22
Making sense of the invisible: cognitive mapping, affective realities and the Irish/Northern Irish Border	22
Can the other be heard?	21
Navigating the digital age: The gray digital divide and digital inclusion in China	20
(Dis)Affordances: Publicness and the Question of Absence	19
Hegemonic meanings of populism: Populism as a signifier in legacy dailies of six countries 2000–2018	19
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences	19
Hashtag nationalism: a discursive and networked digital activism	18
Exploring the intersection of digital and environmental challenges: Understanding their convergence through habitus	18
Bringing #LinaBell to life online: A case study in the creative and collaborative dynamics of Chinese online fandom	18
TikTok and the platformisation from China: Geopolitical anxieties, repetitive creativities and future imaginaries	18
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	18
Towards a new progressive labour culture? Industry-oriented channels, bitter and precarious structure of feeling and worker solidarity in China	17
‘There’s a lot of freedom you can have with that kind of thing’: vinyl and cassette split releases in the digital age	16
Regulatory barriers in the attention economy: Lack of support, trust, and measures	16
On losing the “dispensable” sense: TikTok imitation publics and COVID-19 smell loss challenges	16
Esports is a riot games: A critical political economic analysis of the closure of the world’s first esports TV network in South Korea	16
Rural media studies: making the case for a new subfield	16
The financial ecologies of transnational television production: “Following the money” from private equity to Sky Germany’s Pagan Peak	16
Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news	16
Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond COVID-19: Editorial	16
Social media’s canaries: content moderators between digital labor and mediated trauma	15
Ethopolitical media: Organizing Assistive Technology, disability and care in the platform society	15
ADHD and digital disconnection: Exploring inclusive and practical approaches	15
How “original” are Netflix Original films? Mapping and understanding the recycling of content in the age of streaming cinema	15
Between cultural promotion and nation building: Analysing the drivers of Basque public television consumption over a decade	15
Defining displaced publics	15
Newspaper framing of attempts to ban LGTBQ books in the U.S., U.K., and Ireland	14
Default viewing: Reconceptualising choice and habit in television audience research	14
The weaponisation of antisemitism: The Jewish Chronicle and the production of a moral panic	14
The details that matter: Racism in Norwegian media during the Covid-19 pandemic	13
Why the everyday is essential: Navigating censorship and surveillance on WeChat in China	13
Are video streaming services offering incomplete entertainment?	13
Celebrating women’s autonomy, embracing patriarchal norms: The transnational manifestation of postfeminism in China	13
Reimagining digital inclusion through platform economies in Brazil	12
Cable news advertising: Applying formal analysis to uncover current trends in self-promotional marketing	12
Making America hot again: Aesthetic politics, from Walter Benjamin to Sydney Sweeney	12
Transcoding a wanghong city: Mediatized culturalization of urban places in China	12
Overlapping care and control: Insights from Romanian smart speaker users	12
Dirty dancing: Gender, aging, and sexuality during Hong Kong’s COVID-19 pandemic	12
Digital disconnective practice: Online platform migration and technology non-use in the age of emerging social media and polarized societies	11
‘Something else’?: international co-production, postcolonial crime fiction and the representation of sexual orientation in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency	11

How to train your algorithm: The struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok	11
Creative compliance and selective visibility: How Chinese queer uploaders performing identities on the Douyin platform	10
Being Chinese or becoming Chinese? Discursive imaginations of Eileen Gu across media platforms	10
Colonial shadows: From mobile cinemas to digital platforms: scales of cultural influence in Sudanese foreign media consumption	10
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Interracial romances and colorblindness in Shondaland’s Bridgerton	10
By sharing our loss, we fight: Collective expressions of grief in the digital age	10
Sexual abuse, celebrity bhaktas , and counterpublics in the digital sphere	10
Disablement in figure skating: Media, celebrity, spectacle	9
Framing post-disaster collective action as ‘good news’: Possibilities and tensions	9
The Queer Clubhouse? Bar culture, sports media, and LGBTQ+ communities	9
Always-on authenticity: Challenging the BeReal ideal of “being real”	9
Editorial: encounters with Western media theory	9
From mainstream to the margins: Regime-driven delegitimisation of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy critical journalistic norms	9
Standpointing global communication	9
‘You’re too smart to be a publicist’: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity	9
On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy	9
Rethinking news disengagement: Epistemic disconnection from news	8
Adjustments in sociotechnical imaginaries: The role of loudspeakers in China’s public health emergencies	8
My journey with western theory in the university in Africa	8
Intimate platform biographies on, off and underneath Instagram	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
Environmental and social issues and the media game: Four ways to address mediated (in)visibility	8
The life-transition perspective in mediatization research: Exploring lived experiences of media-related social changes through transitioning social roles	8
Martín-Barbero’s style	7
Digital technologies and the protest paradigm: The discursive construction of the #WomanLifeFreedom protests in Time and Wired	7
Misinformation’s missing human	7
Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance	7
Scrutinising South African media companies’ strategies for Generation Z’s news consumption	7
“Cloning Myself with AI”: AI Avatar as the affective infrastructures of the platform economy	7
AI-generated podcasts: Synthetic intimacy and cultural mistranslation in audio overviews from Google’s NotebookLM	7
Crosscurrents: Welfare	7
Media representations of naturalized athletes: Sentiment variations and trends in Turkish media	7
Global influencers’ content creation strategies: Negotiating with platform affordances to practice vernacular creativity	7
‘Hypocrite!’ Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack	7
Borderline practices on Douyin/TikTok: Content transfer and algorithmic manipulation	7
Media research and proposals for media change: Notes on a key variable	7