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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Kitchen sink dramas and the search for common culture: a comparative analysis of migrant domestic worker abuse in Hong Kong’s English and Chinese-language news media	84
The pandemic shock doctrine in an authoritarian context: the economic, bodily, and political precarity of Turkey’s journalists during the pandemic	51
Border countervisuality: smartphone videos of border crossing and migration	50
The Mizrahi Pillar of Fire: memory policy-actors’ perceptions of the role of media and memory	49
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths	35
Constructing ‘race/ethnicity’ and nationality in Spanish media: a content analysis of international football coverage	35
“Salute the strivers”: China’s Internet giant founders and the discursive construction of overwork	34
Media against communication: media/violence and conditionalities of Muslim silencing in Northern India	32
Between invisibility and having a voice: The marginalization of gendered non-fiction writers in the South Korean television industry	31
Japanese scandals and their production	28
Scripting Disability as the ‘New’ Bollywood: Pitching, reflecting, researching and negotiating	27
Flying the skies to wire the seas: Subsea cables, remote work, and the social fabric of a media industry	26
The Queer Clubhouse? Bar culture, sports media, and LGBTQ+ communities	25
Rethinking news media from the perspective of epistemic democracy: ‘Democratic imagination’ in the coverage of minoritised activism in Polish liberal media	25
Keep it Oakland: e-commerce meets social justice	25
Japan’s retreat to the metaverse	25
Framing post-disaster collective action as ‘good news’: Possibilities and tensions	24
Day of Rage: Forensic journalism and the US Capitol riot	24
Attention, ambivalence and algorithms: Publishers in the era of ubiquitous connectivity and expanding platforms	22
Games and data capture culture: play in the era of accelerated neoliberalism	21
The wellbeing of ordinary people in factual television production	20
More than a sex crime: a feminist political economy of the 2014 iCloud hack	19
From the main-melody story to gaming experience: is the Chinese digital game arena a potential counterpublic sphere?	18
Connectivity as productivity: Workplace from Meta and organizational datafication	17
The politics of platform folklore: Emotion, identity, and sense-making in far-right populist Twitter communities	17

Disconnection for protection (D4P): an addition to the disconnection repertoire	17
The shadow banning controversy: perceived governance and algorithmic folklore	17
Careful attunements: the choreographing of care and affective witnessing through media practices during, and after, crisis	16
Standpointing global communication	15
Fostering intimacy on TikTok: a platform that ‘listens’ and ‘creates a safe space’	15
‘We cracked a hole in this very white structure’: Indigenous journalism practices in mainstream Australian news organisations	14
Oppression by omission: An analysis of the #WhereIsTheInterpreter hashtag campaign around COVID-19 on Twitter	14
Dependence in the online screen industry	14
Look at me, I’m on TV: the political dimensions of reality television participation	14
Censorship, clientelism and bureaucracy: Production cultures in Colombian state-owned media system	13
On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy	13
Circulating cassettes of ceremony: Indigenous peer-to-peer networks in Arnhem Land	13
Ritual check-in, shocked immersion, regained stability: A sequential typology of news experiences in crisis situations	12
Recognition for resistance: Gifting, social media, and the politics of reciprocity in South Korean energy activism	12
‘I’m also slightly conscious of how much I’m listening to something’: Music streaming and the transformation of music listening	12
Reclaiming the human in machine cultures: Introduction	12
Indigenous dance, cultural continuity, and resistance: A netnographic analysis of the Palestinian Dabke in the diaspora	12
Local fiction series: the value of European Public Service Media (1990–2020)	11
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media	11
The use of animation in NGOs’ audio-visual communication about solidarity and migration	11
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Re-meme-bering Tiananmen? From collective memory to meta-memory on TikTok	10
By sharing our loss, we fight: Collective expressions of grief in the digital age	10
A digital platform for ethical advertising and hybrid business models for news organizations: are they greening methods for ‘news deserts’?	10
Audience perceptions of AI-driven news presenters: A case of ‘Alice’ in Zimbabwe	10
Transcending failure: A study on the “failed domestication” of online news for young visually impaired people in China	9
Rethinking affective publics as media rituals through temporality, performativity and liminality	9
Extensions after Man: Race, Counter/insurgency and the Futures of Media Theory	9
Review essay: Perils of aggregating a global zeitgeist	9
When the war strikes back: TikTok’s domestication of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict among youth	9
Transgender identity management across social media platforms	9
Innovation through anachronism: The Pony Express, media, and American modernities	9
Eating alone as psychological self-care: How the younger generation in Let’s Eat survives in neoliberal South Korea	9
Unpacking news consumption and trust decisions through a folk theory approach: A study of Austrian young adults	9
Evolving yet contentious transcultural fanscapes: Peruvian fans’ accounts of K-pop and its fandoms	8
Infrastructures for media ‘extension’: licensing trade expos and the production of media distribution	8
Ideal technologies, ideal women: AI and gender imaginaries in Redditors’ discussions on the Replika bot girlfriend	8
Mimicking the mimics: problematizing cover performance of Filipino local music on social media	8
From audiences to data points: The role of media agencies in the platformization of the news media industry	8
Global online platforms, COVID-19, and culture: The global pandemic, an accelerator towards which direction?	7
Mediating gender in digital China: Post-2020s discourse and representation	7
‘What a funny looking video’: Using allegorical representations of technological change to reflect on future digital communication and design challenges	7
Embedded authoritarianism: the politics of poor press freedom in Indian Kashmir	7
‘You’re too smart to be a publicist’: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity	7
Algorithmic power and African indigenous languages: search engine autocomplete and the global multilingual Internet	7
Crowdfunding (as) disinformation: ‘Pitching’ 5G and election fraud campaigns on GoFundMe	7
Framing data witnessing: Airwars and the production of authority in conflict monitoring	7
Calls from Beyond the Walls: prison cellphone recordings during the pandemic in Lebanon	7
Drone trauma: violent mediation and remote warfare	7
The times of jeopardising free speech	7

Moderating for a friend of mine: Content moderation as affective reproduction in Chinese live-streaming	7
Transcending Instagram: Affective Swedish hashtags taking intimate feminist entanglements from viral to ‘IRL’	7
My journey with western theory in the university in Africa	6
Film distribution by video streaming platforms across Southeast Asia during COVID-19	6
Techno-cultural domestication of online Tarot reading in contemporary China	6
Archives of/as resistance: On the justice potential of eyewitness image records documenting the Syrian conflict	6
Fake digital identity and cyberbullying	6
“More dangerous than sharks”: Cellspace, death, and pathologies of the selfie*	6
Media, digital sovereignty and geopolitics: the case of the TikTok ban in India	6
Compulsory interracial intimacy: Why does removing the ethnicity filter on dating apps not benefit racial minorities?	6
Dismembering media diversity: A tryst with two press commissions	6
The life-transition perspective in mediatization research: Exploring lived experiences of media-related social changes through transitioning social roles	6
Reporting to audiences in crisis: Disruption, criticism and absent hope in TV journalisms’ rendering of the impactful UK energy price rises	6
Public intimacy in social media: The mass audience as a third party	5
Shelter skelter: record stores during the pandemic and the new selling of old stuff	5
Refugees versus ‘refugees’: the role of Islamophobia in Swedish alternative media’s reporting on Ukrainian asylum seekers	5
Overshadowed voices in media reporting on truth-telling commissions	5
Theorising TikTok cultures: Neuro-images in the era of short videos	5
Asian sporting masculinities in figure skating: media representations of Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu as rivals	5
Reawakenings to the improbable: Offerings of the limit situation for media theory in a disorderly world	5
Why mainstream news media still matter	5
Media practice and class-making: The anticipation of stigma and the cultural middle-class habitus	5
Media reporting of industrial wastewater issues in Kenya	5
Between affection and control: Chinese migrant mothers’ motherhood practices based on the mediated one-dimensional visibility of home cameras	5
Sugar and spice (and everything nice?): Japan’s ambition behind Lolita’s Kawaii aesthetics	5
Disablement in figure skating: Media, celebrity, spectacle	5
Presentation of national identity on social media in times of crises: The case of a Palestinian anti-violence movement in Israel	5
Loving strangers, avoiding risks: Online dating practices and scams among Chinese lesbian (lala) women	5
Europe is not like you see on TV! Ramadan drama as a platform of education on Harga in Tunisia	5