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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Proactive governance by official administrators on Chinese social media platforms: Boundary discourse and governance legitimacy	152
Attention, ambivalence and algorithms: Publishers in the era of ubiquitous connectivity and expanding platforms	106
‘We cracked a hole in this very white structure’: Indigenous journalism practices in mainstream Australian news organisations	83
Legislating in the media spotlight: The Digital Markets Act in EU news coverage	80
Platformized childhood: How app stores construct children’s software audiences through platform governance and industry lore	75
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media	70
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths	53
Day of Rage: Forensic journalism and the US Capitol riot	50
Scripting Disability as the ‘New’ Bollywood: Pitching, reflecting, researching and negotiating	48
Circulating cassettes of ceremony: Indigenous peer-to-peer networks in Arnhem Land	42
We are stronger when we are connected: Queer counterpublics and the Korean Queer Culture Festival	41
“That’s PEGI, the American system!”: Perceptions of video game age ratings among families in Norway	40
Fake digital identity and cyberbullying	39
Reconsidering trauma and symbolic wounds in times of online misogyny and platforms	37
Discostan and Hamnawa: Between erasure and preservation in South Asian digital diasporic archives	37
A global communications standpoint: What might that mean?	35
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.	35
Media reporting of industrial wastewater issues in Kenya	32
Happiness in newsroom contracts: communicative resistance for digital work and life satisfaction	31
A gathering with fire: Exploring the audience reception of internet memes about Belfast riots	30
Making sense of the invisible: cognitive mapping, affective realities and the Irish/Northern Irish Border	29
Composite Anne: The remembrance of Anne Frank and Holocaust commemoration in the digital age	28
Can the other be heard?	27
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	25

The manufacture of militarized masculinity in Chinese series You Are My Hero (2021)	23
The erosion of media freedom in Ghana: A signal democratic backsliding?	22
Remembering a disastrous past to imagine catastrophic future(s) on social media: The expected Istanbul earthquake	22
Navigating the digital age: The gray digital divide and digital inclusion in China	22
Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state	21
Strategic methodological essentialism: An approach to transnational LGBTQ+ audience research	21
National discourse in Chinese cyberspace: Rethinking the roles of and dynamics between the state, digital platforms, and non-state actors	20
(Dis)Affordances: Publicness and the Question of Absence	20
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences	19
A mask between you and me	19
Towards a new progressive labour culture? Industry-oriented channels, bitter and precarious structure of feeling and worker solidarity in China	19
Exploring the intersection of digital and environmental challenges: Understanding their convergence through habitus	18
The financial ecologies of transnational television production: “Following the money” from private equity to Sky Germany’s Pagan Peak	18
‘There’s a lot of freedom you can have with that kind of thing’: vinyl and cassette split releases in the digital age	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
Bringing #LinaBell to life online: A case study in the creative and collaborative dynamics of Chinese online fandom	17
Hegemonic meanings of populism: Populism as a signifier in legacy dailies of six countries 2000–2018	16
The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains	15
Connecting the individual and the other in disconnection studies	15
Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news	14
TikTok and the platformisation from China: Geopolitical anxieties, repetitive creativities and future imaginaries	14
Hashtag nationalism: a discursive and networked digital activism	14
The show must go on? The entertainment industry during (and after) COVID-19	14
On losing the “dispensable” sense: TikTok imitation publics and COVID-19 smell loss challenges	13
Between cultural promotion and nation building: Analysing the drivers of Basque public television consumption over a decade	13
Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond COVID-19: Editorial	13
Regulatory barriers in the attention economy: Lack of support, trust, and measures	13
Ethopolitical media: Organizing Assistive Technology, disability and care in the platform society	13
How “original” are Netflix Original films? Mapping and understanding the recycling of content in the age of streaming cinema	13
Rural media studies: making the case for a new subfield	12
Are video streaming services offering incomplete entertainment?	12
Social media’s canaries: content moderators between digital labor and mediated trauma	12
Default viewing: Reconceptualising choice and habit in television audience research	12
ADHD and digital disconnection: Exploring inclusive and practical approaches	12
Dirty dancing: Gender, aging, and sexuality during Hong Kong’s COVID-19 pandemic	11
The details that matter: Racism in Norwegian media during the Covid-19 pandemic	11
The weaponisation of antisemitism: The Jewish Chronicle and the production of a moral panic	11
Interracial romances and colorblindness in Shondaland’s Bridgerton	11
Overlapping care and control: Insights from Romanian smart speaker users	11
Why the everyday is essential: Navigating censorship and surveillance on WeChat in China	11
Digital disconnective practice: Online platform migration and technology non-use in the age of emerging social media and polarized societies	11
Cable news advertising: Applying formal analysis to uncover current trends in self-promotional marketing	11
Reimagining digital inclusion through platform economies in Brazil	11
Newspaper framing of attempts to ban LGTBQ books in the U.S., U.K., and Ireland	11
Celebrating women’s autonomy, embracing patriarchal norms: The transnational manifestation of postfeminism in China	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
How to train your algorithm: The struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok	10
Transcoding a wanghong city: Mediatized culturalization of urban places in China	10
The pandemic shock doctrine in an authoritarian context: the economic, bodily, and political precarity of Turkey’s journalists during the pandemic	10
Creative compliance and selective visibility: How Chinese queer uploaders performing identities on the Douyin platform	10

By sharing our loss, we fight: Collective expressions of grief in the digital age	9
Digital technologies and the protest paradigm: The discursive construction of the #WomanLifeFreedom protests in Time and Wired magazine	9
Being Chinese or becoming Chinese? Discursive imaginations of Eileen Gu across media platforms	9
The Queer Clubhouse? Bar culture, sports media, and LGBTQ+ communities	9
Standpointing global communication	9
Disablement in figure skating: Media, celebrity, spectacle	9
Editorial: encounters with Western media theory	9
Sexual abuse, celebrity bhaktas , and counterpublics in the digital sphere	9
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Constructing ‘race/ethnicity’ and nationality in Spanish media: a content analysis of international football coverage	9
On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy	9
Reawakenings to the improbable: Offerings of the limit situation for media theory in a disorderly world	9
Adjustments in sociotechnical imaginaries: The role of loudspeakers in China’s public health emergencies	9
Framing post-disaster collective action as ‘good news’: Possibilities and tensions	9
My journey with western theory in the university in Africa	8
‘You’re too smart to be a publicist’: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity	8
Environmental and social issues and the media game: Four ways to address mediated (in)visibility	8
Always-on authenticity: Challenging the BeReal ideal of “being real”	8
The life-transition perspective in mediatization research: Exploring lived experiences of media-related social changes through transitioning social roles	8
Global influencers’ content creation strategies: Negotiating with platform affordances to practice vernacular creativity	8
Rethinking creativity: creative industries, AI and everyday creativity	8
Remembering Marielle Franco: Haunting online presence and the memorialization of resistance on social media	8
Martín-Barbero’s style	8
Misinformation’s missing human	8
Media research and proposals for media change: Notes on a key variable	7
Media representations of naturalized athletes: Sentiment variations and trends in Turkish media	7
Crosscurrents: Welfare	7
Corrigendum to “Crosscurrents: Welfare”	7
Scrutinising South African media companies’ strategies for Generation Z’s news consumption	7
Neoliberalism and authoritarian media cultures: a Vietnamese perspective	7
Legalization of press control under democratic backsliding: The case of post-national security law Hong Kong	7
TikTok and its mediatic split: the promotion of ecumenical user-generated content alongside Sinocentric media globalization	7
Onlife intersectionalities as flows of playbour: The case of women in gaming	7
Borderline practices on Douyin/TikTok: Content transfer and algorithmic manipulation	7
Danish public service online weather from 2005 to 2022: From meteorological data and information to leisurely commonality	7
‘Hypocrite!’ Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack	7
Culture, commerce and crowdfunding: Artists’ experiences of crowdfunding and lessons from Japan	7
Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance	7
Protecting the people, or the Olympics? Agenda-cutting of the COVID-19 risk in the news coverage of Japan’s public broadcaster	7