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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Folk theories of algorithms: Understanding digital irritation	102
Platform governance at the margins: Social media creators’ experiences with algorithmic (in)visibility	62
Global online platforms, COVID-19, and culture: The global pandemic, an accelerator towards which direction?	46
The virtual stages of hate: Using Goffman’s work to conceptualise the motivations for online hate	44
The shadow banning controversy: perceived governance and algorithmic folklore	43
Commemorating from a distance: the digital transformation of Holocaust memory in times of COVID-19	41
Public service media in the age of SVoDs: A comparative study of PSM strategic responses in Flanders, Italy and the UK	37
Rethinking creativity: creative industries, AI and everyday creativity	36
Hooking up with friends: LGBTQ+ young people, dating apps, friendship and safety	33
Netflix audience data, streaming industry discourse, and the emerging realities of ‘popular’ television	31
Browsing with Alexa: Interrogating the impact of voice assistants as web interfaces	29
Ethics for the majority world: AI and the question of violence at scale	28
Work, play, and precariousness: An overview of the labour ecosystem of esports	27
The ethics and politics of data sets in the age of machine learning: deleting traces and encountering remains	26
Algorithmic logics and the construction of cultural taste of the Netflix Recommender System	25
Rethinking journalism standards in the era of post-truth politics: from truth keepers to truth mediators	23
Media power in digital Asia: Super apps and megacorps	22
Reclaiming the human in machine cultures: Introduction	22
Transgender identity management across social media platforms	22
Ideal technologies, ideal women: AI and gender imaginaries in Redditors’ discussions on the Replika bot girlfriend	20
Whose pedagogy is it anyway? Decolonizing the syllabus through a critical embrace of difference	19
A regional and historical approach to platform capitalism: The cases of Alibaba and Tencent	19
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences	19
BTS as method: a counter-hegemonic culture in the network society	19
Influencers as ideological intermediaries: promotional politics and authenticity labour in influencer collaborations	18

Chatting with the dead: The hermeneutics of thanabots	18
The hypervisibility and discourses of ‘wokeness’ in digital culture	18
An autoethnography of automated powerlessness: lacking platform affordances in Instagram and TikTok account deletions	17
Remembering COVID-19: memory, crisis, and social media	17
Domesticating dating apps: Non-single Chinese gay men’s dating app use and negotiations of relational boundaries	16
Media framing of COVID-19 pandemic in the transitional regime of Serbia: Exploring discourses and strategies	15
The end of social media? How data attraction model in the algorithmic media reshapes the attention economy	15
The platformization of misogyny: Popular media, gender politics, and misogyny in China’s state-market nexus	14
Democratic backsliding and the media: the convergence of news narratives in Turkey	14
Fake news as fake politics: the digital materialities of YouTube misinformation videos about Brazilian oil spill catastrophe	14
Fostering intimacy on TikTok: a platform that ‘listens’ and ‘creates a safe space’	14
Dual ambivalence: The Untamed Girls as a counterpublic	14
Legalization of press control under democratic backsliding: The case of post-national security law Hong Kong	14
“Dangerous organizations: Facebook’s content moderation decisions and ethnic visibility in Myanmar”	14
Marginality and otherness: the discursive construction of LGBT issues/people in the Ghanaian news media	14
Queering the Map: Stories of love, loss and (be)longing within a digital cartographic archive	14
Public intimacy in social media: The mass audience as a third party	14
Laughing to forget or to remember? Anne Frank memes and mediatization of Holocaust memory	13
Toward a non-binary sense of mobility: insights from self-presentation in Instagram photography during COVID-19 pandemic	13
Media and information literacy for developing resistance to ‘infodemic’: lessons to be learnt from the binge of misinformation during COVID-19 pandemic	13
Buying on Weixin/WeChat: Proposing a sociomaterial approach of platform studies	13
Anatomy of a precarious newsroom: precarity and agency in Syrian exiled journalism in Turkey	12
#BlackLivesMatter: Exploring the digital practises of African Australian youth on social media	12
Tweeting ourselves to death: the cultural logic of digital capitalism	12
The show must go on? The entertainment industry during (and after) COVID-19	12
From audiences to data points: The role of media agencies in the platformization of the news media industry	12
Cultural politics of Netflix in local contexts: A case of the Korean media industries	12
The conquest of the world as meme: memetic visuality and political humor in critiques of the hindu right wing in India	12
Techno-emotional mediations of transnational intimacy: social media and care relations in long-distance Romanian families	11
On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy	11
Traces of orientalism in media studies	11
Alt-right and authoritarian memetic alliances: global mediations of hate within the rising Farsi manosphere on Iranian social media	11
Friction-free authenticity: mobile social networks and transactional affordances	11
Defusing moral panic: Legitimizing binge-watching as manageable, high-quality, middle-class hedonism	10
Film distribution by video streaming platforms across Southeast Asia during COVID-19	10
Platform ecosystems, market hierarchies and the megacorp: The case of Reliance Jio	9
Towards the engagement economy: interconnected processes of commodification on YouTube	9
Embedded authoritarianism: the politics of poor press freedom in Indian Kashmir	9
Migration, non-use, and the ‘Tumblrpocalypse’: Towards a unified theory of digital exodus	9
Keep it Oakland: e-commerce meets social justice	9
Mainstream media use for far-right mobilisation on the alt-tech online platform Gab	8
Agency and servitude in platform labour: a feminist analysis of blended cultures	8
Hardware and data in the platform era: Chinese smartphones in Africa	8
Framing the Israel-Palestine conflict 2021: Investigation of CNN’s coverage from a peace journalism perspective	8
Social media’s canaries: content moderators between digital labor and mediated trauma	7
A new algorithmic imaginary	7
Algorithmic power and African indigenous languages: search engine autocomplete and the global multilingual Internet	7
Three narrative patterns of the city image visually presented on Instagram under the influence of self-presentation	7
Beyond platform capitalism: critical perspectives on Facebook markets from Melanesia	7
Why journalism’s default neglect of temporality is a problem	7

Facing AI: conceptualizing ‘fAIce communication’ as the modus operandi of facial recognition systems	7
How propagames work as a part of digital authoritarianism: an analysis of a popular Chinese propagame	7
Fake digital identity and cyberbullying	7
Framing safety of women in public transport: A media discourse analysis of sexual harassment cases in Bangladesh	6
Rural media studies: making the case for a new subfield	6
The algorithm knows I’m Black: from users to subjects	6
From user-generated content to a user-generated aesthetic: Instagram, corporate vernacularization, and the intimate life of brands	6
The criminal trial as a live event: Exploring how and why live blogs change the professional practices of judges, defence lawyers and prosecutors	6
The trouble with ‘quiet advocacy’: local journalism and reporting climate change in rural and regional Australia	6
Media coverage of COVID-19 state surveillance in Israel: the securitization and militarization of a civil-medical crisis	6
How to train your algorithm: The struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok	6
Embodiment in activist images: addressing the role of the body in digital activism	6
Political discussion as a propaganda spectacle: propaganda talk shows on contemporary Russian television	6
Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance	6
Careful consumption and aspirational ethics in the media and cultural industries: Cancelling, quitting, screening, optimising	5
Power geometries of mediated care: (re)mapping transnational families and immobility of the Rohingya diaspora in a digital age	5
Algorithmic photography: a case study of the Huawei Moon Mode controversy	5
Drone trauma: violent mediation and remote warfare	5
Traumatic past in the present: COVID-19 and Holocaust memory in Israeli media, digital media, and social media	5
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	5
French theoretical and methodological influences on Brazilian journalism research	5
Exploring data journalism practices in Africa: data politics, media ecosystems and newsroom infrastructures	5
Envisioning a credit society: social credit systems and the institutionalization of moral standards in China	5
Translating a Chinese approach? Rural distribution and marketing in Ghana’s phone industry	5
Compulsory interracial intimacy: Why does removing the ethnicity filter on dating apps not benefit racial minorities?	5
The pandemic shock doctrine in an authoritarian context: the economic, bodily, and political precarity of Turkey’s journalists during the pandemic	5
Mind the (cultural) gap: International news channels and the challenge of attracting Latin American audiences	5
Youth and social media: the affordances and challenges of online graffiti practice	5
Mediating a regime in crisis: corruption and succession in Zimbabwe’s state media	5
Theorising TikTok cultures: Neuro-images in the era of short videos	5
Digital dependence: Online fatigue and coping strategies during the COVID-19 lockdown	5
Games and data capture culture: play in the era of accelerated neoliberalism	5