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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Attention, ambivalence and algorithms: Publishers in the era of ubiquitous connectivity and expanding platforms	191
Of farms, legends, and fools: Re-engaging Ghana’s development narrative through social media	106
The “gendered price” of press freedom in the digital age: Documenting threats and challenges for female journalists in western media systems	95
Proactive governance by official administrators on Chinese social media platforms: Boundary discourse and governance legitimacy	82
Legislating in the media spotlight: The Digital Markets Act in EU news coverage	63
Day of Rage: Forensic journalism and the US Capitol riot	58
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths	55
Platformized childhood: How app stores construct children’s software audiences through platform governance and industry lore	53
Scripting Disability as the ‘New’ Bollywood: Pitching, reflecting, researching and negotiating	51
Racism, social media, and the coronial jurisdiction: An analysis of user interactions on Facebook	47
‘We cracked a hole in this very white structure’: Indigenous journalism practices in mainstream Australian news organisations	46
We are stronger when we are connected: Queer counterpublics and the Korean Queer Culture Festival	45
Fake digital identity and cyberbullying	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.	40
Discostan and Hamnawa: Between erasure and preservation in South Asian digital diasporic archives	38
A global communications standpoint: What might that mean?	33
Reconsidering trauma and symbolic wounds in times of online misogyny and platforms	33
Happiness in newsroom contracts: communicative resistance for digital work and life satisfaction	32
“That’s PEGI, the American system!”: Perceptions of video game age ratings among families in Norway	30
Media reporting of industrial wastewater issues in Kenya	30
Commemorative stickers: A repurposing of an ephemeral medium	30
Making sense of the invisible: cognitive mapping, affective realities and the Irish/Northern Irish Border	29
The temporal identity work of digitally connected migrants: A study of young Syrian migrants in Sweden	29
The erosion of media freedom in Ghana: A signal democratic backsliding?	28
Composite Anne: The remembrance of Anne Frank and Holocaust commemoration in the digital age	27

Can the other be heard?	26
The possibilities Jesús Martín-Barbero left for us to understand Latin America	25
LGBT+ mainstreaming on strictly come dancing: Queering the norms of ballroom dancing	24
Reviewer Thank You List	24
Strategic methodological essentialism: An approach to transnational LGBTQ+ audience research	23
National discourse in Chinese cyberspace: Rethinking the roles of and dynamics between the state, digital platforms, and non-state actors	23
Spaces of digital disconnection: A go-along study of dining areas, libraries, and movie theaters	23
A gathering with fire: Exploring the audience reception of internet memes about Belfast riots	23
(Dis)Affordances: Publicness and the Question of Absence	22
Understanding the popularity and affordances of TikTok through user experiences	22
Remembering a disastrous past to imagine catastrophic future(s) on social media: The expected Istanbul earthquake	22
The manufacture of militarized masculinity in Chinese series You Are My Hero (2021)	22
Protests, Internet shutdowns, and disinformation in a transitioning state	21
Navigating the digital age: The gray digital divide and digital inclusion in China	21
The financial ecologies of transnational television production: “Following the money” from private equity to Sky Germany’s Pagan Peak	20
Connecting the individual and the other in disconnection studies	19
‘There’s a lot of freedom you can have with that kind of thing’: vinyl and cassette split releases in the digital age	19
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	18
Hashtag nationalism: a discursive and networked digital activism	17
Esports is a riot games: A critical political economic analysis of the closure of the world’s first esports TV network in South Korea	17
TikTok and the platformisation from China: Geopolitical anxieties, repetitive creativities and future imaginaries	17
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
Rethinking keywords in media and cultural studies during and beyond COVID-19: Editorial	16
Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news	16
Exploring the intersection of digital and environmental challenges: Understanding their convergence through habitus	16
On losing the “dispensable” sense: TikTok imitation publics and COVID-19 smell loss challenges	16
Ethopolitical media: Organizing Assistive Technology, disability and care in the platform society	15
Default viewing: Reconceptualising choice and habit in television audience research	15
Between cultural promotion and nation building: Analysing the drivers of Basque public television consumption over a decade	15
Social media’s canaries: content moderators between digital labor and mediated trauma	15
Rural media studies: making the case for a new subfield	14
Regulatory barriers in the attention economy: Lack of support, trust, and measures	14
Defining displaced publics	14
How “original” are Netflix Original films? Mapping and understanding the recycling of content in the age of streaming cinema	14
ADHD and digital disconnection: Exploring inclusive and practical approaches	14
Why the everyday is essential: Navigating censorship and surveillance on WeChat in China	13
Cable news advertising: Applying formal analysis to uncover current trends in self-promotional marketing	13
Overlapping care and control: Insights from Romanian smart speaker users	13
Reimagining digital inclusion through platform economies in Brazil	13
Newspaper framing of attempts to ban LGTBQ books in the U.S., U.K., and Ireland	13
Creative compliance and selective visibility: How Chinese queer uploaders performing identities on the Douyin platform	12
The details that matter: Racism in Norwegian media during the Covid-19 pandemic	12
The weaponisation of antisemitism: The Jewish Chronicle and the production of a moral panic	12
Interracial romances and colorblindness in Shondaland’s Bridgerton	12
‘Something else’?: international co-production, postcolonial crime fiction and the representation of sexual orientation in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency TV series	12
Are video streaming services offering incomplete entertainment?	12
Dirty dancing: Gender, aging, and sexuality during Hong Kong’s COVID-19 pandemic	12
Celebrating women’s autonomy, embracing patriarchal norms: The transnational manifestation of postfeminism in China	12

Digital disconnective practice: Online platform migration and technology non-use in the age of emerging social media and polarized societies	12
Making America hot again: Aesthetic politics, from Walter Benjamin to Sydney Sweeney	11
How to train your algorithm: The struggle for public control over private audience commodities on Tiktok	11
On super apps and app stores: digital media logics in China’s app economy	10
The Queer Clubhouse? Bar culture, sports media, and LGBTQ+ communities	10
Colonial shadows: From mobile cinemas to digital platforms: scales of cultural influence in Sudanese foreign media consumption	10
Transcoding a wanghong city: Mediatized culturalization of urban places in China	10
Sexual abuse, celebrity bhaktas , and counterpublics in the digital sphere	10
Framing post-disaster collective action as ‘good news’: Possibilities and tensions	10
The establishing of subject positions in Swedish news media discourses during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Being Chinese or becoming Chinese? Discursive imaginations of Eileen Gu across media platforms	10
Standpointing global communication	9
Remembering Marielle Franco: Haunting online presence and the memorialization of resistance on social media	9
Adjustments in sociotechnical imaginaries: The role of loudspeakers in China’s public health emergencies	9
Disablement in figure skating: Media, celebrity, spectacle	9
My journey with western theory in the university in Africa	9
By sharing our loss, we fight: Collective expressions of grief in the digital age	9
Global influencers’ content creation strategies: Negotiating with platform affordances to practice vernacular creativity	9
Reawakenings to the improbable: Offerings of the limit situation for media theory in a disorderly world	9
Always-on authenticity: Challenging the BeReal ideal of “being real”	9
‘You’re too smart to be a publicist’: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity	8
Editorial: encounters with Western media theory	8
Media research and proposals for media change: Notes on a key variable	8
Rethinking news disengagement: Epistemic disconnection from news	8
Misinformation’s missing human	8
Digital technologies and the protest paradigm: The discursive construction of the #WomanLifeFreedom protests in Time and Wired magazine	8
Intimate platform biographies on, off and underneath Instagram	8
The life-transition perspective in mediatization research: Exploring lived experiences of media-related social changes through transitioning social roles	8
Environmental and social issues and the media game: Four ways to address mediated (in)visibility	8
Martín-Barbero’s style	8
Crosscurrents: Welfare	7
Borderline practices on Douyin/TikTok: Content transfer and algorithmic manipulation	7
‘Hypocrite!’ Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack	7
Danish public service online weather from 2005 to 2022: From meteorological data and information to leisurely commonality	7
Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance	7
Legalization of press control under democratic backsliding: The case of post-national security law Hong Kong	7
Media representations of naturalized athletes: Sentiment variations and trends in Turkish media	7
Scrutinising South African media companies’ strategies for Generation Z’s news consumption	7
Culture, commerce and crowdfunding: Artists’ experiences of crowdfunding and lessons from Japan	7