OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cultural Studies is 1. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Fissures in algorithmic power: platforms, code, and contestation	32
Toward a Black media philosophy	32
Seeing like an infrastructure: avidity and difference in algorithmic recommendation	29
Doing cultural studies in rough seas: the COVID-19 ocean multiple	23
The orang utan is not an indigenous name: knowing and naming the maias as a decolonizing epistemology	20
Introduction: COVID-19, the multiplier	17
Feeling good: humanitarian virtual reality film, emotional style and global citizenship	16
Re-articulating feminisms: a theoretical critique of feminist struggles and discourse in historical and contemporary China	16
Thermopolitics of data: cloud infrastructures and energy futures	16
Beyond the crisis: transitioning to a better world?	15
‘Give me liberty or give me Covid!’: Anti-lockdown protests as necropopulist downsurgency	13
Seeing infrastructure: race, facial recognition and the politics of data	11
Fashion in ‘crisis’: consumer activism and brand (ir)responsibility in lockdown	11
Infrastructural politics amidst the coils of control	10
Magical capitalism, gambler subjects: South Korea’s bitcoin investment frenzy	10
The biopolitics of pandemics: interview with Ed Cohen	10
Asian Americans as racial contagion	9
Infrastructures of discovery: examining podcast ratings and rankings	9
Enduring COVID-19, nevertheless	9
Parodies for a pandemic: coronavirus songs, creativity and lockdown	8
Regulation of pornography and criminalization of BL readers and authors in contemporary China (2010–2019)	8
Mistranslation as disinformation: COVID-19, global imaginaries, and self-serving cosmopolitanism	8
Everyday life and the management of risky bodies in the COVID-19 era	8
Do algorithms have a right to the city? Waze and algorithmic spatiality	7
Sweeping the city: infrastructure, informality, and the politics of maintenance	7

COVID-19 at sea: ‘the world as you know it no longer exists’	7
Mask as identity? The political subject in the 2019 Hong Kong’s social unrest	7
The value of the underground: punk, politics, and creative urbanism in Bandung, Indonesia	6
Redirected entanglements in the digital supply chain	6
The mechanical Turk: a short history of ‘artificial artificial intelligence’	6
The long and deadly road: the covid pandemic and Indian migrants	6
Following the science? Covid-19, ‘race’ and the politics of knowing	5
Decolonization, decolonial excess, and punk: reflections on the cultural politics of race and coloniality in North Atlantic punk	5
Covid-19 and the mundane practices of privilege	5
The politics and aesthetics of featuring in post-2017 Chinese hip hop	5
Data(-)based ambivalence regarding NYC 311 data infrastructure	5
Smart homes: domestic futurity as Infrastructure	5
Collective disorientation in the pandemic conjuncture	4
No time for fun: the politics of partying during a pandemic	4
Coal ground	4
Predicting Covid-19: wearable technology and the politics of solutionism	4
Guarani-kaiowa’s political ontology: singular because common	4
Status economies and frequent flier expertise: YouTube first class travel videos	4
Speculative machines and us: more-than-human intuition and the algorithmic condition	4
COVID-19 and ‘crisis as ordinary’: pathological whiteness, popular pessimism, and pre-apocalyptic cultural studies	4
Resisting carelessness	3
Civilizing infrastructure	3
Confronting global infrastructural capitalism: the triple logic of the 'vanguard' and its inevitable spatial and class contradictions in China's high-speed rail program	3
The problematization of consumers in Swedish financial literacy education	3
Tuning sound for infrastructures: artificial intelligence, automation, and the cultural politics of audio mastering	3
On taking the affective turn: interview with Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, and Deborah Gould	3
Virus government – A twenty-first-century genealogy of the ‘Dusk mask’ as biopolitical technology	3
Tech money in civil society: whose interests do digital rights organisations represent?	3
Recoding the city: cultural mediation of short-term rental platforms in the US	3
Racism is a public health crisis! Black Power in the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Automated media and commercial populism	3
Off-centring empire in the Anthropocene: towards multispecies intimacies and nonhuman agents of survival	3
Playing politics digitally: young Chinese people’s political feelings on social media platforms	3
Michel Foucault and the coloniality of power	3
Empire, emotion, exchange: (dis)orienting encounters of/with post-9/11 US cultural diplomacy	3
Multispecies mourning: grieving as resistance on the West Papuan plantation frontier	3
Staging a ‘real’ masculinity in a ‘fake’ world: creativity, (in)authenticity, and the gendering of musical labour	2
Blurring life and work: the predicament of young middle-class women in Shanghai	2
Bio or Zoe?: dilemmas of biopolitics and data governmentality during COVID-19	2
Narratives of the homoerotic soldier: the fleshiness of the South Korean military	2
Religion and urban political eco/pathology: exploring communalized coronavirus in South Asia	2
The care and feeding of 9-1-1 infrastructure: dispatcher culture as media work and infrastructural transformation	2
Punk and feminism in Indonesia	2
COVID bread-porn: social stratification through displays of self-management	2
‘The world is sinking:’ sand, urban infrastructure, and world-cities	2
Art markets, epistemic authority, and the institutional curation of knowledge	2
What’s up with methodology? Faults, experimentations, and affective displacements in the reinventions of the common	2
Road warriors to digital nomads: portable computers, habitats, and remote work	2
Debating with Wertham's ghost: comic books, culture wars, and populist moral panics	2
Oaths and the ethics of automated data: limits to porting the Hippocratic oath from medicine to data science	2

The underground seen: moving images, heterotopias, and the postsocialist bearing witness	2
Keywords and keywording	2
Bodies and borders in post-imperial Japan: a study of the coloniality of biometric power	2
Rearticulating football fans in Hong Kong: between activism, localism, and consumerism	2
Elephant empire: zoos and colonial encounters in Eastern Europe	2
Introduction: shifting undergrounds in East and Southeast Asia	2
The Ban’s mana: post-imperial affect and public memory in Zagreb	2
Queering the black Atlantic: transgender spaces in Akwaeke Emezi’s writing and visual art	2
‘We don't even know who owns it’: the infrastructural imaginary of Spruce Pine, NC	2
In praise of Arab ‘Defeat’: another reading of Arab struggle	2
Architectural liminality: the communicative ethics of balconies and other urban passages	2
Evangelicals and politicians in Argentina and Brazil: transformations and conservative choices	2
Seven theses about the so-called culture war(s) (or some fragmentary notes on ‘cancel culture’)	1
Settler colonial bordering and post-pandemic futures: disrupting the nation state in Aotearoa/New Zealand	1
‘Go! You are Free!’: rentier politics and the gift logic of the royal pardon in Morocco	1
Locating vernacular creativity outside the ‘urban cool’ in Beijing: ephemeral water calligraphy	1
Aqua/geopolitical conjuncture and disjuncture: invasion, resources, and mining the deep dark sea	1
Tuning machines: an approach to exploring how Instagram’s machine vision operates on and through digital media’s participatory visual cultures	1
New wave of totalitarianism/authoritarianism in East Asia: an editorial introduction	1
‘This is a tale of friendship, a story of togetherness’: the British monarchy, Grenfell Tower, and inequalities in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea	1
The spectacle of competence: global pandemic and the redesign of leadership in a post neo-liberal world	1
The proliferation of men’s sheds in Australia: the problematization of masculinity in a neoliberal regime	1
SoHoas virtual theatre: performing gender, race, and class in 21st-century Colombia	1
Learning From Lana: Netflix’sToo Hot to Handle, COVID-19, and the human-nonhuman entanglement in contemporary technoculture	1
Beyond the branch plant: Capitol-EMI’s first Canadian record press and national music industries in the 1970s	1
The price of speculation: fintech risk regimes in Hong Kong	1
Infrastructural awareness	1
Resistance, activism and ordinary life: an editorial introduction	1
The collateralized personality: creditability and resistance in the age of automated credit-scoring and lending	1
Resisting political traditionalism: a rejoinder to Ho	1
From hope to haunt: digital activism and the cultural politics of hope(lessness) in late-socialism	1
A haunting presence: archiving black absence and racialized mappings in Louisiana plantation sites	1
Reframing the Black Atlantic	1
Rwandan music-makers negotiate shared cultural identities after genocide: the case of Orchestre Impala’s revival	1
Cultural capital and constrained agency in debt-migration for construction work in India	1
Zombie capitalism and coronavirus time	1
Programming gender: surveillance, identity, and paranoia in Ex Machina	1
Affect, Protest, Pandemic: Conversations from the crises of 2020	1
Class S: appropriation of ‘lesbian’ subculture in modern Japanese literature and New Wave cinema	1
‘“Demo” and “cracy”’: music, trust, and authentication in Mexico’s 2018 elections	1
Listening to the video: Hip Hop videography and Rural Black Aesthetics	1
The epiphanic moments of COVID-19: the revelation of painful national truths	1
Brexit and invasive species: a case study of the cognitive and affective encoding of ‘abject nature’ in contemporary nationalist ideology	1
Mischievous infrastructure: tactical secrecy through infrastructural friction in police video systems	1
Affective paragrounds: alternative envisionings through multidisciplinary contemporary arts in Singapore	1
Suburban vogue and other queer survival strategies	1
Sonic masquerading in Israeli popular music: self-Imitation, accent, and mockery	1
The child as mediator of racial ambivalence in Australia: ‘Egg Boy’ and the racist girl	1
Girl spaces: images of girlhood on the internet	1
Back to the future: lessons of a SARS hysteria for the COVID-19 pandemic	1
New normals, from talk to gesture	1
Breast cancer photography and the turn-of-the-centurystudium. Two case studies to illustrate a paradigm shift	1
COVID-19 and the affective politics of congestion: an exploration of population density debates in Australia	1
Ambivalent memories of imperial legacies: Asmara as ‘beautiful' and ‘segregationist' from Ethiopia	1
Connection at the price of collusion: an analysis of ‘Hong Kong’s New Identity Politics: longing for the Local in the shadow of China’ (2020)	1