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. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-08-01 to 2023-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Weaponizing white thymos: flows of rage in the online audiences of the alt-right	31
Toward a Black media philosophy	31
Doing cultural studies in rough seas: the COVID-19 ocean multiple	23
(Im)mobile precarity in the Asia-Pacific	20
Fissures in algorithmic power: platforms, code, and contestation	16
The orang utan is not an indigenous name: knowing and naming the maias as a decolonizing epistemology	16
Introduction: COVID-19, the multiplier	15
Thermopolitics of data: cloud infrastructures and energy futures	13
‘Be creative’ in Bangladesh? Mobility, empowerment and precarity in ethical fashion enterprise	13
Feeling good: humanitarian virtual reality film, emotional style and global citizenship	12
Twerk sumn!: theorizing Black girl epistemology in the body	11
Fashion in ‘crisis’: consumer activism and brand (ir)responsibility in lockdown	9
‘Give me liberty or give me Covid!’: Anti-lockdown protests as necropopulist downsurgency	9
Beyond the crisis: transitioning to a better world?	9
Asian Americans as racial contagion	8
Infrastructures of discovery: examining podcast ratings and rankings	8
Mistranslation as disinformation: COVID-19, global imaginaries, and self-serving cosmopolitanism	8
Co-authoring the space: the initial Lennon Wall Hong Kong in 2014 as socially engaged creativity	8
Enduring COVID-19, nevertheless	8
The biopolitics of pandemics: interview with Ed Cohen	8
Seeing infrastructure: race, facial recognition and the politics of data	7
Regulation of pornography and criminalization of BL readers and authors in contemporary China (2010–2019)	7
Magical capitalism, gambler subjects: South Korea’s bitcoin investment frenzy	7
Infrastructural politics amidst the coils of control	7
Twitter, incivility, and presidential communication: A theoretical incursion into spectacle and power	7

Girls being Rey: ethical cultural consumption, families and popular feminism	7
Re-articulating feminisms: a theoretical critique of feminist struggles and discourse in historical and contemporary China	7
Everyday life and the management of risky bodies in the COVID-19 era	7
Sweeping the city: infrastructure, informality, and the politics of maintenance	6
Redirected entanglements in the digital supply chain	6
Mask as identity? The political subject in the 2019 Hong Kong’s social unrest	6
Parodies for a pandemic: coronavirus songs, creativity and lockdown	6
Do algorithms have a right to the city? Waze and algorithmic spatiality	6
Seeing like an infrastructure: avidity and difference in algorithmic recommendation	5
Covid-19 and the mundane practices of privilege	5
COVID-19 at sea: ‘the world as you know it no longer exists’	5
The long and deadly road: the covid pandemic and Indian migrants	5
Queer, brown, migrant: documenting the Hong Kong ‘Helper’	4
Collective disorientation in the pandemic conjuncture	4
Decolonization, decolonial excess, and punk: reflections on the cultural politics of race and coloniality in North Atlantic punk	4
Smart homes: domestic futurity as Infrastructure	4
Theorizing femininity in artificial intelligence: a framework for undoing technology’s gender troubles	4
The value of the underground: punk, politics, and creative urbanism in Bandung, Indonesia	4
The politics and aesthetics of featuring in post-2017 Chinese hip hop	4
Intimate borders: refugee im/mobility in Australia’s border security regime	4
Following the science? Covid-19, ‘race’ and the politics of knowing	4
Bordering care: the care of foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong	4
COVID-19 and ‘crisis as ordinary’: pathological whiteness, popular pessimism, and pre-apocalyptic cultural studies	4
No time for fun: the politics of partying during a pandemic	3
Recoding the city: cultural mediation of short-term rental platforms in the US	3
Coal ground	3
Love, labour, lost: creative class mobility, stories of loss, negative affects	3
The mechanical Turk: a short history of ‘artificial artificial intelligence’	3
Michel Foucault and the coloniality of power	3
Selling the cryptosphere in China	2
Staging a ‘real’ masculinity in a ‘fake’ world: creativity, (in)authenticity, and the gendering of musical labour	2
Atopic moments in the square: a report on despair and hope after the Candlelight Revolution in South Korea	2
Where are we going now? Subculture in East Asian cities and the heart of youth	2
Two logics of Chinese transnationalism: the case of gangpiao and Hong Kong	2
Virus government – A twenty-first-century genealogy of the ‘Dusk mask’ as biopolitical technology	2
‘We don't even know who owns it’: the infrastructural imaginary of Spruce Pine, NC	2
Policy, mobility, and youth subjectivity: the case of the Hong Kong-Australian working holiday scheme	2
Architectural liminality: the communicative ethics of balconies and other urban passages	2
Elephant empire: zoos and colonial encounters in Eastern Europe	2
What’s up with methodology? Faults, experimentations, and affective displacements in the reinventions of the common	2
Introduction: shifting undergrounds in East and Southeast Asia	2
On taking the affective turn: interview with Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, and Deborah Gould	2
Narratives of the homoerotic soldier: the fleshiness of the South Korean military	2
Off-centring empire in the Anthropocene: towards multispecies intimacies and nonhuman agents of survival	2
Punk and feminism in Indonesia	2
COVID bread-porn: social stratification through displays of self-management	2
Empire, emotion, exchange: (dis)orienting encounters of/with post-9/11 US cultural diplomacy	2
Tuning sound for infrastructures: artificial intelligence, automation, and the cultural politics of audio mastering	2
Status economies and frequent flier expertise: YouTube first class travel videos	2
Data(-)based ambivalence regarding NYC 311 data infrastructure	2

The dilemma of mobility: on the question of youth voluntourism in times of precarity	2
In praise of Arab ‘Defeat’: another reading of Arab struggle	2
The care and feeding of 9-1-1 infrastructure: dispatcher culture as media work and infrastructural transformation	2
Civilizing infrastructure	2
Evangelicals and politicians in Argentina and Brazil: transformations and conservative choices	2
Queering the black Atlantic: transgender spaces in Akwaeke Emezi’s writing and visual art	1
Religion and urban political eco/pathology: exploring communalized coronavirus in South Asia	1
The underground seen: moving images, heterotopias, and the postsocialist bearing witness	1
Sound in urban public space: loudspeaker broadcasts in Johannesburg and Durban in South Africa, 1940s	1
Keywords and keywording	1
Back to the future: lessons of a SARS hysteria for the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Rwandan music-makers negotiate shared cultural identities after genocide: the case of Orchestre Impala’s revival	1
Road warriors to digital nomads: portable computers, habitats, and remote work	1
Learning From Lana: Netflix’s Too Hot to Handle, COVID-19, and the human-nonhuman entanglement in contemporary technoculture	1
Suburban vogue and other queer survival strategies	1
Listening to the video: Hip Hop videography and Rural Black Aesthetics	1
SoHoas virtual theatre: performing gender, race, and class in 21st-century Colombia	1
Rearticulating football fans in Hong Kong: between activism, localism, and consumerism	1
‘“Demo” and “cracy”’: music, trust, and authentication in Mexico’s 2018 elections	1
Bridging ‘New China’ and postcolonial India: Indian narratives of the Chinese revolution	1
COVID-19 and the affective politics of congestion: an exploration of population density debates in Australia	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
Bodies and borders in post-imperial Japan: a study of the coloniality of biometric power	1
Affective paragrounds: alternative envisionings through multidisciplinary contemporary arts in Singapore	1
Automated media and commercial populism	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
Introduction: Imagining the future in East Asia	1
Tuning machines: an approach to exploring how Instagram’s machine vision operates on and through digital media’s participatory visual cultures	1
Cultural capital and constrained agency in debt-migration for construction work in India	1
An alternative discourse of modernity in a Chinese monster film: The Great Wall	1
Filming female desire: queering the gaze of pop music videos	1
Ambivalent memories of imperial legacies: Asmara as ‘beautiful' and ‘segregationist' from Ethiopia	1
Zombie capitalism and coronavirus time	1
The collateralized personality: creditability and resistance in the age of automated credit-scoring and lending	1
The problematization of consumers in Swedish financial literacy education	1
Brexit and invasive species: a case study of the cognitive and affective encoding of ‘abject nature’ in contemporary nationalist ideology	1
Playing politics digitally: young Chinese people’s political feelings on social media platforms	1
The Ban’s mana: post-imperial affect and public memory in Zagreb	1
The epiphanic moments of COVID-19: the revelation of painful national truths	1
Control societies and machine ecology	1
Imagining a national/local identity in the colony: the Cultural Revolution discourse in Hong Kong youth and student journals, 1966–1977	1
Mischievous infrastructure: tactical secrecy through infrastructural friction in police video systems	1
‘Go! You are Free!’: rentier politics and the gift logic of the royal pardon in Morocco	1
Oaths and the ethics of automated data: limits to porting the Hippocratic oath from medicine to data science	1
Blurring life and work: the predicament of young middle-class women in Shanghai	1
Guarani-kaiowa’s political ontology: singular because common	1
Bio or Zoe?: dilemmas of biopolitics and data governmentality during COVID-19	1
The spectacle of competence: global pandemic and the redesign of leadership in a post neo-liberal world	1
Class S: appropriation of ‘lesbian’ subculture in modern Japanese literature and New Wave cinema	1
Unlocking the future: characterizing ‘hope' in contemporary Chinese science fiction	1
New normals, from talk to gesture	1
Confronting global infrastructural capitalism: the triple logic of the 'vanguard' and its inevitable spatial and class contradictions in China's high-speed rail program	1
Resistance, activism and ordinary life: an editorial introduction	1
Racism is a public health crisis! Black Power in the COVID-19 pandemic	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
‘The world is sinking:’ sand, urban infrastructure, and world-cities	1