OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cultural Studies is 2. 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
Fissures in algorithmic power: platforms, code, and contestation	41
Seeing like an infrastructure: avidity and difference in algorithmic recommendation	29
Doing cultural studies in rough seas: the COVID-19 ocean multiple	23
Re-articulating feminisms: a theoretical critique of feminist struggles and discourse in historical and contemporary China	21
Thermopolitics of data: cloud infrastructures and energy futures	19
Introduction: COVID-19, the multiplier	18
‘Give me liberty or give me Covid!’: Anti-lockdown protests as necropopulist downsurgency	17
Beyond the crisis: transitioning to a better world?	16
Seeing infrastructure: race, facial recognition and the politics of data	13
Fashion in ‘crisis’: consumer activism and brand (ir)responsibility in lockdown	13
Infrastructural politics amidst the coils of control	12
Infrastructures of discovery: examining podcast ratings and rankings	12
Regulation of pornography and criminalization of BL readers and authors in contemporary China (2010–2019)	11
The mechanical Turk: a short history of ‘artificial artificial intelligence’	10
The biopolitics of pandemics: interview with Ed Cohen	10
Mask as identity? The political subject in the 2019 Hong Kong’s social unrest	9
Enduring COVID-19, nevertheless	9
Asian Americans as racial contagion	9
Parodies for a pandemic: coronavirus songs, creativity and lockdown	9
Everyday life and the management of risky bodies in the COVID-19 era	8
Mistranslation as disinformation: COVID-19, global imaginaries, and self-serving cosmopolitanism	8
Sweeping the city: infrastructure, informality, and the politics of maintenance	8
Covid-19 and the mundane practices of privilege	7
COVID-19 at sea: ‘the world as you know it no longer exists’	7
Multispecies mourning: grieving as resistance on the West Papuan plantation frontier	7

Road warriors to digital nomads: portable computers, habitats, and remote work	7
Decolonization, decolonial excess, and punk: reflections on the cultural politics of race and coloniality in North Atlantic punk	7
Redirected entanglements in the digital supply chain	6
The long and deadly road: the covid pandemic and Indian migrants	6
COVID-19 and ‘crisis as ordinary’: pathological whiteness, popular pessimism, and pre-apocalyptic cultural studies	6
The value of the underground: punk, politics, and creative urbanism in Bandung, Indonesia	6
No time for fun: the politics of partying during a pandemic	6
Collective disorientation in the pandemic conjuncture	6
Coal ground	5
Status economies and frequent flier expertise: YouTube first class travel videos	5
Speculative machines and us: more-than-human intuition and the algorithmic condition	5
Smart homes: domestic futurity as Infrastructure	5
Stories of decolonial resilience	5
Seven theses about the so-called culture war(s) (or some fragmentary notes on ‘cancel culture’)	5
Architectural liminality: the communicative ethics of balconies and other urban passages	5
Art markets, epistemic authority, and the institutional curation of knowledge	5
Following the science? Covid-19, ‘race’ and the politics of knowing	5
Data(-)based ambivalence regarding NYC 311 data infrastructure	5
The politics and aesthetics of featuring in post-2017 Chinese hip hop	5
Tuning sound for infrastructures: artificial intelligence, automation, and the cultural politics of audio mastering	4
Automated media and commercial populism	4
Guarani-kaiowa’s political ontology: singular because common	4
The problematization of consumers in Swedish financial literacy education	4
Racism is a public health crisis! Black Power in the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Resisting carelessness	4
Recoding the city: cultural mediation of short-term rental platforms in the US	4
Tech money in civil society: whose interests do digital rights organisations represent?	4
Predicting Covid-19: wearable technology and the politics of solutionism	4
Punk and feminism in Indonesia	4
Confronting global infrastructural capitalism: the triple logic of the 'vanguard' and its inevitable spatial and class contradictions in China's high-speed rail program	4
On taking the affective turn: interview with Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, and Deborah Gould	3
Civilizing infrastructure	3
Infrastructural awareness	3
Virus government – A twenty-first-century genealogy of the ‘Dusk mask’ as biopolitical technology	3
‘The world is sinking:’ sand, urban infrastructure, and world-cities	3
Cultural capital and constrained agency in debt-migration for construction work in India	3
The collateralized personality: creditability and resistance in the age of automated credit-scoring and lending	3
Tuning machines: an approach to exploring how Instagram’s machine vision operates on and through digital media’s participatory visual cultures	3
Playing politics digitally: young Chinese people’s political feelings on social media platforms	3
Staging a ‘real’ masculinity in a ‘fake’ world: creativity, (in)authenticity, and the gendering of musical labour	3
What’s up with methodology? Faults, experimentations, and affective displacements in the reinventions of the common	2
Settler colonial bordering and post-pandemic futures: disrupting the nation state in Aotearoa/New Zealand	2
Oaths and the ethics of automated data: limits to porting the Hippocratic oath from medicine to data science	2
Locating vernacular creativity outside the ‘urban cool’ in Beijing: ephemeral water calligraphy	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
Michel Foucault and the coloniality of power	2
Rearticulating football fans in Hong Kong: between activism, localism, and consumerism	2
Bio or Zoe?: dilemmas of biopolitics and data governmentality during COVID-19	2
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)	2

The underground seen: moving images, heterotopias, and the postsocialist bearing witness	2
Religion and urban political eco/pathology: exploring communalized coronavirus in South Asia	2
Debating with Wertham's ghost: comic books, culture wars, and populist moral panics	2
Keywords and keywording	2
Evangelicals and politicians in Argentina and Brazil: transformations and conservative choices	2
Blurring life and work: the predicament of young middle-class women in Shanghai	2
Knitting as a remedy: women’s everyday creativity in response to hopelessness and despair	2
Introduction: shifting undergrounds in East and Southeast Asia	2
Narratives of the homoerotic soldier: the fleshiness of the South Korean military	2
From hope to haunt: digital activism and the cultural politics of hope(lessness) in late-socialism	2
Lithium’s buzz: extractivism between booms in Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile	2
‘We don't even know who owns it’: the infrastructural imaginary of Spruce Pine, NC	2
The future of religious pasts: religion and cultural heritage-making in a secular age – introduction	2
COVID bread-porn: social stratification through displays of self-management	2