OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cultural Studies is 3. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Fissures in algorithmic power: platforms, code, and contestation	34
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
Thermopolitics of data: cloud infrastructures and energy futures	19
Introduction: COVID-19, the multiplier	18
Re-articulating feminisms: a theoretical critique of feminist struggles and discourse in historical and contemporary China	17
‘Give me liberty or give me Covid!’: Anti-lockdown protests as necropopulist downsurgency	16
Beyond the crisis: transitioning to a better world?	15
Seeing infrastructure: race, facial recognition and the politics of data	13
Infrastructural politics amidst the coils of control	12
Magical capitalism, gambler subjects: South Korea’s bitcoin investment frenzy	11
Fashion in ‘crisis’: consumer activism and brand (ir)responsibility in lockdown	11
Infrastructures of discovery: examining podcast ratings and rankings	11
The biopolitics of pandemics: interview with Ed Cohen	10
Regulation of pornography and criminalization of BL readers and authors in contemporary China (2010–2019)	10
The mechanical Turk: a short history of ‘artificial artificial intelligence’	9
Enduring COVID-19, nevertheless	9
Asian Americans as racial contagion	9
Parodies for a pandemic: coronavirus songs, creativity and lockdown	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
Sweeping the city: infrastructure, informality, and the politics of maintenance	7
Mask as identity? The political subject in the 2019 Hong Kong’s social unrest	7
COVID-19 at sea: ‘the world as you know it no longer exists’	7

The value of the underground: punk, politics, and creative urbanism in Bandung, Indonesia	6
The long and deadly road: the covid pandemic and Indian migrants	6
Covid-19 and the mundane practices of privilege	6
Decolonization, decolonial excess, and punk: reflections on the cultural politics of race and coloniality in North Atlantic punk	6
Multispecies mourning: grieving as resistance on the West Papuan plantation frontier	6
Redirected entanglements in the digital supply chain	6
Collective disorientation in the pandemic conjuncture	5
COVID-19 and ‘crisis as ordinary’: pathological whiteness, popular pessimism, and pre-apocalyptic cultural studies	5
Following the science? Covid-19, ‘race’ and the politics of knowing	5
The politics and aesthetics of featuring in post-2017 Chinese hip hop	5
Road warriors to digital nomads: portable computers, habitats, and remote work	5
Data(-)based ambivalence regarding NYC 311 data infrastructure	5
Smart homes: domestic futurity as Infrastructure	5
Coal ground	4
No time for fun: the politics of partying during a pandemic	4
Guarani-kaiowa’s political ontology: singular because common	4
Recoding the city: cultural mediation of short-term rental platforms in the US	4
Art markets, epistemic authority, and the institutional curation of knowledge	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
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
Tuning sound for infrastructures: artificial intelligence, automation, and the cultural politics of audio mastering	4
Predicting Covid-19: wearable technology and the politics of solutionism	4
Punk and feminism in Indonesia	4
Tech money in civil society: whose interests do digital rights organisations represent?	4
Stories of decolonial resilience	3
Resisting carelessness	3
Virus government – A twenty-first-century genealogy of the ‘Dusk mask’ as biopolitical technology	3
Architectural liminality: the communicative ethics of balconies and other urban passages	3
Playing politics digitally: young Chinese people’s political feelings on social media platforms	3
Racism is a public health crisis! Black Power in the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Off-centring empire in the Anthropocene: towards multispecies intimacies and nonhuman agents of survival	3
Civilizing infrastructure	3
The problematization of consumers in Swedish financial literacy education	3
Staging a ‘real’ masculinity in a ‘fake’ world: creativity, (in)authenticity, and the gendering of musical labour	3
On taking the affective turn: interview with Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, and Deborah Gould	3
Automated media and commercial populism	3
‘The world is sinking:’ sand, urban infrastructure, and world-cities	3
Michel Foucault and the coloniality of power	3