OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Continuum-Journal of Media & 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Swamped by Muslims’ and facing an ‘African gang’ problem: racialized and religious media representations in Australia	22
Snapchat’s augmented reality brand culture: sponsored filters and lenses as digital piecework	18
Drone cultures: encounters with everyday militarisms	12
Deepfake culture: the emergence of audio-video deception as an object of social anxiety and regulation	11
Metaphorical constructions of herding in news reports on Fulani Herdsmen	11
Sex in the time of coronavirus: queer men negotiating biosexual citizenship during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Future fashion, biotechnology and the living world: microbial cell factories and forming new ‘oddkins’	10
Deepfakes and documentary practice in an age of misinformation	9
The affective cultural commons of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement and figurations of the anonymous protestor	9
Producing local content in international waters: the case of Netflix’sTidelands	9
Vulnerability and the discourse of ‘forgotten people’: populism, population and cultural change	9
Failure to thrive: incels, boys and feminism	8
The limits of the Maker ideology: local Makerspaces, experimental practices, and COVID-19	7
Dark web advertising: the dark magic system on Tor hidden service search engines	7
Caring for clothes: how and why people maintain garments in regular use	6
Wardrobe stories: sustainability and the everyday aesthetics of fashion consumption	6
Reluctant selfies: older people, social media sharing and digital inclusion	5
Re-inventing Confucian subjects: politics of subject-making inChinese dating with the parents	5
A politics of uncertainty: good white people, emotions & political responsibility	5
Bad actors never sleep: content manipulation on Reddit	5
The affective pressures of WhatsApp: from safe spaces to conspiratorial publics	5
Feminist temporalities: memory, ghosts, and the collapse of time	5
Intimate distractions: Fleabag’s manipulations of audience attention	5
Out of thin air: emerging Muslim fashion entrepreneurs and the spectre of labour in Indonesia	5
The darker turn of intimate machines: dark webs and (post)social media	4

North Korea and the ‘Peace Games’: media representations of sport and politics at the 2018 winter Olympics	4
The Little Nyonya: reframing confucian filiality and family rituals for a global Singapore	4
Re-reading Personal Influence in an age of social media	4
Dark, clear or brackish? Using Reddit to break down the binary of the dark and clear web	4
Immersive experiences as the condition of possibility for affective spacing	4
Online images and imaginings of home: the case of the QwaQwa Thaba di Mahlwa Facebook page	4
“Lie Flat”– Chinese youth subculture in the context of the pandemic and national rejuvenation	4
Coping with the ‘double bind’ through vlogging: pandemic digital citizenship of Chinese international students	4
Great AI divides? Automated decision-making technologies and dreams of development	4
Fashion futures and critical fashion studies	4
‘Imagine what we could do’— the school strikes for climate and reclaiming citizen empowerment	4
Live streaming funerals: constructing togetherness and belonging in the mediatization era	3
Rethinking value: ‘radical transparency’ in fashion	3
‘Just like us’: community radio broadcasters and the on-air performance of community identity	3
Resisting division: migrant sex work and “New Zealand working girls”	3
The cultural politics of East-West encounter in Crazy Rich Asians	3
‘I played by all the rules! Why didn’t you tell me there weren’t any rules, it’s not fair!’:contradiction, corporeality, and conformity in Grace and Frankie¹	3
Thai Boys Love drama fandom as a transnational and trans-subcultural contact zone in Japan	3
The web series: empowering diversity on the Australian screen	3
#HereToStay: murals of resistance and civic engagement	3
Divergent staging of East Asian patriarchy within the Confucian order in Taiwan’s transnational television drama co-productions	3
Chinese-language digital news media in Australia: new narratives of hybrid identities	3
‘The race for space’: capitalism, the country and the city in Britain under COVID-19	2
Politicians as entertainers - a political performance of the personal	2
Overcoming ‘confirmation bias’ and the persistence of conspiratorial types of thinking	2
From nation builders to global connectors: children and China’s BRI propaganda	2
Bullshit human rights: Breitbart News’ “Cartel Chronicles” and the militarized framing of humanitarian crisis on the US-Mexico border	2
Vampire nostalgia	2
Being your own aesthetic boss: practising independence within the Central Sydney independent music scene’s cultural economy	2
A pandemic of creative loneliness	2
Media portrayals of binational couples in90 Day Fiancé	2
Producing multiculturalism: casting and editing migrants in Korean reality television	2
Shedding light on ‘dark’ ads	2
‘We can sh*t for another 10 years.’ Toilet paper, pandemic politics and cultural citizenship	2
Before the door: storying the material, affective and ethical dimensions of inclusion for women academics	2
Quiet celebrity in the time of pandemic: stripping away artifice in performances of self, cultures of citizenship, and community care	2
Layers as epistemic and political devices in mobile locative media; the case of iNakba in Israel/Palestine	2
Bodily surveillance: Singapore’s COVID-19 app and technological opportunism	2
Podcasts and political listening: sound, voice and intimacy in the Joe Rogan Experience	2
Fakery as a process of negotiation: understanding the information assessment and sharing behaviours of the marginalized elderly on social media	2
Stranger Things: boys and feminism	2
Transgression, resistance and independent art in contemporary russia	2
Migrant placemaking and authorship: digital storytelling by Chinese interprovincial students	2
Growing violence: the image of the boy in Australian domestic violence prevention campaigns	2
The cultural economy of Xiangqin: an analysis of the ‘intimate business’ on Chinese television, date-renting sites and mobile phones	2
Remediation, virality and affect: a phenomenological reading into the Alan Kurdi Image	2
Critiquing cultural appropriation, building community: desi online activism on Tumblr shame blogs and #reclaimthebindi	2