OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication is 4. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Transparency, openness and privacy among software professionals: discourses and practices surrounding use of the digital calendar	119
Active social media use and its impact on well-being — an experimental study on the effects of posting pictures on Instagram	96
Categorizing the non-categorical: the challenges of studying gendered phenomena online	96
Using time travel in virtual reality (VR) to increase efficacy perceptions of influenza vaccination	85
Seeing Is Believing: Is Video Modality More Powerful in Spreading Fake News via Online Messaging Apps?	83
Pre-framing an emerging technology before it is deployed at work: the case of artificial intelligence and radiology	53
Inaccuracies andIzzat: Channel Affordances for the Consideration of Face in Misinformation Correction	50
Subtle momentary effects of social media experiences: an experience sampling study of posting and social comparisons on connectedness and self-esteem	46
First-level fundamentals: computer ownership is more important for internet benefits than in-home internet service	43
To intervene or not to intervene: young adults’ views on when and how to intervene in online harassment	31
Does ostracism/rejection impact self-disclosures? Examining the appeal of perceived social affordances after social threat	30
Capturing social presence: concept explication through an empirical analysis of social presence measures	29
Rules for Mediated Romance: A Digital Exploration of How Couples Negotiate Expectations	28
Accumulative cartography: a visual semiotic analysis of online mobile maps	27
It matters how you google it? Using agent-based testing to assess the impact of user choices in search queries and algorithmic personalization on political Google Search results	25
Emotional Support from AI Chatbots: Should a Supportive Partner Self-Disclose or Not?	22
Are active and passive social media use related to mental health, wellbeing, and social support outcomes? A meta-analysis of 141 studies	20
Digital governance with smart sensors: exploring grid administration in Zhejiang’s “Future Community”	20
Habitual social media and smartphone use are linked to task delay for some, but not all, adolescents	20
When AI moderates online content: effects of human collaboration and interactive transparency on user trust	19
Learning about climate change with algorithmic news? A two-wave panel study examining the role of “news-finds-me” perception	16
Standing up to problematic content on social media: which objection strategies draw the audience’s approval?	16
Longitudinal Social Grooming Transition Patterns on Facebook, Social Capital, and Well-Being	16
The Fake One is the Real One: Finstas, Authenticity, and Context Collapse in Teen Friend Groups	15
Correction to: Social Media Browsing and Adolescent Well-Being: Challenging the “Passive Social Media Use Hypothesis”	15

The lonely algorithm problem: the relationship between algorithmic personalization and social connectedness on TikTok	15
Disconnectivity synced with identity cultivation: adolescent narratives of digital disconnection	14
Choreographing digital love: materiality, emotionality, and morality in video-mediated communication between Chinese migrant parents and their left-behind children	13
The effects of self-viewing in video chat during interpersonal work conversations	13
Sensor work: enabling the interoperation of autonomous vehicles	13
Signaling outrage is a signal about the sender: moral perceptions of online flaming	12
Digital disconnection, digital inequality, and subjective well-being: a mobile experience sampling study	12
Walled cosmopolitanization: how China’s Great Firewall mediates young urban gay men’s lives	12
Finding love in algorithms: deciphering the emotional contexts of close encounters with AI chatbots	12
Information sharing in a hybrid workplace: understanding the role of ease-of-use perceptions of communication technologies in advice-seeking relationship maintenance	11
Attitudinal and behavioral correlates of algorithmic awareness among German and U.S. social media users	11
Correction to: Gay employees on social media: Strategies to portray professionalism	11
Beyond Anonymity: Network Affordances, Under Deindividuation, Improve Social Media Discussion Quality	10
The value affordances of social media engagement features	10
Machine heuristic: concept explication and development of a measurement scale	10
Sensors as media and sensor-mediated communication: an introduction to the special issue	9
“Come on f––er, just load!” Powerlessness, waiting, and life without broadband	9
Navigating Sexual Racism in the Sexual Field: Compensation for and Disavowal of Marginality by Racial Minority Grindr Users in Singapore	8
Nalaquq (“it is found”): a knowledge co-production framework for environmental sensing and communication in Indigenous arctic communities	8
Reinvention mediates impacts of skin tone bias in algorithms: implications for technology diffusion	8
Communication about sensors and communication through sensors: localizing the Internet of Things in rural communities	8
The gendered lens of AI: examining news imagery across digital spaces	8
A typology of social media rituals	7
Social Media Browsing and Adolescent Well-Being: Challenging the “Passive Social Media Use Hypothesis”	7
Mediating social support through sensor-based technologies for children’s health behavior change	7
Under-the-radar engagement: how and why news users limit their public expression	7
Smiling women pitching down: auditing representational and presentational gender biases in image-generative AI	7
Correction by distraction: how high-tempo music enhances medical experts’ debunking TikTok videos	7
A tale of two concepts: differential temporal predictions of habitual and compulsive social media use concerning connection overload and sleep quality	7
Understanding screenshot collection and sharing on messaging platforms: a privacy perspective	6
How do people react to AI failure? Automation bias, algorithmic aversion, and perceived controllability	6
Enabling and constraining factors of remote informal communication: a socio-technical systems perspective	6
The Dynamics of Social Capital: Examining the Reciprocity between Network Features and Social Support	5
Liking versus commenting on online news: effects of expression affordances on political attitudes	5
Navigating the empty shell: the role of articulation work in platform structures	5
Surveillance and the future of work: exploring employees’ attitudes toward monitoring in a post-COVID workplace	5
Humor Reduces Online Incivility	5
Reclaiming agency in the digital neighborhood: an ethnographic exploration of ethno-religious minority youths’ performances of the masculine self	5
In AI We Trust? Effects of Agency Locus and Transparency on Uncertainty Reduction in Human–AI Interaction	5
Momentary motivations for digital disconnection: an experience sampling study	5
Positioning in a collaboration network and performance in competitions: a case study of Kaggle	5
Different platforms, different uses: testing the effect of platforms and individual differences on perception of incivility and self-reported uncivil behavior	4
Confronting whiteness through virtual humans: a review of 20 years of research in prejudice and racial bias using virtual environments	4
Following Social Media Influencers in Early Adolescence: Fear of Missing Out, Social Well-Being and Supportive Communication with Parents	4
Digital parenting divides: the role of parental capital and digital parenting readiness in parental digital mediation	4
Toward work’s new futures: Editors’ Introduction to Technology and the Future of Work special issue	4
Corrigendum to: Understanding the Effects of Personalization as a Privacy Calculus: Analyzing Self-Disclosure Across Health, News, and Commerce Contexts	4
The story of social media: evolving news coverage of social media in American politics, 2006–2021	4
Tailoring generative AI chatbots for multiethnic communities in disaster preparedness communication: extending the CASA paradigm	4
Digitally mediated (dis)empowerment paradox in women-led group-buying during the Shanghai COVID lockdown	4

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