OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Media International Australia is 1. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Enacting intimacy and sociality at a distance in the COVID-19 crisis: the sociomaterialities of home-based communication technologies	87
A necessary evil? The rise of online exam proctoring in Australian universities	56
Crisis and extended realities: remote presence in the time of COVID-19	37
Comparative analysis of China’s Health Code, Australia’s COVIDSafe and New Zealand’s COVID Tracer Surveillance Apps: a new corona of public health governmentality?	33
Analysis of the use of memes as an exponent of collective coping during COVID-19 in Puerto Rico	30
The emergence of algorithmic solidarity: unveiling mutual aid practices and resistance among Chinese delivery workers	29
Teachers of TikTok: Glimpses and gestures in the performance of professional identity	27
#IStandWithDan versus #DictatorDan: the polarised dynamics of Twitter discussions about Victoria’s COVID-19 restrictions	25
Out-of-the-box versus in-house tools: how are they affecting data journalism in Australia?	21
Resistance and refusal to algorithmic harms: Varieties of ‘knowledge projects’	20
The cultural customization of TikTok: subaltern migrant workers and their digital cultures	16
Fighting for survival: persons with disabilities’ activism for the mediatisation of COVID-19 information	13
Performing islamophobia in the Australian parliament: The role of populism and performance in Pauline Hanson’s “burqa stunt”	13
Strategies for climate change communication through social media: Objectives, approach, and interaction	13
Vernacular Visibility and Algorithmic Resistance in the Public Expression of Latin American Feminism	12
‘This is ridiculous – I need to start a paper…’: An exploration of aims and intentions of regional print proprietors of post-COVID start-up newspapers	12
Exploring user agency and small acts of algorithm engagement in everyday media use	11
More than business: The de-politicisation and re-politicisation of TikTok in the media discourses of China, America and India (2017–2020)	11
The role of government’s ‘Owned Media’ in fostering cultural inclusion: a case study of the NSW Department of Education’s online and social media during COVID-19	11
Examining visions of surveillance in Oculus’ data and privacy policies, 2014–2020	11
Entertainment publics in the Philippines	10
WeChat as the coordinator of polymedia: Chinese women maintaining intercultural romantic relationships	9
From Bondi to Fairfield: NSW COVID-19 press conferences, health messaging, and social inequality	9
Introduction to algorithmic antagonisms: Resistance, reconfiguration, and renaissance for computational life	9
Digital labour in the Philippines: emerging forms of brokerage	9

Regulating and governing China's internet and digital media in the Xi Jinping era	9
Australian regional journalists’ role perceptions at a time of upheaval	9
(Dis)assembling mental health through apps: The sociomaterialities of young adults’ experiences	9
Visibility and invisibility in the aged care sector: visual representation in Australian news from 2018–2021	9
VoD platforms and prominence: a European regulatory approach	8
Amateur porn in Filipino Twitter alter community: affordances, commodification, ghettoization, and gay masculinity	8
Older people’s news dependency and social connectedness	7
‘Our old pastor thinks the mobile phone is a source of evil.’ Capturing contested and conflicting insights on digital wellbeing and digital detoxing in an age of rapid mobile connectivity	7
‘Without technology we’d be very stuck’: Ageing migrants’ differential (im)mobile practices during a lockdown	7
Digital hostility: contemporary crisis, disrupted belonging and self-care practices	7
The oppositional affordances of data activism	7
Converged journalism: practices and influences in Pakistan	7
Institutions, platforms and the production of debut success in contemporary book culture	6
Love your idol in a ‘cleaned’ way: Fans, fundraising platform, and fandom governance in China	6
The first stage of Australia’s digital transition and its implications for Australian television drama	6
New pathways to crisis resilience: solutions for improved digital connectivity and capability in rural Australia	6
Digital populism, digital newswork and the concept of journalistic competence: the Philippine condition	6
Trolling of female journalists on Twitter in Pakistan: an analysis	6
The Belt and Road Initiative in Australian mainstream media: why did its narratives shift from 2013 to 2021?	6
War or peace tweets? The case of Pakistan	5
“I prefer to build trust”: Parenting approaches to nurturing their children's digital skills	5
Glocal intimacies and the contradictions of mobile media access in the Philippines	5
Making Queer content visible: approaches and assumptions of Australian film and television stakeholders working with LGBTQ+ content	5
Media representations of China amid COVID-19: a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis	5
Exploring children’s TikTok cultures in India: Negotiating access, uses, and experiences under restrictive parental mediation	5
Disrupting the colonial algorithm: Indigenous Australia and social media	5
Contributive action: socially mediated activities of Russians during the COVID-19 lockdown	5
Extraordinary issue: Coronavirus, crisis and communication	5
Adapting, modifying and applying cinematography and editing concepts and techniques to cinematic virtual reality film production	5
Academic explanatory journalism and emerging COVID-19 science: how social media accounts amplify The Conversation’s preprint coverage	4
5G and the digital imagination: Pacific Islands perspectives from Fiji and Papua New Guinea	4
Is the Great Barrier Reef dead? Satire, death and environmental communication	4
Remedying the fractured domain through slow journalism: A case of journalistic podcasting in India	4
Media representation and the Paralympics: a step too far or not far enough?	4
Situated Talk: A method for a reflexive encounter with #donorconceived on TikTok	3
Podcasting and constructive journalism in health stories about antimicrobial resistance (AMR)	3
Studying WeChat Official Accounts with novel ‘backend-in’ and ‘traceback’ methods: Walking through platforms back-to-front and past-to-present	3
Adapting to the postmodern medical paradigm: how The Daily Telegraph used emotion and anecdote to legitimise vaccination	3
Maintaining ideological security and legitimacy in digital China: Governance of cyber historical nihilism	3
Introduction: the dynamics of digital communication in the Philippines: legacies and potentials	3
Introduction to the Media International Australia special issue on “TikTok cultures in the Asia Pacific”	3
How do South Korean podcasts reflect changes in journalistic norms and practices? Comparing podcasts of professional journalists with podcasts of non-journalists	3
Development journalism and revitalisation of familism in Malaysia	3
K-pop TikTok: TikTok's expansion into South Korea, TikTok Stage, and platformed glocalization	3
Becoming intimate with algorithms: Towards a critical antagonism via algorithmic art	3
Blocked by YouTube? Unseen digital intermediaries for social imaginaries in the Asia Pacific	3
Chinese digital platforms in Australia: From market and politics to governance	3
Picturing destruction at home and abroad: a comparative visual analysis of icons and news values during disaster	3
The corporeality of sound: drag performance, lip-synching and the popular critique of gendered theatrics in Australian film and television	3
Freedom of speech is not freedom from ethics: the 2019 Israel Folau media controversy as a case study	3

We’ve always been antagonistic: algorithmic resistances and dissidences beyond the Global North	2
Studying the datafication of Australian childhoods: learning from a survey of digital technologies in homes with young children	2
A Pedagogue's Progress, the Cunningham Turn, and the Birth of Creator Studies	2
Social media: Connecting and sharing in a bushfire crisis	2
#Aboriginallivesmatter: Mapping Black Lives Matter discourse in Australia	2
Understanding the industry/state interface in creative industries studies	2
“Using unity and victory to bid farewell”: China's management of the public opinion incident of Dr Li Wenliang through crisis nationalism	2
Towards future politics of the cybersphere: China’s temporal-spatial governance of digital transition	2
Motives for using news podcasts and political participation intention in South Korea: The mediating effect of political discussion	2
Subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) original production in Australia: Evolution or revolution?	2
Algorithmic resistance as political disengagement	2
Entertaining information: Third-party influencers’ role in COVID-safety health communication	2
A new rural digital divide? Taking stock of geographical digital inclusion in Australia	2
Writing themselves in: Indigenous gender and sexuality diverse Australians online	2
From karaoke to lip-syncing: performance communities and TikTok use in Japan	2
Between ‘homeland’ and ‘the local’: the shared cultural imaginary of Tantan among Chinese communities in Australia	2
‘African kids can’: Challenging the African gangs narrative on social media	2
The production and consumption of news podcasts	2
Locating oneself and talking past: Journalists’ engagement with Pacific communities on Twitter	2
‘Abba Kyari did not die of coronavirus’: Social media and fake news during a global pandemic in Nigeria	2
‘What if it rains? What if there are bushfires?’: Extreme weather, climate change and music festivals in Australia	2
Security and digital nationalism: speaking the brand of Australia on social media	2
Ceding ground as a strategic concession in fact-checking: Shifting practice to shift power	2
Digital arts and culture in Australia: Promissory discourses and uncertain realities in pandemic times	2
Connections, Community, Coconuts: Exploring the History of Regional Community Radio	2
The potency of digital media: group chats and mediated scandals in the Philippines	2
Scott Morrison’s political discourse during crisis: A narrative-semiotic analysis	2
What do Indonesian start-ups communicate during the COVID-19 pandemic?	1
Closing the digital gap for remote First Nations communities: 5G and beyond?	1
Stuart Cunningham: From creative industries to creative economies, and beyond	1
Book Review: Difficult Women on Television Drama: The Gender Politics of Complex Women in Serial Narratives	1
Who is a journalist now? Recognising atypical journalism work in the digital media economy	1
‘[Cyber]bullying is too strong a word…’: Parental accounts of their children's experiences of online conflict and relational aggression	1
‘Build a future champion’: Exploring a branded activity-tracking platform for children and parents	1
How can we measure the creative economy? The Cunningham Project	1
Pandemic impacts on cinema industry and over-the-top platforms in China	1
New Patterns of Flow and Rethinking International Mediascapes: The Influence of Stuart Cunningham on Theories of Television's Travels	1
The emergence of autolography: the ‘magical’ invocation of images from text through AI	1
“Must know Photoshop”: proprietary skills and media jobs in Australia	1
A ‘Humanitarian Disaster’ or a ‘Liberation Struggle’: a comparative analysis of the coverages of The Independent and The New York Times of the 2016 and the 2017 military operations in Al	1
Re-Visiting Tom O’Regan’s Australian Television Culture: Why Media Ownership, Regulation and Policy Still Matter	1
Making public or quiet listening? Media logics and public inquiries into the abuse of children	1
Entrepreneurial navigation of the Australian screen industries: The case of Dr D Studios	1
Online harassment of journalists in Nigeria: audience motivations and solutions	1
Thomas ‘Tom’ Andrew O’Regan FAHA 1956–2020	1
The value of news: A gender gap in paying for news	1
Exploring health misinformation on WhatsApp within the African migrant and refugee community in Southeast Queensland (SEQ)	1
An intersectional approach to media coverage of politics in New Zealand: The case of Metiria Turei and Paula Bennett	1
China’s evolving stance against tech monopolies: A moment of international alignment in an era of digital sovereignty	1
Telecommunications localism: the fight for control over local communication networks in the United States	1
Too close for comfort: journalists’ ethical challenges in regional Australia	1
Protecting Public Figures Online: How Do Platforms and Regulators Define Public Figures?	1
Where are they now? Career sustainability and Australian web-series producers	1
Journalism unions and digital platform regulation: a critical discourse analysis of submissions to Australia's News Media Bargaining Code	1
A distressing and peculiar disease: endometriosis in the Australian Press 1949–2011	1
Book Review: Rethinking Social Media and Extremism	1
5G common threads and challenges in emerging economies: the cases of Indonesia and Peru	1
Listening for the local: Australian community radio and climate change communication	1
‘I want to video it, so people will respect me’: Nauiyu community, digital platforms and trauma	1
[Can’t] Delete: an intervention in mainstream news media representations of image-based sexual abuse	1
Children's reception of critical concepts in animated movies	1
Australian feature film production: a zero sum game	1
Utilising dialogic corporate web communication: the case of reputational risk management at Tabung Haji	1
The case for reviewing broadcasting co-regulation	1
First Nations media in the Closing the Gap era: Navigating the new self-determination	1
The Final Word on sports podcasts: Audience perceptions of media engagement and news consumption	1
Broadcaster video-on-demand in Australia: Platforms, policy and local content	1
Introduction: extraordinary issue II: coronavirus, crisis and communication	1