OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Media International Australia 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Corona? 5G? or both?’: the dynamics of COVID-19/5G conspiracy theories on Facebook	155
Enacting intimacy and sociality at a distance in the COVID-19 crisis: the sociomaterialities of home-based communication technologies	75
COVID-19 apps in Singapore and Australia: reimagining healthy nations with digital technology	69
The impact of COVID-19 on cultural tourism: art, culture and communication in four regional sites of Queensland, Australia	51
A necessary evil? The rise of online exam proctoring in Australian universities	47
Regulation of COVID-19 fake news infodemic in China and India	46
COVID-19, 5G conspiracies and infrastructural futures	46
Tracing surveillance and auto-regulation in Singapore: ‘smart’ responses to COVID-19	38
Influencers and COVID-19: reviewing key issues in press coverage across Australia, China, Japan, and South Korea	38
Crisis and extended realities: remote presence in the time of COVID-19	34
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?	30
The challenges of responding to misinformation during a pandemic: content moderation and the limitations of the concept of harm	28
Analysis of the use of memes as an exponent of collective coping during COVID-19 in Puerto Rico	27
Journalism, public health, and COVID-19: some preliminary insights from the Philippines	27
Navigating ‘Home Schooling’ during COVID-19: Australian public response on Twitter	24
The emergence of algorithmic solidarity: unveiling mutual aid practices and resistance among Chinese delivery workers	24
New forms of internationalisation? The impact of Netflix in Australia	22
Out-of-the-box versus in-house tools: how are they affecting data journalism in Australia?	20
The Australian music industry’s mental health crisis: media narratives during the coronavirus pandemic	19
Mediatisation and datafication in the global COVID-19 pandemic: on the urgency of data literacy	18
#IStandWithDan versus #DictatorDan: the polarised dynamics of Twitter discussions about Victoria’s COVID-19 restrictions	18
The coronavirus crisis as tipping point: communicating the environment in a time of pandemic	18
Local newspapers and coronavirus: conceptualising connections, comparisons and cures	17
Resistance and refusal to algorithmic harms: Varieties of ‘knowledge projects’	15
Boris Johnson in hospital: a Chinese gaze at Western democracies in the COVID-19 pandemic	14

Computer-assisted digital text analysis for journalism and communications research: introducing corpus linguistic techniques that do not require programming	14
Teachers of TikTok: Glimpses and gestures in the performance of professional identity	13
Capitalising on chaos – exploring the impact and future of social media influencer engagement during the early stages of a global pandemic	13
Never let a good crisis go to waste: Pauline Hanson’s exploitation of COVID-19 on Facebook	12
Performing islamophobia in the Australian parliament: The role of populism and performance in Pauline Hanson’s “burqa stunt”	11
Fighting for survival: persons with disabilities’ activism for the mediatisation of COVID-19 information	11
‘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	10
The cultural customization of TikTok: subaltern migrant workers and their digital cultures	10
Media narratives of kindness − a critique	10
Vernacular Visibility and Algorithmic Resistance in the Public Expression of Latin American Feminism	9
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	9
Strategies for climate change communication through social media: Objectives, approach, and interaction	9
More than business: The de-politicisation and re-politicisation of TikTok in the media discourses of China, America and India (2017–2020)	9
Signs, beaches and bodies in pandemic times	9
Australian regional journalists’ role perceptions at a time of upheaval	7
Examining visions of surveillance in Oculus’ data and privacy policies, 2014–2020	7
From Bondi to Fairfield: NSW COVID-19 press conferences, health messaging, and social inequality	7
Migration, identity, and television audiences: Sri Lankan women’s soap opera clubs and diasporic life in Melbourne	7
Entertainment publics in the Philippines	7
Converged journalism: practices and influences in Pakistan	7
Visibility and invisibility in the aged care sector: visual representation in Australian news from 2018–2021	7
Amateur porn in Filipino Twitter alter community: affordances, commodification, ghettoization, and gay masculinity	7
VoD platforms and prominence: a European regulatory approach	7
Children’s perspectives and attitudes towards Fortnite ‘addiction’	7
Digital labour in the Philippines: emerging forms of brokerage	7
Introduction to algorithmic antagonisms: Resistance, reconfiguration, and renaissance for computational life	7
Older people’s news dependency and social connectedness	6
The ‘bad’ and exceptionally ‘good’: constructing the African refugee	6
Community engagement in Australia’s COVID-19 communications response: learning lessons from the humanitarian sector	6
WeChat subscription accounts (WSAs) in Australia: a political economy account of Chinese-language digital/social media	6
The first stage of Australia’s digital transition and its implications for Australian television drama	6
Exploring user agency and small acts of algorithm engagement in everyday media use	6
Contributive action: socially mediated activities of Russians during the COVID-19 lockdown	5
The oppositional affordances of data activism	5
Glocal intimacies and the contradictions of mobile media access in the Philippines	5
‘What would Bandit do?’: reaffirming the educational role of Australian children’s television during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond	5
Digital populism, digital newswork and the concept of journalistic competence: the Philippine condition	5
From wartime loudspeakers to digital networks: communist persuasion and pandemic politics in Vietnam	5
Extraordinary issue: Coronavirus, crisis and communication	5
The Belt and Road Initiative in Australian mainstream media: Why did its narratives shift from 2013 to 2021?	5
Post-normal: Crisis and the End of the Ordinary	5
Trolling of female journalists on Twitter in Pakistan: an analysis	5
‘Without technology we’d be very stuck’: Ageing migrants’ differential (im)mobile practices during a lockdown	5
(Dis)assembling mental health through apps: The sociomaterialities of young adults’ experiences	5
Digital hostility: contemporary crisis, disrupted belonging and self-care practices	5
Communicating about suicide during a global pandemic: impact on journalists and media audiences	4
Disrupting the colonial algorithm: Indigenous Australia and social media	4
WeChat as the coordinator of polymedia: Chinese women maintaining intercultural romantic relationships	4
Remedying the fractured domain through slow journalism: A case of journalistic podcasting in India	4
Institutions, platforms and the production of debut success in contemporary book culture	4

‘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	4
Bluey, Requestival, Play School and ME@Home: the ABC (Kids) of communication cultures during lockdown	4