OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Media International Australia 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Scott Morrison’s political discourse during crisis: A narrative-semiotic analysis	32
Book Review: Emotions and Virtues in Feature Writing: The Alchemy of Creating Prize-Winning Stories	20
Practising citizenship through online media: an interpretive case study of Chinese New Zealanders’ civic engagement online	18
Spiritual opium and the spiritual opium war: A cultural history of arcade games and console games in 1990s China	16
Learning the art of scholarly peer-review: insights from the communication discipline	15
McPhee Gribble's ‘determinedly unglamorous’ parties: A small publisher's accrual and conversion of social capital	14
Optimizing empowerment and equality in media-based practice: A Longwe framework of media communication	13
Negotiated Empowerment and Split Performance: Female Representation in Chinese Video Games	13
Gatekeepers or facilitators? Capturing and assessing Australia's freedom of information implementation culture	12
Australian media's response to the end of indefinite detention: towards a rights-based treatment of people seeking asylum?	12
Secondary, security threat, and sage: eulogy effect and the framing of female politicians as political martyrs in the elite press of South Asia	12
Digital racism and antiracism toward Asian and Muslim communities during the Covid-19 pandemic: the Australian experience	11
Book Review: Journalism, Technology and Cultural Practice: A History MartinConboy, Journalism, Technology and Cultural Practice: A History . London: Rout	11
Stereotypes: Older adult representation in Australian newspaper advertising	11
Industry professionals speak: it's all about messages – except when it isn’t	10
Orchestras and the Australian imaginary: From national icons to public value?	10
‘You can’t trust the mainstream media’: exploring shifts in racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, antisemitic and Islamophobic sentiment within Australian far-right alternative news media	9
Book Review: Migrants, Television and Australian Stories: A New History KateDarian-SmithSueTurnbullSukhmaniKhoranaKyleHarvey, Migrants, Television and Australian Stories: A New	9
On learning from Graeme Turner's disciplinary and editorial mentorship in nine vignettes	8
‘To be honest, they’re mainly a way to waste time… but they also help me learn things’: the complexities of teens’ social media motivations	8
Exploring a post-truth referendum: Australia's Voice to Parliament and the management of attention on social media	8
Closing the digital gap for remote First Nations communities: 5G and beyond?	8
Dimensions of digital precarity: visibility, voice, and vulnerability of Filipino youth	8
Book Review: Subtitling: Concepts and Practices	7
What Australian research offers the study of digital childhoods: A scoping review of digital media use by families with young children	7

Making public or quiet listening? Media logics and public inquiries into the abuse of children	7
Journalistic perspectives on cross-border peace journalism between Pakistan and Afghanistan	7
‘African kids can’: challenging the African gangs narrative on social media	7
Book Review: Setting the Agenda	7
Playful rehearsals of animal subjugation: The naturalization of animal labour in videogames	7
Connections, community, coconuts: exploring the history of regional community radio	6
Ethnic media, diversity and settlement: a qualitative study	6
Exploring the role of political elites in post-truth communication on social media	6
Images of China in the Australian press: time for new frames and new readings of old frames to broaden the horizons of framing analysis?	6
Contesting the climate breakdown: athlete activism, documentary and the environmentalism of Australia's David Pocock	6
Public service sentiment in Australian digital communities on Reddit and Whirlpool during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Amplifying victim–survivor voices: media power, collective action, and ultra-Orthodox Jewish identity in the Leifer case	6
Pandemic impacts on cinema industry and over-the-top platforms in China	5
‘Wait, am I #neurodivergent?’ Exploring TikTok's influence on neurodivergent self-understanding	5
Sociological film: blending filmic and sociological imaginations	5
Counterpublics in exile: a computational analysis of Syrian YouTube podcasts during the Assad era	5
The effect of trust in media and information sources on coronavirus disease 2019 prevention behaviors in Lebanon	5
Deplatforming sex education on Meta: sex, power, and content moderation	4
‘A treasured possession that has seen better days’: work, respect and co-operation at The Repair Shop	4
Book Review: Digital Nationalism and Affective Governance: Propaganda, Public Sentiment, and Soft Authoritarianism in China by Zhang Dechun DechunZhang,	4
Framing a national champion: Media narratives, Brand Nationalism, and public sentiment online	4
Who is a journalist now? Recognising atypical journalism work in the digital media economy	4
‘Big Lies’: understanding the role of political actors and mainstream journalists in the spread of disinformation	4
‘Now they’re going to find us on a map’: pre-suasive visioning, rhetoric and framing in the city-seeking discourses of the City of Moreton Bay	4
‘The best story, a connection through time’: The role of family in shaping book culture across generations	4
The decolonial paradox: negotiating glocal identity in China's Lolita fashion subculture	4
Brittany Higgins' story or the Brittany Higgins story? Journalism, politics and narrative rhetoric	3
5G common threads and challenges in emerging economies: the cases of Indonesia and Peru	3
Navigating emotions: contingent affective governance in an AI-powered mental health APP	3
Redefining older Australians: moving beyond stereotypes and consumer narratives in print media representations	3
From the global/local divide to transnational popular culture	3
Hyperlocal journalism in the face of the advance of news deserts: a scoping review	3
Trump's first month through the eyes of political cartoonists	3
Transnational currents of othering and solidarity: navigating Western and Hindu Orientalism in Sacred Footsteps and Main Bhi Musli	3
Wellness communities and vaccine hesitancy	3
Jelena Dokic's suicide-related social media post and the worldwide media's portrayal of a story of survival: a natural experiment	3
Innovation financing in the Australian video game industry	3
A sociotechnical approach to smartphone research: outline for a holistic, qualitative mobile method	3
Book Review: Mediatised Terrorism: East-West Narratives of Risk	3
Let's get physical! Instagram engagement and vanity in young people	3
Digital arts and culture in Australia: Promissory discourses and uncertain realities in pandemic times	3
Subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) original production in Australia: Evolution or revolution?	3
Book Review: The Near-Death of the Author: Creativity in the Internet Age John Potts, The Near-Death of the Author: Creativity in the Internet Age . Toro	3
Balancing digital presents and futures: understanding first-time parents’ practices, plans and perceptions of ‘quality’ and risk in young children's digital engagements	3
Book Review: Platforms and Cultural Production Poell, Thomas, David B. Nieborg, and Brooke Erin Duffy, Platforms and Cultural Production , Polity Press,	3
Exploring health misinformation on WhatsApp within the African migrant and refugee community in Southeast Queensland (SEQ)	3