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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
How can we measure the creative economy? The Cunningham Project	49
Book Review: Emotions and Virtues in Feature Writing: The Alchemy of Creating Prize-Winning Stories	43
Digital hostility: contemporary crisis, disrupted belonging and self-care practices	24
Practising citizenship through online media: an interpretive case study of Chinese New Zealanders’ civic engagement online	21
Visibility and invisibility in the aged care sector: visual representation in Australian news from 2018–2021	17
Scott Morrison’s political discourse during crisis: A narrative-semiotic analysis	17
Learning the art of Scholarly Peer-Review: Insights from the Communication Discipline	17
Love your idol in a ‘cleaned’ way: Fans, fundraising platform, and fandom governance in China	16
Spiritual opium and the spiritual opium war: a cultural history of arcade games and console games in 1990s China	16
Secondary, security threat, and sage: eulogy effect and the framing of female politicians as political martyrs in the elite press of South Asia	16
Book Review: The Production of Global Web Series in a Networked Age	15
Industry professionals speak: it's all about messages – except when it isn’t	14
Book Review: Journalism, Technology and Cultural Practice: A History by Martin Conboy	14
‘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	13
Stereotypes: Older adult representation in Australian newspaper advertising	13
Playful rehearsals of animal subjugation: The naturalization of animal labour in videogames	12
Exploring a post-truth referendum: Australia's Voice to Parliament and the management of attention on social media	12
What Australian research offers the study of digital childhoods: A scoping review of digital media use by families with young children	12
Digital Racism and Antiracism Toward Asian and Muslim Communities During the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Australian Experience	12
Making public or quiet listening? Media logics and public inquiries into the abuse of children	11
‘African kids can’: challenging the African gangs narrative on social media	11
Closing the digital gap for remote First Nations communities: 5G and beyond?	11
Book Review: Setting the Agenda	11
Book Review: Subtitling: Concepts and Practices	11
Book Review: Feral Media: The Chamberlain Case 40 Years On	10

Teachers of TikTok: Glimpses and gestures in the performance of professional identity	10
Amplifying victim–survivor voices: media power, collective action, and ultra-Orthodox Jewish identity in the Leifer case	9
Ethnic media, diversity and settlement: a qualitative study	9
Chinese digital platforms in Australia: From market and politics to governance	9
Images of China in the Australian press: time for new frames and new readings of old frames to broaden the horizons of framing analysis?	8
Contesting the climate breakdown: athlete activism, documentary and the environmentalism of Australia's David Pocock	8
Connections, community, coconuts: exploring the history of regional community radio	8
Vernacular Visibility and Algorithmic Resistance in the Public Expression of Latin American Feminism	7
Public service sentiment in Australian digital communities on Reddit and Whirlpool during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
‘Wait, am I #neurodivergent?’ Exploring TikTok's influence on neurodivergent self-understanding	7
The effect of trust in media and information sources on coronavirus disease 2019 prevention behaviors in Lebanon	7
Exploring the role of political elites in post-truth communication on social media	7
Book Review: Mediatised Terrorism: East-West Narratives of Risk	6
Deplatforming sex education on Meta: sex, power, and content moderation	6
The decolonial paradox: negotiating glocal identity in China's Lolita fashion subculture	6
The value of news: A gender gap in paying for news	6
Pandemic impacts on cinema industry and over-the-top platforms in China	6
The cultural customization of TikTok: subaltern migrant workers and their digital cultures	6
“Epistemic justice” (a memoir)	6
Who is a journalist now? Recognising atypical journalism work in the digital media economy	6
We’ve always been antagonistic: algorithmic resistances and dissidences beyond the Global North	5
‘Big Lies’: understanding the role of political actors and mainstream journalists in the spread of disinformation	5
From the global/local divide to transnational popular culture	5
China’s evolving stance against tech monopolies: A moment of international alignment in an era of digital sovereignty	5
Book Review: Platforms and Cultural Production by Poell, Thomas, David B. Nieborg, and Brooke Erin Duffy PoellThomasNieborgDavid B.DuffyBrooke Erin, Platforms and Cultur	5
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 . Toronto Buffalo Lond	5
Algorithmic resistance as political disengagement	5
Balancing digital presents and futures: understanding first-time parents’ practices, plans and perceptions of ‘quality’ and risk in young children's digital engagements	5
Subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) original production in Australia: Evolution or revolution?	5
A Sociotechnical Approach to Smartphone Research: Outline for a Holistic, Qualitative Mobile Method	5
Jelena Dokic's suicide-related social media post and the worldwide media's portrayal of a story of survival: a natural experiment	5
Hyperlocal journalism in the face of the advance of news deserts: scoping review	5
(Dis)assembling mental health through apps: The sociomaterialities of young adults’ experiences	4
Studying WeChat Official Accounts with novel ‘backend-in’ and ‘traceback’ methods: Walking through platforms back-to-front and past-to-present	4
The Belt and Road Initiative in Australian mainstream media: why did its narratives shift from 2013 to 2021?	4
Redefining older Australians: moving beyond stereotypes and consumer narratives in print media representations	4
Making Queer content visible: approaches and assumptions of Australian film and television stakeholders working with LGBTQ+ content	4
#Aboriginallivesmatter: Mapping Black Lives Matter discourse in Australia	4
Wellness communities and vaccine hesitancy	4
Between culture and industry: re-evaluating the development of the Australian New Eligible Drama Expenditure (NEDE) requirement on Australian pay-TV	4
Exploring health misinformation on WhatsApp within the African migrant and refugee community in Southeast Queensland (SEQ)	4
Digital arts and culture in Australia: Promissory discourses and uncertain realities in pandemic times	4