OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Convergence-The International Journal of Research Into New Media Techn is 5. 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
It’s not her fault: Trust through anthropomorphism among young adult Amazon Alexa users	54
Joe Rogan v. Spotify: Platformization and worlds colliding	49
Book Review: The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet Dame-GriffAvery, The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet, New York: New York University Press, 2023. ISBN: 97	43
Book Review: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation	38
Platformed creativity: Female chuktubers in Korean football media	38
‘Disciplining the audience’: Audience experiences with MUBI	34
Challenging (platformisation) invisibilities through humour: The Paralympics, TikTok and social change?	33
Testing creativity: Towards a processual understanding of GenAI image-making tasks	30
Empowering women for sustainable tourism: Evidence from Xijiang Miao village using PLS-SEM analysis	30
Book Review: From pessimism to promise: Lessons from the Global South on designing inclusive tech Payal Arora (2024) From pessimism to promise: Lessons from the Global South on	29
The politics of streaming time: When elastic time meets troubled tiers in the turn to the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) model	24
Performing home through women’s care practices in digital spaces	23
Public Service Media in Ireland following reunification? Comparative approaches and critical questions	23
Ageing differently: Older adults’ perspectives on digital inclusion	21
Virtual production at model scale: A case-study of virtual production R&D in Aardman Animations	21
Slantwise disengagement: Explaining Facebook users’ acts beyond resistance/internalization of domination binary	21
Conspiracy theories in digital environments: Moving the research field forward	21
Book review: Understanding Collegiate Esports: A Practitioner’s Guide to Developing Community and Competition	20
Ja’miezing’s Podcast Persona: Intertextual and Intercommunicative	20
‘Simulating fan discourse shifts: A thematic coding and regression model of K-pop communities under China’s Korean Wave Ban (2016–2017)’	19
Book Review: Inequalities in Platform Publishing ParnellClaire. Inequalities in Platform Publishing . Amherst, Mass: University of Massachusetts Press. 2	19
The role of geolocation data in U.S. political campaigning: How digital political strategists perceive it	19
From permissive to resistive tactics: How audience members engage with and make sense of datafied journalism	18
Research on optimization of online education effectiveness system based on Louvain algorithm	18
“Call it a CULT.”: r/NoNewNormal and the expression of identity politics in response to the COVID-19 pandemic	18

Faking it deeply and universally? Media forms and epistemologies of artificial faces and emotions in Japanese and Euro-American contexts	17
Relating, searching, and referencing: Assessing the appeal of using GIFs to communicate	17
Augmented play: An analysis of augmented reality features in location-based games	16
Political Solutions or user Responsibilization? How Politicians understand Problems Connected to Digital Overload	16
The little square of agonies: Avatar aesthetics, protest masculinity and incel ‘neo-reality’	16
A holistic framework for the analysis of predictive rhetoric in digital visualizations	15
Depression representations on the most popular Russian-language YouTube channels	14
Book Review: The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China’s Digital Era Chua, Emily HC, The Currency of Truth: Newsmakin	14
Remix, labour, and visibility: Fashion memes as participatory visual culture on platform media	14
Before code, beyond screen: Media archeology and convergence friction in early VR art (1993–1995)	14
Meta-music and the sonic storytelling of Baldur’s Gate 3	14
Self-representation as platform work: Stories about working as social media content creators	14
What ifs: The role of imagining in people’s reflections on data uses	14
Effects of parasocial affinity and gender on live streaming fans’ motivations	13
Diamond hands to the moon: Idiocultural mobilization and politicization of personal finance on r/wallstreetbets	13
Pluralising critical technical practice	13
From fan citizenship to ‘fanspiracies’: Politics and participatory cultures in times of crisis?	13
Repairing what’s not broken – Algorithm repair manual as reflexivity device	13
Instagrammable feminisms: Aesthetics and attention-seeking strategies on Portuguese feminist Instagram	13
Performing the self: Social identity construction by blind and visually impaired YouTube vloggers	13
Partners or workers? Mexican app deliverers on YouTube and TikTok	13
Navigating the information environment about the Ukraine war	12
Sound design in VR filmmaking: Opportunities and challenges in a new medium	12
Stakeholder-desired audiences: Fans’ audience data imaginaries and how they shape industry data practices	12
Internet memes, populist campaigns: Nationalism, populism, and online visual protests in China	12
Integrating trace data into interviews: Better interviews, better data	12
Book review: Left to our own devices: Coping with insecure work in a digital age	12
‘The behind-the-scenes we were never supposed to see’: Resisting, reframing, and reinforcing incarceration stigmas on Prison TikTok	12
Diagrammatic thinking and audience reading of COVID-19 data visualisations: A UK case study	12
Wellness creep into music streaming platforms: From pure chill to aural slop	11
The (not so) secret governors of the internet: Morality policing and platform politics	11
Overt conviviality and covert distress: Navigating the emotional experiences of left-behind women via Douyin in rural China	11
Theming electracy: An interview with Gregory L. Ulmer	11
Developing an industrial workflow for virtual production filmmaking	11
Algorithmic embodiment and the posthuman condition: Reframing human autonomy in N. Katherine Hayles’ media culture theory	11
Ranting in emotional public spheres: Publicizing participatory challenges on YouTube	10
Video-on-demand catalog and interface analysis: The state of research methods	10
Public service media and sport in the age of platforms: The cases of Flanders, South Africa and the United Kingdom	10
Performing male femininity on China’s live-streaming platform: Identity construction, self-sexualization, and making marginalized males visible	10
Players’ perceptions of sexuality and gender-inclusive video games a pragmatic content analysis of steam reviews	10
Sick kids versus whom? Childhood disability and charitable campaigns on Instagram	10
The gamification of generative AI interfaces	10
Glanceability and voyeuristic distance: How designing for brief interaction shapes engagement with the Apple Watch Activity Rings	10
The connected collector: Collecting in a Web 2.0 world	9
Queering algorithms: LGBTQ+ content creators’ non-conforming and non-confronting workarounds to digital normativity in China	9
Feeling safe: Safety app discourse and affective labor	9
Combating contamination and contagion: Embodied and environmental metaphors of misinformation	9
Scenophony: An undisciplinary approach to the design of immersive sound storytelling	9
Under surveillance: How podcasting on YouTube is redefining the media landscape of Pakistan	9
Reconfiguring the global–local nexus: A comparative analysis of Netflix and theatrical film diversity in South Korea	9

A note from the editors	9
From school strikes to webinars: Mapping the forced digitalization of Fridays for Future’s activism during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
The ambivalences of digital disconnection for life coaches: Navigating discrete and performative disconnecting in the creator economy	8
How to play in slow time: Embodying creativity literacies in digital learning environments	8
Virtual production for the micro: Investigating obstacles and tailoring workflows for small UK production studios	8
Videogame spatial cinematics: A theoretical framework for cinematic architecture of videogame spaces	8
Audio for extended realities: A case study informed exposition	8
The mutual configuration of affordances and technological frames: Content creators in the Chilean influencer industry	8
Role and perceptions of AI in science journalists’ work: Comparison between Brazil, India and UK	8
Digital detox: How digital well-being application ‘Forest’ helps users improve digital health in China	8
Arendt in the Metaverse: Four properties of eXtended Reality that imperil factual truth and democracy	8
Knocking on doors: The use of blogging sites by visually impaired people in the USA preliminary study	8
Cynical technical practice: From AI to APIs	8
A framework for examining hybridity: The case of academic explanatory journalism	7
The photographic palimpsest: Layering and alteration in digital photography	7
Streaming demand for eSports: Analysis of Counter-strike: Global offensive	7
Formatting work: Cloud platforms and the infrastructuring of capitalist asymmetries in software work	7
The dystopian imaginaries of ChatGPT: A designed cycle of fear	7
Layered images: Politicizing climate emergency on visual social media	7
Gazing or glancing? Mapping student engagement when film studies moves online	7
Digital transformations in a platform society: A comparative analysis of European football leagues as YouTube complementors	7
From institutions to influencers: Negotiating holocaust memory in the algorithmic age	7
Cyber Nuts and Bolts: Effective Participatory Online Learning, Theory and Practice	7
A media-materialist method for interpreting generative AI images	7
#BoomerRemover: COVID-19 and the intertextual politics of internet memes	7
Queer lives in the social media prism: Precarious LGBTQIA+ visibility and lateral surveillance in Azerbaijan	7
When that light hits the LED sky: Selling virtual production in The Batman (2022) and beyond	7
Phonographic theatricality: The performativity of human-machine vocality	7
Book Review: The perception machine: Our photographic future between the eye and AI	7
Mirroring journalistic work in newsroom metrics: A longitudinal study of Estonian journalists’ making sense of data	7
The value of books in the age of generative AI training data	6
The Smell of Roses: Affordances in shitposts as a site of study	6
‘Beating tech with tech’: The use of apps and technological measures for digital disconnection	6
Dialectics of training: A critique of recommendation engines’ aesthetic judgment	6
Audiovisual prominence and discoverability in Europe: Stakeholders’ alliances under construction	6
Book review: Media ruins: Cambodian postwar media reconstruction and the geopolitics of technology JackMargaret, Media Ruins: Cambodian Postwar Media Reconstruction and the Geopolitics of Technology.	6
‘As you write your Odyssey…’: An empirical study of Classics students’ play interests and ergodic characterization in historical video games	6
Digital divide in the Middle East and North Africa: Introduction to the special issue	6
From critique to hope: Infrawalking, defamiliarisation, transgressive infrastructuring and utopian engineering	6
‘I like the narrative of curating what we watch’: The curatorial worlds of retroconversion artists	6
Personal playlists and collective experiences: Findings from the pervasive game ‘What we take with us’	6
Intelligent Personal Assistants in practice. Situational agencies and the multiple forms of cooperation without consensus	6
Simulating desert power: Dune games, real-time strategy, and the postcolonial legacies of Lynch’s Dune	6
‘This might sound like I’m wearing a tinfoil hat…’ – Knowledge workers’ perceptions of privacy and surveillance in group-based communicative AI	6
Introduction	6
Finding the future in digitally mediated ruin: #nostalgiacores and the algorithmic culture of digital platforms	6
Book Review: Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China WallisCara. Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China. New	6
Expressing (distorted) dissent against the Party-state out of internalised racism on X	6
What is so funny about platform labour in Brazil? Ride-hailing drivers’ use of humour and memes on Facebook groups	6
Expanded stereoscopy: Alternative aesthetics for artistic expression in 3D films	6
Late 1990s subscription-based online videogame film adaptations	6
Camera Phantasma: Reframing virtual photographies in the age of AI	5
Book review: Algorithms of resistance Bonini T and Treré E (2024) Algorithms of resistance: The everyday fight against platform power . Cambridge, MA: T	5
Countering digital labor platforms’ algorithmic management: OnlyFans and the emergence of neo-patronage	5
Big data audiences: Critical approaches to the datafication of audience ontologies in contemporary media industries	5
Struggle over visibility on Douyin: How transnational influencers who create content about Myanmar strategically negotiate the cybercriminal identity	5
Fractured spectacle: Contrasting reactions to Itaewon stampede across Korean and English-language networked publics	5
From empathy machine to mimetic sympoiesis: Reimagining virtual reality toward regenerative media	5
‘Come support the locals!’: mediating peripheral spaces on Google maps via user-generated content	5
Reclaiming and remediating space: The dynamics of queer presence in audio drama platform	5
Strategies for communicating and mitigating algorithmic control on delivery platforms	5
Systemic issues with narratives of identity: Toxicity and esports media professionals	5
What Brazilianness looks like: SVODs’ impact on cultural representation	5
Witnessing distress: Cultural workers’ processing of pandemic experiences on social media platforms	5
Exposing the mess in the online kitchen: Bon Appetit and digital continuities in legacy media’s workplace exploitations	5
Creepy or curious? Exploring accidental interactions between people and digital voice assistants	5
Game live streaming in the Japanese context: Initial findings	5
The ratings panel from participation to personification: Nielsen and the big-data reconfiguration of the audience	5
Cinephilia, take three?: Availability, reliability, and disenchantment in the streaming era	5
Who pays the piper delivers the data: Audience measurement and programming in the crowdfunded radio	5
Returning to critical pedagogy in a world of datafication	5
Social media, migration and the platformization of moral panic: Evidence from Canada	5
Reading literature in/against the digital age: Shallow assumptions, deep problems, expectant pedagogies	5
Reconstituting the ‘good woman’: Gendered visual politics on social media during 2021 state election in West Bengal, India	5
Twisting existence in AI media: The mediation–extension schema	5
Automated content recognition (ACR), smart TVs, and ad-tech infrastructure	5
Computational cross-media research: tracing divergences between normative Dutch television and social media discourses on the ‘refugee crisis’ (2013-2018)	5