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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Public Service Media in Ireland following reunification? Comparative approaches and critical questions	90
Performing home through women’s care practices in digital spaces	79
You the readers will complete the list. The Castrochavismo conspiracy theory	47
It’s not her fault: Trust through anthropomorphism among young adult Amazon Alexa users	41
Joe Rogan v. Spotify: Platformization and worlds colliding	40
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	38
Book Review: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation	37
Platformed creativity: Female chuktubers in Korean football media	33
‘Disciplining the audience’: Audience experiences with MUBI	28
Challenging (platformisation) invisibilities through humour: The Paralympics, TikTok and social change?	27
Empowering women for sustainable tourism: Evidence from Xijiang Miao village using PLS-SEM analysis	26
Testing creativity: Towards a processual understanding of GenAI image-making tasks	24
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	23
The politics of streaming time: When elastic time meets troubled tiers in the turn to the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) model	21
Slantwise disengagement: Explaining Facebook users’ acts beyond resistance/internalization of domination binary	20
Conspiracy theories in digital environments: Moving the research field forward	20
Book review: Understanding Collegiate Esports: A Practitioner’s Guide to Developing Community and Competition	19
Virtual production at model scale: A case-study of virtual production R&D in Aardman Animations	19
Ja’miezing’s Podcast Persona: Intertextual and Intercommunicative	19
The little square of agonies: Avatar aesthetics, protest masculinity and incel ‘neo-reality’	18
The role of geolocation data in U.S. political campaigning: How digital political strategists perceive it	18
‘Simulating fan discourse shifts: A thematic coding and regression model of K-pop communities under China’s Korean Wave Ban (2016–2017)’	18
Book Review: Inequalities in Platform Publishing ParnellClaire. Inequalities in Platform Publishing . Amherst, Mass: University of Massachusetts Press. 2	18
Augmented play: An analysis of augmented reality features in location-based games	17
Relating, searching, and referencing: Assessing the appeal of using GIFs to communicate	17

Faking it deeply and universally? Media forms and epistemologies of artificial faces and emotions in Japanese and Euro-American contexts	16
Research on optimization of online education effectiveness system based on Louvain algorithm	16
Mindsets of conspiracy: A typology of affinities towards conspiracy myths in digital environments	15
Political Solutions or user Responsibilization? How Politicians understand Problems Connected to Digital Overload	15
“Call it a CULT.”: r/NoNewNormal and the expression of identity politics in response to the COVID-19 pandemic	15
From permissive to resistive tactics: How audience members engage with and make sense of datafied journalism	15
Depression representations on the most popular Russian-language YouTube channels	14
Meta-music and the sonic storytelling of Baldur’s Gate 3	13
Performing the self: Social identity construction by blind and visually impaired YouTube vloggers	13
Effects of parasocial affinity and gender on live streaming fans’ motivations	13
Remix, labour, and visibility: Fashion memes as participatory visual culture on platform media	13
Reconsidering Cartesian dualism and selfhood in Love, Death & Robots	13
Before code, beyond screen: Media archeology and convergence friction in early VR art (1993–1995)	13
Diamond hands to the moon: Idiocultural mobilization and politicization of personal finance on r/wallstreetbets	12
What ifs: The role of imagining in people’s reflections on data uses	12
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	12
Instagrammable feminisms: Aesthetics and attention-seeking strategies on Portuguese feminist Instagram	12
Internet memes, populist campaigns: Nationalism, populism, and online visual protests in China	12
From fan citizenship to ‘fanspiracies’: Politics and participatory cultures in times of crisis?	11
Pluralising critical technical practice	11
Video-on-demand catalog and interface analysis: The state of research methods	11
The (not so) secret governors of the internet: Morality policing and platform politics	11
Repairing what’s not broken – Algorithm repair manual as reflexivity device	11
Self-representation as platform work: Stories about working as social media content creators	11
Navigating the information environment about the Ukraine war	11
Sick kids versus whom? Childhood disability and charitable campaigns on Instagram	11
A holistic framework for the analysis of predictive rhetoric in digital visualizations	11
Partners or workers? Mexican app deliverers on YouTube and TikTok	11
Book review: Left to our own devices: Coping with insecure work in a digital age	11
Sound design in VR filmmaking: Opportunities and challenges in a new medium	11
Diagrammatic thinking and audience reading of COVID-19 data visualisations: A UK case study	10
Theming electracy: An interview with Gregory L. Ulmer	10
Overt conviviality and covert distress: Navigating the emotional experiences of left-behind women via Douyin in rural China	10
Stakeholder-desired audiences: Fans’ audience data imaginaries and how they shape industry data practices	10
Integrating trace data into interviews: Better interviews, better data	10
‘The behind-the-scenes we were never supposed to see’: Resisting, reframing, and reinforcing incarceration stigmas on Prison TikTok	10
Algorithmic embodiment and the posthuman condition: Reframing human autonomy in N. Katherine Hayles’ media culture theory	10
Developing an industrial workflow for virtual production filmmaking	10
Players’ perceptions of sexuality and gender-inclusive video games a pragmatic content analysis of steam reviews	10
Performing male femininity on China’s live-streaming platform: Identity construction, self-sexualization, and making marginalized males visible	9
Reconfiguring the global–local nexus: A comparative analysis of Netflix and theatrical film diversity in South Korea	9
The gamification of generative AI interfaces	9
Scenophony: An undisciplinary approach to the design of immersive sound storytelling	9
A framework for examining hybridity: The case of academic explanatory journalism	9
Far-right conspiracy groups on fringe platforms: a longitudinal analysis of radicalization dynamics on Telegram	9
Glanceability and voyeuristic distance: How designing for brief interaction shapes engagement with the Apple Watch Activity Rings	9
Ranting in emotional public spheres: Publicizing participatory challenges on YouTube	9
Public service media and sport in the age of platforms: The cases of Flanders, South Africa and the United Kingdom	9
A note from the editors	9
Queering algorithms: LGBTQ+ content creators’ non-conforming and non-confronting workarounds to digital normativity in China	9

From school strikes to webinars: Mapping the forced digitalization of Fridays for Future’s activism during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
The connected collector: Collecting in a Web 2.0 world	9
Combating contamination and contagion: Embodied and environmental metaphors of misinformation	9
Mirroring journalistic work in newsroom metrics: A longitudinal study of Estonian journalists’ making sense of data	8
Role and perceptions of AI in science journalists’ work: Comparison between Brazil, India and UK	8
A media-materialist method for interpreting generative AI images	8
Feeling safe: Safety app discourse and affective labor	8
The dystopian imaginaries of ChatGPT: A designed cycle of fear	8
The ambivalences of digital disconnection for life coaches: Navigating discrete and performative disconnecting in the creator economy	8
Under surveillance: How podcasting on YouTube is redefining the media landscape of Pakistan	8
Digital detox: How digital well-being application ‘Forest’ helps users improve digital health in China	8
Videogame spatial cinematics: A theoretical framework for cinematic architecture of videogame spaces	8
Virtual production for the micro: Investigating obstacles and tailoring workflows for small UK production studios	7
#BoomerRemover: COVID-19 and the intertextual politics of internet memes	7
The mutual configuration of affordances and technological frames: Content creators in the Chilean influencer industry	7
Book Review: The perception machine: Our photographic future between the eye and AI	7
Queer lives in the social media prism: Precarious LGBTQIA+ visibility and lateral surveillance in Azerbaijan	7
How to play in slow time: Embodying creativity literacies in digital learning environments	7
Knocking on doors: The use of blogging sites by visually impaired people in the USA preliminary study	7
Cynical technical practice: From AI to APIs	7
Arendt in the Metaverse: Four properties of eXtended Reality that imperil factual truth and democracy	7
Audio for extended realities: A case study informed exposition	7
Digital transformations in a platform society: A comparative analysis of European football leagues as YouTube complementors	7
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
Digital divide in the Middle East and North Africa: Introduction to the special issue	6
Phonographic theatricality: The performativity of human-machine vocality	6
The value of books in the age of generative AI training data	6
From critique to hope: Infrawalking, defamiliarisation, transgressive infrastructuring and utopian engineering	6
The Smell of Roses: Affordances in shitposts as a site of study	6
Expressing (distorted) dissent against the Party-state out of internalised racism on X	6
Streaming demand for eSports: Analysis of Counter-strike: Global offensive	6
Dialectics of training: A critique of recommendation engines’ aesthetic judgment	6
‘I like the narrative of curating what we watch’: The curatorial worlds of retroconversion artists	6
Formatting work: Cloud platforms and the infrastructuring of capitalist asymmetries in software work	6
Ageing on the internet: Feminist perspectives on sexist practices	6
When that light hits the LED sky: Selling virtual production in The Batman (2022) and beyond	6
What is so funny about platform labour in Brazil? Ride-hailing drivers’ use of humour and memes on Facebook groups	6
Finding the future in digitally mediated ruin: #nostalgiacores and the algorithmic culture of digital platforms	6
The photographic palimpsest: Layering and alteration in digital photography	6
‘Beating tech with tech’: The use of apps and technological measures for digital disconnection	6
Cyber Nuts and Bolts: Effective Participatory Online Learning, Theory and Practice	6
From institutions to influencers: Negotiating holocaust memory in the algorithmic age	6
Introduction	6
Gazing or glancing? Mapping student engagement when film studies moves online	6
Intelligent Personal Assistants in practice. Situational agencies and the multiple forms of cooperation without consensus	5
Creepy or curious? Exploring accidental interactions between people and digital voice assistants	5
‘As you write your Odyssey…’: An empirical study of Classics students’ play interests and ergodic characterization in historical video games	5
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.	5
Operationalising ‘toxicity’ in the manosphere: Automation, platform governance and community health	5
Automated content recognition (ACR), smart TVs, and ad-tech infrastructure	5
Twisting existence in AI media: The mediation–extension schema	5
Reading literature in/against the digital age: Shallow assumptions, deep problems, expectant pedagogies	5
Struggle over visibility on Douyin: How transnational influencers who create content about Myanmar strategically negotiate the cybercriminal identity	5
Expanded stereoscopy: Alternative aesthetics for artistic expression in 3D films	5
Simulating desert power: Dune games, real-time strategy, and the postcolonial legacies of Lynch’s Dune	5
Personal playlists and collective experiences: Findings from the pervasive game ‘What we take with us’	5
Late 1990s subscription-based online videogame film adaptations	5
Reconstituting the ‘good woman’: Gendered visual politics on social media during 2021 state election in West Bengal, India	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
Social media, migration and the platformization of moral panic: Evidence from Canada	5
Fractured spectacle: Contrasting reactions to Itaewon stampede across Korean and English-language networked publics	5
Audiovisual prominence and discoverability in Europe: Stakeholders’ alliances under construction	5
‘This might sound like I’m wearing a tinfoil hat…’ – Knowledge workers’ perceptions of privacy and surveillance in group-based communicative AI	5
Big data audiences: Critical approaches to the datafication of audience ontologies in contemporary media industries	5
Coronavirus meets the clash of civilizations	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
Game live streaming in the Japanese context: Initial findings	5
Systemic issues with narratives of identity: Toxicity and esports media professionals	5
What Brazilianness looks like: SVODs’ impact on cultural representation	5