OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Convergence-The International Journal of Research Into New Media Techn is 6. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
You the readers will complete the list. The Castrochavismo conspiracy theory	117
Book Review: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation	74
‘Disciplining the audience’: Audience experiences with MUBI	66
Joe Rogan v. Spotify: Platformization and worlds colliding	37
Performing home through women’s care practices in digital spaces	35
Slantwise disengagement: Explaining Facebook users’ acts beyond resistance/internalization of domination binary	32
It’s not her fault: Trust through anthropomorphism among young adult Amazon Alexa users	30
Empowering women for sustainable tourism: Evidence from Xijiang Miao village using PLS-SEM analysis	29
Platformed creativity: Female chuktubers in Korean football media	28
The politics of streaming time: When elastic time meets troubled tiers in the turn to the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) model	27
Conspiracy theories in digital environments: Moving the research field forward	24
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	24
Mindsets of conspiracy: A typology of affinities towards conspiracy myths in digital environments	23
Challenging (platformisation) invisibilities through humour: The Paralympics, TikTok and social change?	23
What’s behind that screenshot? Digital windows and capturing data on screen	22
‘Simulating fan discourse shifts: A thematic coding and regression model of K-pop communities under China’s Korean Wave Ban (2016–2017)’	21
Faking it deeply and universally? Media forms and epistemologies of artificial faces and emotions in Japanese and Euro-American contexts	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
Relating, searching, and referencing: Assessing the appeal of using GIFs to communicate	18
Book review: Understanding Collegiate Esports: A Practitioner’s Guide to Developing Community and Competition	18
Political Solutions or user Responsibilization? How Politicians understand Problems Connected to Digital Overload	18
Book Review: Review of Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences and the Intimate Work of Connection by Nancy Baym	18
Ja’miezing’s Podcast Persona: Intertextual and Intercommunicative	18
From permissive to resistive tactics: How audience members engage with and make sense of datafied journalism	17

Augmented play: An analysis of augmented reality features in location-based games	16
Virtual production at model scale: A case-study of virtual production R&D in Aardman Animations	16
Meta-music and the sonic storytelling of Baldur’s Gate 3	15
Self-representation as platform work: Stories about working as social media content creators	15
What ifs: The role of imagining in people’s reflections on data uses	15
Repairing what’s not broken – Algorithm repair manual as reflexivity device	15
Internet memes, populist campaigns: Nationalism, populism, and online visual protests in China	15
Instagrammable feminisms: Aesthetics and attention-seeking strategies on Portuguese feminist Instagram	15
Pluralising critical technical practice	15
Research on optimization of online education effectiveness system based on Louvain algorithm	15
A holistic framework for the analysis of predictive rhetoric in digital visualizations	15
Diamond hands to the moon: Idiocultural mobilization and politicization of personal finance on r/wallstreetbets	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: Newsmaking and the Late-S	14
Reconsidering Cartesian dualism and selfhood in Love, Death & Robots	13
Theming electracy: An interview with Gregory L. Ulmer	13
Effects of parasocial affinity and gender on live streaming fans’ motivations	13
Sick kids versus whom? Childhood disability and charitable campaigns on Instagram	13
Only you can save the world (of videogames): Authoritarian agencies in the heroism of videogame design, play, and culture	13
Depression representations on the most popular Russian-language YouTube channels	13
Book review: Left to our own devices: Coping with insecure work in a digital age	13
From fan citizenship to ‘fanspiracies’: Politics and participatory cultures in times of crisis?	13
Partners or workers? Mexican app deliverers on YouTube and TikTok	13
Video-on-demand catalog and interface analysis: The state of research methods	12
Navigating the information environment about the Ukraine war	12
Diagrammatic thinking and audience reading of COVID-19 data visualisations: A UK case study	12
Sound design in VR filmmaking: Opportunities and challenges in a new medium	12
Overt conviviality and covert distress: Navigating the emotional experiences of left-behind women via Douyin in rural China	12
The (not so) secret governors of the internet: Morality policing and platform politics	11
Integrating trace data into interviews: Better interviews, better data	11
Players’ perceptions of sexuality and gender-inclusive video games a pragmatic content analysis of steam reviews	11
Algorithmic embodiment and the posthuman condition: Reframing human autonomy in N. Katherine Hayles’ media culture theory	11
Stakeholder-desired audiences: Fans’ audience data imaginaries and how they shape industry data practices	11
The connected collector: Collecting in a Web 2.0 world	10
Combating contamination and contagion: Embodied and environmental metaphors of misinformation	10
Scenophony: An undisciplinary approach to the design of immersive sound storytelling	10
The gamification of generative AI interfaces	10
Far-right conspiracy groups on fringe platforms: a longitudinal analysis of radicalization dynamics on Telegram	10
On the dynamics of Zoom fatigue	10
Reconfiguring the global–local nexus: A comparative analysis of Netflix and theatrical film diversity in South Korea	10
From school strikes to webinars: Mapping the forced digitalization of Fridays for Future’s activism during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
#BoomerRemover: COVID-19 and the intertextual politics of internet memes	9
Feeling safe: Safety app discourse and affective labor	9
Arendt in the Metaverse: Four properties of eXtended Reality that imperil factual truth and democracy	9
“YouTube’s predator problem”: Platform moderation as governance-washing, and user resistance	9
Mirroring journalistic work in newsroom metrics: A longitudinal study of Estonian journalists’ making sense of data	9
Performing male femininity on China’s live-streaming platform: Identity construction, self-sexualization, and making marginalized males visible	9
Ranting in emotional public spheres: Publicizing participatory challenges on YouTube	9
How to play in slow time: Embodying creativity literacies in digital learning environments	9
Knocking on doors: The use of blogging sites by visually impaired people in the USA preliminary study	9
A note from the editors	9

Queering algorithms: LGBTQ+ content creators’ non-conforming and non-confronting workarounds to digital normativity in China	9
Cynical technical practice: From AI to APIs	9
Under surveillance: How podcasting on YouTube is redefining the media landscape of Pakistan	9
Visualization as infrastructure: China’s data visualization politics during COVID-19 and their implications for public health emergencies	8
Dialectics of training: A critique of recommendation engines’ aesthetic judgment	8
Audio for extended realities: A case study informed exposition	8
‘I like the narrative of curating what we watch’: The curatorial worlds of retroconversion artists	8
A framework for examining hybridity: The case of academic explanatory journalism	8
The mutual configuration of affordances and technological frames: Content creators in the Chilean influencer industry	8
Gazing or glancing? Mapping student engagement when film studies moves online	8
Role and perceptions of AI in science journalists’ work: Comparison between Brazil, India and UK	8
Formatting work: Cloud platforms and the infrastructuring of capitalist asymmetries in software work	8
Cyber Nuts and Bolts: Effective Participatory Online Learning, Theory and Practice	8
Book Review: The perception machine: Our photographic future between the eye and AI	8
Ageing on the internet: Feminist perspectives on sexist practices	8
The dystopian imaginaries of ChatGPT: A designed cycle of fear	8
Phonographic theatricality: The performativity of human-machine vocality	8
Queer lives in the social media prism: Precarious LGBTQIA+ visibility and lateral surveillance in Azerbaijan	8
Embodied parallelism and immersion in virtual reality gaming	8
Operationalising ‘toxicity’ in the manosphere: Automation, platform governance and community health	7
The value of books in the age of generative AI training data	7
Streaming demand for eSports: Analysis of Counter-strike: Global offensive	7
Digital divide in the Middle East and North Africa: Introduction to the special issue	7
Simulating desert power: Dune games, real-time strategy, and the postcolonial legacies of Lynch’s Dune	7
What Brazilianness looks like: SVODs’ impact on cultural representation	7
Coronavirus meets the clash of civilizations	7
Expanded stereoscopy: Alternative aesthetics for artistic expression in 3D films	7
‘Beating tech with tech’: The use of apps and technological measures for digital disconnection	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	7
The epitome of reprehensible individualism: The Dutch response to the Walkman, 1980–1995	7
Struggle over visibility on Douyin: How transnational influencers who create content about Myanmar strategically negotiate the cybercriminal identity	7
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.	7
Social media, migration and the platformization of moral panic: Evidence from Canada	7
The photographic palimpsest: Layering and alteration in digital photography	7
Finding the future in digitally mediated ruin: #nostalgiacores and the algorithmic culture of digital platforms	7
Digital transformations in a platform society: A comparative analysis of European football leagues as YouTube complementors	7
What is so funny about platform labour in Brazil? Ride-hailing drivers’ use of humour and memes on Facebook groups	7
Personal playlists and collective experiences: Findings from the pervasive game ‘What we take with us’	7
Ethical judgments of esports spectators regarding cheating in competition	7
Big data audiences: Critical approaches to the datafication of audience ontologies in contemporary media industries	6
After agency: The queer posthumanism of video games that cannot be played	6
Audiovisual prominence and discoverability in Europe: Stakeholders’ alliances under construction	6
Exposing the mess in the online kitchen:Bon Appetitand digital continuities in legacy media’s workplace exploitations	6
Introduction	6
Intelligent Personal Assistants in practice. Situational agencies and the multiple forms of cooperation without consensus	6
‘This might sound like I’m wearing a tinfoil hat…’ – Knowledge workers’ perceptions of privacy and surveillance in group-based communicative AI	6
Late 1990s subscription-based online videogame film adaptations	6
‘As you write your Odyssey…’: An empirical study of Classics students’ play interests and ergodic characterization in historical video games	6
Witnessing distress: Cultural workers’ processing of pandemic experiences on social media platforms	6
Reconstituting the ‘good woman’: Gendered visual politics on social media during 2021 state election in West Bengal, India	6