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

Article	Citations
You the readers will complete the list. The Castrochavismo conspiracy theory	110
Book Review: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation	71
‘Disciplining the audience’: Audience experiences with MUBI	62
Joe Rogan v. Spotify: Platformization and worlds colliding	41
Conspiracy theories in digital environments: Moving the research field forward	34
Slantwise disengagement: Explaining Facebook users’ acts beyond resistance/internalization of domination binary	31
Performing home through women’s care practices in digital spaces	31
It’s not her fault: Trust through anthropomorphism among young adult Amazon Alexa users	28
The politics of streaming time: When elastic time meets troubled tiers in the turn to the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) model	28
Platformed creativity: Female chuktubers in Korean football media	26
Challenging (platformisation) invisibilities through humour: The Paralympics, TikTok and social change?	26
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	26
Mindsets of conspiracy: A typology of affinities towards conspiracy myths in digital environments	24
What’s behind that screenshot? Digital windows and capturing data on screen	22
Faking it deeply and universally? Media forms and epistemologies of artificial faces and emotions in Japanese and Euro-American contexts	20
Political Solutions or user Responsibilization? How Politicians understand Problems Connected to Digital Overload	20
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	19
Book review: Understanding Collegiate Esports: A Practitioner’s Guide to Developing Community and Competition	17
Ja’miezing’s Podcast Persona: Intertextual and Intercommunicative	17
Book Review: Review of Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences and the Intimate Work of Connection by Nancy Baym	17
Book Review: Inequalities in Platform Publishing ParnellClaire. Inequalities in Platform Publishing . Amherst, Mass: University of Massachusetts Press. 202 pp. ISBN 9781	17
From permissive to resistive tactics: How audience members engage with and make sense of datafied journalism	16
Meta-music and the sonic storytelling of Baldur’s Gate 3	16
Advancing digital disconnection research: Introduction to the special issue	16

Augmented play: An analysis of augmented reality features in location-based games	16
Pluralising critical technical practice	16
Depression representations on the most popular Russian-language YouTube channels	15
Repairing what’s not broken – Algorithm repair manual as reflexivity device	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	14
Diamond hands to the moon: Idiocultural mobilization and politicization of personal finance on r/wallstreetbets	14
From fan citizenship to ‘fanspiracies’: Politics and participatory cultures in times of crisis?	14
A holistic framework for the analysis of predictive rhetoric in digital visualizations	14
Internet memes, populist campaigns: Nationalism, populism, and online visual protests in China	14
Instagrammable feminisms: Aesthetics and attention-seeking strategies on Portuguese feminist Instagram	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
Partners or workers? Mexican app deliverers on YouTube and TikTok	13
Theming electracy: An interview with Gregory L. Ulmer	13
Sick kids versus whom? Childhood disability and charitable campaigns on Instagram	13
Effects of parasocial affinity and gender on live streaming fans’ motivations	13
Reconsidering Cartesian dualism and selfhood in Love, Death & Robots	13
Navigating the information environment about the Ukraine war	13
Only you can save the world (of videogames): Authoritarian agencies in the heroism of videogame design, play, and culture	13
Video-on-demand catalog and interface analysis: The state of research methods	13
Book review: Left to our own devices: Coping with insecure work in a digital age	13
Stakeholder-desired audiences: Fans’ audience data imaginaries and how they shape industry data practices	12
On the dynamics of Zoom fatigue	12
Overt conviviality and covert distress: Navigating the emotional experiences of left-behind women via Douyin in rural China	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
Players’ perceptions of sexuality and gender-inclusive video games a pragmatic content analysis of steam reviews	11
The connected collector: Collecting in a Web 2.0 world	11
The (not so) secret governors of the internet: Morality policing and platform politics	11
Combating contamination and contagion: Embodied and environmental metaphors of misinformation	11
Integrating trace data into interviews: Better interviews, better data	11
The gamification of generative AI interfaces	11
Mirroring journalistic work in newsroom metrics: A longitudinal study of Estonian journalists’ making sense of data	10
Queering algorithms: LGBTQ+ content creators’ non-conforming and non-confronting workarounds to digital normativity in China	10
Ranting in emotional public spheres: Publicizing participatory challenges on YouTube	10
A note from the editors	10
Performing male femininity on China’s live-streaming platform: Identity construction, self-sexualization, and making marginalized males visible	10
From school strikes to webinars: Mapping the forced digitalization of Fridays for Future’s activism during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
The mutual configuration of affordances and technological frames: Content creators in the Chilean influencer industry	10
Situating the videogame maker’s agency through craft	10
Far-right conspiracy groups on fringe platforms: a longitudinal analysis of radicalization dynamics on Telegram	10
The dystopian imaginaries of ChatGPT: A designed cycle of fear	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
A framework for examining hybridity: The case of academic explanatory journalism	9
Knocking on doors: The use of blogging sites by visually impaired people in the USA preliminary study	9
#BoomerRemover: COVID-19 and the intertextual politics of internet memes	9
Audio for extended realities: A case study informed exposition	9
Framing the startup accelerator through assemblage theory: A case study of an intensive hub in Indonesia	9
Cynical technical practice: From AI to APIs	9

How to play in slow time: Embodying creativity literacies in digital learning environments	9
“YouTube’s predator problem”: Platform moderation as governance-washing, and user resistance	8
Embodied parallelism and immersion in virtual reality gaming	8
Cyber Nuts and Bolts: Effective Participatory Online Learning, Theory and Practice	8
Queer lives in the social media prism: Precarious LGBTQIA+ visibility and lateral surveillance in Azerbaijan	8
The value of books in the age of generative AI training data	8
Book Review: The perception machine: Our photographic future between the eye and AI	8
Under surveillance: How podcasting on YouTube is redefining the media landscape of Pakistan	8
‘I like the narrative of curating what we watch’: The curatorial worlds of retroconversion artists	8
Finding the future in digitally mediated ruin: #nostalgiacores and the algorithmic culture of digital platforms	7
Reading literature in/against the digital age: Shallow assumptions, deep problems, expectant pedagogies	7
Audiovisual prominence and discoverability in Europe: Stakeholders’ alliances under construction	7
Witnessing distress: Cultural workers’ processing of pandemic experiences on social media platforms	7
Phonographic theatricality: The performativity of human-machine vocality	7
Formatting work: Cloud platforms and the infrastructuring of capitalist asymmetries in software work	7
Gazing or glancing? Mapping student engagement when film studies moves online	7
What is so funny about platform labour in Brazil? Ride-hailing drivers’ use of humour and memes on Facebook groups	7
The epitome of reprehensible individualism: The Dutch response to the Walkman, 1980–1995	7
Intelligent Personal Assistants in practice. Situational agencies and the multiple forms of cooperation without consensus	7
Digital divide in the Middle East and North Africa: Introduction to the special issue	7
Dialectics of training: A critique of recommendation engines’ aesthetic judgment	7
Visualization as infrastructure: China’s data visualization politics during COVID-19 and their implications for public health emergencies	7
Ageing on the internet: Feminist perspectives on sexist practices	7
Expanded stereoscopy: Alternative aesthetics for artistic expression in 3D films	7
Operationalising ‘toxicity’ in the manosphere: Automation, platform governance and community health	7
Struggle over visibility on Douyin: How transnational influencers who create content about Myanmar strategically negotiate the cybercriminal identity	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 photographic palimpsest: Layering and alteration in digital photography	7
Digital transformations in a platform society: A comparative analysis of European football leagues as YouTube complementors	7
Streaming demand for eSports: Analysis of Counter-strike: Global offensive	7
Big data audiences: Critical approaches to the datafication of audience ontologies in contemporary media industries	6
Reconstituting the ‘good woman’: Gendered visual politics on social media during 2021 state election in West Bengal, India	6
Social media, migration and the platformization of moral panic: Evidence from Canada	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
Fractured spectacle: Contrasting reactions to Itaewon stampede across Korean and English-language networked publics	6
After agency: The queer posthumanism of video games that cannot be played	6
Coronavirus meets the clash of civilizations	6
What Brazilianness looks like: SVODs’ impact on cultural representation	6
Introduction	6
Countering digital labor platforms’ algorithmic management: OnlyFans and the emergence of neo-patronage	6
Twisting existence in AI media: The mediation–extension schema	6
TikTok’s ‘Republicansona’ trend as cross-party cross-dressing: Legible normativity, (in)dividual representation and performing subversive ambiguity	6
Personal playlists and collective experiences: Findings from the pervasive game ‘What we take with us’	6
Exposing the mess in the online kitchen:Bon Appetitand digital continuities in legacy media’s workplace exploitations	6
‘As you write your Odyssey…’: An empirical study of Classics students’ play interests and ergodic characterization in historical video games	6
Ethical judgments of esports spectators regarding cheating in competition	6
Strategies for communicating and mitigating algorithmic control on delivery platforms	6
Camera Phantasma: Reframing virtual photographies in the age of AI	6