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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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	83
Challenging (platformisation) invisibilities through humour: The Paralympics, TikTok and social change?	61
‘Disciplining the audience’: Audience experiences with MUBI	57
Joe Rogan v. Spotify: Platformization and worlds colliding	53
Slantwise disengagement: Explaining Facebook users’ acts beyond resistance/internalization of domination binary	42
Performing home through women’s care practices in digital spaces	39
Platformed creativity: Female chuktubers in Korean football media	39
You the readers will complete the list. The Castrochavismo conspiracy theory	37
Book Review: Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation	33
Conspiracy theories in digital environments: Moving the research field forward	31
It’s not her fault: Trust through anthropomorphism among young adult Amazon Alexa users	31
The role of geolocation data in U.S. political campaigning: How digital political strategists perceive it	29
From permissive to resistive tactics: How audience members engage with and make sense of datafied journalism	28
Mindsets of conspiracy: A typology of affinities towards conspiracy myths in digital environments	27
Faking it deeply and universally? Media forms and epistemologies of artificial faces and emotions in Japanese and Euro-American contexts	26
Relating, searching, and referencing: Assessing the appeal of using GIFs to communicate	26
Political Solutions or user Responsibilization? How Politicians understand Problems Connected to Digital Overload	25
Book Review: Review of Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences and the Intimate Work of Connection by Nancy Baym	23
What’s behind that screenshot? Digital windows and capturing data on screen	23
Book review: Understanding Collegiate Esports: A Practitioner’s Guide to Developing Community and Competition	22
Augmented play: An analysis of augmented reality features in location-based games	21
Advancing digital disconnection research: Introduction to the special issue	21
Effects of parasocial affinity and gender on live streaming fans’ motivations	20
Ja’miezing’s Podcast Persona: Intertextual and Intercommunicative	20
Partners or workers? Mexican app deliverers on YouTube and TikTok	19

Pluralising critical technical practice	17
Internet memes, populist campaigns: Nationalism, populism, and online visual protests in China	17
Instagrammable feminisms: Aesthetics and attention-seeking strategies on Portuguese feminist Instagram	17
What ifs: The role of imagining in people’s reflections on data uses	16
From fan citizenship to ‘fanspiracies’: Politics and participatory cultures in times of crisis?	16
Depression representations on the most popular Russian-language YouTube channels	15
Only you can save the world (of videogames): Authoritarian agencies in the heroism of videogame design, play, and culture	15
Repairing what’s not broken – Algorithm repair manual as reflexivity device	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
A holistic framework for the analysis of predictive rhetoric in digital visualizations	14
Reconsidering Cartesian dualism and selfhood in Love, Death & Robots	14
Navigating the information environment about the Ukraine war	13
The (not so) secret governors of the internet: Morality policing and platform politics	13
Self-representation as platform work: Stories about working as social media content creators	13
Video-on-demand catalog and interface analysis: The state of research methods	12
Integrating trace data into interviews: Better interviews, better data	12
Sick kids versus whom? Childhood disability and charitable campaigns on Instagram	12
Theming electracy: An interview with Gregory L. Ulmer	12
Book review: Left to our own devices: Coping with insecure work in a digital age	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
Ranting in emotional public spheres: Publicizing participatory challenges on YouTube	11
From school strikes to webinars: Mapping the forced digitalization of Fridays for Future’s activism during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
A note from the editors	11
Combating contamination and contagion: Embodied and environmental metaphors of misinformation	11
Queering algorithms: LGBTQ+ content creators’ non-conforming and non-confronting workarounds to digital normativity in China	11
Understanding familial locative play: Exploring parent online social learning to play Pokémon Go	11
Ways of seeing digital disconnection: A negative sociology of digital culture	11
The mutual configuration of affordances and technological frames: Content creators in the Chilean influencer industry	11
On the dynamics of Zoom fatigue	11
Players’ perceptions of sexuality and gender-inclusive video games a pragmatic content analysis of steam reviews	11
Far-right conspiracy groups on fringe platforms: a longitudinal analysis of radicalization dynamics on Telegram	11
Situating the videogame maker’s agency through craft	11
Arendt in the Metaverse: Four properties of eXtended Reality that imperil factual truth and democracy	10
#BoomerRemover: COVID-19 and the intertextual politics of internet memes	10
Feeling safe: Safety app discourse and affective labor	10
Mirroring journalistic work in newsroom metrics: A longitudinal study of Estonian journalists’ making sense of data	10
How to play in slow time: Embodying creativity literacies in digital learning environments	10
Framing the startup accelerator through assemblage theory: A case study of an intensive hub in Indonesia	10
Audio for extended realities: A case study informed exposition	10
“YouTube’s predator problem”: Platform moderation as governance-washing, and user resistance	10
Embodied parallelism and immersion in virtual reality gaming	9
Transnationalisation revisited through the Netflix Original: An analysis of investment strategies in Europe	9
Digital divide in the Middle East and North Africa: Introduction to the special issue	9
Dialectics of training: A critique of recommendation engines’ aesthetic judgment	9
Cynical technical practice: From AI to APIs	9
A framework for examining hybridity: The case of academic explanatory journalism	9
Book Review: The perception machine: Our photographic future between the eye and AI	9
The dystopian imaginaries of ChatGPT: A designed cycle of fear	9

Knocking on doors: The use of blogging sites by visually impaired people in the USA preliminary study	9
Digital transformations in a platform society: A comparative analysis of European football leagues as YouTube complementors	9
Streaming demand for eSports: Analysis of Counter-strike: Global offensive	8
Finding the future in digitally mediated ruin: #nostalgiacores and the algorithmic culture of digital platforms	8
Formatting work: Cloud platforms and the infrastructuring of capitalist asymmetries in software work	8
Korean travel selfies as contested placemaking practices	8
Visualization as infrastructure: China’s data visualization politics during COVID-19 and their implications for public health emergencies	8
Ageing on the internet: Feminist perspectives on sexist practices	8
Cyber Nuts and Bolts: Effective Participatory Online Learning, Theory and Practice	8
Gazing or glancing? Mapping student engagement when film studies moves online	8
The photographic palimpsest: Layering and alteration in digital photography	8
Book review: Media ruins: Cambodian postwar media reconstruction and the geopolitics of technology	7
Struggle over visibility on Douyin: How transnational influencers who create content about Myanmar strategically negotiate the cybercriminal identity	7
Exposing the mess in the online kitchen:Bon Appetitand digital continuities in legacy media’s workplace exploitations	7
What is so funny about platform labour in Brazil? Ride-hailing drivers’ use of humour and memes on Facebook groups	7
Operationalising ‘toxicity’ in the manosphere: Automation, platform governance and community health	7
After agency: The queer posthumanism of video games that cannot be played	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
Huanlian, or changing faces: Deepfakes on Chinese digital media platforms	7
Are you talking to me? Generation X, Y, Z responses to mobile advertising	7
Ethical judgments of esports spectators regarding cheating in competition	7
What Brazilianness looks like: SVODs’ impact on cultural representation	7
The epitome of reprehensible individualism: The Dutch response to the Walkman, 1980–1995	7
Reading literature in/against the digital age: Shallow assumptions, deep problems, expectant pedagogies	7
Expanded stereoscopy: Alternative aesthetics for artistic expression in 3D films	7
Coronavirus meets the clash of civilizations	7
Reconstituting the ‘good woman’: Gendered visual politics on social media during 2021 state election in West Bengal, India	7
Introduction	7
Intelligent Personal Assistants in practice. Situational agencies and the multiple forms of cooperation without consensus	7
Visibility and security in the smart home	6
Strategies for communicating and mitigating algorithmic control on delivery platforms	6
Fractured spectacle: Contrasting reactions to Itaewon stampede across Korean and English-language networked publics	6
Book review: The private is political: Networked privacy and social media by Alice Marwick	6
Returning to critical pedagogy in a world of datafication	6
Book review: Algorithms of resistance Bonini T and Treré E (2024) Algorithms of resistance: The everyday fight against platform power . Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 25	6
The politics of data visualisation and policy making	6
From subculture to mainstream: Nostalgia, criticism and negotiation in a fan community	6
Social media, migration and the platformization of moral panic: Evidence from Canada	6
Who pays the piper delivers the data: Audience measurement and programming in the crowdfunded radio	6
Camera Phantasma: Reframing virtual photographies in the age of AI	6
Systemic issues with narratives of identity: Toxicity and esports media professionals	6
TikTok’s ‘Republicansona’ trend as cross-party cross-dressing: Legible normativity, (in)dividual representation and performing subversive ambiguity	6
Aberrant AI creations: co-creating surrealist body horror using the DALL-E Mini text-to-image generator	5
‘Traffic rewards’, ‘algorithmic visibility’, and ‘advertiser satisfaction’: How Chinese short-video platforms cultivate creators in stages	5
Reclaiming and remediating space: The dynamics of queer presence in audio drama platform	5
Measuring the diffusion of conspiracy theories in digital information ecologies	5
Delivery workers’ visibility struggles: Weapons of the gig, (extra)ordinary social media, and strikes	5
Salad Fingers: Pre-YouTube digital uncanny and the ‘weird’ future of animation	5
Participatory conspiracy culture: Believing, doubting and playing with conspiracy theories on Reddit	5
Behind-the-scenes of the parliament: Influencer genres and political authenticity on Swedish politicians’ YouTube channels	5
Cinephilia, take three?: Availability, reliability, and disenchantment in the streaming era	5
Computational cross-media research: tracing divergences between normative Dutch television and social media discourses on the ‘refugee crisis’ (2013-2018)	5
The great replacement: Strategic mainstreaming of far-right conspiracy claims	5
Wikipedia and AI: Access, representation, and advocacy in the age of large language models	5
The material politics of mobile virtual reality: Oculus, data, and the technics of sensemaking	5
Predictors of parasocial interaction and relationships in live streaming	5
Machinic agency and datafication: Labour and value after anthropocentrism	5
‘Every adventure begins with a cup of coffee’: Black rifle coffee company, reactionary fandom, and the tactical body	5
A note from the editors	5
Creanalytics: Automating the supercut as a form of critical technical practice	5
The ethical dilemma of modding digital games: A literature review of the creation and distribution of mods	5
‘Come support the locals!’: mediating peripheral spaces on Google maps via user-generated content	5