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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The great replacement: Strategic mainstreaming of far-right conspiracy claims	49
Algorithms and taste-making: Exposing the Netflix Recommender System's operational logics	45
Far-right conspiracy groups on fringe platforms: a longitudinal analysis of radicalization dynamics on Telegram	40
Exploring ‘digital placemaking’	37
Pandemic fitness assemblages: The sociomaterialities and affective dimensions of exercising at home during the COVID-19 crisis	34
Staying in, rocking out: Online live music portal shows during the coronavirus pandemic	32
The disconnection turn: Three facets of disconnective work in post-digital capitalism	32
Personalization and the Smart Home: questioning techno-hedonist imaginaries	30
The streaming network: Conceptualizing distribution economy, technology, and power in streaming media services	28
The COVID digital home assemblage: Transforming the home into a work space during the crisis	27
Livestreaming from the bedroom: Performing intimacy through domestic space on Twitch	27
What is a podcast? Considering innovations in podcasting through the six-tensions framework	25
Intensification, discovery and abandonment: Unearthing global ecologies of dis/connection in pandemic times	23
Are you talking to me? Generation X, Y, Z responses to mobile advertising	23
Digital placemaking and networked corporeality: Embodied mobile media practices in domestic space during Covid-19	21
Advancing digital disconnection research: Introduction to the special issue	21
To Dally with Dalí: Deepfake (Inter)faces in the Art Museum	20
Predictors of parasocial interaction and relationships in live streaming	19
Media labs: Constructing journalism laboratories, innovating the future: How journalism is catalysing its future processes, products and people	19
Understanding digital disconnection beyond media studies	18
Locked down through virtual disconnect: Navigating life by staying on/off the health QR code during COVID-19 in China	17
Deep state phobia: Narrative convergence in coronavirus conspiracism on Instagram	17
Automation, wellbeing and Digital Voice Assistants: Older people and Google devices	17
Transnationalisation revisited through the Netflix Original: An analysis of investment strategies in Europe	17
Custom thumbnails: The changing face of personalisation strategies on Netflix	17

Deepfaking Keanu: YouTube deepfakes, platform visual effects, and the complexity of reception	17
Children’s gaming involves much more than the gaming itself: A study of the metagame among 12- to 15-year-old children	17
Placemaking through mobile social media platform Snapchat	16
Living in, with and beyond the ‘smart home’: Introduction to the special issue	16
Ways of seeing digital disconnection: A negative sociology of digital culture	16
On the dynamics of Zoom fatigue	16
Placemaking ‘experiences’ during Covid-19	14
To share or not to share? That is the (social media) dilemma. Expectant mothers questioning and making sense of performing pregnancy on social media	14
Conceptualising Augmented Reality: From virtual divides to mediated dynamics	14
‘You wouldn’t get that from watching TV!’: Exploring audience responses to virtual reality non-fiction in the home	13
The Digital Face and Deepfakes on Screen	13
Establishing networked misogyny as a counter movement: The analysis of the online anti-Istanbul convention presence	13
Creating opportunities for temporary disconnection: How tourism professionals provide alternatives to being permanently online	13
The artist and the automaton in digital game production	13
Digital placemaking and the datafication of forced migrants	13
Rewriting the stars: Surface tensions and gender troubles in the online media production of digital deepfakes	12
Amplification of regional discrimination on Chinese news portals: An affective critical discourse analysis	12
Framing digital disconnection: Problem definitions, values, and actions among digital detox organisers	12
Measuring the diffusion of conspiracy theories in digital information ecologies	12
Building participatory counternarratives: Pedagogical interventions through digital placemaking	12
#NoSnowflakes: The toleration of harassment and an emergent gender-related digital divide, in a UK student online culture	11
Netflix in Turkey: Localization and audience expectations from video on demand	11
Media as the great emancipators? Exploring relations between media repertoires and cultural participation in Flanders	11
The limits of gamification	11
Technoliberalism and the Complementary Relationships between Humanitarian, Conservation, and Entrepreneurial Dronework in Indonesia	11
Visibility and security in the smart home	11
Digital placemaking as survival tactics: Sub-Saharan migrants’ videos at the Moroccan–Spanish border	11
Learning with YouTube: Beyond formal and informal through new actors, strategies and affordances	10
Mindsets of conspiracy: A typology of affinities towards conspiracy myths in digital environments	10
In the mood for disconnection	10
Distinguishing feast-watching from cringe-watching: Planned, social, and attentive binge-watching predicts increased well-being and decreased regret	10
The doge worth 88 billion dollars: A case study of Dogecoin	9
Only you can save the world (of videogames): Authoritarian agencies in the heroism of videogame design, play, and culture	9
Remix in the age of ubiquitous remix	9
The digital resurrection of Margaret Thatcher: Creative, technological and legal dilemmas in the use of deepfakes in screen drama	9
Deep Nostalgia: Remediated memory, algorithmic nostalgia and technological ambivalence	9
The machine without the ghost: Early interactive television in Japan	9
Media addictions as Apparatgeist: What discourse on TV and smartphone addiction reveals about society	9
Huanlian, or changing faces: Deepfakes on Chinese digital media platforms	9
Digital hostility, internet pile-ons and shaming: A case study	8
When digital inequalities meet digital disconnection: Studying the material conditions of disconnection in rural Turkey	8
Household intelligent personal assistants in the Netherlands: Exploring privacy concerns around surveillance, security, and platforms	8
Sharing dark sides on game service platforms: Disruptive behaviors and toxicity in DOTA2 through a platform lens	8
“YouTube’s predator problem”: Platform moderation as governance-washing, and user resistance	8
The material politics of mobile virtual reality: Oculus, data, and the technics of sensemaking	8
Urban furniture in digital placemaking: Adapting a storytelling payphone across Los Angeles	8
Ethical judgments of esports spectators regarding cheating in competition	8
Platforms, alternative influence, and networked political brokerage on YouTube	8
RPC-Lex: A dictionary to measure German right-wing populist conspiracy discourse online	8
The algorithmic fix: Location intelligence, placemaking, and predictable futures	8

Dynamic roles of social presence and individual differences in social TV platforms	8
Rebalancing our regulatory response to Deepfakes with performers’ rights	8
‘If you press this, I’ll pay’: MrBeast, YouTube, and the mobilisation of the audience commodity in the name of charity	7
Cooperative affordances: How instant messaging apps afford learning, resistance and solidarity among food delivery workers	7
The politics of data visualisation and policy making	7
Gendered and generational dynamics of domestic automations	7
Multi-platform practices among digital patronage creators	7
Pandemic rhythms: Adults’ gaming in Finland during the spring 2020 COVID-19 restrictions	7
The emergence of promotional gatekeeping and converged local music professionals on social media	7
Converging experiences, converging audiences: An analysis of doctor who on Twitch	7
The ‘connected migrant’: A scoping review	7
Digital transformations in a platform society: A comparative analysis of European football leagues as YouTube complementors	7
Digital hostility, subjectivity and ethics: Theorising the disruption of identity in instances of mass online abuse and hate speech	7
Cynical technical practice: From AI to APIs	7
Returning to critical pedagogy in a world of datafication	7
Becoming a Virtual Cutie: Digital Cross-Dressing in Japan	7
Desire for sale: Live-streaming and commercial DIY porn among Chinese gay microcelebrities	7
The domestication of privacy-invasive technology on YouTube: Unboxing the Amazon Echo with the online warm expert	7
Online fandom communities as networked counterpublics: LGBTQ+ youths’ perceptions of representation and community climate	6
Moonwalking together: Tracing Redditors’ digital memory work on Michael Jackson	6
Aberrant AI creations: co-creating surrealist body horror using the DALL-E Mini text-to-image generator	6
Deep learning analysis of social media content used by Bahraini women: WhatsApp in focus	6
Consumer nationalism in digital space: A case study of the 2017 anti-lotte boycott in China	6
Visualising policy responses during health emergencies. Learning from the COVID-19 policy trackers	6
Mapping the entertainment ecosystem of Wattpad: Platforms, publishing and adaptation	6
There is no cure: Paratexts as remediations of agency in Red Dead Redemption 2	6
Rage against the empathy machine revisited: The ethics of empathy-related affordances of virtual reality	6
Interactive documentary and the reinvention of digital journalism, 2015–2020	6
Wild, stressful, or stupid: Que es Bandersnatch? Exploring user outcomes of Netflix’s interactive Black Mirror episode	6
The limits of transactional identity: Whiteness and embodiment in digital facial replacement	6
Avoiding conflict and minimising exposure: Face-work on Twitter	6
Politics of fun and participatory censorship: China’s reception of Animal Crossing: New Horizons	6
Spanish Twitch streamers: Personal influence in a broadcast model akin to television	6
Tracing a historical development of conspiracy theory networks on the web: The hyperlink network of vaccine hesitancy on the Danish web 2006–2015	6
Social media, migration and the platformization of moral panic: Evidence from Canada	6
Augmented play: An analysis of augmented reality features in location-based games	6
AI and the social construction of creativity	6
Playing the past: Historical video games as participatory public history in China	5
Visual tactility: ‘Oddly satisfying’ videos, sensory genres and ambiguities in children’s YouTube	5
Adapting to context: Creative strategies of video streaming services in Nigeria	5
After agency: The queer posthumanism of video games that cannot be played	5
Understanding the changing television market: A comparison of the macroeconomy of the United States, United Kingdom and Australia	5
‘Hello, this is Martha’: Interaction dynamics of live scambaiting on Twitch	5
Authority-led conspiracy theories in China during the COVID-19 pandemic – Exploring the thematic features and rhetoric strategies	5
The warm expert—A warm teacher? Learning about digital media in intergenerational interaction	5
From critical technical practice to reflexive data science	5
Probing ‘instaworthiness’: Siting the selfie	5
Fluid agency in relation to algorithms: Tensions, mediations, and transversalities	5
From tool to tool-making: Reflections on authorship in social media research software	5
Coronavirus meets the clash of civilizations	5