OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Cultural Studies is 3. 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
Alt. Health Influencers: how wellness culture and web culture have been weaponised to promote conspiracy theories and far-right extremism during the COVID-19 pandemic	56
White tears, white rage: Victimhood and (as) violence in mainstream feminism	51
Victimhood: The affective politics of vulnerability	43
Mummy influencers and professional sharenting	42
‘Ruined’ lives: Mediated white male victimhood	38
Who cares? At what price? The hidden costs of socially engaged arts labour and the moral failure of cultural policy	28
Home in question: Uncovering meanings, desires and dilemmas of non-home	21
Ambivalent influencers: Feeling rules and the affective practice of anxiety in social media influencer work	21
We will be great again: Historical victimhood in populist discourse	20
Genres and inequality in the creative industries	17
The social positions of taste between and within music genres: From omnivore to snob	17
Cultural populism in new populist times	13
Authenticity, uniqueness and talent: Gay male beauty influencers in post-queer, postfeminist Instagram beauty culture	12
Keywords as method	12
Classical music as genre: Hierarchies of value within freelance classical musicians’ discourses	12
The politics and aesthetics of humour in an age of comic controversy	11
Performing ‘us’ and ‘other’: Intersectional analyses of right-wing populist media	11
Nation branding through the lens of soccer: Using a sports nation branding framework to explore the case of China	11
Unpopularity and cultural power in the age of Netflix: New questions for cultural studies’ approaches to television texts	10
Palpating history: Magical healing and revolutionary care in Rural Serbia and Macedonia	10
Affective academic time management in the neoliberal university: From timeliness to timelessness	10
Countering spectacles of fear: Anonymous’ meme ‘war’ against ISIS	9
Deconstructing the stigma of ageing: The rise of the mature female influencers	9
The intimacy triple bind: Structural inequalities and relational labour in the influencer industry	9
Fat shaming, feminism and Facebook: What ‘women who eat on tubes’ reveal about social media and the boundaries of women’s bodies	9

Nobody cares for men anymore: Affective-discursive practices around men’s victimisation across online and offline contexts	9
Introduction to special issue: The logic of victimhood	8
The material culture of music festival fandoms	8
Digital food culture, power and everyday life	8
Platformed intimacies: Professional belonging on social media	8
Hope against hope: COVID-19 and the space for political imagination	8
Ascriptions of migration: Racism, migratism and Brexit	7
Fulfilling the self through food in wellness blogs: Governing the healthy subject	7
‘How Goopy are you?’ Women, Goop and cosmic wellness	7
Feeling rules and sexualities: Postfeminist men in Swedish television	6
Enduring inequalities: Fifty years of gender equality talk in the media and cultural industries	6
‘Good food’ in an Instagram age: Rethinking hierarchies of culture, criticism and taste	6
Cultural Studies and radical popular education: Resources of hope	6
Neoliberal postfeminism—or some other sexier thing: gender and populism in the Spanish context	6
Wounded men of feminism: Exploring regimes of male victimhood in the Spanish manosphere	6
A life lasts longer than the body through which it moves: An introduction to a special Cultural Commons section on Raymond Williams	6
The ethnicised hustle: Narratives of enterprise and postfeminism among young migrant women	5
Twists and turns in the 360 deal: Spinning the risks and rewards of artist–label relations in the streaming era	5
Platforms, politics and precarity: Hong Kong television workers amid the new techno-nationalist media agenda	5
‘The man that got away’: Gender inequalities in the consumption and production of jazz	5
Photographable femininities in women’s magazines and on Instagram	5
The (de-)radical(-ising) potential of r/IncelExit and r/ExRedPill	5
Genres at work: A holistic approach to genres in book publishing	5
What is needed to promote gender equality in the cultural sector? Responses from cultural professionals in Catalonia	5
The feminist politics of Meghan Markle: Brexit, femininity and the nation in crisis	5
Re-claiming resilience and re-imagining welfare: A response to Angela McRobbie	4
The nation as an imagined commodity: Branding ‘Melania’	4
The menopause moment: The rising visibility of ‘the change’ in UK news coverage	4
Resituating the political in cultural intermediary work: Charity sector public relations and communication	4
Periods of austerity: The emergence of ‘period poverty’ in UK news media	4
‘I don’t want to be known for it’: Girls, leadership role models and the problem of representation	4
Disavowing dependency: On Angela McRobbie’s Feminism and the Politics of Resilience	4
#GirlBossing the university side hustle: Entrepreneurial femininities, postfeminism and the veneer of ‘female success’ in times of crisis	4
Jack Monroe and the cultural politics of the austerity celebrity	4
Friends tell it like it is: Therapy culture, postfeminism and friendships between women	4
The mediated circulation of the United Kingdom’s YouthStrike4Climate movement’s discourses and actions	4
The politics of vulnerability in the influencer economy	4
Conceptualising change in equality, diversity and inclusion: A case study of the Irish film and television sector	4
Curating the urban music festival: Festivalisation, the ‘shuffle’ logic, and digitally-shaped music consumption	4
Beyond door policies: Cultural production as a form of spatial regulation in Amsterdam nightclubs	4
Comedy clubs that platform marginalised identities: Prefigurative politics in Sophie Duker’s Wacky Racists	4
‘All at the tap of a button’: Mapping the food app landscape	4
Breaking the logic of neoliberal victimhood: Vulnerability, interdependence and memory in Captain Marvel (Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, 2019)	4
Wild Intimacies: Justice-Seeking Mothers in Iran, Networked Activism and the Affective Politics of Mourning	3
#MeToo in British schools: Gendered differences in teenagers’ awareness of sexual violence	3
Beyond fact and fiction: Cultural memory and transmedia ethics in Netflix’sThe Crown	3
‘When showing Hanfu to foreigners, I feel very proud’: The imagined community and affective economies of Hanfu (Chinese traditional couture) among Chinese migrant youth in the United Kingdom	3
Technology of optimization: An emerging configuration of productivity among professional software employees	3
‘Frustrated women invite the immigrants to Europe’: Intersection of (xeno-) racism and sexism in online discussions on gender aspects of immigration	3
Researching the digital economy and the creative economy: Free gaming shards and commercialised making at the intersection of digitality and creativity	3

Dirt(y) media: Dirt in ecological media art practices	3
The limits of humanisation: ‘ideal’ figures of the refugee and depoliticisation of displacement in virtual reality filmClouds Over Sidra	3
Sizing up the ‘Dadbod’: Fitness, age and resistance in a male body type	3
No more jokes: Comic complexity, Adult Swim and a political aesthetic model of humour	3
WhatsAppening Donald: The social uses of Trump memes	3
Advocacy for territorial and people-centered approaches to development in Romania: Place attachment based on industrial heritage	3
A new day for Hulk Hogan: Celebrity selves and racial diversity in contemporary professional wrestling	3
Fatherhood and gender relations in the manosphere: Exploring an Italian non-resident fathers’ online forum	3
The black neoliberal aesthetic	3
A pub for England: Race and class in the time of the nation	3
Digital chemsex publics: Algorithmic and user configurations of fear and desire on Pornhub	3
‘In the end you adapt to anything’: Responses to narratives of resilience and entrepreneurship in post-recession Spain	3
‘Come and get a taste of normal’: Advertising, consumerism and the Coronavirus pandemic	3
Narrating the pandemic: COVID-19, China and blame allocation strategies in Western European popular press	3
Documentary imaginary: Production and audience research of The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence	3
From high camp to post-modern camp: Queering post-Soviet pop music	3
The female entrepreneur: Fragments of a genealogy	3