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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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
‘If the rise of the TikTok dance and e-girl aesthetic has taught us anything, it’s that teenage girls rule the internet right now’: TikTok celebrity, girls and the Coronavirus crisis	119
‘We are doing better’: Biopolitical nationalism and the COVID-19 virus in East Asia	60
‘We’re all in this together’: Commodified notions of connection, care and community in brand responses to COVID-19	59
Pandemic and its metaphors: Sontag revisited in the COVID-19 era	57
Clap for carers? From care gratitude to care justice	56
The work of culture and C-19	46
White tears, white rage: Victimhood and (as) violence in mainstream feminism	45
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	44
Toxic White masculinity, post-truth politics and the COVID-19 infodemic	42
Victimhood: The affective politics of vulnerability	39
‘Ruined’ lives: Mediated white male victimhood	32
Mummy influencers and professional sharenting	31
‘A rapist in your path’: Transnational feminist protest and why (and how) performance matters	27
Who cares? At what price? The hidden costs of socially engaged arts labour and the moral failure of cultural policy	23
‘Glow from the inside out’: Deliciously Ella and the politics of ‘healthy eating’	18
Home in question: Uncovering meanings, desires and dilemmas of non-home	16
Television’s undoing of social distancing	16
Culture and commoning in a time of coronavirus: Introduction to a Cultural Commons special section on COVID-19	15
We will be great again: Historical victimhood in populist discourse	15
Ambivalent influencers: Feeling rules and the affective practice of anxiety in social media influencer work	13
Querying ‘Karen’: The rise of the angry white woman	13
The haunting figure of the useless academic: Critical thinking in coronavirus time	12
Cultural populism in new populist times	12
The social positions of taste between and within music genres: From omnivore to snob	12
Genres and inequality in the creative industries	12

Keep crafting and carry on: Nostalgia and domestic cultures in the crisis	11
Classical music as genre: Hierarchies of value within freelance classical musicians’ discourses	11
Performing ‘us’ and ‘other’: Intersectional analyses of right-wing populist media	10
Palpating history: Magical healing and revolutionary care in Rural Serbia and Macedonia	10
Nation branding through the lens of soccer: Using a sports nation branding framework to explore the case of China	9
Sex work, advertorial news media and conditional acceptance	9
Authenticity, uniqueness and talent: Gay male beauty influencers in post-queer, postfeminist Instagram beauty culture	9
Nobody cares for men anymore: Affective-discursive practices around men’s victimisation across online and offline contexts	9
Being positive, being hopeful, being happy: Young adults reflecting on their future in times of austerity	9
From peat to Google power: Communications infrastructures and structures of feeling in Groningen	9
Countering spectacles of fear: Anonymous’ meme ‘war’ against ISIS	8
Unpopularity and cultural power in the age of Netflix: New questions for cultural studies’ approaches to television texts	8
The righteous outrage of post-truth anti-feminism: An analysis of TubeCrush and feminist research in and of public space	8
Keywords as method	8
Platformed intimacies: Professional belonging on social media	8
Hope against hope: COVID-19 and the space for political imagination	8
Public service broadcasting and the emergence of LGBT+ visibility: A comparative perspective on Ireland and Flanders	7
Fusing fact and fiction: Placemaking through film tours in Edinburgh	7
Fulfilling the self through food in wellness blogs: Governing the healthy subject	6
Digital food culture, power and everyday life	6
Neoliberal postfeminism—or some other sexier thing: gender and populism in the Spanish context	6
Affective academic time management in the neoliberal university: From timeliness to timelessness	6
‘How Goopy are you?’ Women, Goop and cosmic wellness	6
Radical democracy and the imagination of the commons: Beyond cultural populism	6
Cultural Studies and radical popular education: Resources of hope	6
Cultural commons: Critical responses to COVID-19, part 2	6
Fat shaming, feminism and Facebook: What ‘women who eat on tubes’ reveal about social media and the boundaries of women’s bodies	6
Cinematic itineraries and identities: Studying Bollywood tourism among the Hindustanis in the Netherlands	5
Feeling rules and sexualities: Postfeminist men in Swedish television	5
Platforms, politics and precarity: Hong Kong television workers amid the new techno-nationalist media agenda	5
Photographable femininities in women’s magazines and on Instagram	5
Introduction to special issue: The logic of victimhood	5
Ascriptions of migration: Racism, migratism and Brexit	5
‘Good food’ in an Instagram age: Rethinking hierarchies of culture, criticism and taste	5
The politics and aesthetics of humour in an age of comic controversy	5
The material culture of music festival fandoms	4
What is the image of refugees in Central European media?	4
The feminist politics of Meghan Markle: Brexit, femininity and the nation in crisis	4
Profits of deceit: Performing populism in polarised times	4
Breaking the logic of neoliberal victimhood: Vulnerability, interdependence and memory inCaptain Marvel(Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, 2019)	4
Re-claiming resilience and re-imagining welfare: A response to Angela McRobbie	4
Barefaced: Ageing women stars, ‘no make-up’ photography and authentic selfhood in the 2017 Pirelli calendar	4
Friends tell it like it is: Therapy culture, postfeminism and friendships between women	4
Ambivalent aspirations: Young women negotiating postfeminist subjectivity in media work	4
‘The man that got away’: Gender inequalities in the consumption and production of jazz	4
Recurring ideas: Searching for the roots of right-wing populism in Eastern Europe	4
Disavowing dependency: On Angela McRobbie’s Feminism and the Politics of Resilience	4
Resituating the political in cultural intermediary work: Charity sector public relations and communication	4
The ethnicised hustle: Narratives of enterprise and postfeminism among young migrant women	4
A life lasts longer than the body through which it moves: An introduction to a special Cultural Commons section on Raymond Williams	4

What is needed to promote gender equality in the cultural sector? Responses from cultural professionals in Catalonia	4
Jack Monroe and the cultural politics of the austerity celebrity	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
Future tense: Scandalous thinking during the conjunctural crisis	3
Curating the urban music festival: Festivalisation, the ‘shuffle’ logic, and digitally-shaped music consumption	3
Wounded men of feminism: Exploring regimes of male victimhood in the Spanish manosphere	3
The limits of humanisation: ‘ideal’ figures of the refugee and depoliticisation of displacement in virtual reality filmClouds Over Sidra	3
Geeks vs grandees: A transnational comparison of dress codes in American and British federal technology agencies	3
Re-enchanting the crisis: Reflections on rurality, futurity and COVID-19 in the United Kingdom	3
‘Come and get a taste of normal’: Advertising, consumerism and the Coronavirus pandemic	3
Documentary imaginary: Production and audience research of The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence	3
The black neoliberal aesthetic	3
No alternatives, always more, willful optimism: New editors of the European Journal of Cultural Studies in conversation	3
Sizing up the ‘Dadbod’: Fitness, age and resistance in a male body type	3
‘All at the tap of a button’: Mapping the food app landscape	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
A new day for Hulk Hogan: Celebrity selves and racial diversity in contemporary professional wrestling	3