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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

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	131
Pandemic and its metaphors: Sontag revisited in the COVID-19 era	59
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	48
White tears, white rage: Victimhood and (as) violence in mainstream feminism	48
Toxic White masculinity, post-truth politics and the COVID-19 infodemic	44
Victimhood: The affective politics of vulnerability	43
Mummy influencers and professional sharenting	37
‘Ruined’ lives: Mediated white male victimhood	36
Who cares? At what price? The hidden costs of socially engaged arts labour and the moral failure of cultural policy	27
Home in question: Uncovering meanings, desires and dilemmas of non-home	18
We will be great again: Historical victimhood in populist discourse	18
Ambivalent influencers: Feeling rules and the affective practice of anxiety in social media influencer work	17
The social positions of taste between and within music genres: From omnivore to snob	14
Querying ‘Karen’: The rise of the angry white woman	14
Genres and inequality in the creative industries	14
Cultural populism in new populist times	12
Authenticity, uniqueness and talent: Gay male beauty influencers in post-queer, postfeminist Instagram beauty culture	11
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	10
From peat to Google power: Communications infrastructures and structures of feeling in Groningen	10
Countering spectacles of fear: Anonymous’ meme ‘war’ against ISIS	9
Keywords as method	9

Affective academic time management in the neoliberal university: From timeliness to timelessness	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
Unpopularity and cultural power in the age of Netflix: New questions for cultural studies’ approaches to television texts	9
Platformed intimacies: Professional belonging on social media	8
Hope against hope: COVID-19 and the space for political imagination	8
The politics and aesthetics of humour in an age of comic controversy	8
Public service broadcasting and the emergence of LGBT+ visibility: A comparative perspective on Ireland and Flanders	8
The righteous outrage of post-truth anti-feminism: An analysis of TubeCrush and feminist research in and of public space	8
Digital food culture, power and everyday life	7
Fat shaming, feminism and Facebook: What ‘women who eat on tubes’ reveal about social media and the boundaries of women’s bodies	7
The material culture of music festival fandoms	7
Fusing fact and fiction: Placemaking through film tours in Edinburgh	7
‘How Goopy are you?’ Women, Goop and cosmic wellness	6
Ascriptions of migration: Racism, migratism and Brexit	6
Fulfilling the self through food in wellness blogs: Governing the healthy subject	6
Cultural commons: Critical responses to COVID-19, part 2	6
Radical democracy and the imagination of the commons: Beyond cultural populism	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
Feeling rules and sexualities: Postfeminist men in Swedish television	6
Platforms, politics and precarity: Hong Kong television workers amid the new techno-nationalist media agenda	5
A life lasts longer than the body through which it moves: An introduction to a special Cultural Commons section on Raymond Williams	5
Photographable femininities in women’s magazines and on Instagram	5
Introduction to special issue: The logic of victimhood	5
Profits of deceit: Performing populism in polarised times	5
Genres at work: A holistic approach to genres in book publishing	5
‘Good food’ in an Instagram age: Rethinking hierarchies of culture, criticism and taste	5
What is the image of refugees in Central European media?	5
Cinematic itineraries and identities: Studying Bollywood tourism among the Hindustanis in the Netherlands	5
Deconstructing the stigma of ageing: The rise of the mature female influencers	5
The menopause moment: The rising visibility of ‘the change’ in UK news coverage	4
Comedy clubs that platform marginalised identities: Prefigurative politics in Sophie Duker’s Wacky Racists	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
The mediated circulation of the United Kingdom’s YouthStrike4Climate movement’s discourses and actions	4
What is needed to promote gender equality in the cultural sector? Responses from cultural professionals in Catalonia	4
Re-claiming resilience and re-imagining welfare: A response to Angela McRobbie	4
Wounded men of feminism: Exploring regimes of male victimhood in the Spanish manosphere	4
Friends tell it like it is: Therapy culture, postfeminism and friendships between women	4
‘All at the tap of a button’: Mapping the food app landscape	4
Breaking the logic of neoliberal victimhood: Vulnerability, interdependence and memory inCaptain Marvel(Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, 2019)	4
Disavowing dependency: On Angela McRobbie’s Feminism and the Politics of Resilience	4
The feminist politics of Meghan Markle: Brexit, femininity and the nation in crisis	4
Ambivalent aspirations: Young women negotiating postfeminist subjectivity in media work	4
Twists and turns in the 360 deal: Spinning the risks and rewards of artist–label relations in the streaming era	4
‘The man that got away’: Gender inequalities in the consumption and production of jazz	4
From high camp to post-modern camp: Queering post-Soviet pop music	3
Re-enchanting the crisis: Reflections on rurality, futurity and COVID-19 in the United Kingdom	3
Jack Monroe and the cultural politics of the austerity celebrity	3

The nation as an imagined commodity: Branding ‘Melania’	3
Enduring inequalities: Fifty years of gender equality talk in the media and cultural industries	3
Narrating the pandemic: COVID-19, China and blame allocation strategies in Western European popular press	3
Digital chemsex publics: Algorithmic and user configurations of fear and desire on Pornhub	3
Documentary imaginary: Production and audience research of The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence	3
Future tense: Scandalous thinking during the conjunctural crisis	3
The intimacy triple bind: Structural inequalities and relational labour in the influencer industry	3
‘In the end you adapt to anything’: Responses to narratives of resilience and entrepreneurship in post-recession Spain	3
A pub for England: Race and class in the time of the nation	3
The limits of humanisation: ‘ideal’ figures of the refugee and depoliticisation of displacement in virtual reality filmClouds Over Sidra	3
‘Frustrated women invite the immigrants to Europe’: Intersection of (xeno-) racism and sexism in online discussions on gender aspects of immigration	3
Wild Intimacies: Justice-Seeking Mothers in Iran, Networked Activism and the Affective Politics of Mourning	3
Live-archiving the crisis: Instagram, cultural studies and times of collapse	3
Geeks vs grandees: A transnational comparison of dress codes in American and British federal technology agencies	3
A new day for Hulk Hogan: Celebrity selves and racial diversity in contemporary professional wrestling	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
The black neoliberal aesthetic	3
Advocacy for territorial and people-centered approaches to development in Romania: Place attachment based on industrial heritage	3
Dirt(y) media: Dirt in ecological media art practices	3
#MeToo in British schools: Gendered differences in teenagers’ awareness of sexual violence	3
Curating the urban music festival: Festivalisation, the ‘shuffle’ logic, and digitally-shaped music consumption	3
Sizing up the ‘Dadbod’: Fitness, age and resistance in a male body type	3
Technology of optimization: An emerging configuration of productivity among professional software employees	3
‘Come and get a taste of normal’: Advertising, consumerism and the Coronavirus pandemic	3