OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Cultural Studies is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
An anatomy of carewashing: Corporate branding and the commodification of care during Covid-19	22
Identity transformation, stigma power, and mental wellbeing of Chinese eSports professional players	20
Introduction: Caring media futures	19
Digitised caring intimacies: More-than-human intergenerational care in Japan	18
Psychedelic medicalization, public discourse, and the morality of ego dissolution	15
Taking care of business: The routines and rationales of early-career musicians in the Dutch and British music industries	15
‘Generic visuals’ of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration	12
Covid-19: The cultural constructions of a global crisis	11
A theory of a theory of the smartphone	11
‘The filthy people’: Racism in digital spaces during Covid-19 in the context of South–South migration	11
‘Forced empathy’: Manipulation, trauma and affect in virtual reality film	10
Translating YouTube vlogs for a global audience: Innovative subtitling and community-building	9
The (broken) promise of queerbaiting: Happiness and futurity in politics of queer representation	9
Crisis-ready responsible selves: National productions of the pandemic	8
Making players care: The ambivalent cultural politics of care and video games	8
An emerging art world: The de-subculturalization and artification process of graffiti and pixação in São Paulo	8
Masculinity in crisis? Reticent / han-xu politics against danmei and male effeminacy	8
‘No room for hate in our country’: Constructing the LGBTI-friendly nation in news discourses after the murder of a gay man in Belgium	7
Situating ‘careful surveillance’	7
Institutional trauma across the Americas: Covid-19 as slow crisis	6
‘I feel the irritation and frustration all over the body’ Affective ambiguities in networked parenting culture	6
Environing media and cultural techniques: From the history of agriculture to AI-driven smart farming	6
Living Through It: Anger, Laughter, and Internet Memes in Dark Times	6
Sisterhood and affective politics: The CaiRollers mobilising change through roller derby in Egypt	6
‘The pandemic helped me!’ Queer international students’ identity negotiation with family on social media in immobile times	6

Beyond Netflix: Ownership and content strategies among non-US-based video streaming services	6
Towards inclusive international environmental communication scholarship: The role of Latin America	6
Loving idols: K-pop and the limits of neoliberal solidarity in Cuba	5
Conjunctions of resilience and the Covid-19 crisis of the creative cultural industries	5
Culture is transnational	5
Producing Nollywood portal films: Navigating precarity through informal social relations and hope	5
Uneasy self-promotion and tactics of patience: Finnish MPs’ ambivalent feelings about personalised politics on social media	5
Mermaids as market creators: Cultural entrepreneurship in an emerging practice	5
Creating a patchwork of unruliness: The grumpy old woman as affect alien	5
The Korean Wave as a source of implicit cultural policy: Making of a neoliberal subjectivity in a Korean style	5
Activism to make and do: The (quiet) politics of textile community groups	5
Leaning in, pushed out: Postfeminist precarity, pandemic labor, and journalistic discourse	4
Filipino migrants in Germany and their diasporic (irony) chronotopes in Facebook	4
Robot death care: A study of funerary practice	4
Publicness and commoning: Pandemic intersections and collective visions at times of crisis	4
Playing YouTube: How the Nancy YouTuber doll and app position children as aspiring YouTube influencers	4
Apps, mobilities, and migration in the Covid-19 pandemic: Covid technology and the control of migrant workers in Singapore	4
Poetic resistance: Karen long-distance nationalism, rap music, and YouTube	4
Platform capitalisms and platform cultures	4
Transgression in contemporary media culture	4
Game of Thrones tourism and the (re)imagination of the new Northern Ireland	4
Museums in the age of platform giants: Disconnected policies and practices	3
The digital Creole	3
Chinese translational fandoms: Transgressing the distributive agency of assemblages in audiovisual media	3
Disrupting Brazilian television: Streaming and the decline of Globo's hegemony in video cultures	3
Post-Covid: What is cultural theory useful for?	3
Breaking the chains of television: Streaming and the ‘Netflix effect’ in Turkey	3
On political street art as expressions of citizen media in revolutionary Egypt	3
Streaming and India's film-centred video culture: Linguistic and formal diversity	3
Llamas are the new unicorns: Craft as competition television	3
Globalization from above and below: Rejecting superficial multiculturalism and igniting anti-Korean sentiment in Japan	3
Locating cultural studies: The limits of translation in knowledge production	3
Creative and cultural work post-Covid-19: Interruptions as space of political re-futuring	3
Humanizing the posthuman: Digital labour, food delivery, and openings for the new human during the pandemic	3
Receiving and resisting: Toward a market-driven cultural hybridity	2
Why do women write? Exploring women's empowerment through online literature creation in China	2
Physical immobility and virtual mobility: Mediating everyday life from a Karen refugee camp in Thailand	2
Cultures of (im)mobile entanglements	2
Nep-hop for peace? Political visions and divisions in the booming Nepalese hip-hop scene	2
‘Welcome to a Coronavirus production’: Beyond Bows and Arrows’ Indigenous on-air community-building during lockdown	2
Ambivalence of informality: Covid-19 and unmasked precarity in Nollywood	2
The dead pig's photo album: Affective visual rituals in collective identity formation	2
On mediations and the environment: Material, spatial and epistemic considerations	2
Teens on screens: Girls’ negotiations of representations of texting in teen film	2
Negotiation between modernity and local culture in moviegoing practice: A case study of a traditional movie theater in Guangzhou Metropolis	2
Reorientation of foreign memories in domestic political speech: Considerations and effects	2
The imaginative dimension of digital disinformation: Fake news, political trolling, and the entwined crises of Covid-19 and inter-Asian racism in a postcolonial city	2
‘I cringe at the slave portions’: How fans of Gone with the Wind negotiate anti-racist criticism	2
Musical resistance and musical bodies in the making: A worker-band from southern China	2
Abridged anime and the distance in fan-dubbing: Interpreting culture through parody and fan appropriation	2

A Brazilian Hollywood in the making? Film, tourism and creative city discourse in the hinterland of Paraíba	2
Four concepts to think from the South	2
Researching (im)mobile lives during a lockdown: Reconceptualizing remote interviews as field events	2
Surveillance practices among migration officers: Online media and LGBTQ+ refugees	2
Everyday data cultures and USB portable flash drives	2
Hollywood on the Danube: Location management and the production of place in transnational media production	2
Memetic commenting: Armenian curses and the Twitter theatre of Trump's deselection	2
Bollywood celebrities as bioconsumers of reproductive technologies in neoliberal fertility markets: A study of popular public discourse	2
Smartphones as actors: A new digital disability care actor-network in China	2
The Paradox of a Mobile Society: Situating Cultural Studies in the Global South Context	2
Turning disaster into crisis	2
The border as “other space”	2
The house cannot be full: Risk, anxiety, and the politics of collective spectatorship in a pandemic	2
Healthcare (im)mobilities and the Covid-19 pandemic: Notes on returning to the field	2
The rise and fall of the Synthetic: The mediatization of Canada's oil sands	1
Representations of mental health and mental health problems in content published by female social media influencers	1
‘They are now pocket videos, not home videos’: Streaming and reconfiguration of video consumption in Nigeria	1
RETRACTION NOTICE: Reconceptualising a Quandamooka Storyweave of language reclamation	1
Global visions for a metaverse	1
Affective politics and online culture: Reserved’s digital marketing campaign in post-hegemonic perspective	1
Performing pregnancy: Comic content, critique and ambivalence in pregnant stand-up comedy	1
Bilingual fiction series, genre conventions, and the economy of linguistic interaction in Israeli television	1
‘Terebi banare’: Historicising internet-distributed television and the ‘departure from television’ in Japan	1
Progressive in the West, backward in the East: Shalwar’s trials with modernity	1
Rethinking creative freelancers and structures of care in cultural policy and organisational practice: A case study of Dundee during the Covid-19 pandemic	1
Almost South–South solidarity: The frustration of K-pop fans (but not true fans) in South Africa	1
Curating new ethnicities in a digital era: Women and media work in the British South Asian diaspora	1
Soft nationalism and China: A case study of nationalism in short videos by US-Chinese rapper MC Jin	1
Not just Netflix: Interventions of Korea's domestic streamers	1
Young people's digital drawing practices as cultural heritage	1
Precarity revisited: Exploring camming work in Brazil and experiences of precarity in platform-based (erotic) content production	1
Non-digital fan networking: How Japanese animation and comics disseminated in China despite authoritarian deterrence	1
No future for care without new digital media? Making time(s) for mediated informal care practices in later life	1
Slow scholarship? Cultural studies and television historiography	1
The media operations of postcolonial mobility regimes: The cases of Filmstichting West Indië and Vereniging Ons Suriname in 1940s and 1950s Netherlands	1
Ethnographic photobomb: The materiality of decolonial image manipulation	1
A history of New Year’s Eve, Sydney: From ‘the crowd’ to ‘crowded places’	1
Mapping globalised Chinese webnovels: Genre blending, cultural hybridity, and the complexity of transcultural storytelling	1
Digital labor in the state-led/capitalist complex: State labor and playful workaholics in the Chinese digital space	1
‘When it comes to the true crime community, Taylor is a legend’: Social and symbolic capital among murderabilia fans	1
Sartorial subversion in subculture of Malaysian female Muslim punks	1
The philanthrocapitalism of Google News Initiative in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East – Empirical reflections	1
Online gathering in times of physical (im)mobility: Facebook practices of Malagasy mothers in France	1
Exploring cultural hybridity, questioning cultural appropriation: Peruvian fans’ responses to Latin tropes in K-pop	1
The sad clown paradox: A theory of comic transcendence	1
Precarious work and precarious urban spaces: Divergent experiences of pandemic creativity	1
Relocating video cultures	1
Shipping on the edge: Negotiations of precariousness in a Chinese real-person shipping fandom community	1
‘Whose were those feelings?’ Affect and likenessing in Halat hisar live action role-playing game	1
Exploring everyday resilience in the creative industries through devised theatre: A case of performing arts students and recent graduates in Ghana	1