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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Social media and moral panics: Assessing the effects of technological change on societal reaction	58
In between the global and the local: Mapping the geographies of Netflix as a multinational service	42
An emergent algorithmic culture: The data-ization of online fandom in China	31
Digital media and the affective economies of transnational families	30
Identity transformation, stigma power, and mental wellbeing of Chinese eSports professional players	19
Introduction: Caring media futures	19
Digitised caring intimacies: More-than-human intergenerational care in Japan	17
‘I still want to know they’re not terrible people’: Negotiating ‘queer community’ on dating apps	17
The fragility of curating a pioneer community: Deep mediatization and the spread of the Quantified Self and Maker movements	16
‘Everybody needs friends’: Emotions, social networks and digital media in the friendships of international students	15
Migrancy and digital mediations of emotion	15
Towards a futurist cultural studies	14
An anatomy of carewashing: Corporate branding and the commodification of care during Covid-19	13
Emotional practices of unaccompanied refugee youth on social media	13
Psychedelic medicalization, public discourse, and the morality of ego dissolution	12
Hashtag narrative: Emergent storytelling and affective publics in the digital age	11
A theory of a theory of the smartphone	10
‘Generic visuals’ of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration	10
Neoliberalism, individual responsibilization and the death positivity movement	10
Covid-19: The cultural constructions of a global crisis	9
Mobile-mediated mothering from a distance: A case study of Somali mothers in Port Elizabeth, South Africa	9
‘Forced empathy’: Manipulation, trauma and affect in virtual reality film	8
Articulating infrastructure to water: Agri-culture and Google’s South Carolina data center	8
Postdigital cultural studies	8
Translating YouTube vlogs for a global audience: Innovative subtitling and community-building	8

Taking care of business: The routines and rationales of early-career musicians in the Dutch and British music industries	8
Eating as a transgression: Multisensorial performativity in the carnal videos ofmukbang(eating shows)	7
Migrant platformed subjectivity: Rethinking the mediation of transnational affective economies via digital connectivity services	7
Making digital ‘home-camps’: Mediating emotions among the Sahrawi refugee diaspora	7
‘The filthy people’: Racism in digital spaces during Covid-19 in the context of South–South migration	7
WeChat, we sell, we feel: Chinese women’s emotional petit capitalism	7
Intersectionality: A challenge for cultural studies in the 2020s	7
Sisterhood and affective politics: The CaiRollers mobilising change through roller derby in Egypt	6
An emerging art world: The de-subculturalization and artification process of graffiti and pixação in São Paulo	6
Crisis-ready responsible selves: National productions of the pandemic	6
‘I feel the irritation and frustration all over the body’ Affective ambiguities in networked parenting culture	5
‘No room for hate in our country’: Constructing the LGBTI-friendly nation in news discourses after the murder of a gay man in Belgium	5
The cultural politics of racism in the Brexit conjuncture	5
Regimes of visibility and the affective affordances of Twitter	5
Living Through It: Anger, Laughter, and Internet Memes in Dark Times	5
News satire engagement as a transgressive space for genre work	5
(Be)Longing through visual narrative: Mediation of (dis)affect and formation of politics through photographs and narratives of migration at DiasporaTürk	5
Conjunctions of resilience and the Covid-19 crisis of the creative cultural industries	4
The Korean Wave as a source of implicit cultural policy: Making of a neoliberal subjectivity in a Korean style	4
Internetica: Poetry in the digital age	4
Situating ‘careful surveillance’	4
Creating a patchwork of unruliness: The grumpy old woman as affect alien	4
Institutional trauma across the Americas: Covid-19 as slow crisis	4
Making players care: The ambivalent cultural politics of care and video games	4
Robot death care: A study of funerary practice	4
Towards inclusive international environmental communication scholarship: The role of Latin America	4
Producing Nollywood portal films: Navigating precarity through informal social relations and hope	4
Constructing mass tourism	4
The (broken) promise of queerbaiting: Happiness and futurity in politics of queer representation	4
Transnational togetherness through Rela: Chinese queer women’s practices for maintaining ties with the homeland	4
Chinese translational fandoms: Transgressing the distributive agency of assemblages in audiovisual media	3
Publicness and commoning: Pandemic intersections and collective visions at times of crisis	3
Work hard, fit in, and applaud her: Women developers blogging about their lived experiences	3
Transgression in contemporary media culture	3
Llamas are the new unicorns: Craft as competition television	3
On political street art as expressions of citizen media in revolutionary Egypt	3
The experience economy of TV promotion at San Diego Comic-Con	3
Streaming and India's film-centred video culture: Linguistic and formal diversity	3
The arresting gaze: Artistic disruptions of antiblack surveillance	3
Humanizing the posthuman: Digital labour, food delivery, and openings for the new human during the pandemic	3
Apps, mobilities, and migration in the Covid-19 pandemic: Covid technology and the control of migrant workers in Singapore	3
Leaning in, pushed out: Postfeminist precarity, pandemic labor, and journalistic discourse	3
Representation and emancipation: Cinema of the oppressed	3
Globalising the local in children’s television for the post-network era: How Disney+ and BBC Studios helpedBlueythe Australian cattle dog jump the national fence	3
Globalization from above and below: Rejecting superficial multiculturalism and igniting anti-Korean sentiment in Japan	3
Game of Thrones tourism and the (re)imagination of the new Northern Ireland	3
‘Welcome to a Coronavirus production’:Beyond Bows and Arrows’ Indigenous on-air community-building during lockdown	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
Culture asdisplayrevisited	2
Abridged anime and the distance in fan-dubbing: Interpreting culture through parody and fan appropriation	2

Reorientation of foreign memories in domestic political speech: Considerations and effects	2
A Brazilian Hollywood in the making? Film, tourism and creative city discourse in the hinterland of Paraíba	2
Post-Covid: What is cultural theory useful for?	2
Receiving and resisting: Toward a market-driven cultural hybridity	2
Environing media and cultural techniques: From the history of agriculture to AI-driven smart farming	2
Mermaids as market creators: Cultural entrepreneurship in an emerging practice	2
Poetic resistance: Karen long-distance nationalism, rap music, and YouTube	2
Playing YouTube: How the Nancy YouTuber doll and app position children as aspiring YouTube influencers	2
Precarity, nihilism, and grace	2
Nep-hop for peace? Political visions and divisions in the booming Nepalese hip-hop scene	2
Co-opting the nation brand: The politics of cross-cultural co-production	2
Turning disaster into crisis	2
Researching (im)mobile lives during a lockdown: Reconceptualizing remote interviews as field events	2
‘The pandemic helped me!’ Queer international students’ identity negotiation with family on social media in immobile times	2
Locating cultural studies: The limits of translation in knowledge production	2
Loving idols: K-pop and the limits of neoliberal solidarity in Cuba	2
Filipino migrants in Germany and their diasporic (irony) chronotopes in Facebook	2
Everyday data cultures and USB portable flash drives	2
Beyond Netflix: Ownership and content strategies among non-US-based video streaming services	2
Performativity of rape culture through fact and fiction: An exploration of India’s Daughter and Anatomy of Violence	2
Originality versus proximity: An explorative study of audience reactions to monolingual film remakes	2
Culture is transnational	2
Activism to make and do: The (quiet) politics of textile community groups	2
‘I cringe at the slave portions’: How fans ofGone with the Windnegotiate anti-racist criticism	1
A history of New Year’s Eve, Sydney: From ‘the crowd’ to ‘crowded places’	1
Masculinity in crisis? Reticent / han-xu politics against danmei and male effeminacy	1
Affective politics and online culture: Reserved’s digital marketing campaign in post-hegemonic perspective	1
‘They are now pocket videos, not home videos’: Streaming and reconfiguration of video consumption in Nigeria	1
On mediations and the environment: Material, spatial and epistemic considerations	1
Healthcare (im)mobilities and the Covid-19 pandemic: Notes on returning to the field	1
Performing pregnancy: Comic content, critique and ambivalence in pregnant stand-up comedy	1
‘Terebi banare’: Historicising internet-distributed television and the ‘departure from television’ in Japan	1
Theorizing Korean transracial adoptee experiences: Ambiguity, substitutability, and racial embodiment	1
Uneasy self-promotion and tactics of patience: Finnish MPs’ ambivalent feelings about personalised politics on social media	1
Shipping on the edge: Negotiations of precariousness in a Chinese real-person shipping fandom community	1
Smartphones as actors: A new digital disability care actor-network in China	1
Bollywood celebrities as bioconsumers of reproductive technologies in neoliberal fertility markets: A study of popular public discourse	1
Musical resistance and musical bodies in the making: A worker-band from southern China	1
The Paradox of a Mobile Society: Situating Cultural Studies in the Global South Context	1
Breaking the chains of television: Streaming and the ‘Netflix effect’ in Turkey	1
The sad clown paradox: A theory of comic transcendence	1
RETRACTION NOTICE: Reconceptualising a Quandamooka Storyweave of language reclamation	1
Non-digital fan networking: How Japanese animation and comics disseminated in China despite authoritarian deterrence	1
Slow scholarship? Cultural studies and television historiography	1
Relocating video cultures	1
Disrupting Brazilian television: Streaming and the decline of Globo's hegemony in video cultures	1
Physical immobility and virtual mobility: Mediating everyday life from a Karen refugee camp in Thailand	1
Ethnographic photobomb: The materiality of decolonial image manipulation	1
The rise and fall of the Synthetic: The mediatization of Canada's oil sands	1
Platforms for populism? The affective issue crowd and its disconnections	1
Black cultural studies is intersectionality	1
The dead pig's photo album: Affective visual rituals in collective identity formation	1
The digital Creole	1
Surveillance practices among migration officers: Online media and LGBTQ+ refugees	1
Online gathering in times of physical (im)mobility: Facebook practices of Malagasy mothers in France	1
No future for care without new digital media? Making time(s) for mediated informal care practices in later life	1
Negotiation between modernity and local culture in moviegoing practice: A case study of a traditional movie theater in Guangzhou Metropolis	1
The media operations of postcolonial mobility regimes: The cases of Filmstichting West Indië and Vereniging Ons Suriname in 1940s and 1950s Netherlands	1
Clickbait orientalism and vintage Iranian snapshots	1
Memetic commenting: Armenian curses and the Twitter theatre of Trump's deselection	1
Who killed Utopia? Cult conspiracy drama and a television imaginary	1