OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Cultural Studies is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Materializing storyworld, battles of transmedia storytelling: Trans-fandom cultures of The King's Avatar on Chinese social media platform	52
Sartorial subversion in subculture of Malaysian female Muslim punks	29
Cultures of reading: Then and now	26
Young people's digital drawing practices as cultural heritage	22
‘The pandemic helped me!’ Queer international students’ identity negotiation with family on social media in immobile times	16
Culture is transnational	15
Representations of mental health and mental health problems in content published by female social media influencers	13
From activist to candidate: Francia Elena Márquez Mina's Instagram discourse on positive Blackness and whiteness in the Colombian political arena	13
Minority representation in the streaming era: An analysis of Jewish identity in competing subscription video on-demand platforms	13
Wounded hearts: The affective making of misogynistic male victimhood under the familial sexual contract in precarious China	13
From mishearing to belonging: Countertenor voices and the feedback loops of platformed audibility	13
Precarious utopia: The affective politics of transcultural entertainment in K-pop Random Play Dance	13
Rethinking watching: A viewer-centred approach to understanding the changing audience experience	13
Cultural proximity and gender representation: Why Italian women are drawn to Turkish TV serials	12
Spectacular whiteness: The tactics and mediation of white protests for Black Lives	12
Beyond the cards: Exploring youth motives and practices in Moscow's tarot culture	11
Rethinking the ‘wellness influencer’: Medical doctors, lifestyle expertise and the question of credentials	11
‘Platform- ised ’ work? The case of neo-craft work	11
Stim culture: Outlining anime's appeal to the autistic community	10
Revisiting the subcultural/post-subcultural debate: Assessing the relevance of Hodkinson's subcultural substance in contemporary Goth culture	10
Uneasy self-promotion and tactics of patience: Finnish MPs’ ambivalent feelings about personalised politics on social media	9
Almost South–South solidarity: The frustration of K-pop fans (but not true fans) in South Africa	9
Physical immobility and virtual mobility: Mediating everyday life from a Karen refugee camp in Thailand	8
Hollywood on the Danube: Location management and the production of place in transnational media production	8
The media operations of postcolonial mobility regimes: The cases of Filmstichting West Indië and Vereniging Ons Suriname in 1940s and 1950s Netherlands	8

Pushing against the panic: Considering the positives of TikTok and children	8
Downplay the sexy, emphasize the studious: The inspirational labor of “Study-with-Me” influencers in China	8
‘ Terebi banare ’: Historicising internet-distributed television and the ‘departure from television’ in Japan	8
Rethinking the “K” of K-pop: How non-Korean K-pop groups negotiate identity between the Korean market and globalized industry	8
Public cultural institutions in Mexico and precarisation of creative labour	7
Transcultural fan studies with a ‘Queer Asia’ focus in the 2020s	7
‘Diversity’ as multidisciplinary keyword for the politics of cultural recommender systems in global digital media platforms	7
Living my Latin American influencer dream: How racism and nationality shape Latin American influencers within the US	7
Scenes of precarity: Conditions, dynamics and challenges for the post-pandemic future of cultural labour in Argentina	7
Lived religion and digital homemaking: The case of Indonesian marriage migrants	7
Technology transition within secure message delivery (SMD) systems	7
Interrogating the ‘African troupe’: The construction of Africanness and Blackness in Chinese consumption of K-pop videos	7
Thanks to Reviewers	6
An Antropofagia approach to AI and creativity: Lessons from Latin America to rethink collectivity, process and meaning in creative value	6
“Too tired to sleep”: ASMR, self-care, and contested rest in China's digital landscape	6
“A love-addled brain is an incurable malady”: Online debates on contemporary romantic relationships within a Chinese postfeminist context	6
Struggling with platforms: Marxist identities, cultural production, and everyday work in Brazil	6
Between de-queering and re-queering: Transfiguring ‘bromance’ as a continuum of Boys’ Love in East Asia	6
‘When it comes to the true crime community, Taylor is a legend’: Social and symbolic capital among murderabilia fans	6
Chinese medicine as a cure for gayness: Satire as countercultural resistance against heteronormative symbolic violence in the digital public sphere	5
From cultural vitality to market marginality: Latin America and the structural contradictions of cultural globalization	5
Masculinity in crisis? Reticent / han-xu politics against danmei and male effeminacy	5
Abridged anime and the distance in fan-dubbing: Interpreting culture through parody and fan appropriation	5
Cultivating vigilant drivers through TV: On the cultural work of dashcam videos and normalization of surveillance	5
Shipping on the edge: Negotiations of precariousness in a Chinese real-person shipping fandom community	5
Buffalo's captured imaginary: Atmosphere, absurdity and the depoliticized imagination of the Rust Belt	5
“Not just a game”: Power, politics, and media coverage of Qatar's World Cup 2022	5
Beyond Netflix: Ownership and content strategies among non-US-based video streaming services	5
TikTok and children: An Introduction	5
Discourses of solidarity fatigue as ambivalent recognition among German and Polish actors in relation to Ukrainian displacement	5
A history of New Year’s Eve, Sydney: From ‘the crowd’ to ‘crowded places’	5
Exploring everyday resilience in the creative industries through devised theatre: A case of performing arts students and recent graduates in Ghana	5
Digital labor in the state-led/capitalist complex: State labor and playful workaholics in the Chinese digital space	5
Global perspectives on platforms and cultural production	5
Cooptation, hijacking, or normalization? The discursive concession of body politics on Douyin	5
Data solidarity in feminist technology activism and innovation	5
‘If it's held dear, it’ll get pushed through’: Transmedia narratives, play cultures, and soft canon in tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs)	5
Creative and cultural work post-Covid-19: Interruptions as space of political re-futuring	4
Identity-of-place: A conceptual framework	4
How fan clubs manage the authenticity of fans’ identities in Chinese idol culture	4
Vulgar livestreaming spectacle? Wanghong urbanism, digital platform and precarity in Laojie, Shenzhen	4
Thai creative labour solidarity, (post)-pandemic precarity, and directions of production studies in the Global South	4
From cultural heritage to platformized craft: Visual participation and cultural governance in China's jade-carving art	4
Environing media and cultural techniques: From the history of agriculture to AI-driven smart farming	4
Where Disney and Hallyu collide: Fashioning transcultural selves through hanbok sartorial fandom	4
Interrogating the incel-o-sphere: The state of the subaltern counterpublic sphere in the digital age of extremism	4
Vlogging as mediated mobility: Warm Experts 3.0 engaging in peer production and digital labor in the era of short videos	4
Sexual and geocultural algorithmic imaginaries: Examining approaches of participatory resignation among LGBTQ+ Instagrammers in Berlin and Montreal	4
The dead pig's photo album: Affective visual rituals in collective identity formation	4
Curating new ethnicities in a digital era: Women and media work in the British South Asian diaspora	4

Where are all the Black girls on TikTok?: Exploring in-group community and (in)visibility through #BlackGirlTikTok	4
Beyond belonging: A conversation on inauthenticity, third-culture kids, and fandom	4
Douyin's playful platform governance: Platform's self-regulation and content creators’ participatory surveillance	4
Localised precarity in social media entertainment: YouTubing in Turkey	4
#Values for money? The neoliberal construction of “values” across Instagram language communities	4
Soft nationalism and China: A case study of nationalism in short videos by US-Chinese rapper MC Jin	4
Cultural studies in South Africa, or not	4
‘Bella ciao’: A portable monument for transnational activism	4
Meaningfully playful: Gender, sexuality, and civic imaginations in Korean and Chinese fandom cultures	3
Skinamarink and the algorithmic uncanny interface between children's and horror film TikTok cultures	3
When transcultural fandom meets nationalism: Chinese cosplayers’ identity negotiation between global flows and local places	3
“Fixing” race across the Pacific: Transcultural reinterpretations in the Genshin Impact fandom	3
Reproducing Turkishness in historical dramas: Politics, populism, and Islam	3
Civilizing users through social media corporate curricula	3
Tropicalizing platformization? Tensions in research on algorithms and platforms in Latin America	3
The Paradox of a Mobile Society: Situating Cultural Studies in the Global South Context	3
Rewriting Chineseness: Chinese American films through Chinese eyes	3
Story-weaving: homo narrans , popular culture and the role of stories in tourism	3
Struggle over control: Sound in home video	3
Possession, performance, and the rhetoric of belonging: Urban cemeteries as spaces of cultural citizenship	3
Smarter, better, faster, kinder? The problems with claiming that media and popular culture has positive effects	3
Filipino migrants in Germany and their diasporic (irony) chronotopes in Facebook	3
Digital fashion ideology: Towards a critical public sphere	3
Worldmaking on digital platforms: A study of Cuban comedy in social media	3
Revise and Republish Notice	3
An LGTBIQ + archival boom? Grassroot archival activism and memory politics in Latin America	3
Anxious pleasures: Reading Bollywood's item numbers through regional reception cultures	2
The precarities of cultural and creative work through pandemic times	2
Decolonizing bodies and the ethics of care: On the significance of embodied vulnerability as the future of cultural studies	2
Healthcare (im)mobilities and the Covid-19 pandemic: Notes on returning to the field	2
Hashtag mourning and moralized affect: Emergence, circulation, and publicity in China's #FarewellAndMemory	2
Death to Chad and Stacy: Incels and anti-fandom as group identity	2
The creator function, post-structuralism, and the perils of terminological dissonance	2
Breaking the chains of television: Streaming and the ‘Netflix effect’ in Turkey	2
Indigenizing feminist rage: The affective formation of rad-feminist politics in digital China	2
Selling Otherness on YouTube: Digital inter-Asian Orientalism and YouTube monetization system	2
I long, therefore I re-watch: Nostalgia and Turkish TV series	2
Voice for justice: Hybrid cultural resistance of hip-hop songs and memes in July mass uprising, Bangladesh	2
Disposable counterpublics: Women, queers, and Uyghurs in the White Paper Movement	2
Between resistance and commodification: The art and cultural labor of Telangana ‘ Dhoom Dham ’	2
Four concepts to think from the South	2
Conceptualizing gossip as a counterdiscourse: Alternative ways of publicly alleging sexual misconduct in an online groupie community	2
‘They are now pocket videos, not home videos’: Streaming and reconfiguration of video consumption in Nigeria	2
Remedying disinformation and fake news? The cultural frameworks of fake news crisis responses and solution-seeking	2
From local to global: Village YouTubers and rural creator cultures in South India	2
TikTok & Children: TikTok Cultures Research Network & TikTok Fireside Chat	2
Streaming and India's film-centred video culture: Linguistic and formal diversity	2
Precarity revisited: Exploring camming work in Brazil and experiences of precarity in platform-based (erotic) content production	2
Intersectional methods to study the intellectual production of a Black female samba composer	2
‘No room for hate in our country’: Constructing the LGBTI-friendly nation in news discourses after the murder of a gay man in Belgium	2
On mediations and the environment: Material, spatial and epistemic considerations	2
“I don’t want my parents to know I do video clips”: Managing familial relations to pursue creative work in Accra, Ghana	2