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

Article	Citations
In between the global and the local: Mapping the geographies of Netflix as a multinational service	47
Digital media and the affective economies of transnational families	30
Identity transformation, stigma power, and mental wellbeing of Chinese eSports professional players	20
Introduction: Caring media futures	19
‘I still want to know they’re not terrible people’: Negotiating ‘queer community’ on dating apps	19
‘Everybody needs friends’: Emotions, social networks and digital media in the friendships of international students	19
Digitised caring intimacies: More-than-human intergenerational care in Japan	17
An anatomy of carewashing: Corporate branding and the commodification of care during Covid-19	17
Migrancy and digital mediations of emotion	15
Emotional practices of unaccompanied refugee youth on social media	14
Psychedelic medicalization, public discourse, and the morality of ego dissolution	14
‘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
Taking care of business: The routines and rationales of early-career musicians in the Dutch and British music industries	11
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	9
‘The filthy people’: Racism in digital spaces during Covid-19 in the context of South–South migration	9
Translating YouTube vlogs for a global audience: Innovative subtitling and community-building	8
Intersectionality: A challenge for cultural studies in the 2020s	8
Making digital ‘home-camps’: Mediating emotions among the Sahrawi refugee diaspora	7
Migrant platformed subjectivity: Rethinking the mediation of transnational affective economies via digital connectivity services	7
An emerging art world: The de-subculturalization and artification process of graffiti and pixação in São Paulo	7
Making players care: The ambivalent cultural politics of care and video games	7
Crisis-ready responsible selves: National productions of the pandemic	7

WeChat, we sell, we feel: Chinese women’s emotional petit capitalism	7
The cultural politics of racism in the Brexit conjuncture	6
‘No room for hate in our country’: Constructing the LGBTI-friendly nation in news discourses after the murder of a gay man in Belgium	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
Institutional trauma across the Americas: Covid-19 as slow crisis	5
Regimes of visibility and the affective affordances of Twitter	5
(Be)Longing through visual narrative: Mediation of (dis)affect and formation of politics through photographs and narratives of migration at DiasporaTürk	5
The (broken) promise of queerbaiting: Happiness and futurity in politics of queer representation	5
Towards inclusive international environmental communication scholarship: The role of Latin America	5
Conjunctions of resilience and the Covid-19 crisis of the creative cultural industries	5
‘I feel the irritation and frustration all over the body’ Affective ambiguities in networked parenting culture	5
Situating ‘careful surveillance’	5
Activism to make and do: The (quiet) politics of textile community groups	4
Producing Nollywood portal films: Navigating precarity through informal social relations and hope	4
The Korean Wave as a source of implicit cultural policy: Making of a neoliberal subjectivity in a Korean style	4
Masculinity in crisis? Reticent / han-xu politics against danmei and male effeminacy	4
Loving idols: K-pop and the limits of neoliberal solidarity in Cuba	4
Work hard, fit in, and applaud her: Women developers blogging about their lived experiences	4
Internetica: Poetry in the digital age	4
Transnational togetherness through Rela: Chinese queer women’s practices for maintaining ties with the homeland	4
Creating a patchwork of unruliness: The grumpy old woman as affect alien	4
Filipino migrants in Germany and their diasporic (irony) chronotopes in Facebook	4
Robot death care: A study of funerary practice	4
Poetic resistance: Karen long-distance nationalism, rap music, and YouTube	3
The experience economy of TV promotion at San Diego Comic-Con	3
Reorientation of foreign memories in domestic political speech: Considerations and effects	3
Uneasy self-promotion and tactics of patience: Finnish MPs’ ambivalent feelings about personalised politics on social media	3
Beyond Netflix: Ownership and content strategies among non-US-based video streaming services	3
Globalization from above and below: Rejecting superficial multiculturalism and igniting anti-Korean sentiment in Japan	3
On political street art as expressions of citizen media in revolutionary Egypt	3
Game of Thrones tourism and the (re)imagination of the new Northern Ireland	3
Streaming and India's film-centred video culture: Linguistic and formal diversity	3
Chinese translational fandoms: Transgressing the distributive agency of assemblages in audiovisual media	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
Humanizing the posthuman: Digital labour, food delivery, and openings for the new human during the pandemic	3
Llamas are the new unicorns: Craft as competition television	3
Culture is transnational	3
Leaning in, pushed out: Postfeminist precarity, pandemic labor, and journalistic discourse	3
Publicness and commoning: Pandemic intersections and collective visions at times of crisis	3
Playing YouTube: How the Nancy YouTuber doll and app position children as aspiring YouTube influencers	3
Transgression in contemporary media culture	3
Apps, mobilities, and migration in the Covid-19 pandemic: Covid technology and the control of migrant workers in Singapore	3
Environing media and cultural techniques: From the history of agriculture to AI-driven smart farming	3
Mermaids as market creators: Cultural entrepreneurship in an emerging practice	3
Healthcare (im)mobilities and the Covid-19 pandemic: Notes on returning to the field	2
‘Welcome to a Coronavirus production’:Beyond Bows and Arrows’ Indigenous on-air community-building during lockdown	2
Everyday data cultures and USB portable flash drives	2
Originality versus proximity: An explorative study of audience reactions to monolingual film remakes	2

Memetic commenting: Armenian curses and the Twitter theatre of Trump's deselection	2
Nep-hop for peace? Political visions and divisions in the booming Nepalese hip-hop scene	2
A Brazilian Hollywood in the making? Film, tourism and creative city discourse in the hinterland of Paraíba	2
Breaking the chains of television: Streaming and the ‘Netflix effect’ in Turkey	2
The house cannot be full: Risk, anxiety, and the politics of collective spectatorship in a pandemic	2
Culture asdisplayrevisited	2
Negotiation between modernity and local culture in moviegoing practice: A case study of a traditional movie theater in Guangzhou Metropolis	2
Disrupting Brazilian television: Streaming and the decline of Globo's hegemony in video cultures	2
Receiving and resisting: Toward a market-driven cultural hybridity	2
Musical resistance and musical bodies in the making: A worker-band from southern China	2
Bollywood celebrities as bioconsumers of reproductive technologies in neoliberal fertility markets: A study of popular public discourse	2
Turning disaster into crisis	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
Precarity, nihilism, and grace	2
Clickbait orientalism and vintage Iranian snapshots	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
Abridged anime and the distance in fan-dubbing: Interpreting culture through parody and fan appropriation	2
Museums in the age of platform giants: Disconnected policies and practices	2
Post-Covid: What is cultural theory useful for?	2
Researching (im)mobile lives during a lockdown: Reconceptualizing remote interviews as field events	2
Non-digital fan networking: How Japanese animation and comics disseminated in China despite authoritarian deterrence	1
RETRACTION NOTICE: Reconceptualising a Quandamooka Storyweave of language reclamation	1
The sad clown paradox: A theory of comic transcendence	1
The dead pig's photo album: Affective visual rituals in collective identity formation	1
Slow scholarship? Cultural studies and television historiography	1
Representations of mental health and mental health problems in content published by female social media influencers	1
The media operations of postcolonial mobility regimes: The cases of Filmstichting West Indië and Vereniging Ons Suriname in 1940s and 1950s Netherlands	1
Progressive in the West, backward in the East: Shalwar’s trials with modernity	1
Physical immobility and virtual mobility: Mediating everyday life from a Karen refugee camp in Thailand	1
Shipping on the edge: Negotiations of precariousness in a Chinese real-person shipping fandom community	1
A history of New Year’s Eve, Sydney: From ‘the crowd’ to ‘crowded places’	1
‘I cringe at the slave portions’: How fans ofGone with the Windnegotiate anti-racist criticism	1
Black cultural studies is intersectionality	1
Teens on screens: Girls’ negotiations of representations of texting in teen film	1
The Paradox of a Mobile Society: Situating Cultural Studies in the Global South Context	1
Performing pregnancy: Comic content, critique and ambivalence in pregnant stand-up comedy	1
‘When it comes to the true crime community, Taylor is a legend’: Social and symbolic capital among murderabilia fans	1
Creative and cultural work post-Covid-19: Interruptions as space of political re-futuring	1
‘They are now pocket videos, not home videos’: Streaming and reconfiguration of video consumption in Nigeria	1
‘Terebi banare’: Historicising internet-distributed television and the ‘departure from television’ in Japan	1
Soft nationalism and China: A case study of nationalism in short videos by US-Chinese rapper MC Jin	1
Why do women write? Exploring women's empowerment through online literature creation in China	1
Platform capitalisms and platform cultures	1
‘Whose were those feelings?’ Affect and likenessing inHalat hisarlive action role-playing game	1
Who killed Utopia? Cult conspiracy drama and a television imaginary	1
Almost South–South solidarity: The frustration of K-pop fans (but not true fans) in South Africa	1
Mapping globalised Chinese webnovels: Genre blending, cultural hybridity, and the complexity of transcultural storytelling	1
Curating new ethnicities in a digital era: Women and media work in the British South Asian diaspora	1
Surveillance practices among migration officers: Online media and LGBTQ+ refugees	1
Four concepts to think from the South	1
No future for care without new digital media? Making time(s) for mediated informal care practices in later life	1
On mediations and the environment: Material, spatial and epistemic considerations	1
Hollywood on the Danube: Location management and the production of place in transnational media production	1
The digital Creole	1
Relocating video cultures	1
Online gathering in times of physical (im)mobility: Facebook practices of Malagasy mothers in France	1
Theorizing Korean transracial adoptee experiences: Ambiguity, substitutability, and racial embodiment	1
Ethnographic photobomb: The materiality of decolonial image manipulation	1
Art rocks: Atmospheres of connection and everyday creativity in hybrid public space	1
Smartphones as actors: A new digital disability care actor-network in China	1
The rise and fall of the Synthetic: The mediatization of Canada's oil sands	1
Cultures of (im)mobile entanglements	1
Affective politics and online culture: Reserved’s digital marketing campaign in post-hegemonic perspective	1
Digital labor in the state-led/capitalist complex: State labor and playful workaholics in the Chinese digital space	1