International Journal of Cultural Studies

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Representations of mental health and mental health problems in content published by female social media influencers29
Cultures of reading: Then and now23
‘The pandemic helped me!’ Queer international students’ identity negotiation with family on social media in immobile times20
Minority representation in the streaming era: An analysis of Jewish identity in competing subscription video on-demand platforms19
Culture is transnational17
Young people's digital drawing practices as cultural heritage17
Materializing storyworld, battles of transmedia storytelling: Trans-fandom cultures of The King's Avatar on Chinese social media platform16
Sartorial subversion in subculture of Malaysian female Muslim punks15
‘Platform-ised’ work? The case of neo-craft work14
Humanizing the posthuman: Digital labour, food delivery, and openings for the new human during the pandemic11
Rethinking the ‘wellness influencer’: Medical doctors, lifestyle expertise and the question of credentials10
Spectacular whiteness: The tactics and mediation of white protests for Black Lives10
Wounded hearts: The affective making of misogynistic male victimhood under the familial sexual contract in precarious China9
Cultural proximity and gender representation: Why Italian women are drawn to Turkish TV serials9
Revisiting the subcultural/post-subcultural debate: Assessing the relevance of Hodkinson's subcultural substance in contemporary Goth culture9
Stim culture: Outlining anime's appeal to the autistic community8
Uneasy self-promotion and tactics of patience: Finnish MPs’ ambivalent feelings about personalised politics on social media7
Almost South–South solidarity: The frustration of K-pop fans (but not true fans) in South Africa7
Physical immobility and virtual mobility: Mediating everyday life from a Karen refugee camp in Thailand7
Musical resistance and musical bodies in the making: A worker-band from southern China7
Hollywood on the Danube: Location management and the production of place in transnational media production6
Producing Nollywood portal films: Navigating precarity through informal social relations and hope6
Pushing against the panic: Considering the positives of TikTok and children6
Teens on screens: Girls’ negotiations of representations of texting in teen film6
‘Terebi banare’: Historicising internet-distributed television and the ‘departure from television’ in Japan6
The media operations of postcolonial mobility regimes: The cases of Filmstichting West Indië and Vereniging Ons Suriname in 1940s and 1950s Netherlands6
Better than television: The rise of Korean web dramas6
Living my Latin American influencer dream: How racism and nationality shape Latin American influencers within the US5
Poetic resistance: Karen long-distance nationalism, rap music, and YouTube5
Lived religion and digital homemaking: The case of Indonesian marriage migrants5
‘Diversity’ as multidisciplinary keyword for the politics of cultural recommender systems in global digital media platforms5
Interrogating the ‘African troupe’: The construction of Africanness and Blackness in Chinese consumption of K-pop videos5
Chinese medicine as a cure for gayness: Satire as countercultural resistance against heteronormative symbolic violence in digital public sphere5
Public cultural institutions in Mexico and precarisation of creative labour5
Scenes of precarity: Conditions, dynamics and challenges for the post-pandemic future of cultural labour in Argentina5
“A love-addled brain is an incurable malady”: Online debates on contemporary romantic relationships within a Chinese postfeminist context5
‘When it comes to the true crime community, Taylor is a legend’: Social and symbolic capital among murderabilia fans4
Struggling with platforms: Marxist identities, cultural production, and everyday work in Brazil4
Digital labor in the state-led/capitalist complex: State labor and playful workaholics in the Chinese digital space4
“Not just a game”: Power, politics, and media coverage of Qatar's World Cup 20224
The house cannot be full: Risk, anxiety, and the politics of collective spectatorship in a pandemic4
Global perspectives on platforms and cultural production4
Abridged anime and the distance in fan-dubbing: Interpreting culture through parody and fan appropriation4
Game of Thrones tourism and the (re)imagination of the new Northern Ireland4
Thanks to Reviewers4
Masculinity in crisis? Reticent / han-xu politics against danmei and male effeminacy4
Cooptation, hijacking, or normalization? The discursive concession of body politics on Douyin4
Affective politics and online culture: Reserved’s digital marketing campaign in post-hegemonic perspective3
How fan clubs manage the authenticity of fans’ identities in Chinese idol culture3
Vicarious expertise: Locating skilled knowing in craft reality competition television3
Creative and cultural work post-Covid-19: Interruptions as space of political re-futuring3
Data solidarity in feminist technology activism and innovation3
Shipping on the edge: Negotiations of precariousness in a Chinese real-person shipping fandom community3
Douyin's playful platform governance: Platform's self-regulation and content creators’ participatory surveillance3
Leaning in, pushed out: Postfeminist precarity, pandemic labor, and journalistic discourse3
Covid-19: The cultural constructions of a global crisis3
Localised precarity in social media entertainment: YouTubing in Turkey3
Sexual and geocultural algorithmic imaginaries: Examining approaches of participatory resignation among LGBTQ+ Instagrammers in Berlin and Montreal3
Beyond Netflix: Ownership and content strategies among non-US-based video streaming services3
Cultivating vigilant drivers through TV: On the cultural work of dashcam videos and normalization of surveillance3
Progressive in the West, backward in the East: Shalwar’s trials with modernity3
Interrogating the incel-o-sphere: The state of the subaltern counterpublic sphere in the digital age of extremism3
No future for care without new digital media? Making time(s) for mediated informal care practices in later life3
Vlogging as mediated mobility: Warm Experts 3.0 engaging in peer production and digital labor in the era of short videos3
Introduction: Caring media futures3
Exploring everyday resilience in the creative industries through devised theatre: A case of performing arts students and recent graduates in Ghana3
‘If it's held dear, it’ll get pushed through’: Transmedia narratives, play cultures, and soft canon in tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs)3
A history of New Year’s Eve, Sydney: From ‘the crowd’ to ‘crowded places’3
Crisis-ready responsible selves: National productions of the pandemic3
The dead pig's photo album: Affective visual rituals in collective identity formation2
Tropicalizing platformization? Tensions in research on algorithms and platforms in Latin America2
The precarities of cultural and creative work through pandemic times2
Streaming and India's film-centred video culture: Linguistic and formal diversity2
Precarity revisited: Exploring camming work in Brazil and experiences of precarity in platform-based (erotic) content production2
Worldmaking on digital platforms: A study of Cuban comedy in social media2
Where are all the Black girls on TikTok?: Exploring in-group community and (in)visibility through #BlackGirlTikTok2
Robot death care: A study of funerary practice2
The digital Creole2
Revise and Republish Notice2
Possession, performance, and the rhetoric of belonging: Urban cemeteries as spaces of cultural citizenship2
Healthcare (im)mobilities and the Covid-19 pandemic: Notes on returning to the field2
From local to global: Village YouTubers and rural creator cultures in South India2
Skinamarink and the algorithmic uncanny interface between children's and horror film TikTok cultures2
Story-weaving: homo narrans , popular culture and the role of stories in tourism2
‘Bella ciao’: A portable monument for transnational activism2
Curating new ethnicities in a digital era: Women and media work in the British South Asian diaspora2
#Values for money? The neoliberal construction of “values” across Instagram language communities2
Locating cultural studies: The limits of translation in knowledge production2
Soft nationalism and China: A case study of nationalism in short videos by US-Chinese rapper MC Jin2
Struggle over control: Sound in home video2
Selling Otherness on YouTube: Digital inter-Asian Orientalism and YouTube monetization system2
Decolonizing bodies and the ethics of care: On the significance of embodied vulnerability as the future of cultural studies2
Filipino migrants in Germany and their diasporic (irony) chronotopes in Facebook2
Cultural studies in South Africa, or not2
Reorientation of foreign memories in domestic political speech: Considerations and effects2
The Paradox of a Mobile Society: Situating Cultural Studies in the Global South Context2
Environing media and cultural techniques: From the history of agriculture to AI-driven smart farming2
Thai creative labour solidarity, (post)-pandemic precarity, and directions of production studies in the Global South2
The neoliberal perils of yoga and self-care on apps and platforms1
More than a makeover: Discourses of masculinity, hyposexuality, and marriage in Queer Eye: We’re in Japan!1
Multimodal online dissident culture in Instagram: A critique of the Turkish economy1
Smartphones as actors: A new digital disability care actor-network in China1
Lifestyle, nostalgia, and serial storytelling in the Southern Living South1
A Brazilian Hollywood in the making? Film, tourism and creative city discourse in the hinterland of Paraíba1
Breaking the chains of television: Streaming and the ‘Netflix effect’ in Turkey1
On mediations and the environment: Material, spatial and epistemic considerations1
TikTok & Children: TikTok Cultures Research Network & TikTok Fireside Chat1
Automated graves: The precarity and prosthetics of caring for the dead in Japan1
Turning disaster into crisis1
House-sharing as a staged and mediated practice: Representing self and home in Melbourne share-houses1
Intersectional methods to study the intellectual production of a Black female samba composer1
Between resistance and commodification: The art and cultural labor of Telangana ‘ Dhoom Dham ’1
Apps, mobilities, and migration in the Covid-19 pandemic: Covid technology and the control of migrant workers in Singapore1
Four concepts to think from the South1
‘No room for hate in our country’: Constructing the LGBTI-friendly nation in news discourses after the murder of a gay man in Belgium1
Loving idols: K-pop and the limits of neoliberal solidarity in Cuba1
Chinese translational fandoms: Transgressing the distributive agency of assemblages in audiovisual media1
Engaging the present, embracing the past: Pop culture museums and cultural continuity in Fukushima1
Visual artists’ professional and social status: Insights from post-socialist Serbia1
Illicit media, reflexivity and sociocultural change in North Korea1
Bollywood celebrities as bioconsumers of reproductive technologies in neoliberal fertility markets: A study of popular public discourse1
Death to Chad and Stacy: Incels and anti-fandom as group identity1
Conceptualizing gossip as a counterdiscourse: Alternative ways of publicly alleging sexual misconduct in an online groupie community1
‘They are now pocket videos, not home videos’: Streaming and reconfiguration of video consumption in Nigeria1
Remedying disinformation and fake news? The cultural frameworks of fake news crisis responses and solution-seeking1
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