International Journal of Cultural Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of International Journal of Cultural Studies is 3. 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
Young people's digital drawing practices as cultural heritage17
Culture is transnational17
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
Spectacular whiteness: The tactics and mediation of white protests for Black Lives10
Rethinking the ‘wellness influencer’: Medical doctors, lifestyle expertise and the question of credentials10
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
Wounded hearts: The affective making of misogynistic male victimhood under the familial sexual contract in precarious China9
Stim culture: Outlining anime's appeal to the autistic community8
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
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
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
Hollywood on the Danube: Location management and the production of place in transnational media production6
‘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
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
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
‘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
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
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
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