OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
In between the global and the local: Mapping the geographies of Netflix as a multinational service	43
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
‘I still want to know they’re not terrible people’: Negotiating ‘queer community’ on dating apps	17
Digitised caring intimacies: More-than-human intergenerational care in Japan	17
‘Everybody needs friends’: Emotions, social networks and digital media in the friendships of international students	16
The fragility of curating a pioneer community: Deep mediatization and the spread of the Quantified Self and Maker movements	16
Towards a futurist cultural studies	15
Migrancy and digital mediations of emotion	15
An anatomy of carewashing: Corporate branding and the commodification of care during Covid-19	15
Emotional practices of unaccompanied refugee youth on social media	14
Psychedelic medicalization, public discourse, and the morality of ego dissolution	13
Neoliberalism, individual responsibilization and the death positivity movement	12
Hashtag narrative: Emergent storytelling and affective publics in the digital age	11
Covid-19: The cultural constructions of a global crisis	10
‘Generic visuals’ of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration	10
A theory of a theory of the smartphone	10
Taking care of business: The routines and rationales of early-career musicians in the Dutch and British music industries	10
Mobile-mediated mothering from a distance: A case study of Somali mothers in Port Elizabeth, South Africa	9
Eating as a transgression: Multisensorial performativity in the carnal videos ofmukbang(eating shows)	9
‘Forced empathy’: Manipulation, trauma and affect in virtual reality film	8
Postdigital cultural studies	8
Intersectionality: A challenge for cultural studies in the 2020s	8
Translating YouTube vlogs for a global audience: Innovative subtitling and community-building	8

‘The filthy people’: Racism in digital spaces during Covid-19 in the context of South–South migration	8
WeChat, we sell, we feel: Chinese women’s emotional petit capitalism	7
Crisis-ready responsible selves: National productions of the pandemic	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
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
News satire engagement as a transgressive space for genre work	6
The cultural politics of racism in the Brexit conjuncture	5
‘I feel the irritation and frustration all over the body’ Affective ambiguities in networked parenting culture	5
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
Living Through It: Anger, Laughter, and Internet Memes in Dark Times	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
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
The (broken) promise of queerbaiting: Happiness and futurity in politics of queer representation	4
Situating ‘careful surveillance’	4
Creating a patchwork of unruliness: The grumpy old woman as affect alien	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
Conjunctions of resilience and the Covid-19 crisis of the creative cultural industries	4
Internetica: Poetry in the digital age	4
Transnational togetherness through Rela: Chinese queer women’s practices for maintaining ties with the homeland	4
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
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
The experience economy of TV promotion at San Diego Comic-Con	3
Reorientation of foreign memories in domestic political speech: Considerations and effects	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
On political street art as expressions of citizen media in revolutionary Egypt	3
Chinese translational fandoms: Transgressing the distributive agency of assemblages in audiovisual media	3
Leaning in, pushed out: Postfeminist precarity, pandemic labor, and journalistic discourse	3
Representation and emancipation: Cinema of the oppressed	3
Transgression in contemporary media culture	3
Llamas are the new unicorns: Craft as competition television	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