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 2020-07-01 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
‘Everybody needs friends’: Emotions, social networks and digital media in the friendships of international students	19
Introduction: Caring media futures	19
‘I still want to know they’re not terrible people’: Negotiating ‘queer community’ on dating apps	19
An anatomy of carewashing: Corporate branding and the commodification of care during Covid-19	17
Digitised caring intimacies: More-than-human intergenerational care in Japan	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
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
Covid-19: The cultural constructions of a global crisis	11
‘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
Mobile-mediated mothering from a distance: A case study of Somali mothers in Port Elizabeth, South Africa	9
Translating YouTube vlogs for a global audience: Innovative subtitling and community-building	8
Intersectionality: A challenge for cultural studies in the 2020s	8
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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