OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of New Media & Society is 32. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Extending the Internet meme: Conceptualizing technological mimesis and imitation publics on the TikTok platform	185
The associations of active and passive social media use with well-being: A critical scoping review	117
Believing and sharing misinformation, fact-checks, and accurate information on social media: The role of anxiety during COVID-19	103
Future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology: Multiple, contested, commodified	86
Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation	84
Staying connected while physically apart: Digital communication when face-to-face interactions are limited	74
The outcomes of gaining digital skills for young people’s lives and wellbeing: A systematic evidence review	70
Understanding podcast users: Consumption motives and behaviors	62
The perception of humanness in conversational journalism: An algorithmic information-processing perspective	60
Artificial intelligence and mass personalization of communication content—An ethical and literacy perspective	58
When viruses and misinformation spread: How young Singaporeans navigated uncertainty in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak	58
Parasocial interactions with real and virtual influencers: The role of perceived similarity and human-likeness	57
Digital well-being theory and research	56
Does the platform matter? Social media and COVID-19 conspiracy theory beliefs in 17 countries	55
Social media literacy: A conceptual framework	50
Tactics of news literacy: How young people access, evaluate, and engage with news on social media	49
Loot boxes, problem gambling and problem video gaming: A systematic review and meta-synthesis	47
Defining affordances in social media research: A literature review	44
Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Wikipedia	44
Autopsy of a metaphor: The origins, use and blind spots of the ‘infodemic’	41
In(cel)doctrination: How technologically facilitated misogyny moves violence off screens and on to streets	40
Health-related fake news on social media platforms: A systematic literature review	39
From observation on social media to offline political participation: The social media affordances approach	37
Deplatformization and the governance of the platform ecosystem	37
Facebook futures: Mark Zuckerberg’s discursive construction of a better world	36

‘Welcome to #GabFam’: Far-right virtual community on Gab	36
A question of perspective: Exploring audiences’ views of journalistic boundaries	34
“Bodies not templates”: Contesting dominant algorithmic imaginaries	34
Mapping #MeToo: A synthesis review of digital feminist research across social media platforms	33
Nipples, memes, and algorithmic failure: NSFW critique of Tumblr censorship	33
Engagement with candidate posts on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook during the 2019 election	33
Conspiracy theories in online environments: An interdisciplinary literature review and agenda for future research	32
Participatory branding on social media: The affordances of live streaming for creative labor	32