OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Feminist Media Studies is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Sentimental education across the borders: Hindi soap opera and translation cultures on the Russophone Web	76
‘Alienated young man’ with plans for ‘murderous vengeance’? Examining portrayals of misogynistic incel violence in the US news media	38
“Like shagging a dead fish”: misogyny and consent in online sex buyers’ reviews	38
The glowy: the aesthetics of transparency in postfeminist “wellness” culture	34
“How marketing consultants commodify social movements: Estelle Ellis, audience construction, and the women’s media market, 1945-1973”	31
Factors influencing occupational gender segregation of videojournalists in Taiwanese TV news channels	28
Affective reading practices in Chinese women-oriented online fiction: The politics of identification	26
Framing feminist protest: a content analysis of the glitter revolution	26
Making girls at home in games: Nancy Drew computer games and the racial politics of girls’ game spaces	25
New outlets of digital feminist activism in China: the #SeeFemaleWorkers campaign	23
Gender “frames” in media: select examples of popular feminism and popular misogyny from India	22
This Barbie has melancholy feminism: framing empowerment and grievable lives	22
Positioning gender in time-travel: time-travel TV dramas as dialogic resources for constructing and re-imagining identity among Mainland Chinese postgraduates in Hong Kong	21
Fabricating babies: reproduction as production in Storks and The Boss Baby	21
The analysis of “women reports” in a Chinese newspaper during #MeToo: a case study of Southern Weekly	20
Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer & Feminism in Praxis	19
#FrauenSagenNein - bridging the divide: analyzing the affective network of gender-critical alliances	19
Women’s affective labor in the Red Army’s war propaganda in the early 1930s	18
Home is where the hate is: gender, race, class and the domestic abuse plotline in fiction and on screen	17
Women’s sport and media: a call to critical arms	17
Emergent distribution strategies and feminist media practices: the case of Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV)	17
“Middle-aged old mothers” on Chinese social media: humorous motherhood counter-discourse	17
“The Story of You and Me”: strategic ambiguity in the paratextual reception of Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982	16
Epistemologies of ignorance in constructions of fairness and biology: the online swimming community responds to Lia Thomas’ inclusion in women’s swimming events	16
Repackaged sob sisters and outsiders within: reading the female and minority journalists on The Bold Type and The Morning Show	16

Tennis representations in the 20th-century Brazilian press: women’s bodies in focus	16
The blame game: how video evidence changes narratives of misogynistic violence in sports discourse	15
Social media “ghosts”: how Facebook (Meta) Memories complicates healing for survivors of intimate partner violence	14
Gender-equal sexism: a covert and subtle form of gender discrimination	14
WhatsApp and participation in sexual and reproductive health for women with disabilities in Nairobi	14
“What a nasty girl!” incivility and gendered symbolic violence in news discussions	14
Barbie in China: feminist ideals or consumerist realities on RedNote?	14
Digital vulnerabilities and online harassment of academics, consequences, and coping strategies: an exploratory analysis	14
“It’s a joke, not a dick. So don’t take it too hard”: online sexual harassment in Indian universities	13
Gold diggers in the digital age: Unraveling the “Lao Nü” stereotype in contemporary Chinese social media	13
Correction	13
Anti-Feminism: four strategies for the demonisation and depoliticisation of feminism on Chinese social media	12
Transnational Iranian poetics of resistance: the Green Movement and Iranian women’s agency in Sepideh Farsi’s Red Rose (2014)	12
African feminist interpretations of political actions, practices and policies: Zimbabwe’s Bustop TV	11
Sex Work in Popular Culture	11
Diya : coerced abortion and reproductive autonomy in India	11
Have a cup of coffee: the techno-spatial tactics of female urbanites and the production of “mobile publicness” in digital urban China	11
Perils of the princess 2.0: an (auto)ethnographic study of girls playing Super Mario Bros. 2	11
The visual semiotics of digital misogyny: female leaders in the viewfinder	10
The affective circulation of the feminist movement via the hashtag #seAcabó and its portrayal in the traditional digital media	10
“Who is sexually harassed? A python code haha”: imaginaries of a post-violent AI world	10
“The victim lived an intense life”: media (mis)representations of femicide crimes in the Republic of Cyprus	10
Traversing bodies and territories: feminist activism against digital violence	10
Comparing nüquanzhuyi and nüxingzhuyi : mapping digital feminist discourse in China through corpus analysi	10
Has feminism “gone too far?” A mixed-methods exploration of perceptions of digital feminist activism	10
The red lipstick movement: exploring #vermelhoembelem and feminist hashtag movements in the context of the rise of far-right populism in Portugal	9
Empowerment through femvertising - Evidence from Mexico and Hungary	9
Suffering as the counter-discourse: the construction of an affective community through feminist podcasts in China	9
African Technocultural Feminist Theory (ATFT)	9
The “emotional contract”: on obligation and guilt in women influencers’ work with brands	8
Until death do us part: gendered media coverage of the deaths of Israeli male and female public figures	8
From “borking” to getting “kavanaughed”: language, reputation, and the importance of a (male) name	8
Women on top? Challenging the “mancession” narrative in the 2010s chick flick	8
Feeling the future: Wonder Woman discourse and the demands of media response	8
Neoliberal feminism and intergenerational relations at work: an analysis of media representations of feminist mentorship in popular culture	8
Nigerian queer concealment and feminist resistance: Unpacking ‘fraudulent’ mixed-orientation marriages discourses in digital feminism	8
Conceptualizing academic sustainability	8
Correction	8
Sticking around: hobbyhorsing, digital transgression, and gender-based violence in TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube commentary	8
From margins to mainstream: a critical network analysis of the #MosqueMeToo hashtag	7
Educate yourself! Exploring feminist politics and self-development in Danish online fat activism	7
Persistent racialized commodification amidst technological innovation: exceptionalist Filipina bride representations from analog to digital	7
Framing women’s alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Consumer responses to femvertising: evidence from a cross-cultural study	7
Fragmented sisterhood in the Nanking Massacre:The Flowers of War	7
Protection or commodification of women? Discursive construction of bridewealth on Chinese social media	7
Over-excitement, shapeless self and paradoxical happiness in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015–2019)	7
“Locked, loaded, and online”: gendered critiques of Israeli security through the lens of female gun owners	7
“By women for women” communicating gender discourse in r/FemaleDatingStrategy	7
“She’s everything”: feminism and the Barbie movie	6

“We seek those moments of togetherness”: digital intimacies, virtual touch and becoming community in pandemic times	6
“My feminism is better than yours!” the lack of intersectionality in feminist digital discourses in Ghana	6
Gendered framing and victim-blaming in fictional sexual assault survivor portrayals	6
How horror films constructs Blackness: examples of White supremacist media’s enforcement of necropolitics in genre film	6
Fighting in the shadow of heteropatriarchy: feminists versus gay men’s discursive battle over surrogacy in China	6
Motherhood in social media: phenomena and consequences of the professionalization of mothers and their media (self-)representation	6
“Fair-skinned, young and slim” or “Kardashian-style”: UK-based female Chinese international students’ self-presentation on mobile dating applications	6
Distinct information ecologies? Gender knowledge production in German digital legacy and counterpublic media	6
Reading the queer in Black Mirror’s “San Junipero”	6
Tradition, modernity, and the visual representation of “leftover women” in the English language news media in China	6
“If Something Ever Happened, I’d Have No One to Tell:” how online sexism perpetuates young women’s silence	6
Discursive construction of anti-hijab discourse on Facebook and Twitter: the case of Malaysian former-Muslim women	6
#RepresentationMatters on TV: a critical textual analysis of intersectional representation at work on NBC’s Superstore	6
Provocative eroticism: anger in fourth-wave feminist Danish pop culture	6
“Eileen Gu fetish” as a feminist phenomenon: the intertwining of feminist, neoliberal, and nationalist discourses on Chinese social media	5
”You do it for the good times”: rival feminist readings of torture and kink in Grand Theft Auto V	5
Gender, power and magic in the film of Mulan (2020): a cross-cultural analysis of the Western feminist discourse and the Daoist cultural discourse	5
Fiction as an ally to make journalism more believable: rape, trauma and secondary victimization in the Netflix miniseries ‘Unbelievable’	5
A women’s issue? The role of backlash and issue ownership in users’ engagement with articles about gender equality	5
Data activism and social media in the case of racialized and gendered deaths and disappearances	5
The rise of nande : a case study of digital feminism in China	5
Spain’s ‘First Feminist Film’: Feminism and Francoism,Margarita and the Wolf(Cecilia Bartolomé 1969)	5
What does the tradwife movement have to do with superheroes? A review of the depiction of the tradwife movement in Gen V	5
Ecofeminism and daoism: the feminist analysis of female warrior of Nie Yinniang inThe Assassin(2015)	5
Veteran journalists and “vieilles filles”: how gender, age and journalism congregate in The French Dispatch	5
Barbies in boiler suits: wartime fashion, feminist labor, and intermediated popular culture	5
Alternative fairy-tale endings and the main character syndrome: “happily ever after” for the woke generation	5
Online abuse of women: an interdisciplinary scoping review of the literature	5
Co-categorizing Chinese “medicine girls”: a multimodal membership categorization analysis of trans women’s representations in a news video	5
Empowering housewives: exploring popular feminism in China	5
“Situating and sustaining feminist action: lessons from digital games inclusivity organizing”	5
The womb as battleground: negotiating motherhood and feminism on Chinese social media	5
Working the case: a feminist and queer investigation of the Asian/American female detective in Killing Eve	5
Art-based research, decoloniality & gender-based violence: Voices of women students from India	5
The world is collapsing, but we are in love: Xianxia romance as therapeutic governance in neo/non-liberal China	5
Media discourse on Islamic women jihadists in Indonesia: Islamic radicalism post-Arab Spring	5
Negotiating attractiveness: Korean American perceptions of body image and identity in light of the Korean Wave	5
Politics of ambivalence: how Zhou Shen’s androgyny survives under Xi Jinping	5
Being a positive influence(r): exploring affective pedagogies of wellbeing and positivity on Instagram	5
From romancing women to teaching men: an analysis of vulnerability and entrepreneurial masculinity on Japanese YouTube in The Roland Show	5
Dramatising a contemporary childhood sexual abuse narrative: reinforcing a hierarchy of victims	5
Mädchen in uniform	5
Calling out or calling in? Feminist CCIs negotiate BLM, cancel culture, and activist selves online	5
Examining gender representations in the pilot episode of the anime Attack on Titan	4
A different girl, but she’s nothing new: Olivia Rodrigo and posting imitation pop on TikTok	4
Structural-violence framing, de-gendering discourse, and muted misogyny: the official media’s representation of gender-based violence in contemporary china	4
Watching National Treasure , creating danmei tongren : stories of power and the power of stories	4
Gendered keywords as entry points: the construction and evolution of nüpin and nüxing-xiang in Chinese Internet literature	4
The translation of moral panic into misogynist e-bile: the case of Turkish singer Gülşen	4
Fascism, nature and communication: a discursive-affective analysis of cuteness in ecofascist propaganda	4
You’re doing it wrong: the governance of motherhood through mommy blogs	4
Narratives of relationality and time in fertility preservation vlogs	4
“Diamonds are a girl’s best friend”? Tracing the implications of a song in Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)	4
Complacency and misogyny, or positive changes that add up to a movement? How the UK screen industries are addressing sexual harassment in the workplace	4
Understanding the Russian invasion of Ukraine through a gendered prism	4
Archiving digital activism against sexual violence: the challenges for ethical witnessing in research practice	4
When feminists are misidentified as traitors: nationalism, disinformation, and anti-feminism in Chinese cyberspace	4
Global media ethics: a feminist intervention	4
Comedy as method: gender discourse production in Chinese women’s stand-up comedy interpretive communities	4
Circulating desire: queer logistical aesthetics	4
Seeking and surveilled: the effects of Tumblr’s sexual content ban on sugar babies’ posts	4
Sacred children, self-sacrificing mothers: Instagram’s idealized parenting culture	4
Reconstructing professional identity: Chinese female interpreters in traditional and self-media	4
When the hunter plays the hunted: heterosexual Chinese women’s negotiations with hegemonic sexual scripts on dating apps	4
Perfect: feeling judged on social media, a roundtable discussion	4
#metoo activism without the #MeToo hashtag: online debates over entertainment celebrities’ sex scandals in China	4
Women’s safety work on dating apps and rape culture	4
Mickey’s main squeeze: the gendered portrayal of Minnie Mouse in the early era (1928 – 1935) and modern era (2013 – 2019)	4
How journalism forgets: on the journalistic representation of colonial biopower in Greenland	4
The platformization of socially constructed gender realities: the ‘Fat Cat incident’ (2024)	4
Window shopping in barbie land: the kinetic and aesthetic pleasures of Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023)	4
Being independent women in blogs: young Chinese women bloggers’ construction of independent persona and strategic subjectivity on Xiaohongshu	4
“Joss is (no longer?) Boss”: three layers of cancelling in the Joss Whedon fan community	4
Anti-feminism as anti-establishment and emancipatory: the gendered metapolitics of Incel	4
Misinformation as woman: anti-feminism, news media, and disinformation’s feminized other	4
Rage as a strategy of weak resistance and creative power in women’s protests and digital activism in postsocialist Poland	4
Banning “braingasm”: an investigation of misogynistic politics in 8Chan’s, U.S. platforms’ and CCP’s regulation of ASMR	4
“The women are every bit as good as the men”: a postfeminist critique of LPGA players’ quest for equity in golf	4
HoopGurlz’s biased recruiting: racial and positional stereotyping in girls’ basketball scouting reports	4