OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Consumer Culture is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Conceptualising ethical consumption within theories of practice	36
Platform urbanism in a pandemic: Dark stores, ghost kitchens, and the logistical-urban frontier	34
Limited, considered and sustainable consumption: The (non)consumption practices of UK minimalists	33
I am a virtual girl from Tokyo: Virtual influencers, digital-orientalism and the (Im)materiality of race and gender	28
The gamblification of digital games	26
Battle pass capitalism	24
Consumer movements, brand activism, and the participatory politics of media: A conversation	24
Speculating on Steam: Consumption in the gamblified platform ecosystem	17
Epic, Steam, and the role of skin-betting in game (platform) economies	17
Productive play: The shift from responsible consumption to responsible production	16
A model who looks like me: Communicating and consuming representations of disability	13
Got to be real: An investigation into the co-fabrication of authenticity by fashion companies and digital influencers	13
Spinning is winning: Social casino apps and the platformization of gamble-play	12
Gaming the gift: The affective economy of League of Legends ‘fair’ free-to-play model	11
Overlaps and accumulations: The anatomy of cultural non-participation in Finland, 2007 to 2018	10
Locking-down instituted practices: Understanding sustainability in the context of ‘domestic’ consumption in the remaking	9
Framing sufficiency: Strategies of environmental non-governmental organisations towards reduced material consumption	9
‘If I could afford an avocado every day’: Income differences and ethical food consumption in a world of abundance	9
Tales from the crypt: A psychoanalytic approach to disability representation in advertising	9
Malls, modernity and consumption: Shopping malls as new projectors of modernity in Accra, Ghana	9
Dimensionalizing esports consumption: Alternative journeys to professional play	8
Beyond existential and neoliberal explanations of consumers’ embodied risk-taking: CrossFit as an articulation of reflexive modernization	8
Free repair against the consumer society: How repair cafés socialize people to a new relationship to objects	8
Influences on ethical decision-making among porn consumers: The role of stigma	7
The conflict market: Polarizing consumer culture(s) in counter-democracy	7

English fever and coffee: Transient cosmopolitanism and the rising cost of distinction	7
Lifestyles of enough exploring sufficiency-oriented consumption behavior from a social practice theory perspective	6
The right to shine: Poverty, consumption and (de) politicization in neoliberal Brazil	6
Practices of thrift among high cultural capital consumers. When economic status gets in the way of ethics	6
Redefining consumer nationalism: The ambiguities of shopping yellow during the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-ELAB movement	6
Chinese outbound tourists as international consumer in Northern Thailand—A dynamic mobility perspective	5
Autonomy or loyalty? Community-within-community interactions of a local football fandom group	5
Bingo, gender and the moral order of the household: Everyday gambling in a migrant community	5
Video gaming as craft consumption	5
“Enjoy your experience”: Symbolic violence and becoming a tasteful state cannabis consumer in Canada	5
Listening to music videos on YouTube. Digital consumption practices and the environmental impact of streaming	4
The socioeconomic concentration of intensive production interest: Lessons from the tiny home community	4
Memories reminisced, reconciled, renewed: Hong Kong male consumers’ wardrobes and their search for a congruent self	4
Postfeminism, consumption and activewear: Examining women consumers’ relationship with the postfeminine ideal	4
Consuming the city: People-watching and dialectics of everyday urban life	4
Book Review: The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement	4
Periphery fandom: Contrasting fans’ productive experiences across the globe	4
Mega-events, expansion and prospects: Perceptions of Euro 2020 and its 12-country hosting format	3
Consumer sovereignty and the Greek economic crisis: (Dis)continuity of consumer sovereignty repertoires	3
The German space of lifestyles: A multidetermined structure	3
Inconspicuous adaptations to climate change in everyday life: Sustainable household responses to drought and heat in Czech cities	3
Cultural stratification in the UK: Persistent gender and class differences in cultural voraciousness	3
Divestment as investment: “Kondo-ing” selves in the context of overaccumulation	3
Governing individuals’ imaginaries and conduct in personal finance: The mobilization of emotions in financial education	2
Omnivorous cultural consumption and the co-creation of cultural products: Interactive versus participatory art	2
‘We can’t participate like this at football, can we’? Exploring in-person performative prosumer fandom at live PDC darts events	2
Is there a relationship between implicit motives and eating action types: An exploratory study in Germany	2
Naive, connected, and counselor tween girl identity groups: Consumption practices and social identity constructions within consumer culture	2
Pink purchasing: Interrogating the soft power of Japan’s kawaii consumption	2
Searching for the “right feeling”: Sense of place and the social architecture of middle-class homebuying choices	2
Flaneuring the buyosphere: A comparative historical analysis of shopping environments and phantasmagorias	2
Gendered fandom in transcultural context- female-dominated paratexts and compromised fan culture	2
Post-digital prosumption and the sharing economy of space: The pay-per-minute cafe	2
Successful failure: The marketisation of failure in an entrepreneurial economy	2
Trouble in virtual heaven: Origin and consequences of social conflict in online consumption communities	2
Between conspicuous and conscious consumption: The sustainability paradox in the intermediary promotional work of an online lifestyle site	2
“Inspiring” and configuring consumer experience in times of crisis: An analysis of the discursive practices of an Athenian shopping mall’s promotional system	2
“Names doing rounds”: On brands in the bazaar economy	2
Mobile trust regimes: Modes of attachment in an age of banal omnivorousness	1
If it ain’t Dutch, it ain’t much: Vereeniging Nederlandsch Fabrikaat, the citizen-consumer and Dutch nationalist consumption in the interwar Netherlands	1
Being social for whom? Issues of monetization, exploitation, and alienation in mobile social games	1
Grandparenting relations in advertising’s ‘familial fictions’	1
How does materiality ‘bite back’? Investigating cassette tapes in local, translocal and virtual music scenes	1
The assemblage of British politics’ breaking point	1
Health in the motivational process of organic product consumption: A socio-psycho hermeneutical approach	1
The consumer, the market and the universal aristocracy: The ideology of academisation in England	1
Between Wellness and Elegance: Yoga Consumption in China	1
Prosumer activism: The case of Britney Spears’ Brazilian fandom	1
Men becoming fighters: Exploring processes of consumer socialization	1
Understanding violence on British university campuses through the lens of the deviant leisure perspective	1

How the practice of commercializing comes together and falls apart in a market of wearable technologies	1
Reflecting on nation image and perceptions of nation brand: Scottish-themed pubs, bars and restaurants outside of Scotland	1
No place like home? Producing and consuming eldercare design	1
The good life as accountable: Moralities of dress consumption in China and Romania	1
Bad avocados, culinary standards, and knowable knowledge. Culturally appropriate rejections of meat reduction	1
Marketable religion: How game company Ubisoft commodified religion for a global audience	1
Authentic style–fashion–dress negotiations of married lesbian couples on their wedding day	1
(Un)sustainable everyday practices sociomateriality shaping sustainability in an urban district	1
Marketing of donor eggs by offering possibilities for imaginary actualization of recipients’ ideal self	1
The lab, land, and longing: Discursive constructions of Australian identities in ‘future’ food consumption	1
Book Review: Consumer Culture Theory	1
Remembering summer in the city: Production and consumption of yanqishui in twentieth-century Shanghai	1
Exploring routinization and reflexivity in change and reproduction of consumption towards lower climate impact	1
Trajectories towards a voluntary simplicity lifestyle and inner growth	1