OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Visual Studies 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The citizen drone: protest, sousveillance and droneviewing	15
Thinking with the drone – visual lessons in aerial and volumetric thinking	12
Aerial visibilities: towards a visual sociology of the sky	11
Visual network research (VNR) – a theoretical and methodological appraisal of an evolving field	9
Vertical vision and atmocultural navigation. Notes on emerging urban scopic regimes	9
‘I shared the joy’: sport-related social support and communality on Instagram	8
Interspecies intercorporeality and mediated haptic sociality: distributing perception with a guide dog	7
Improving the inclusivity and credibility of visual research: interpretive engagement as a route to including the voices of people with learning disabilities in analysis	7
Immersive encounters: video, swimming and wellbeing	7
‘I hate visual culture.’ The controversial rise of visual studies and the disciplinary politics of the visible	6
A pictured Africa: drawing as a visual qualitative research methodology for examining British African Diaspora imaginings of their ancestral ‘home’	6
Political storytelling of Ekrem İmamoğlu on Instagram during 2019 Istanbul mayoral elections in Turkey	6
Face masks as floating signifiers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium	6
On reciprocity: expanding the dialogue between disciplines	5
Photo-eliciting technique as an integrated meaning-making practice: an introspective look at diversity, identities, and voice-giving	5
Memes in the time of corona: an autoethnographic visual essay on memes as relational resources during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Ugly on the internet: from #authenticity to #selflove	4
Of cable-cars and helicopters: mobility regimes and the politics of visibility in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro	4
Visual framing in the German movements for gay liberation and against nuclear energy	4
Empowering children through photography and drawing	4
Contemplating ‘visual studies’ as an emerging transdisciplinary endeavour	4
‘Home Rule is Rome Rule’: exploring anti-Home Rule postcards in Edwardian Ireland	4
The silent Tibetan women and their visual exclusions in Pema Tseden’s ‘Tibetan Trilogy’	3
Facilitating gender-affirming participatory visual research in embodied and online spaces	3
The presence and perceptibility of personal digital data: findings from a participant map drawing method	3

RE/MAP 2.0 in Tokyo: drawing on local stories to draw out hidden realities	3
Gendering graffiti in Brazil	3
The use of film documentary in social science research: audio-visual accounts of the ‘migration crisis’ from the Italian island of Lampedusa	3
Filmmaking as empirical research: working with people from refugee backgrounds to share stories about food	3
The ‘anti-Instagram’: Using visual methods to study the college experiences of underrepresented students	3
Visual reciprocity and #vanlife in the visual commons: Vancouver Island is a VW bus	3
Degenerate ecocinema: indexing entropy with drones	3
Altered spaces: new ways of seeing and envisioning nature with Minecraft	3
Analogic and symbolic dimensions in graphic representations associated with patient information leaflets for medicines	3
‘Through my eyes’: feminist self-portraits of Osteogenesis Imperfecta as arts-based knowledge translation	3
Visual propaganda at a crossroads: new techniques at Iran’s Vali Asr billboard	3
Is this what depression looks like? Visual narratives of depression on social media	3
Bihari Muharram processions in Dhaka city: religious performance as a means of territorialising urban public space by a disenfranchised ethnic minority	2
Suburban class habitus: applying Pierre Bourdieu’s visual sociology to the city	2
Grotesque logic: Catalan carnival utopias and the politics of laughter	2
Reframing the homescape: documenting domesticity during photography’s COVID turn	2
Collaboratively videoing mobile activities	2
The proliferation of alternative film exhibition spaces in Istanbul: cultural segregation and urban cinephilia	2
Diagrammatic mental representation: a methodological bridge	2
Other Lines: visualising shifting horizons and atmospheric pollution along the Wirral Peninsula	2
Documentary photography as vocation: reflecting on Frank Cancian’s contribution to visual studies	2
Visual discourses in sport. A sociological analysis of the implementation of the video evidence in cycling and football	2
Juxtaposition and visualising the middle ground in the unequal city	2
Marshland revival: a narrative rephotography essay on the False Creek Flats neighbourhood in Vancouver	2
Graphic medicine’s golden age?	2
Breaking the frame: evolving practices of first-generation photo-elicitation researchers	2
Picturing atrocity: visual representations of ISIS in Arabic political cartoons	2
Editorial	2
Editorial	2
Gentrification and changing visual landscapes: a Google Street View analysis of residential upgrading and class aesthetics in Hamilton’s Lower City	2
A study of light pollution discourse in Hong Kong	2
Visual culture studies: twenty years later	2
Visuality and socio-political communication in Nigeria’s banknote portraits	2
Multisensory approaches in migration research: reflections and pathways	2
How to preserve the visible content of films in visual form throughout the analytical process?	2
Affective atmospheres in Macau: from the sublime to the uncanny	1
New species in the Mediterranean: a visual essay on human impact on biodiversity	1
Majoritarianism and digital rights: understanding Kashmir and the ‘Othering of Other’ in the context of India	1
Counter narrative of President Buhari’s narrative on Nigerian youths with visual images and texts on Facebook	1
Merging landscapes: socio-spatial intersections and formations of belonging among African migrant youth in the US	1
Correspondências by Rita Azevedo Gomes. The complex hybrid image of contemporary epistolary cinema and contemporary essay film	1
High-rise urban density in Macau	1
Rethinking verticality through top-down views in drone hobbyist photography	1
Earthquakes, communities and heritage: Telling stories of resilience through co-designed immersive media	1
Building Shanghai in the borderlands: a visual approach to the restructuring of the Uyghur City in Xinjiang	1
COVID diaries: quotidian snapshots of life during the pandemic	1
Empty homes: filming homeownership in rapidly urbanising China	1
Short videos as affective contagion: (Un)locked WeChat chatlogs on viral videos	1
No selfies: the social world of autistic male adults as depicted in their everyday photographic practices	1
Familial ties and citizen claims: photography and early civil rights activism in African–Canadian newspapers	1

Servicing the body: placing glasses on the client’s head at the opticians	1
Coffee + COVID: people, place, and pandemic	1
Visual studies now	1
Stigma management as celebration: disability, difference, and the marketing of diversity	1
Who owns the sky? Aerial resistance and the state/corporate no-fly zone	1
Warao queen: challenging beauty in Venezuela – the Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology 2020	1
Descendants of the modernist museum: tracing the musealisation of Swedish national parks	1
Self-portrait in the photo booth: self-representation in the selfie era, a Photo-based Educational Research Project	1
Building internal reputation in stigmatised neighbourhoods: the use of remote participatory photo mapping	1
Changing portrayal of women during the late modern period in regards to visual communication design	1
“Local guys wanted”: homoerotic photography, censorship, and national belonging in apartheid South Africa – the case of Alternative Books (1981-1991)	1
Miao traditional patterns: the origins and design transformation	1
Urban research in film using walking tours and psychogeographic approaches	1
Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color	1
Facilitating Black identity and advocacy: creating cellphilms for reflecting on issues affecting Black students	1
Understanding how a learning phenomenon in which children were visually documenting their learning processes matters and intra-acts with the spaces of the school	1
‘Let us teach our children’: Online racism and everyday far-right ideologies on TikTok	1
Methodology and Indigenous memory: using photographs to anchor critical reflections on Indian residential school experiences	1
Documentary functions: the uses of documents in non-fictional texts	1
Back to basics? Portraits of the first Covid-19 lockdown in Portugal	1
Images of older people in Chinese fashion magazines: a visual assemblage analysis	1
What is an inclusive city? Reconfiguring participation in planning with geospatial photovoice to unpack experiences of urban belonging among marginalised communities	1
Thinking with Sarah Kaufman’s Devil’s Pool	1
The graffiti within: the reactivation and politicisation of Sydney’s subterranean	1
Jewish identity in American art: A golden age since the 1970s	1
Response to ‘Visual studies now’	1
Visualising gendered space and informality: a photo essay	1
An international football match experienced from within a 'working quarantine' – a photographic journey	1
Elements of a riot: forms of political violence in contemporary France	1
Editorial	1
Portfolio implementation for self-reflection and professional growth of students in the arts	1
Visibilising gentrification-induced displacement: a visual essay on the role of a socially and politically engaged photographic practice in housing activism	1
Protecting the future ‘Us’: a rhetoric-performative multimodal analysis of the polarising far-right YouTube campaign videos in Finland	1
Heir to the throne: photography and the rise to presidency by politicians in Zimbabwe and South Africa	1
The multipart film: extended anthropological analysis and non-textual forms	1
The value of parenting: gendered time expectations among the Spanish middle class	1
Questionnaire: visual studies now	1
Memory passages: Holocaust memorials in the United States and Germany	1
Photographer–camera–place relations: reflections on postphenomenology and landscape photography practice	1
Monitoring North Korea: a visual autoethnography of humanitarian-aid practices	1
Gender violence through the eyes of the Bajan youth: using Photovoice methods in small island states	1
Three stories of one truth? Visual framing of AP, CNN & FOX news Instagram coverage of the 2020 US presidential candidates	1
Open Space New Media Documentary: A Toolkit for Theory and Practices	1
Being vertical: staging the vertical subject on the Manchester Salford border	1
The visual opportunity spaces of oil: in promotion, protest, and warning	1
Does she still recognise you?	1
Smells: A cultural history of odours in early modern times	1
Hand-drawn concept-mapping as a participatory visual method	1
Sharing and redefining power with Vice President Harris: the visual framing by the Biden White House	1
Interfaith photovoice: an example of Muslim-Christian engagement in Canada	1
How does a clandestine image behave? Proposal for a theoretical tool based on a Spanish civil war gaze	1
Building material languages of trauma: in conversation with Laura Magnusson	1
Let Dr Ai’s story flee: a minor practice against China’s internet censorship during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Editorial	1
#BlackIsBeautiful: the radical politics of black hair	1