OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies is 0. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Institutional pessimism and optimism in racial repair	9
Speculative fiction, criticality, and futurity: an introduction	8
No pulse	7
Perfumed platforms, or the common scents of post-Fordism	6
Thick rhetoric: MLK and global cartographies of polyvocal struggle	6
Compassion and the canine cosmonaut: Laika and the contours of public feeling for others	5
Why does communication need transnational queer studies?	5
An accounting from Dr Ahlam Muhtaseb	4
Reconnections: remembering land when the university wants us to forget	4
Economies of misery: success and surplus in the research university	4
“Nation against the system”: nationalist rap as the voice of marginalized classes and losers from the neoliberal transformation in Poland	4
Anniversary memories, a lost critic, and queer future multitudes of critical/cultural studies	3
“Remaking the world memetically”: interrogating white nationalist subject formation through the circulation of the “Wagecuck” meme	3
Decolonizing queer modernities: the case for queer (post)colonial studies in critical/cultural communication	3
Crafting a technology of recovery: the story of the Virtual Martin Luther King Project	3
Articulating whiteness	3
Introduction: interrogating the memory landscape of higher education	3
Reproducing violence, racism, and erasure in research	3
“What’s wrong with Blackface?”: theorizing humor ecologies and Blackface as satire	3
A racial capitalism approach to communication and critical cultural studies	3
Rhetoric, violence, and the subject of civility	3
Radio Free Dixie from Cuba to the Black Belt: mapping Black nationhood through cartographies of sonic rhetoric	3
A rhetorical praxis of rebellious knowledge production: Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s outsider jurisprudence in Utah v. Strieff	3
#Blackfreedommatters	2
The Trump administration’s framing of the MS-13 gang: narrowing the borders of belonging with homeland maternity	2

Advocacy and civic engagement in protest discourse on Twitter: an examination of Ghana’s #OccupyFlagstaffHouse and #RedFriday campaigns	2
Whither cultural studies in (US) communication studies? The problem of parochialism	2
“Wake up, Boo”: race and the performance of wokeness in Big Brother 22	2
Digital seriality and narrative branching: the podcast Serial, Season One	2
On the censoring of Dr Ahlam Muhtaseb	2
Introduction: racism doesn’t care about democracy either	2
Rhetorical fractals: an Afrocentric analysis of #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd	2
How to be a (Black woman) journal editor during a pandemic: an introduction to an inaugural issue	2
Communication and race: the paucity of research on anti-Muslim racism	2
Postcolonial ecologies in cyberspace: on the “anti-environments” of Singapore Art Week 2022s’ Somewhere in Bedok and Peripheral Spaces	2
Denied access: COVID-19, the epidermal border and Black health disparities	2
Resisting the rhetoric of indexing: disability, access, and the 2005 Tennessee State Capitol sit-in	1
Looking for truths in the stories we tell in queer communication studies	1
“‘Bach, Please’: Nashville bachelorette party culture’s investments in white Southern femininity”	1
India’s COVID vaccine gestures: from maitri to coloniality	1
Ambivalent surveillance: teaching in the times of anti-woke	1
The visible city	1
The duality of platforms as infrastructures for urban politics	1
Pants on Fyre: parasitic masculinity and the Fyre festival documentaries	1
Making an urban human? The digital order and its curious human-centrism	1
Charting the future of queer studies in communication and critical/cultural studies: new directions and pathways	1
COVID: a pandemic of metaphor	1
Reading Moonlight, reading the other	1
The dream trainers	1
Masculine elocution, New Oratory, and the voice of Elizabeth Holmes	1
Chastising the child of necessity: peace journalism and Almajiri repatriation during COVID-19	1
Forgetting Fulbright: opposing racist public memory at the University of Arkansas	1
Becoming modern: stories of rural women in Chinese women's cinema	1
Muddy foil: a history of extraction and resistance in the lower Mississippi River Delta	1
Cultural politics and public intellectuals in the age of emerging fascism*	1
“Thank you … . Facebook”: neocolonial practices of translation as self-Seduction	1
In your most radical imagining	1
Unmasking the ageism of whiteness during COVID-19	1
Fictocriticism, futurity, and critical imagination: writing stories as activism	1
Unruly traditions of critical/cultural studies	1
The Ribbon of Light: space-as-media and a transforming barrio	0
Countdown to the apocalypse: the legitimization of white Christian violence in religious programming on the History Channel	0
Neoliberal masculinity in the Ultimate Fighting Championship	0
Heavenly Loci : gay bar as autoethnographic memory palace	0
“Harvey Weinstein, monster”: antiblackness and the myth of the monstrous rapist	0
Place is everything: remembering responsibilities between and beyond land acknowledgments	0
Mourning and memorializing in the COVID-19 era	0
The embodied maternal rhetorics of Serena Williams	0
Contract partner with no rights: the construction of the taxpayer subject in the Belarusian government press	0
What is “Queer Asia?”: a struggling pathway to globalizing Queer Studies in Communication	0
“Not in My Back Yard”: Democratic rhetorics in spatial gatekeeping	0
The common wind from below: unruly metaphors, radical rhetorics, and pluriversal worlds within/across/beyond the Haitian and Zapatista Revolutions (part 2/2)	0
The weapons of civilization: self-technologies and the governance of dissent	0
Visionary: the future welder	0
Introduction: possibilities of collaboration between public memory scholars and higher education public relations professionals	0

Cultural chronicles of COVID-19, part 2: politics and praxis	0
Ukraine is Europe? Complicating the concept of the ‘European’ in the wake of an urban protest	0
Protecting women’s sports? Anti-trans youth sports bills and white supremacy	0
Saving white women: vulnerability and the immobilized body in Don't Breathe (2016)	0
Truth as White property: solidifying White epistemology and owning racial knowledge	0
Celebratory containment, diverse representation, and 9-1-1: Lone Star	0
Correction	0
A sour taste of sick chronicity: pandemic time and the violence of “returning to normal”	0
Limited self-enterprise: liminality, normativity, and commodity of Chinese game streamers	0
Introduction: about democratic discourse	0
“Smarties, you know what’s up!”: curating a community and cultivating pleasure as a social justice influencer	0
Melting mutating territory	0
Fatties	0
Woke country: conceptualizing the tune of race-conscious postracialism	0
Gun violence rhetoric in Milwaukee: racialized violence and the creation of urban space	0
When Puppies start to hate: the revanchist nostalgia of the Hugo Awards’ PuppyGate controversy	0
No Justice, No Streets! Black radical placemaking and its political aesthetics in George Floyd Square	0
The transracial subject and the emotive regime: Rachel Dolezal, racial phronêsis, and inverted miscegenation	0
The liminal becomes the real: arts-based translingualism in education	0
Memory as everyday critical praxis	0
Disrupting institutional memory sites: racialized counter-memory at the University of Maryland	0
Subject to/flesh, object/to verb (:) the business of naming	0
Amatl: behind the wallpaper	0
Staging progressive dissensus and the politics of Black silence: Black Lives Matter, Bernie Sanders, and the August 2015 rally in Seattle	0
Epidemiology as methodology: COVID-19, Ukraine, and the problem of whiteness	0
Imagined communities before the end of the world: the liberation of marginalized beings	0
Environmental myth-work: the discursive greening of the Olympic Games	0
Vicennium: looking back before moving forward	0
Queene	0
Mandating work, commanding health, and managing risk: the (bio)politics of Medicaid reform	0
Get Gritty with it: memetic icons and the visual ethos of antifascism	0
Cultural chronicles of COVID-19, part 1: language	0
Naming, blaming, and “Framing”: Kimberlé Crenshaw and the rhetoric of Black feminist pedagogy	0
[Black] plastic feelings; feeling [Black]	0
Forum: (De)centring Europe in urban communication research	0
Xyrs, 6034: sexing and masturbating in/of the future	0
Abolition is here	0
Can You See Her? The Absent Presence of Black Female Subjectivity in Get Out (2017)	0
“Open to all people”: upholding radical tolerance in commemorative spaces	0
Violent spectating: Hindutva music and audio-visualizations of hate and terror in Digital India	0
Internet.org and the rhetoric of connectivity	0
Countercurricular rhetorical education: reimagining the university from the inside out	0
Branding being true: visibility politics and Nike’s engagement with LGBTQ+ communities	0
Hero, adventurer and advocate volunteers: A visual analysis of volunteer tourists’ identities on Instagram	0
“Here is the exceptional:” social media sharing and unavailable everydayness	0
Taking a stand from the periphery: negotiating and resisting the white gaze in public images of Black women’s civic protest	0
“Spicy Taiwanese sister” against the rise of China: gender, identity politics, and elections in Taiwan	0
Transnational and decolonizing queer digital/quick media and cyberculture studies	0
Proving authentic femininity: transnormative health narratives in television	0
Unthinking care	0
Town/gown hostilities and memory entrepreneurship	0
Negotiating rhetorics of diversity through performances of propriety: a quare autocritography	0
De-westernizing mediated city research: display and decay in Zagreb’s urban signage	0
Trans (gender) trouble	0
F*ck your condolences: the rhetoric of an impossible demand	0
Gutter futures	0
The medicalization of the culture wars	0
From Hey, you there! to Got you: re-materializing the encoding/decoding model in the computationally mediated city	0
Copies without an original: the performativity of biometric bordering technologies	0
The COVID-19 sensorium and its vectors, victims, and violators	0
“They just need to empower themselves:” reproducing queer (neo) liberalism in LGBTS Empowerment discourses of representatives of LGBTS Human Rights NGOs in Ghana	0
Counter-tour as resuscitation: breathing life into the campus memory landscape	0
Palestine is a futurity: prophecies (cruising Jerusalem)	0
Academia’s next top bottom: Title IX as performative advocacy	0
Discouragement, delay, and doublespeak at southern universities: considerations and context for scholars of cultural studies	0
Diffusion, transformation and hybridization: Taijiquan body culture in the United Kingdom	0