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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Decolonizing queer modernities: the case for queer (post)colonial studies in critical/cultural communication	9
“Harvey Weinstein, monster”: antiblackness and the myth of the monstrous rapist	8
Trans (gender) trouble	7
Digital seriality and narrative branching: the podcast Serial, Season One	6
Advocacy and civic engagement in protest discourse on Twitter: an examination of Ghana’s #OccupyFlagstaffHouse and #RedFriday campaigns	6
Rhetoricity of borders: whiteness in Latinidad and beyond	6
There are no awards for surviving racism, sexism, and ageism in the academy: contemplations of a senior faculty member	5
Why does communication need transnational queer studies?	5
A sour taste of sick chronicity: pandemic time and the violence of “returning to normal”	5
Introduction: interrogating the memory landscape of higher education	4
Disappeared in plain sight: ICE air deportation infrastructure and cycles of migrant (im)mobility	4
Speculative fiction, criticality, and futurity: an introduction	4
Making an urban human? The digital order and its curious human-centrism	4
“Not in My Back Yard”: Democratic rhetorics in spatial gatekeeping	3
Place is everything: remembering responsibilities between and beyond land acknowledgments	3
Charting the future of queer studies in communication and critical/cultural studies: new directions and pathways	3
“Nation against the system”: nationalist rap as the voice of marginalized classes and losers from the neoliberal transformation in Poland	3
Memory as everyday critical praxis	3
Get Gritty with it: memetic icons and the visual ethos of antifascism	3
What is “Queer Asia?”: a struggling pathway to globalizing Queer Studies in Communication	3
“From Palestine to Mexico, all the walls have got to go”: rhetorical bordering as transnational settler colonial project	3
The embodied maternal rhetorics of Serena Williams	3
“They just need to empower themselves:” reproducing queer (neo) liberalism in LGBTS Empowerment discourses of representatives of LGBTS Human Rights NGOs in Ghana	3
Violent spectating: Hindutva music and audio-visualizations of hate and terror in Digital India	3
Rhetoric, violence, and the subject of civility	3

Reading Moonlight, reading the other	2
Economies of misery: success and surplus in the research university	2
Proving authentic femininity: transnormative health narratives in television	2
Protecting women’s sports? Anti-trans youth sports bills and white supremacy	2
Chastising the child of necessity: peace journalism and Almajiri repatriation during COVID-19	2
The visible city	2
Free to move, free to stay, free to return: border rhetorics and a commitment to telos	2
A song for Rob DeChaine: articulations of music and film in cinematic border representations	2
Counter-tour as resuscitation: breathing life into the campus memory landscape	2
Internet.org and the rhetoric of connectivity	2
Looking for truths in the stories we tell in queer communication studies	2
“Remaking the world memetically”: interrogating white nationalist subject formation through the circulation of the “Wagecuck” meme	2
Cultural chronicles of COVID-19, part 2: politics and praxis	2
Transnational and decolonizing queer digital/quick media and cyberculture studies	2
Unmasking the ageism of whiteness during COVID-19	2
Introduction: possibilities of collaboration between public memory scholars and higher education public relations professionals	1
“Spicy Taiwanese sister” against the rise of China: gender, identity politics, and elections in Taiwan	1
Branding being true: visibility politics and Nike’s engagement with LGBTQ+ communities	1
Fictocriticism, futurity, and critical imagination: writing stories as activism	1
“NO US WITHOUT YOU!”: on recontextualizing border visuality	1
“‘Bach, Please’: Nashville bachelorette party culture’s investments in white Southern femininity”	1
Reconnections: remembering land when the university wants us to forget	1
Palestine is a futurity: prophecies (cruising Jerusalem)	1
Diffusion, transformation and hybridization: Taijiquan body culture in the United Kingdom	1
Naming, blaming, and “Framing”: Kimberlé Crenshaw and the rhetoric of Black feminist pedagogy	1
Colorblind and Colorbound: Everyday Neoliberalism in the Discourses on Romantic Interracial Relationships	1
Environmental myth-work: the discursive greening of the Olympic Games	1
Neoliberal masculinity in the Ultimate Fighting Championship	1
Pants on Fyre: parasitic masculinity and the Fyre festival documentaries	1
“Thank you … . Facebook”: neocolonial practices of translation as self-Seduction	1
Rhetorical fractals: an Afrocentric analysis of #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd	1
Recontextualizing responsibility for justice: the lynching trope, racialized temporalities, and cultivating breathable futures	1
Hero, adventurer and advocate volunteers: A visual analysis of volunteer tourists’ identities on Instagram	1
The medicalization of the culture wars	1
Cultural chronicles of COVID-19, part 1: language	1
Gutter futures	1
Disrupting institutional memory sites: racialized counter-memory at the University of Maryland	1
De-westernizing mediated city research: display and decay in Zagreb’s urban signage	1
Fatties	1
The duality of platforms as infrastructures for urban politics	1
COVID: a pandemic of metaphor	1
Forum: Border Rhetorics	1
Under (Y)our skin: Rachel Dolezal and the elasticity of whiteness	1
Abolition is here	1
Bordering politics of Latina/o/x mental health: discourse of family separation and intergenerational transmission of trauma	1
The COVID-19 sensorium and its vectors, victims, and violators	1
Copies without an original: the performativity of biometric bordering technologies	0
Whither cultural studies in (US) communication studies? The problem of parochialism	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
Shit talk in shitty terrain: Flushing Indian feminism through YouTube’s comedic conduits	0

Postcolonial ecologies in cyberspace: on the “anti-environments” of Singapore Art Week 2022s’ Somewhere in Bedok and Peripheral Spaces	0
Taking a stand from the periphery: negotiating and resisting the white gaze in public images of Black women’s civic protest	0
Radio Free Dixie from Cuba to the Black Belt: mapping Black nationhood through cartographies of sonic rhetoric	0
[Black] plastic feelings; feeling [Black]	0
Discouragement, delay, and doublespeak at southern universities: considerations and context for scholars of cultural studies	0
Saving white women: vulnerability and the immobilized body in Don't Breathe (2016)	0
The liminal becomes the real: arts-based translingualism in education	0
A racial capitalism approach to communication and critical cultural studies	0
Amatl: behind the wallpaper	0
Countdown to the apocalypse: the legitimization of white Christian violence in religious programming on the History Channel	0
An accounting from Dr Ahlam Muhtaseb	0
“Open to all people”: upholding radical tolerance in commemorative spaces	0
Masculine elocution, New Oratory, and the voice of Elizabeth Holmes	0
Thick rhetoric: MLK and global cartographies of polyvocal struggle	0
“Smarties, you know what’s up!”: curating a community and cultivating pleasure as a social justice influencer	0
In your most radical imagining	0
Institutional pessimism and optimism in racial repair	0
Truth as White property: solidifying White epistemology and owning racial knowledge	0
Becoming modern: stories of rural women in Chinese women's cinema	0
Ukraine is Europe? Complicating the concept of the ‘European’ in the wake of an urban protest	0
Cultural politics and public intellectuals in the age of emerging fascism*	0
Epidemiology as methodology: COVID-19, Ukraine, and the problem of whiteness	0
#Blackfreedommatters	0
Mandating work, commanding health, and managing risk: the (bio)politics of Medicaid reform	0
On the censoring of Dr Ahlam Muhtaseb	0
Unthinking care	0
The transracial subject and the emotive regime: Rachel Dolezal, racial phronêsis, and inverted miscegenation	0
“What’s wrong with Blackface?”: theorizing humor ecologies and Blackface as satire	0
No Justice, No Streets! Black radical placemaking and its political aesthetics in George Floyd Square	0
Negotiating rhetorics of diversity through performances of propriety: a quare autocritography	0
Town/gown hostilities and memory entrepreneurship	0
Reproducing violence, racism, and erasure in research	0
Vicennium: looking back before moving forward	0
Mourning and memorializing in the COVID-19 era	0
Articulating whiteness	0
Queene	0
When Puppies start to hate: the revanchist nostalgia of the Hugo Awards’ PuppyGate controversy	0
Compassion and the canine cosmonaut: Laika and the contours of public feeling for others	0
Melting mutating territory	0
Forgetting Fulbright: opposing racist public memory at the University of Arkansas	0
No pulse	0
Academia’s next top bottom: Title IX as performative advocacy	0
The dream trainers	0
From Hey, you there! to Got you: re-materializing the encoding/decoding model in the computationally mediated city	0
Resisting the rhetoric of indexing: disability, access, and the 2005 Tennessee State Capitol sit-in	0
F*ck your condolences: the rhetoric of an impossible demand	0
The Trump administration’s framing of the MS-13 gang: narrowing the borders of belonging with homeland maternity	0
Limited self-enterprise: liminality, normativity, and commodity of Chinese game streamers	0
Communication and race: the paucity of research on anti-Muslim racism	0
Staging progressive dissensus and the politics of Black silence: Black Lives Matter, Bernie Sanders, and the August 2015 rally in Seattle	0
Denied access: COVID-19, the epidermal border and Black health disparities	0
Contract partner with no rights: the construction of the taxpayer subject in the Belarusian government press	0
Introduction: racism doesn’t care about democracy either	0
Xyrs, 6034: sexing and masturbating in/of the future	0
Crafting a technology of recovery: the story of the Virtual Martin Luther King Project	0
Countercurricular rhetorical education: reimagining the university from the inside out	0
Correction	0
Subject to/flesh, object/to verb (:) the business of naming	0
A rhetorical praxis of rebellious knowledge production: Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s outsider jurisprudence in Utah v. Strieff	0
Introduction: about democratic discourse	0
“Here is the exceptional:” social media sharing and unavailable everydayness	0
Anniversary memories, a lost critic, and queer future multitudes of critical/cultural studies	0
Visionary: the future welder	0
Gun violence rhetoric in Milwaukee: racialized violence and the creation of urban space	0
Perfumed platforms, or the common scents of post-Fordism	0
The Ribbon of Light: space-as-media and a transforming barrio	0
Unruly traditions of critical/cultural studies	0
Modern Zeus: drones, deinos, and dissuading dissent	0
Can You See Her? The Absent Presence of Black Female Subjectivity in Get Out (2017)	0
India’s COVID vaccine gestures: from maitri to coloniality	0
Forum: (De)centring Europe in urban communication research	0
Muddy foil: a history of extraction and resistance in the lower Mississippi River Delta	0
Imagined communities before the end of the world: the liberation of marginalized beings	0
How to be a (Black woman) journal editor during a pandemic: an introduction to an inaugural issue	0