OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Learning Media and Technology is 2. 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
Pandemic politics, pedagogies and practices: digital technologies and distance education during the coronavirus emergency	385
Artificial intelligence and education in China	99
Historical threads, missing links, and future directions in AI in education	93
AI in education: learner choice and fundamental rights	66
The rise of education rentiers: digital platforms, digital data and rents	56
Covid-19 controversies and critical research in digital education	39
What in the world is educational technology? Rethinking the field from the perspective of the philosophy of technology	37
The platformization of primary education in The Netherlands	35
Meta-edtech	28
Google and the end of the teacher? How a figuration of the teacher is produced through an ed-tech discourse	28
AI hyped? A horizon scan of discourse on artificial intelligence in education (AIED) and development	28
Lockdown literacies and semiotic assemblages: academic boundary work in the Covid-19 crisis	27
Navigating four billion videos: teacher search strategies and the YouTube algorithm	26
Afrofuturism as critical constructionist design: building futures from the past and present	25
The hidden costs of connectivity: nature and effects of scholars’ online harassment	25
A decolonial approach to AI in higher education teaching and learning: strategies for undoing the ethics of digital neocolonialism	24
Health education, social media, and tensions of authenticity in the ‘influencer pedagogy’ of health influencer Ashy Bines	23
The problem with flexible learning: neoliberalism, freedom, and learner subjectivities	23
Theorising on covid-19 educational emergency: magnifying glasses for the field of educational technology	21
What is ‘critical’ in critical studies of edtech? Three responses	20
Systematic review of 15 years of research on digital citizenship: 2004–2019	20
Re-examining AI, automation and datafication in education	20
Lifting the veil on TeachersPayTeachers.com: an investigation of educational marketplace offerings and downloads	20
Neoliberal education and the neoliberal digital classroom	19
Sociotechnical imaginaries in the present and future university: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of UK higher education texts	18

Big EdTech	17
The invisible made visible through technologies’ agency: a sociomaterial inquiry on emergency remote teaching in higher education	17
Shifting scales of research on learning, media and technology	16
Educational technologies as matters of care	16
The platform classroom: troubling student configurations in a Danish primary school	16
Family mediation of preschool children’s digital media practices at home	15
Immersive virtual reality (VR) for digital media making: transmediation is key	15
A patchwork of platforms: mapping data infrastructures in schools	15
Surfacing knowledge mobilities in higher education: reconfiguring the teacher function through automation	14
Education, automation and AI: a genealogy of alternative futures	13
pH empowered: community participation in culturally responsive computing education	13
Why EdTech is always right: students, data and machines in pre-emptive configurations	13
Leveraging technology: how Black girls enact critical digital literacies for social change	12
The politics and reciprocal (re)configuration of accountability and fairness in data-driven education	11
Edtech disruption logic and policy work: the case of an Israeli edtech unit	11
Feminisms, technologies and learning: continuities and contestations	11
Children’s digital multimodal composing: implications for learning and teaching	10
Boys’ gaming identities and opportunities for learning	10
Digital competence in teacher education: comparing national policies in Norway, Ireland and Spain	9
Deconstructing EdTech frameworks based on their creators, features, and usefulness	9
‘Honestly no, I’ve never looked at it’: teachers’ understandings and practices related to students’ personal data in digitised health and physical education	9
‘From a small click to an entire action’: exploring students’ anti-distraction strategies	9
Governance on, with, behind, and beyond the Discord platform: a study of platform practices in an informal learning context	8
‘It is important at this point to make clear that this study is not “anti-iPad”’: Ed-Tech speak around iPads in educational technology research	8
Returning the data gaze in higher education	8
The new natural? Authenticity and the naturalization of educational technologies	8
By-passing teachers in the marketing of digital technologies: the synergy of educational technology discourse and new public management practices	8
Using Knowledgeable Agents of the Digital and data feminism to uncover social identities in the #blackgirlmagic Twitter community	8
Autoroll: scripting the emergence of classroom facial recognition technology	8
The life and times of university teachers in the era of digitalization: A tragedy	7
Gender and the lived body experience of academic work during COVID-19	7
Selfies and shelfies on #bookstagram and #booktok – social media and the mediation of Australian teen reading	7
Civic intentionality in youth media participation: the case of Hong Kong	7
Responding to sociotechnical controversies in education: a modest proposal toward technical democracy	7
Learning with large, complex data and visualizations: youth data wrangling in modeling family migration	6
Towards a typology of touch in multisensory makerspaces	6
Bringing in the technological, ethical, educational and social-structural for a new education data governance	6
In between hyperboles: forms and formations in Open Education	6
Edunudge	6
Doing sociomaterial studies: the circuit of agency	6
Digital degrowth: toward radically sustainable education technology	6
‘Because I’m always moving’: a mobile ethnography study of adolescent girls’ everyday print and digital reading practices	5
Hackerspaces as technofeminist sites for experiential learning	5
The vulnerable insider: navigating power, positionality and being in educational technology research	5
Educational data advocates: emerging forms of teacher agency in postdigital classrooms	5
Migration narratives in educational digital storytelling: which stories can be told?	5
Digital masks: screens, selves and symbolic hygiene in online higher education	5
Digital games in the museum: perspectives and priorities in videogame design	5
Digital play and technical code: what new knowledge formations are possible?	5
Predictive analytics and the creation of the permanent present	4

#REALTALK: Facebook Confessions pages as a data resource for academic and student support services at universities	4
‘It’s just another nightmare to manage:’ Australian parents’ perspectives on BYOD and ‘ed-tech’ at school and at home	4
Lecturer professional identities in gamification: a socio-material perspective	4
Rethinking inclusive (digital) education: lessons from the pandemic to reconceptualise inclusion through convivial technologies	4
The can-do girl goes to coding camp: a discourse analysis of news reports on coding initiatives designed for girls	4
Highly cited educational technology journal articles: a descriptive and critical analysis	4
How young children’s play is shaped through common iPad applications: a study of 2 and 4–5 year-olds	4
(Re)politicising data-driven education: from ethical principles to radical participation	4
Negotiated, contested and political: the disruptive Third Spaces of youth media production	4
#Quiltsforpulse: connected and shared socio-political activism through craftivism	3
Sociomaterial explorations of attendance practices in ‘schooling without schools’	3
We need a curricular cooperative: envisioning a future beyond teachers paying teachers	3
What is mobile documentation doing through social media in early childhood education in-between the boundaries of a teacher’s personal and professional subjectivities?	3
Using participatory video for co-production and collaborative research with refugees: critical reflections from theDigital Place-makersprogram	3
How young adult videogames materialize senses of self through ludonarrative affects: understanding identity and embodiment through sociomaterial analysis	3
The possibilities and limits of XAI in education: a socio-technical perspective	3
Privacy and distance learning in turbulent times: a comparison of German and Israeli schools during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Who cares about learning design? Near future superheroes and villains of an educational ethics of care	3
Who controls children’s education data? A socio-legal analysis of the UK governance regimes for schools and EdTech	3
The art of youthful restraint: negotiating youth-adult relations in digital media literacy	3
Researching digital inequalities in children’s play with technology in South Africa	3
How educational institutions reveal students’ personally identifiable information on Facebook	3
Reading internationally: if citing is a political practice, who are we reading and who are we citing?	3
Online religious learning: digital epistemic authority and self-socialization in religious communities	3
Configuring the body as pedagogical site: towards a conceptual tool to unpack and situate multiple ontologies of the body in self-tracking apps	3
Media literacy education nurturing civic participation of disadvantaged youth, or not?	3
The device on the desk – a sociomaterial analysis of how Snapchat adapts to and participates in the classroom	3
Different voices, different bodies: presence–absence in the digital university	3
Valuable data? Using walkthrough methods to understand the impact of digital reading platforms in Australian primary schools	2
Lurkers or posters? How teacher identity influences self-presentation on social networking sites	2
Facilitating critical dialogues with bilingual kindergartners through animated books: a qualitative case study	2
Advancing data justice in education: some suggestions towards a deontological framework	2
Agency as an emerging phenomenon in the construction of massive open online courses: a discursive–material approach to the techno-pedagogical edX platform and its forums	2
Understanding youths’ civic participation online: a digital multimodal composing perspective	2
Reflexivity, methodology and contexts in participatory digital media research: making games with Latin American youth in London	2
Ihde meets Papert: combining postphenomenology and constructionism for a future agenda of philosophy of education in the era of digital technologies	2
In/equalities in digital education policy – sociotechnical imaginaries from three world regions	2
Families’ perceptions of corporate influence in career and technical education through data extraction	2
Technical agonism: embracing democratic dissensus in the datafication of education	2
Learning in and about a filtered universe: young people’s awareness and control of algorithms in social media	2
Introducing computers in Indian schools: institutional resistances and the making of a digital divide	2
‘Technology is not created by the sky’: datafication and educator unease	2
Academics’ perceptions of research impact and engagement through interactions on social media platforms	2
A technological bridge to equity: how VR designed through culturally relevant principles impact students appreciation of science	2
Datafied school life: the hidden commodification of digital learning	2
The construction of legitimacy: a critical discourse analysis of the rhetoric of educational technology in post-pandemic higher education	2
Teachers without borders: professional learning spanning social media, place, and time	2
‘Way more relevant and a little less theoretical’: how teaching artists designed for online learning in a pandemic	2
Egyptian female podcasters: shaping feminist identities	2
Bridging inquiry and critique: a neo-pragmatic perspective on the making of educational futures and the role of social research	2
Hacking the learning: possible pathways for a feminist pedagogy of free software in activist experiences in Argentina	2
Crafting the consumer teacher: education influencers and the figured world of K-12 teaching	2
Toward ‘more participatory' participatory video: A thematic review of literature	2
Multimodality and socio-materiality of lectures in global universities’ media: accounting for bodies and things	2
Video gaming and digital competence among elementary school students	2
Researching the lived experience of the digital: a location for social and pedagogical activism	2
In their own words: 41 stories of young people’s digital citizenship	2
From boundaries to entangled story lines: untangling young people’s material and immaterial storied practices	2