OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Learning Media and Technology is 3. 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
The rise of education rentiers: digital platforms, digital data and rents	71
AI hyped? A horizon scan of discourse on artificial intelligence in education (AIED) and development	68
The platformization of primary education in The Netherlands	52
Covid-19 controversies and critical research in digital education	45
Re-examining AI, automation and datafication in education	42
A decolonial approach to AI in higher education teaching and learning: strategies for undoing the ethics of digital neocolonialism	37
Meta-edtech	35
Health education, social media, and tensions of authenticity in the ‘influencer pedagogy’ of health influencer Ashy Bines	30
Neoliberal education and the neoliberal digital classroom	28
Lockdown literacies and semiotic assemblages: academic boundary work in the Covid-19 crisis	28
What is ‘critical’ in critical studies of edtech? Three responses	27
Systematic review of 15 years of research on digital citizenship: 2004–2019	26
The hidden costs of connectivity: nature and effects of scholars’ online harassment	26
A patchwork of platforms: mapping data infrastructures in schools	25
Big EdTech	25
Theorising on covid-19 educational emergency: magnifying glasses for the field of educational technology	23
Lifting the veil on TeachersPayTeachers.com: an investigation of educational marketplace offerings and downloads	23
Immersive virtual reality (VR) for digital media making: transmediation is key	22
The platform classroom: troubling student configurations in a Danish primary school	22
Sociotechnical imaginaries in the present and future university: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of UK higher education texts	21
Educational technologies as matters of care	21
Education, automation and AI: a genealogy of alternative futures	19
The invisible made visible through technologies’ agency: a sociomaterial inquiry on emergency remote teaching in higher education	18
Digital degrowth: toward radically sustainable education technology	18
Shifting scales of research on learning, media and technology	17

pH empowered: community participation in culturally responsive computing education	16
Boys’ gaming identities and opportunities for learning	14
Bringing in the technological, ethical, educational and social-structural for a new education data governance	13
Why EdTech is always right: students, data and machines in pre-emptive configurations	13
Feminisms, technologies and learning: continuities and contestations	12
‘From a small click to an entire action’: exploring students’ anti-distraction strategies	12
Rethinking inclusive (digital) education: lessons from the pandemic to reconceptualise inclusion through convivial technologies	12
Selfies and shelfies on #bookstagram and #booktok – social media and the mediation of Australian teen reading	12
The politics and reciprocal (re)configuration of accountability and fairness in data-driven education	12
Digital competence in teacher education: comparing national policies in Norway, Ireland and Spain	11
The life and times of university teachers in the era of digitalization: A tragedy	11
By-passing teachers in the marketing of digital technologies: the synergy of educational technology discourse and new public management practices	11
‘Honestly no, I’ve never looked at it’: teachers’ understandings and practices related to students’ personal data in digitised health and physical education	11
The possibilities and limits of explicable artificial intelligence (XAI) in education: a socio-technical perspective	10
Returning the data gaze in higher education	10
Responding to sociotechnical controversies in education: a modest proposal toward technical democracy	10
Governance on, with, behind, and beyond the Discord platform: a study of platform practices in an informal learning context	10
Digital play and technical code: what new knowledge formations are possible?	10
The new natural? Authenticity and the naturalization of educational technologies	10
Autoroll: scripting the emergence of classroom facial recognition technology	9
‘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	9
Digital education utopia	9
Hackerspaces as technofeminist sites for experiential learning	9
Who cares about learning design? Near future superheroes and villains of an educational ethics of care	8
Gender and the lived body experience of academic work during COVID-19	8
Using Knowledgeable Agents of the Digital and data feminism to uncover social identities in the #blackgirlmagic Twitter community	8
Edunudge	8
The construction of legitimacy: a critical discourse analysis of the rhetoric of educational technology in post-pandemic higher education	8
Teachers without borders: professional learning spanning social media, place, and time	7
Doing sociomaterial studies: the circuit of agency	7
‘It’s just another nightmare to manage:’ Australian parents’ perspectives on BYOD and ‘ed-tech’ at school and at home	7
Predictive analytics and the creation of the permanent present	7
Valuable data? Using walkthrough methods to understand the impact of digital reading platforms in Australian primary schools	7
Digital games in the museum: perspectives and priorities in videogame design	7
‘Because I’m always moving’: a mobile ethnography study of adolescent girls’ everyday print and digital reading practices	7
Who controls children’s education data? A socio-legal analysis of the UK governance regimes for schools and EdTech	7
How young children’s play is shaped through common iPad applications: a study of 2 and 4–5 year-olds	7
How educational institutions reveal students’ personally identifiable information on Facebook	7
Towards a typology of touch in multisensory makerspaces	7
Datafied school life: the hidden commodification of digital learning	6
Educational data advocates: emerging forms of teacher agency in postdigital classrooms	6
The vulnerable insider: navigating power, positionality and being in educational technology research	6
In/equalities in digital education policy – sociotechnical imaginaries from three world regions	6
Learning in and about a filtered universe: young people’s awareness and control of algorithms in social media	6
What is mobile documentation doing through social media in early childhood education in-between the boundaries of a teacher’s personal and professional subjectivities?	6
Researching digital inequalities in children’s play with technology in South Africa	6
Migration narratives in educational digital storytelling: which stories can be told?	6
Media literacy education nurturing civic participation of disadvantaged youth, or not?	5
How young adult videogames materialize senses of self through ludonarrative affects: understanding identity and embodiment through sociomaterial analysis	5
(Re)politicising data-driven education: from ethical principles to radical participation	5

Lecturer professional identities in gamification: a socio-material perspective	5
Highly cited educational technology journal articles: a descriptive and critical analysis	5
Instituting socio-technical education futures: encounters with/through technical democracy, data justice, and imaginaries	5
Different voices, different bodies: presence–absence in the digital university	5
Crafting the consumer teacher: education influencers and the figured world of K-12 teaching	5
A technological bridge to equity: how VR designed through culturally relevant principles impact students appreciation of science	5
Using participatory video for co-production and collaborative research with refugees: critical reflections from the Digital Place-makers program	5
Digital masks: screens, selves and symbolic hygiene in online higher education	5
Understanding youths’ civic participation online: a digital multimodal composing perspective	5
Privacy and distance learning in turbulent times: a comparison of German and Israeli schools during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Video gaming and digital competence among elementary school students	4
Reading internationally: if citing is a political practice, who are we reading and who are we citing?	4
Educational data brokers: using the walkthrough method to identify data brokering by edtech platforms	4
Advancing data justice in education: some suggestions towards a deontological framework	4
Multimodality and socio-materiality of lectures in global universities’ media: accounting for bodies and things	4
Rethinking the boundaries of learning in a digital age	4
Sociomaterial explorations of attendance practices in ‘schooling without schools’	4
Affordances and agency in students’ use of online platforms and resources beyond curricular boundaries	4
Academics’ perceptions of research impact and engagement through interactions on social media platforms	4
The art of youthful restraint: negotiating youth-adult relations in digital media literacy	4
#REALTALK: Facebook Confessions pages as a data resource for academic and student support services at universities	4
Pedagogic encounters with algorithmic system controversies: a toolkit for democratising technology	4
Smart teachers in smart schools in a smart city: teachers as adaptive agents of educational technology reforms	4
The device on the desk – a sociomaterial analysis of how Snapchat adapts to and participates in the classroom	3
‘Technology is not created by the sky’: datafication and educator unease	3
Googlization(s) of education: intermediary work brokering platform dependence in three national school systems	3
Discursive construction of online teacher identity and legitimacy in English language teaching	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
In their own words: 41 stories of young people’s digital citizenship	3
Technical agonism: embracing democratic dissensus in the datafication of education	3
Lurkers or posters? How teacher identity influences self-presentation on social networking sites	3
Toward ‘more participatory' participatory video: A thematic review of literature	3
Digitally Un/Free: the everyday impact of social media on the lives of young people	3
Reflexivity, methodology and contexts in participatory digital media research: making games with Latin American youth in London	3
Virtual supremacy and electronic imperialism: the hegemonies of e-learning and computer assisted language learning (CALL)	3
Exercising space : re-examining young people’s use of digitised health and physical education (HPE) technologies through a spatial lens	3
Playce-making: transformation of space in a participatory game design project within a Canadian junior high school	3
#Quiltsforpulse: connected and shared socio-political activism through craftivism	3
‘Someone else in the universe is trying to teach you’: teachers’ experiences with platformized instruction	3
Online religious learning: digital epistemic authority and self-socialization in religious communities	3
We need a curricular cooperative: envisioning a future beyond teachers paying teachers	3
From boundaries to entangled story lines: untangling young people’s material and immaterial storied practices	3
Future classrooms and ed-tech imaginaries. Notes from the Estonian pavilion at EXPO 2020 and beyond	3