OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Learning Media and Technology is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Legends’ teaching and learning with technology in teen space	133
Affordances and agency in students’ use of online platforms and resources beyond curricular boundaries	105
Making inclusive learning: how UDL shapes production culture in an EdTech company	79
Theorizing the future of generative AI in education	60
Mapping rentiership and assetisation in the digitalisation of education	45
Problematizing feedback loops: ‘on’, ‘with’, and ‘beyond’ analytics dashboards in MOOCs	41
What do we know about YouTube content about academic writing? A multimodal analysis	36
Power structures and perceptions of AI fairness in high-stakes language testing: the Pearson Test of English (PTE Academic) as case study	34
Enforcing unwarranted optimism: critical frame analysis on educational digitalisation policies in South Korea	33
Tracing the infrastructural unfolding of (edtech) events through hybrid team ethnography	33
In search of humanness: professional identities of qualitative research educators in the age of generative AI	28
Coming to critical technology consciousness: a phenomenological study of educators	27
Social classification and the changing boundaries of learning. A neopragmatic perspective on social sorting in digital education	27
Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment	24
Reading internationally: if citing is a political practice, who are we reading and who are we citing?	24
Taking play and tinkering seriously in AI education: cases from Drag vs AI teen workshops	23
Digital cultural knowledge and curriculum: the experiences of international students as they moved from on-campus to on-line education during the pandemic	23
Stories from the future of lifelong learning: fiction, technology and speculative pedagogies	22
Different voices, different bodies: presence–absence in the digital university	21
The educational robotics imaginary. EdTech industry, educational timescapes and the tyranny of connectivity	20
Navigating education and work futures through generative AI: transmaterial philosophy, education, and the algorithmic arts	20
‘We have- we had a digital debt’: a case of digitalized school leadership practice	20
Restorying trans futures: virtual world-becoming through VR painting and speculative storytelling	19
Stories we make: speculative fiction and rememorative futures in civic learning	18
Rethinking the boundaries of learning in a digital age	18

The EU policy discourse on EdTech and constructing the image of an excellent teacher	16
Responding to sociotechnical controversies in education: a modest proposal toward technical democracy	16
Designing for reciprocity: participatory online professional learning after platformization	15
The form and function of education fiction: a design heuristic to foster convivial forms of inquiry	15
Of teachers and centaurs: Exploring the interactions and intra-actions of educators on AI education platforms	15
Socio-material mangles: the learning management system and lecturer positioning	14
Profaning platforms: deactivating and reimagining digital ecosystems in education through playful misuse	14
Challenging the inequitable impacts of edtech	14
Shouts from Acro: contradictions, imaginations, and educational futures	14
Introducing computers in Indian schools: institutional resistances and the making of a digital divide	13
Media literacy and the concept of ‘technologies’ in primary school classrooms: moving beyond technical skills	13
Misrepresentation or inclusion: promises of generative artificial intelligence in climate change education	13
Correction	13
Digitally Un/Free: the everyday impact of social media on the lives of young people	13
On the ‘university of the future': a critical analysis of cohort-based course platform Maven	13
‘We are not cheating. We are helping each other out:’ digital collective cheating in secondary education	13
Subterfuge: a parental strategy for mediating young children’s digital media practices in Azerbaijan	12
What we imagine when we imagine AI: a framework for analyzing speculative storytelling on education and technology	12
Assetisation as a means to solve public problems: the research excellence framework and competitive future-making	12
Religious ideologies of minimal computing: negotiating digital technology in religious nationalist education	12
Smartphones in the Swedish upper-secondary classroom: A policy enactment perspective	12
Founders’ trajectories, capital and market-oriented framings of education in the French EdTech market	11
Education as a co-developed commodity in Finland? A rhetorical discourse analysis on business accelerator for EdTech startups	11
Technical agonism: embracing democratic dissensus in the datafication of education	11
Unearthing imaginaries: drama-based pedagogy for speculative futures of AI in higher education	11
Reimagining learning futures through lenses of speculative fiction, scholarly analysis, and public dialogue	11
Beyond the screen: student experiences of social connection in a hybrid university learning environment	11
Imagining the future of artificial intelligence in education: a review of social science fiction	10
Virtual supremacy and electronic imperialism: the hegemonies of e-learning and computer assisted language learning (CALL)	10
When platformisation meets schooling: exploring teachers, students and parents’ experiences of digital platform use	10
The forgotten African American innovators of educational technology: stories of education, technology, and civil rights	10
The construction of legitimacy: a critical discourse analysis of the rhetoric of educational technology in post-pandemic higher education	10
Developing teacher understandings of digital play in the early years of schooling	10
Tell me a story: a framework for critically investigating AI language models	9
Discursive construction of online teacher identity and legitimacy in English language teaching	9
Online religious learning: digital epistemic authority and self-socialization in religious communities	9
‘I hope this email finds you well’: how synthetic affect circulates through MagicSchool AI	9
Conflicting motives: challenges of generative AI in education	9
Decoding school marketisation – exploring computational analytics in large-scale policy data	9
Algorithmic-authors in academia: blurring the boundaries of human and machine knowledge production	9
How platformised data collection practices in state primary schools in England mediate the parent–child relationship	8
What is the problem with generative artificial intelligence in higher education? – a critical analysis of educator responsibility in the Swedish policy landscape	8
Beyond data extraction: alternative models for the governance of educational data	8
Digital sovereignty as a political and economic struggle: the state and social movements in education	8
Bridging inquiry and critique: a neo-pragmatic perspective on the making of educational futures and the role of social research	8
Platform bureaucratization as pedagogy in highly platformized classrooms	8
Blurring the boundaries of current and future selves: students’ STEM identity exploration in a multimodal composing learning environment	8
Towards global and local histories of educational technologies: introduction	8
Digital degrowth: toward radically sustainable education technology	8
Schools as enablers and constrainers: teachers’ perceptions and practices of digital citizenship education in New Zealand	8

Creative intra-actions: co-creating with generative AI in the age of climate change	7
Homo medialiteratus and the media literacy proxy war: mapping the U.S. response to digital dismisinfo	7
Time matters: a critical multimodal study of an English learning app for children in China	7
Rebusque and minimal computing in rural Colombia: LibreEscuela, an OER co-creation project	7
AI and its impacts on the planet: a scoping review and implications for education	7
Digital compliance or professional competence? Representations of teachers and digital futures in the Norwegian Qualification Framework	7
Data as asset, data as rent? Rentiership practices in EdTech startups	7
‘I'm a resourceful person and I ask questions everywhere I go:’ adult job seekers’ adaptive literacy practices in the platformized workforce development system	7
Blind and low-vision students as surveyors of in/accessibility in technology-mediated formal education	7
Decolonising data in higher education: critical issues and future directions	7
Introduction: Minimal Computing and EdTech	7
The (im)possibility of AI literacy	6
Collectively produced epistemic objects and their necessary incompleteness for professional learning on a large-scale online platform	6
Edtech platforms from below: a family ethnography of marginalized communities and their digital learning post-pandemic	6
In/equalities in digital education policy – sociotechnical imaginaries from three world regions	6
Instituting socio-technical education futures: encounters with/through technical democracy, data justice, and imaginaries	6
Class of 2025: a speculative biography of university graduate futures	6
Transforming methodologies – reconsidering the tools and logics of educational research in the digital era	6
Valuable data? Using walkthrough methods to understand the impact of digital reading platforms in Australian primary schools	6
Problematising ClassDojo as a digital tool for behaviour management and home-school communication	6
‘Whack the prompt in there and see what it says’: making sense of Communicative AI in education	6
Beyond products and policies: transformative consultancy for schooling in the digital age	5
Who controls children’s education data? A socio-legal analysis of the UK governance regimes for schools and EdTech	5
Digital education utopia	5
Educational data brokers: using the walkthrough method to identify data brokering by edtech platforms	5
Turning back the page on digital literacy: the role of traditional literacy in shaping digital practices	5
Screens, teens and their brains. Discourses about digital media, learning and cognitive development in popular science neuroeducation	5
Beyond the story: a three-lens analysis of education fiction	5
Parents’ ontological beliefs regarding the use of conversational agents at home: resisting the neoliberal discourse	5
How young children’s play is shaped through common iPad applications: a study of 2 and 4–5 year-olds	5
Format research. On the epistemic effects of changing forms and formats in education research	5
A critical AI media literacy framework: understanding layered bias and empowerment in artificial intelligence	5
One thing can be more than one thing: a comparative study of the teacher professionalization app ‘TeacherTapp’	5
Crafting the consumer teacher: education influencers and the figured world of K-12 teaching	4
Assessing film in higher education: straddling academic and professional conventions	4
Using ethical scenarios to explore the future of artificial intelligence in primary and secondary education	4
Future classrooms and ed-tech imaginaries. Notes from the Estonian pavilion at EXPO 2020 and beyond	4
Dualized modernization: USAID and the educational television in South Korea	4
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	4
Googlization(s) of education: intermediary work brokering platform dependence in three national school systems	4
Reforming education via radio lessons for teachers? The promise and problems of distance learning in Cameroon, 1960–1995	4
Everyday approaches to platform-mediated personalized learning in secondary schools	4
The hidden costs of free services: how donations support the corporate platformization of education	4
Defining ‘the Force’ of artificial intelligence in education: exploring the future of teaching through informed speculation	4
Media literacy provision from the perspective of policymakers and civil society organisations in five areas of the UK: a case study approach	4
Oscillating between the techniques of discipline and self: how Chinese policy papers on the digitalization of education subjectivize educators and the educated	4
Shadow care infrastructures in platformised welfare education: repairing home–school communication	4
Who cites whom? U.S.-American authored research syntheses in the field of educational technology: a bibliometric analysis	4
‘Help!? My students created an evil AI’: on the irony of speculative methods and design fiction	4
Developing children’s algorithmic literacies through curatorship as media literacy	4
Navigating open-source platforms in schools: an inquiry into changing teacher professionality	4
Making education manageable: school management systems and the discursive construction of data-driven classrooms	4