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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Legends’ teaching and learning with technology in teen space	99
Mapping rentiership and assetisation in the digitalisation of education	64
Systematic review of 15 years of research on digital citizenship: 2004–2019	56
Affordances and agency in students’ use of online platforms and resources beyond curricular boundaries	40
Tracing the infrastructural unfolding of (edtech) events through hybrid team ethnography	37
Enforcing unwarranted optimism: critical frame analysis on educational digitalisation policies in South Korea	36
Coming to critical technology consciousness: a phenomenological study of educators	36
‘It’s just another nightmare to manage:’ Australian parents’ perspectives on BYOD and ‘ed-tech’ at school and at home	36
Problematizing feedback loops: ‘on’, ‘with’, and ‘beyond’ analytics dashboards in MOOCs	35
Those magnificent men with their teaching machines: Watters, Audrey: Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning	31
What do we know about YouTube content about academic writing? A multimodal analysis	31
#REALTALK: Facebook Confessions pages as a data resource for academic and student support services at universities	29
Social classification and the changing boundaries of learning. A neopragmatic perspective on social sorting in digital education	27
Taking play and tinkering seriously in AI education: cases from Drag vs AI teen workshops	26
Sociomaterial explorations of attendance practices in ‘schooling without schools’	24
Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment	24
Digital cultural knowledge and curriculum: the experiences of international students as they moved from on-campus to on-line education during the pandemic	23
Reading internationally: if citing is a political practice, who are we reading and who are we citing?	21
‘We have- we had a digital debt’: a case of digitalized school leadership practice	21
Gender and the lived body experience of academic work during COVID-19	20
Different voices, different bodies: presence–absence in the digital university	18
Responding to sociotechnical controversies in education: a modest proposal toward technical democracy	18
The EU policy discourse on EdTech and constructing the image of an excellent teacher	17
Governance on, with, behind, and beyond the Discord platform: a study of platform practices in an informal learning context	15
Rethinking the boundaries of learning in a digital age	14

Of teachers and centaurs: Exploring the interactions and intra-actions of educators on AI education platforms	14
Returning the data gaze in higher education	14
Socio-material mangles: the learning management system and lecturer positioning	13
Feminisms, technologies and learning: continuities and contestations	13
Media literacy education nurturing civic participation of disadvantaged youth, or not?	13
Perspectives on restorative practices and online-mediated harm in schools: implementation challenges	12
Challenging the inequitable impacts of edtech	12
Digitally Un/Free: the everyday impact of social media on the lives of young people	12
The platform classroom: troubling student configurations in a Danish primary school	12
Media literacy and the concept of ‘technologies’ in primary school classrooms: moving beyond technical skills	11
‘We are not cheating. We are helping each other out:’ digital collective cheating in secondary education	11
Privacy and distance learning in turbulent times: a comparison of German and Israeli schools during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Misrepresentation or inclusion: promises of generative artificial intelligence in climate change education	11
Understanding youths’ civic participation online: a digital multimodal composing perspective	10
Introducing computers in Indian schools: institutional resistances and the making of a digital divide	10
On the ‘university of the future': a critical analysis of cohort-based course platform Maven	10
Lifting the veil on TeachersPayTeachers.com: an investigation of educational marketplace offerings and downloads	10
Edunudge	10
Big EdTech	10
Education as a co-developed commodity in Finland? A rhetorical discourse analysis on business accelerator for EdTech startups	9
Technical agonism: embracing democratic dissensus in the datafication of education	9
Religious ideologies of minimal computing: negotiating digital technology in religious nationalist education	9
Beyond the screen: student experiences of social connection in a hybrid university learning environment	9
Neoliberal education and the neoliberal digital classroom	9
Alone-together: intergenerational mapping of digital and analogue spaces of self	9
Health education, social media, and tensions of authenticity in the ‘influencer pedagogy’ of health influencer Ashy Bines	9
Smartphones in the Swedish upper-secondary classroom: A policy enactment perspective	9
Education, automation and AI: a genealogy of alternative futures	9
Subterfuge: a parental strategy for mediating young children’s digital media practices in Azerbaijan	9
Playce-making: transformation of space in a participatory game design project within a Canadian junior high school	9
Egyptian female podcasters: shaping feminist identities	8
Youtube musicians and self-perceived multimedia, hypermedia, intertextual and transmedia competencies	8
Virtual supremacy and electronic imperialism: the hegemonies of e-learning and computer assisted language learning (CALL)	8
Assetisation as a means to solve public problems: the research excellence framework and competitive future-making	8
The construction of legitimacy: a critical discourse analysis of the rhetoric of educational technology in post-pandemic higher education	8
The forgotten African American innovators of educational technology: stories of education, technology, and civil rights	8
Imagining the future of artificial intelligence in education: a review of social science fiction	8
Who cares about learning design? Near future superheroes and villains of an educational ethics of care	7
Socially shared inquiry with media and information literacy teachers: gaps and ways forward	7
The life and times of university teachers in the era of digitalization: A tragedy	7
Online religious learning: digital epistemic authority and self-socialization in religious communities	7
Conflicting motives: challenges of generative AI in education	7
Tell me a story: a framework for critically investigating AI language models	7
The co-construction of data in-time: collaborative pedagogical encounters of golf instructors and students with data	7
Discursive construction of online teacher identity and legitimacy in English language teaching	7
Autoroll: scripting the emergence of classroom facial recognition technology	7
Teaching scientific inquiry as a situated practice: A framework for analyzing and designing Science games	6
Algorithmic - authors in academia: blurring the boundaries of human and machine knowledge production	6
Bridging inquiry and critique: a neo-pragmatic perspective on the making of educational futures and the role of social research	6
Lecturer professional identities in gamification: a socio-material perspective	6

Digital degrowth: toward radically sustainable education technology	6
Blurring the boundaries of current and future selves: students’ STEM identity exploration in a multimodal composing learning environment	6
A technological bridge to equity: how VR designed through culturally relevant principles impact students appreciation of science	6
Towards global and local histories of educational technologies: introduction	6
Introduction: Minimal Computing and EdTech	5
‘I'm a resourceful person and I ask questions everywhere I go:’ adult job seekers’ adaptive literacy practices in the platformized workforce development system	5
Homo medialiteratus and the media literacy proxy war: mapping the U.S. response to digital dismisinfo	5
The device on the desk – a sociomaterial analysis of how Snapchat adapts to and participates in the classroom	5
Decolonising data in higher education: critical issues and future directions	5
Digital compliance or professional competence? Representations of teachers and digital futures in the Norwegian Qualification Framework	5
Theorising on covid-19 educational emergency: magnifying glasses for the field of educational technology	5
Hackerspaces as technofeminist sites for experiential learning	5
Rebusque and minimal computing in rural Colombia: LibreEscuela, an OER co-creation project	4
The politics and reciprocal (re)configuration of accountability and fairness in data-driven education	4
How young children’s play is shaped through common iPad applications: a study of 2 and 4–5 year-olds	4
Blind and low-vision students as surveyors of in/accessibility in technology-mediated formal education	4
‘Way more relevant and a little less theoretical’: how teaching artists designed for online learning in a pandemic	4
Edtech platforms from below: a family ethnography of marginalized communities and their digital learning post-pandemic	4
Data as asset, data as rent? Rentiership practices in EdTech startups	4
Time matters: a critical multimodal study of an English learning app for children in China	4
Instituting socio-technical education futures: encounters with/through technical democracy, data justice, and imaginaries	4
In/equalities in digital education policy – sociotechnical imaginaries from three world regions	3
Digital education utopia	3
One thing can be more than one thing: a comparative study of the teacher professionalization app ‘TeacherTapp’	3
Crafting the consumer teacher: education influencers and the figured world of K-12 teaching	3
Living with digital materialisations of self	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
Format research. On the epistemic effects of changing forms and formats in education research	3
Valuable data? Using walkthrough methods to understand the impact of digital reading platforms in Australian primary schools	3
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	3
Googlization(s) of education: intermediary work brokering platform dependence in three national school systems	3
Navigating open-source platforms in schools: an inquiry into changing teacher professionality	3
Screens, teens and their brains. Discourses about digital media, learning and cognitive development in popular science neuroeducation	3
Collectively produced epistemic objects and their necessary incompleteness for professional learning on a large-scale online platform	3
Who controls children’s education data? A socio-legal analysis of the UK governance regimes for schools and EdTech	3
Educational data brokers: using the walkthrough method to identify data brokering by edtech platforms	3
A decolonial approach to AI in higher education teaching and learning: strategies for undoing the ethics of digital neocolonialism	3
Predictive analytics and the creation of the permanent present	3
Parents’ ontological beliefs regarding the use of conversational agents at home: resisting the neoliberal discourse	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