OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Learning Media and Technology is 9. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Legends’ teaching and learning with technology in teen space	151
Theorizing the future of generative AI in education	93
Mapping rentiership and assetisation in the digitalisation of education	71
Affordances and agency in students’ use of online platforms and resources beyond curricular boundaries	51
In search of humanness: professional identities of qualitative research educators in the age of generative AI	46
Problematizing feedback loops: ‘on’, ‘with’, and ‘beyond’ analytics dashboards in MOOCs	46
Power structures and perceptions of AI fairness in high-stakes language testing: the Pearson Test of English (PTE Academic) as case study	45
Tracing the infrastructural unfolding of (edtech) events through hybrid team ethnography	34
Coming to critical technology consciousness: a phenomenological study of educators	32
Enforcing unwarranted optimism: critical frame analysis on educational digitalisation policies in South Korea	29
What do we know about YouTube content about academic writing? A multimodal analysis	27
‘It’s just another nightmare to manage:’ Australian parents’ perspectives on BYOD and ‘ed-tech’ at school and at home	25
Reading internationally: if citing is a political practice, who are we reading and who are we citing?	23
Taking play and tinkering seriously in AI education: cases from Drag vs AI teen workshops	20
Digital cultural knowledge and curriculum: the experiences of international students as they moved from on-campus to on-line education during the pandemic	19
Social classification and the changing boundaries of learning. A neopragmatic perspective on social sorting in digital education	19
Sociomaterial explorations of attendance practices in ‘schooling without schools’	19
Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment	18
Stories from the future of lifelong learning: fiction, technology and speculative pedagogies	17
The educational robotics imaginary. EdTech industry, educational timescapes and the tyranny of connectivity	17
Gender and the lived body experience of academic work during COVID-19	17
Different voices, different bodies: presence–absence in the digital university	17
Governance on, with, behind, and beyond the Discord platform: a study of platform practices in an informal learning context	16
Rethinking the boundaries of learning in a digital age	16
Stories we make: speculative fiction and rememorative futures in civic learning	16

Of teachers and centaurs: Exploring the interactions and intra-actions of educators on AI education platforms	16
‘We have- we had a digital debt’: a case of digitalized school leadership practice	16
The EU policy discourse on EdTech and constructing the image of an excellent teacher	15
Media literacy education nurturing civic participation of disadvantaged youth, or not?	15
Responding to sociotechnical controversies in education: a modest proposal toward technical democracy	15
Feminisms, technologies and learning: continuities and contestations	15
The form and function of education fiction: a design heuristic to foster convivial forms of inquiry	14
Challenging the inequitable impacts of edtech	14
Returning the data gaze in higher education	14
Socio-material mangles: the learning management system and lecturer positioning	14
Privacy and distance learning in turbulent times: a comparison of German and Israeli schools during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Shouts from Acro: contradictions, imaginations, and educational futures	13
‘We are not cheating. We are helping each other out:’ digital collective cheating in secondary education	13
Perspectives on restorative practices and online-mediated harm in schools: implementation challenges	13
Media literacy and the concept of ‘technologies’ in primary school classrooms: moving beyond technical skills	12
Misrepresentation or inclusion: promises of generative artificial intelligence in climate change education	12
Digitally Un/Free: the everyday impact of social media on the lives of young people	12
Edunudge	12
Big EdTech	11
Assetisation as a means to solve public problems: the research excellence framework and competitive future-making	11
Introducing computers in Indian schools: institutional resistances and the making of a digital divide	11
Subterfuge: a parental strategy for mediating young children’s digital media practices in Azerbaijan	11
Understanding youths’ civic participation online: a digital multimodal composing perspective	11
On the ‘university of the future': a critical analysis of cohort-based course platform Maven	11
Smartphones in the Swedish upper-secondary classroom: A policy enactment perspective	11
Playce-making: transformation of space in a participatory game design project within a Canadian junior high school	10
Alone-together: intergenerational mapping of digital and analogue spaces of self	10
Religious ideologies of minimal computing: negotiating digital technology in religious nationalist education	10
Education as a co-developed commodity in Finland? A rhetorical discourse analysis on business accelerator for EdTech startups	10
Egyptian female podcasters: shaping feminist identities	10
Beyond the screen: student experiences of social connection in a hybrid university learning environment	10
Imagining the future of artificial intelligence in education: a review of social science fiction	9
Technical agonism: embracing democratic dissensus in the datafication of education	9
Who cares about learning design? Near future superheroes and villains of an educational ethics of care	9
Autoroll: scripting the emergence of classroom facial recognition technology	9
The forgotten African American innovators of educational technology: stories of education, technology, and civil rights	9
Virtual supremacy and electronic imperialism: the hegemonies of e-learning and computer assisted language learning (CALL)	9
The life and times of university teachers in the era of digitalization: A tragedy	9
The construction of legitimacy: a critical discourse analysis of the rhetoric of educational technology in post-pandemic higher education	9
Discursive construction of online teacher identity and legitimacy in English language teaching	9
Tell me a story: a framework for critically investigating AI language models	9