OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Communication Culture & Critique is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Articulations in the Digital Age by Raven Maragh-Lloyd	27
Interrogating colonial narratives about genocide and war in Africa: perspectives from Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo	24
Support local: Google Maps’ local guides platform, spatial power and constructions of “the local”	22
“How crazy is your maid?” Domestic workers in the “new India”	13
Tips for getting your work published by an overworked journal editor	13
“Fight as a little girl!”: Chilean feminist cyberactivism and its outcome on the agenda	12
“We are just with each other, everything is going to be okay”—BlackQueer rural–urban migration, danger and digital sexual desires	11
Media populism and the metanarrative of God in the Philippines	11
The Mad King: violence and vulnerability in professional wrestling	10
Correction to: Negotiating content: the interplay of politics, audience, and gender in Internet-based production cultures in India	10
From Atalanta to Angelina: Smith & Wesson feminism, white heteropatriarchy, and intimate partner violence	8
Using racial discourse communities to audit personalization algorithms	8
Why Palestine as communicative epistemology?	8
Tokenism and women’s political communication in the pursuit of gender egalitarianism in Nigeria	7
Grounded under a Blue Sky: tools for disrupting the peer review process as we know it	7
Fashioning the keffiyeh as a Palestinian anti-colonial medium	7
Race, violence in the US, and digital (news) discourse: a corpus-based critical discourse analysis of Jordan Neely’s racialization	6
Working in precarity: examining mainstream discourses about street hawking in Ghana	6
The poster boys of aspirational labor: parables of success and failure in The Viral Fever’s web shows	6
Stifled, invisible, and threatened: cultural appropriation in K-pop through the lens of identity-negotiating fans of color	6
An intersectional approach to harassment on social media	6
Gendering National Sacrifices: The Making of New Heroines in China’s Counter-COVID-19 TV Series	5
Developing a framework for equitable media literacy practice: Voices from the field	5
A comparative study on the transcultural (re-)reception of The Untamed and its queerness with Chinese characteristics	5
Algorithmic censorship, power, and resistance in the Arab region: A case study of pro‑Palestinian content	5

Who makes whom visible? Excavating eco-visual cultures in DR Congo and its diasporas	5
Hacia un análisis comparativo de la política autoritaria de derechas: Argentina, India y Estados Unidos	5
Feminist accountability: deconstructing feminist praxes, solidarities and LGBTQI+ activisms in Ghana	5
The urgency of producing Palestine	5
Glocal intimacies: theorizing mobile media and intimate relationships	4
Oil, life, and everyday fossil fascism: appropriative signification in U.S. petroleum supremacy	4
“An Australian beauty-lover based in Singapore”: negotiating Asian Australian identity in the beauty vlogosphere	4
At the center of its world, the U.S. empire forgets itself: Squid Game and the Hollywood press’ melodramatic gaze	4
Gay for pay: homocapitalism and LGBTQ employees in the transnational corporate landscape	4
Between incursions and appropriations: digital technologies and pluriversal modernities in the Global South	4
Settler policing at the foundations of racial capitalism: communication studies of colonial police work	4
Eroding the market’s hidden hand: toward a Post-Capitalist media system	4
Ludic cybermilitias: shadow play and computational propaganda in the Indonesian predatory state	4
Gender hierarchies in reporting genocide: an analysis of the dehumanization of Palestinian men in Western media	4
The anti-caste alter-network: equality labs and anti-caste activism in the US	4
From one-child policy to three-children initiative: a feminist critique of the population planning policies in China	4
Kamala is for they/them: liberalism, fascism, and nonsense	4
More than money and algorithms: the cultural roots of Trump’s alt-media strategy	4
Unlocked doors: the trans glitch in Kitty Horrorshow’s Anatomy	3
Resisting authoritarianism and war: An Iranian left feminist perspective	3
From wampum to blockchain; from gold rush to “code rush” Indigenous currencies: leaving some for the rest in the digital age. Ashley Cordes, 2025, The MIT Press.	3
“The harder I work, the luckier I get”: how rural streamers perceive and cope with the algorithmic gaze on Taobao Live	3
Streaming books: confluencers, Kindle Unlimited and the platform imaginary	3
“We are no longer using the term BAME:” a qualitative analysis exploring how activists position and mobilize naming of minority ethnic groups in Britain	3
The racialized celebrity other in perfume advertisements	3
Editor’s note	3
“White at heart”: making race in Marine Corps recruitment advertising	3
Spraying the walls, feeds and laws: graffiti as memetic technologies of contentious politics	3
Cartoons as bridge builders: dialoguing on radicalization with the “suspect community”	3
Caste concealment, loss, and humanity Concealing Caste: Narratives of Passing and Personhood in Dalit Literature, edited by Kusuma Satyanarayanan and Joel Lee	3
Controlled connection: Substack and writers of color	2
The politics of representation in Squid Game and the promise and peril of its transnational reception	2
A tale of two homosocialities: gender, sexuality, and global political economy in Squid Game	2
Arm’s length or joined at the hip? Public service media’s coverage of Gaza	2
Editors' reflections	2
Bitification and the Gaza genocide	2
Eurocentrism in a YouTube video on the Jakarta–Bandung railway: a critical examination of discourse across race, gender, and class	2
The roots of reactionary tech oligarchy and the need for radical democratic alternatives	2
CCC and our collective futures	2
Collective care and solidarity as resistance: An analysis of the Life in Leggings movement and Caribbean feminism	2
Refugee sousveillance: observation and co-optation in The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives	2
“We bet on humans; you’re our horses”: the second phase of neo-poverty in South Korea as portrayed in Squid Game	2
Framing Gaza: Medical Journals and the destruction of Healthcare	2
Shared identity endorsement narratives: a framework for studying celebrity endorsements of minority political candidates in the US	2
How to unsee Gaza: Israel’s visual politics in a time of genocide	2
Critically capitalist: The spirit of asset capitalism in South Korea by Bohyeong Kim	2
Intersectionality in/through Nigeria’s feminist hashtag activism	2
Whitexicans, or the racial politics of digital culture in Mexico	2
Prison media mobilization: smuggled technologies and media practices in Lebanese carceral spaces	2
“She is as feminine as my mother, as my sister, as my biologically female friends”: On the promise and limits of transgender visibility in fashion media	2

Talking back to the West: How Turkey uses counter-hegemony to reshape the global communication order by Bilge Yesil	1
Provincializing “web traffic”: data imaginaries and vernacular construction ofliuliangin China	1
South Asian Americans and anti-Black racism: critically reflexive racialization as an anti-racist vernacular discourse	1
Navigating gender hate in manospheres: women’s affective dissonance and refusal on LIHKG in the 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill movement	1
Temporal dynamics of post-feminist narratives: boundaries of empowerment in female-focused car ads (1967–2021)	1
“With friends like this, who needs enemies?”: on the global rise of Christian Zionism	1
What does it mean to be queer in Wikidata? Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community	1
Clearwater Drive: and other essays from the kitchen scholar	1
The decolonial cautions of Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization	1
RDCWorld: performing the Black nerd in new media	1
When the homo deamon went digital: writing Africa’s transgender refugee diaspora	1
A breakup letter with media studies	1
Journalist or online star? Internet celebrity strategy in China’s mainstream media amid traffic competition	1
Media reconstruction and reparative media	1
Squid Gameoutside the wall: fandom nationalism in China and negotiation with state power	1
Negotiating content: the interplay of politics, audience, and gender in Internet-based production cultures in India	1
Beyond the tropicalization of concepts: theorizing digital realities with and from the Global South (introduction to a special issue)	1
“Activists” contra democracy: the dangers of rightwing activism and its strategic disavowal	1
Parasitic public memory: #ReclaimTheRainbow and the symbology of conservative victimhood	1
Introduction: Global TV Images of Female Masculinity in the 2010s	1
Digital journalism, ethnic media, and transcultural potential	1
When the locals are Othered: hybridized representations of Latin American cultures and identities through nation branding	1
Women on and Behind Chinese Entertainment Television: De/Constructing the Female Authorship of National Treasure	1
Marcha das Vadias: performing disidentification in transnational protests	1
Rated A: soft-porn cinema and mediations of desire in India by Darshana Sreedhar Mini	1
Recursive apocalypse	1
Disrupting the Netflix hegemony in Nollywood: The case of A Tribe Called Judah	1
Queen Nikkolah’s reign: revealing racial denial in Flanders through a rhetorical listening analysis of the Queen Nikkolah debate	1
Who is fighting Sudan: the United Arab Emirates’ war on Sudan in the media	1
Cartography of Afro-Asian relations in America: co-racialization and nanohealing	1
Conceptualizing feminist solidarity through resistance in the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement	1