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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Interrogating colonial narratives about genocide and war in Africa: perspectives from Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo	76
Support local: Google Maps’ local guides platform, spatial power and constructions of “the local”	17
Digital (in-)Visibilities: Spatializing and Visualizing Politics of Voice	17
“How crazy is your maid?” Domestic workers in the “new India”	15
Mentoring at the Boundary: Interdisciplinarity and the International Student of Color in Communication	14
“Fight as a little girl!”: Chilean feminist cyberactivism and its outcome on the agenda	12
Media populism and the metanarrative of God in the Philippines	12
The Mad King: violence and vulnerability in professional wrestling	10
Borders of Affect: Mobilizing Border Imagery as Civic Engagement	10
“We are just with each other, everything is going to be okay”—BlackQueer rural–urban migration, danger and digital sexual desires	10
Correction to: Negotiating content: the interplay of politics, audience, and gender in Internet-based production cultures in India	9
Prying the Doors Open: Women of Color Mentoring in the Field of Communication	9
Using racial discourse communities to audit personalization algorithms	8
Extractive Humanitarianism: Participatory Confinement and Unpaid Labor in Refugees Governmentality	7
Doing it Like a Tomboy on Post-2010 Chinese TV	7
From Atalanta to Angelina: Smith & Wesson feminism, white heteropatriarchy, and intimate partner violence	6
Between Commerciality and Authenticity: The Imaginary of Social Media Influencers in the Platform Economy	6
Tokenism and women’s political communication in the pursuit of gender egalitarianism in Nigeria	6
Affect, Creativity and Migrant Belonging	6
Working in precarity: examining mainstream discourses about street hawking in Ghana	5
Developing a framework for equitable media literacy practice: Voices from the field	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 poster boys of aspirational labor: parables of success and failure in The Viral Fever’s web shows	5
Stifled, invisible, and threatened: cultural appropriation in K-pop through the lens of identity-negotiating fans of color	5

The urgency of producing Palestine	4
Ludic cybermilitias: shadow play and computational propaganda in the Indonesian predatory state	4
A comparative study on the transcultural (re-)reception of The Untamed and its queerness with Chinese characteristics	4
At the center of its world, the U.S. empire forgets itself: Squid Game and the Hollywood press’ melodramatic gaze	4
Gendering National Sacrifices: The Making of New Heroines in China’s Counter-COVID-19 TV Series	4
Kamala is for they/them: liberalism, fascism, and nonsense	4
Who makes whom visible? Excavating eco-visual cultures in DR Congo and its diasporas	4
More than money and algorithms: the cultural roots of Trump’s alt-media strategy	3
Between incursions and appropriations: digital technologies and pluriversal modernities in the Global South	3
The anti-caste alter-network: equality labs and anti-caste activism in the US	3
“White at heart”: making race in Marine Corps recruitment advertising	3
From one-child policy to three-children initiative: a feminist critique of the population planning policies in China	3
Gay for pay: homocapitalism and LGBTQ employees in the transnational corporate landscape	3
A Lot of Straddling and Squirming: Taking Queer Migrant Stories beyond the Academic and Digital Walls	3
Beyond Benson: From Law & Order: SVU to Holland’s Grenslanders, Female Masculinity in Crime Dramas Fall Victim to Feminized Tropes	3
Oil, life, and everyday fossil fascism: appropriative signification in U.S. petroleum supremacy	3
Cartoons as bridge builders: dialoguing on radicalization with the “suspect community”	3
Female Masculinity and Transgressive Temporality: HowOrange is the New BlackRecontextualizes Prisoner Agency	3
Glocal intimacies: theorizing mobile media and intimate relationships	3
“An Australian beauty-lover based in Singapore”: negotiating Asian Australian identity in the beauty vlogosphere	3
Unlocked doors: the trans glitch in Kitty Horrorshow’s Anatomy	3
Streaming books: confluencers, Kindle Unlimited and the platform imaginary	3
Caste concealment, loss, and humanity	2
Editor’s note	2
The racialized celebrity other in perfume advertisements	2
Controlled connection: Substack and writers of color	2
Shared identity endorsement narratives: a framework for studying celebrity endorsements of minority political candidates in the US	2
Intersectionality in/through Nigeria’s feminist hashtag activism	2
“We are no longer using the term BAME:” a qualitative analysis exploring how activists position and mobilize naming of minority ethnic groups in Britain	2
Taming the Barbarian Empress: Post-alteric Imaginary of Gender Egalitarianism and Pan-Chinese Nationalism in the Legend of Xiao Chuo	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
The roots of reactionary tech oligarchy and the need for radical democratic alternatives	2
“We bet on humans; you’re our horses”: the second phase of neo-poverty in South Korea as portrayed in Squid Game	2
Refugee sousveillance: observation and co-optation in The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives	2
Spraying the walls, feeds and laws: graffiti as memetic technologies of contentious politics	2
“The harder I work, the luckier I get”: how rural streamers perceive and cope with the algorithmic gaze on Taobao Live	2
Assessing Programmatic Mentoring: Requiem for Carmen	2
Working with “Wogs”: Aliens, Denizens and the Machinations of Denialism	2
The politics of representation in Squid Game and the promise and peril of its transnational reception	2
Eurocentrism in a YouTube video on the Jakarta–Bandung railway: a critical examination of discourse across race, gender, and class	2
Navigating gender hate in manospheres: women’s affective dissonance and refusal on LIHKG in the 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill movement	1
Women on and Behind Chinese Entertainment Television: De/Constructing the Female Authorship of National Treasure	1
RDCWorld: performing the Black nerd in new media	1
The Signifying Tomboy and the Thai TV Series Club Friday To Be Continued: She Changed	1
When the homo deamon went digital: writing Africa’s transgender refugee diaspora	1
Arm’s length or joined at the hip? Public service media’s coverage of Gaza	1
When the locals are Othered: hybridized representations of Latin American cultures and identities through nation branding	1
Prison media mobilization: smuggled technologies and media practices in Lebanese carceral spaces	1
The “Little Third”: Changing Images of Women Characters Involved in Extramarital Affairs on Chinese TV	1
What does it mean to be queer in Wikidata? Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community	1

Provincializing “web traffic”: data imaginaries and vernacular construction ofliuliangin China	1
Mapping Interventions: Toward a Decolonial and Indigenous Praxis across Communication Subfields	1
Media reconstruction and reparative media	1
South Asian Americans and anti-Black racism: critically reflexive racialization as an anti-racist vernacular discourse	1
Temporal dynamics of post-feminist narratives: boundaries of empowerment in female-focused car ads (1967–2021)	1
Parasitic public memory: #ReclaimTheRainbow and the symbology of conservative victimhood	1
Viral Borders: Migration, Deceleration, and the Re-Bordering of Mobility during the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Talking back to the West: How Turkey uses counter-hegemony to reshape the global communication order by Bilge Yesil	1
Editors' reflections	1
Digital journalism, ethnic media, and transcultural potential	1
A tale of two homosocialities: gender, sexuality, and global political economy in Squid Game	1
CCC and our collective futures	1
Rated A: soft-porn cinema and mediations of desire in India by Darshana Sreedhar Mini	1
Squid Gameoutside the wall: fandom nationalism in China and negotiation with state power	1
Clearwater Drive: and other essays from the kitchen scholar	1
Migration and theDeep Timeof Media Infrastructures	1
Cartography of Afro-Asian relations in America: co-racialization and nanohealing	1
Vital dataveillance: investigating data in exchange for vitality through South Korea’s COVID-19 technogovernance	1
“Come On, Put Viber, We Can Drink Coffee Together”: Performing (Im)mobile Intimacy in Turbulent Times Among Aging Migrants	1
Negotiating content: the interplay of politics, audience, and gender in Internet-based production cultures in India	1
“Activists” contra democracy: the dangers of rightwing activism and its strategic disavowal	1
Whitexicans, or the racial politics of digital culture in Mexico	1
Conceptualizing feminist solidarity through resistance in the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement	1
Who is fighting Sudan: the United Arab Emirates’ war on Sudan in the media	1
Introduction: Global TV Images of Female Masculinity in the 2010s	1
“With friends like this, who needs enemies?”: on the global rise of Christian Zionism	1