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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Tips for getting your work published by an overworked journal editor	33
Interrogating colonial narratives about genocide and war in Africa: perspectives from Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo	23
Support local: Google Maps’ local guides platform, spatial power and constructions of “the local”	16
Caring with and for the state: the potential of relational transparency research	13
Raven Maragh-Lloyd (2024) Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Articulations in the Digital Age	12
“How crazy is your maid?” Domestic workers in the “new India”	11
“Fight as a little girl!”: Chilean feminist cyberactivism and its outcome on the agenda	10
“We are just with each other, everything is going to be okay”—BlackQueer rural–urban migration, danger and digital sexual desires	10
Media populism and the metanarrative of God in the Philippines	9
The Mad King: violence and vulnerability in professional wrestling	8
Correction to: Negotiating content: the interplay of politics, audience, and gender in Internet-based production cultures in India	8
Documentary as slow care infrastructure: afterlives of gun violence	8
Using racial discourse communities to audit personalization algorithms	7
An intersectional approach to harassment on social media	6
From Atalanta to Angelina: Smith & Wesson feminism, white heteropatriarchy, and intimate partner violence	6
Tokenism and women’s political communication in the pursuit of gender egalitarianism in Nigeria	6
Strongman imperialism: media infrastructures and the war on Iran	6
Grounded under a Blue Sky: tools for disrupting the peer review process as we know it	6
Fashioning the keffiyeh as a Palestinian anti-colonial medium	5
Race, violence in the US, and digital (news) discourse: a corpus-based critical discourse analysis of Jordan Neely’s racialization	5
Developing a framework for equitable media literacy practice: Voices from the field	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
A comparative study on the transcultural (re-)reception of The Untamed and its queerness with Chinese characteristics	5
Why Palestine as communicative epistemology?	5

Working in precarity: examining mainstream discourses about street hawking in Ghana	5
Algorithmic censorship, power, and resistance in the Arab region: A case study of pro‑Palestinian content	5
Hacia un análisis comparativo de la política autoritaria de derechas: Argentina, India y Estados Unidos	5
The urgency of producing Palestine	4
Kamala is for they/them: liberalism, fascism, and nonsense	4
Gender hierarchies in reporting genocide: an analysis of the dehumanization of Palestinian men in Western media	4
Oil, life, and everyday fossil fascism: appropriative signification in U.S. petroleum supremacy	4
At the center of its world, the U.S. empire forgets itself: Squid Game and the Hollywood press’ melodramatic gaze	4
More than money and algorithms: the cultural roots of Trump’s alt-media strategy	4
Between incursions and appropriations: digital technologies and pluriversal modernities in the Global South	4
Gay for pay: homocapitalism and LGBTQ employees in the transnational corporate landscape	4
Who makes whom visible? Excavating eco-visual cultures in DR Congo and its diasporas	4
Ludic cybermilitias: shadow play and computational propaganda in the Indonesian predatory state	4
Holding the handle: Governance probing as method	4
“An Australian beauty-lover based in Singapore”: negotiating Asian Australian identity in the beauty vlogosphere	4
The racialized celebrity other in perfume advertisements	3
Srirupa Roy (2024) The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism	3
From one-child policy to three-children initiative: a feminist critique of the population planning policies in China	3
Streaming books: confluencers, Kindle Unlimited and the platform imaginary	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
Editor’s note	3
The anti-caste alter-network: equality labs and anti-caste activism in the US	3
Eroding the market’s hidden hand: toward a Post-Capitalist media system	3
Spraying the walls, feeds and laws: graffiti as memetic technologies of contentious politics	3
Caste concealment, loss, and humanity Concealing Caste: Narratives of Passing and Personhood in Dalit Literature, edited by Kusuma Satyanarayanan and Joel Lee	3
“White at heart”: making race in Marine Corps recruitment advertising	3
Settler policing at the foundations of racial capitalism: communication studies of colonial police work	3
Unlocked doors: the trans glitch in Kitty Horrorshow’s Anatomy	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
How to unsee Gaza: Israel’s visual politics in a time of genocide	2
Shared identity endorsement narratives: a framework for studying celebrity endorsements of minority political candidates in the US	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
A tale of two homosocialities: gender, sexuality, and global political economy in Squid Game	2
Whitexicans, or the racial politics of digital culture in Mexico	2
Bohyeoung Kim (2025) Critically Capitalist: The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea	2
Arm’s length or joined at the hip? Public service media’s coverage of Gaza	2
Controlled connection: Substack and writers of color	2
“The harder I work, the luckier I get”: how rural streamers perceive and cope with the algorithmic gaze on Taobao Live	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 politics of representation in Squid Game and the promise and peril of its transnational reception	2
“We bet on humans; you’re our horses”: the second phase of neo-poverty in South Korea as portrayed in Squid Game	2
Intersectionality in/through Nigeria’s feminist hashtag activism	2
CCC and our collective futures	2
The roots of reactionary tech oligarchy and the need for radical democratic alternatives	2
Framing Gaza: Medical Journals and the destruction of Healthcare	2
Prison media mobilization: smuggled technologies and media practices in Lebanese carceral spaces	2
Refugee sousveillance: observation and co-optation in The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives	2
Editors' reflections	2

Negotiating content: the interplay of politics, audience, and gender in Internet-based production cultures in India	2
Collective care and solidarity as resistance: An analysis of the Life in Leggings movement and Caribbean feminism	2
The decolonial cautions of Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization	1
Talking back to the West: How Turkey uses counter-hegemony to reshape the global communication order by Bilge Yesil	1
Media reconstruction and reparative media	1
Rated A: soft-porn cinema and mediations of desire in India by Darshana Sreedhar Mini	1
Disrupting the Netflix hegemony in Nollywood: The case of A Tribe Called Judah	1
Toward comparative analysis of right-authoritarian politics: Argentina, India, and the US	1
RDCWorld: performing the Black nerd in new media	1
Beyond the tropicalization of concepts: theorizing digital realities with and from the Global South (introduction to a special issue)	1
Cartography of Afro-Asian relations in America: co-racialization and nanohealing	1
Navigating gender hate in manospheres: women’s affective dissonance and refusal on LIHKG in the 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill movement	1
Clearwater Drive: and other essays from the kitchen scholar	1
“Activists” contra democracy: the dangers of rightwing activism and its strategic disavowal	1
When the homo deamon went digital: writing Africa’s transgender refugee diaspora	1
Who is fighting Sudan: the United Arab Emirates’ war on Sudan in the media	1
Provincializing “web traffic”: data imaginaries and vernacular construction ofliuliangin China	1
When the locals are Othered: hybridized representations of Latin American cultures and identities through nation branding	1
Journalist or online star? Internet celebrity strategy in China’s mainstream media amid traffic competition	1
Queen Nikkolah’s reign: revealing racial denial in Flanders through a rhetorical listening analysis of the Queen Nikkolah debate	1
Resonance, or sympathetic vibration: a Black feminist ethic for Palestine	1
Feminist political communication in the Global South—an introduction to the special issue	1
“With friends like this, who needs enemies?”: on the global rise of Christian Zionism	1
Recursive apocalypse	1
Conceptualizing feminist solidarity through resistance in the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement	1
Digital journalism, ethnic media, and transcultural potential	1
Temporal dynamics of post-feminist narratives: boundaries of empowerment in female-focused car ads (1967–2021)	1
South Asian Americans and anti-Black racism: critically reflexive racialization as an anti-racist vernacular discourse	1
What does it mean to be queer in Wikidata? Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community	1
A breakup letter with media studies	1
Marcha das Vadias: performing disidentification in transnational protests	1
Parasitic public memory: #ReclaimTheRainbow and the symbology of conservative victimhood	1
Can the subaltern speak online? Digital tactics and conditional audibility of Syrian refugees in Türkiye	1
Correction to: Ludic cybermilitias: shadow play and computational propaganda in the Indonesian predatory state	1
Squid Gameoutside the wall: fandom nationalism in China and negotiation with state power	1