OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Communication Culture & Critique 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 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
Media populism and the metanarrative of God in the Philippines	11
“We are just with each other, everything is going to be okay”—BlackQueer rural–urban migration, danger and digital sexual desires	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
Why Palestine as communicative epistemology?	8
From Atalanta to Angelina: Smith & Wesson feminism, white heteropatriarchy, and intimate partner violence	8
Using racial discourse communities to audit personalization algorithms	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
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
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
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