OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Internet is 4. 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
The client net state: Trajectories of state control over cyberspace	48
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National markets in a world of global platform giants: The persistence of Russian domestic competitors	31
Broadcasting anti‐media populism in the Philippines: YouTube influencers, networked political brokerage, and implications for governance	28
Location, Location, Reaction: How Mandatory IP Disclosure Silences Critics and Sparks Backlash	28
Where are the ethical guidelines? Examining the governance of digital technologies and AI in Nigeria	26
Accepting but not engaging with it: Digital participation in local government‐run social credit systems in China	25
Producing entrepreneurial citizens: Governmentality over and through Hong Kong influencers onXiaohongshu (Red)	23
Experts React—The Politics of Technology in Trump's Second Term	21
Data justice in the “twin objective” of market and risk: How discrimination is formulated in EU's AI policy	19
SAVE YOUR INTERNET! The persuasion work of YouTube in the controversy over EU's digital market directive	19
The Multiple Streams Framework: A Lens for Understanding Artificial Intelligence Adoption in the Public Sector	19
Do fake online comments pose a threat to regulatory policymaking? Evidence from Internet regulation in the United States	18
Countering online terrorist content: A social regulation approach	18
Watering down the wine: European Union regulation of violent right‐wing extremism content and the securitisation of new online spaces	17
Oegugin Influencers and pop nationalism through government campaigns: Regulating foreign‐nationals in the South Korean YouTube ecology	16
Regulating social media and influencers within Vietnam	16
Unthinking Digital Sovereignty: A Critical Reflection on Origins, Objectives, and Practices	16
The success of e‐participation. Learning lessons from Decide Madrid and We asked, You said, We did in Scotland	16
Issue Information	15
Social media governance and strategies to combat online hatespeech in Germany	15
Special issue: The (international) politics of content takedowns: Theory, practice, ethics	15
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Withdrawn: Power Relationships in China's Internet Governance	14
The pursuit of ‘good’ Internet policy	14

The (complex) effect of internet voting on turnout: Theoretical and methodological considerations	13
Content takedowns and activist organizing: Impact of social media content moderation on activists and organizing	13
Shedding light on transparency: A comprehensive study of state‐level transparency portals in Mexico	12
Breadth Without Depth—A Practitioner's Observation on Default‐Mode AI	12
Issue Information	11
NetzDG on Twitter: A Social Network Analysis of Stakeholders in Public Discourse About Platform Regulation in Germany	11
Issue Information	11
Australian Teen Voices on Age Verification and Age Assurance Measures	11
A Teleological Interpretation of the Definition of DeepFakes in the EU Artificial Intelligence Act—A Purpose‐Based Approach to Potential Problems With the Word “Existing”	10
Regulating Zhibo in China: Exploring multiple levels of self‐regulation and stakeholder dynamics	10
Issue Information	10
Ghosts of YouTube: Rules and conventions in Japanese YouTube content creation outsourcing	10
The unjust burden of digital inclusion for low‐income migrant parents	10
Pathways to Safeguarding Digital Sovereignty Within a Multi‐Level Governance Framework: A Cross‐National Comparative Study Based on the FsQCA Method	10
Issue Information	10
Geopolitics in Platform Governance: Algorithmic Sovereignty and Data Localization in China and the United States	10
An exploratory study of social media's role in facilitating public participation in e‐rulemaking using computational text analysis tools	10
Integrating Civic and Artificial Intelligence in Policymaking: Experimental Insights on Public Perceptions of Policy Proposals	9
Digitally skilled or digitally competent? Evaluating the impact of e‐Facilitation on young volunteers in Italy	9
Issue Information	9
Blame and obligation: The importance of libertarianism and political orientation in the public assessment of disinformation in the United States	8
Policy is theft: The state of global Internet policy in an age of revolutions	8
Issue Information	8
Can Facebook's community standards keep up with legal certainty? Content moderation governance under the pressure of the Digital Services Act	8
Democracy in the digital era	8
Repackaging and Repurposing Digital Objects: A Conceptual Model to Understand the Malleability of Politics in Digital Environments	8
The responsibility to protect online: Lessons from R2P and the politics of Western‐Centricity in online harms regulation	8
Issue Information	7
Content moderation and the digital transformations of gatekeeping	7
Effects of online citizen participation on legitimacy beliefs in local government. Evidence from a comparative study of online participation platforms in three German municipalities	7
Mediated trust, the internet and artificial intelligence: Ideas, interests, institutions and futures	7
Nerd Harder: A Typology of Techno‐Legal Solutionist Logics in Child Online Safety Laws	7
Understanding Chinese Internet users' information sensitivity in big data and artificial intelligence era	7
Transitional affordances: A longitudinal mixed‐method study on the context and effects of changing mode of online access	7
Law Enforcement and the Public: Designing Effective Public Safety Crowdsourcing Initiatives	7
Does the level of e‐government affect value‐added tax collection? A study conducted among the European Union Member States	7
From Swipes to Votes: The Role of the Voting Advice Application Voteswiper in Polarizing Voter Choices for the 2025 General Election in Germany	7
Institutionalizing Predictive AI in Public Administration: Algorithmic Governance and the Case of a Wildfire Forecasting System	7
Social imaginaries of digital technology in South Korea during the COVID‐19 pandemic	7
A new social contract for technology	6
Patchwork Governance on KidTok: Balancing Regulation and Community Norms	6
A conceptual framework to explore considerations of the social implications in internet of things and smart city governance and policy: The case of Thailand	6
Hate speech on social media against German mayors: Extent of the phenomenon, reactions, and implications	6
Public Opinion, Sentiment, and Policy Feedback: An Exploratory Computational Text Analysis of Debates on Leave Compensation Policies on Chinese Social Media	6
Content Moderation and Community Standards: The Disconnect Between Policy and User Experiences Reporting Harmful and Offensive Content on Social Media	6
The cloud sovereignty nexus: How the European Union seeks to reverse strategic dependencies in its digital ecosystem	6
From Global to Local: Building Internet Policy(ies) in a National Digital Agenda	6
Digital citizen participation in policy conflict and concord: Evaluation of a web‐based planning tool for railroad infrastructure	6
Cross‐Border Online Radicalization Among Teenagers: Evidence From a Brazilian Case Study	6
Enhancing Public Health Policy Communication Through Government–Citizen Social Media Interactions: The Impact of Replying Agents, Inquiry Tone, and Institutional Trust	6

Models of State Digital Sovereignty From the Global South: Diverging Experiences From China, India and South Africa	6
Issue Information	5
Balancing Innovation and Control: Public Views on Risks and Governance of AI in Political Communication	5
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Issue Information	5
What is an online political advert? An interrogation of conceptual challenges in the formation of digital policy response	5
Crowdfunding platforms as conduits for ideological struggle and extremism: On the need for greater regulation and digital constitutionalism	5
Issue Information	5
Data sovereignty: The next frontier for internet policy?	5
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Core concerns: The need for a governance framework to protect global Internet infrastructure	5
Invisible transparency: How different types of ad disclaimers on Facebook affect whether and how digital political advertising is perceived	5
The Technopolitical Paradox: Navigating Algorithmic Legitimacy, Participation Facades, and Technocratic Inclusion in Post‐Reformasi Indonesia	5
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Issue Information	5
Measuring Governance or Wealth? Construct Validation of AI Readiness Indices	4
Where Risk Travels: A Dual‐Path Model of Media and Governance in the Perception of AI Hallucination	4
A legal cure for news choice overload: Regulating algorithms and AI with ‘light patterns’ to foster autonomy and democracy	4
Regulating Reality: Exploring Synthetic Media Through Multistakeholder AI Governance	4
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Quantifying water effluent violations and enforcement impacts using causal AI	4
WeChat‐as‐a‐Police Service	4
Reciprocity and asymmetry in digital diplomacy: Geopolitics of national identity in South Korea–Japan and South Korea–US relations	4
Conceptualizing Digital Democracy: A Policy‐Oriented Approach Through Computational Text Analysis	4
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