OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Internet is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The client net state: Trajectories of state control over cyberspace	87
Digital currencies, monetary sovereignty, and U.S.–China power competition	55
Broadcasting anti‐media populism in the Philippines: YouTube influencers, networked political brokerage, and implications for governance	45
Rage or rationality: Exposure to Internet censorship and the impact on individual information behaviors in China	36
National markets in a world of global platform giants: The persistence of Russian domestic competitors	32
Producing entrepreneurial citizens: Governmentality over and through Hong Kong influencers onXiaohongshu (Red)	25
From content moderation to visibility moderation: A case study of platform governance on TikTok	25
Where are the ethical guidelines? Examining the governance of digital technologies and AI in Nigeria	24
Accepting but not engaging with it: Digital participation in local government‐run social credit systems in China	24
Research themes in big data analytics for policymaking: Insights from a mixed‐methods systematic literature review	22
Issue Information	22
Consumer IoT and its under‐regulation: Findings from an Australian study	21
Procedural rights as safeguard for human rights in platform regulation	18
SAVE YOUR INTERNET! The persuasion work of YouTube in the controversy over EU's digital market directive	18
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Data justice in the “twin objective” of market and risk: How discrimination is formulated in EU's AI policy	16
The political origins of platform economy regulations. Understanding variations in governing Airbnb and Uber across cities in Switzerland	16
Unthinking Digital Sovereignty: A Critical Reflection on Origins, Objectives, and Practices	15
Countering online terrorist content: A social regulation approach	14
Watering down the wine: European Union regulation of violent right‐wing extremism content and the securitisation of new online spaces	12
Rethinking the legal regulation of Internet platform monopoly in China	12
Oegugin Influencers and pop nationalism through government campaigns: Regulating foreign‐nationals in the South Korean YouTube ecology	12
The success of e‐participation. Learning lessons from Decide Madrid and We asked, You said, We did in Scotland	12
Social media governance and strategies to combat online hatespeech in Germany	12
Do fake online comments pose a threat to regulatory policymaking? Evidence from Internet regulation in the United States	12

Regulating social media and influencers within Vietnam	12
Shedding light on transparency: A comprehensive study of state‐level transparency portals in Mexico	11
Special issue: The (international) politics of content takedowns: Theory, practice, ethics	11
The pursuit of ‘good’ Internet policy	10
The (complex) effect of internet voting on turnout: Theoretical and methodological considerations	10
Content takedowns and activist organizing: Impact of social media content moderation on activists and organizing	10
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A process model of the public sphere: A case of municipal policy debates on Sina Weibo	9
Platform governance by competing systems of political economy: The United States and China	9
Withdrawn: Power Relationships in China's Internet Governance	9
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An exploratory study of social media's role in facilitating public participation in e‐rulemaking using computational text analysis tools	8
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The unjust burden of digital inclusion for low‐income migrant parents	7
Ghosts of YouTube: Rules and conventions in Japanese YouTube content creation outsourcing	7
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”	7
“Dual‐Track” platform governance on content: A comparative study between China and United States	7
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Regulating Zhibo in China: Exploring multiple levels of self‐regulation and stakeholder dynamics	7
Democracy in the digital era	6
Can Facebook's community standards keep up with legal certainty? Content moderation governance under the pressure of the Digital Services Act	6
Digitally skilled or digitally competent? Evaluating the impact of e‐Facilitation on young volunteers in Italy	6
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Blame and obligation: The importance of libertarianism and political orientation in the public assessment of disinformation in the United States	6
Repackaging and Repurposing Digital Objects: A Conceptual Model to Understand the Malleability of Politics in Digital Environments	6
The responsibility to protect online: Lessons from R2P and the politics of Western‐Centricity in online harms regulation	6
Effects of online citizen participation on legitimacy beliefs in local government. Evidence from a comparative study of online participation platforms in three German municipalities	5
Does the level of e‐government affect value‐added tax collection? A study conducted among the European Union Member States	5
Policy is theft: The state of global Internet policy in an age of revolutions	5
Digital diplomacy: Face management in MFA Twitter accounts	5
Who is responsible for interventions against problematic comments? Comparing user attitudes in Germany and the United States	5
Issue Information	5
Open Government Data: The OECD's Swiss army knife in the transformation of government	5
Social imaginaries of digital technology in South Korea during the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
Understanding Chinese Internet users' information sensitivity in big data and artificial intelligence era	4
Political online participation and its effects: Theory, measurement, and results	4
The cloud sovereignty nexus: How the European Union seeks to reverse strategic dependencies in its digital ecosystem	4
Models of State Digital Sovereignty From the Global South: Diverging Experiences From China, India and South Africa	4
Mediated trust, the internet and artificial intelligence: Ideas, interests, institutions and futures	4
Who is leading China's family planning policy discourse in Weibo? A social media text mining analysis	4
What is the role of civil society in Internet governance? Confronting institutional passive perspectives with resource mobilization in Portugal	4
A conceptual framework to explore considerations of the social implications in internet of things and smart city governance and policy: The case of Thailand	4
Enhancing Public Health Policy Communication Through Government–Citizen Social Media Interactions: The Impact of Replying Agents, Inquiry Tone, and Institutional Trust	4
Transitional affordances: A longitudinal mixed‐method study on the context and effects of changing mode of online access	4
Regulating datafication and platformization: Policy silos and tradeoffs in international platform inquiries	4
“Never good enough.” A situated understanding of the impact of digitalization on citizens living in a low socioeconomic position	4
Content moderation and the digital transformations of gatekeeping	4

Lessons from France on the regulation of Internet pornography: How displacement effects, circumvention, and legislative scope may limit the efficacy of Article 23	4
GAFA's information infrastructure distribution: Interconnection dynamics in the global North versus global South	4
Hate speech on social media against German mayors: Extent of the phenomenon, reactions, and implications	3
Australia's News Media Bargaining Code and the global turn towards platform regulation	3
Feminist struggles against criminalization of digital violence: Lessons for Internet governance from the global south	3
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Crowdfunding platforms as conduits for ideological struggle and extremism: On the need for greater regulation and digital constitutionalism	3
Digital citizen participation in policy conflict and concord: Evaluation of a web‐based planning tool for railroad infrastructure	3
Issue Information	3
Data sovereignty: The next frontier for internet policy?	3
Core concerns: The need for a governance framework to protect global Internet infrastructure	3
Invisible transparency: How different types of ad disclaimers on Facebook affect whether and how digital political advertising is perceived	3
A new social contract for technology	3
Patchwork Governance on KidTok: Balancing Regulation and Community Norms	3
Living in media and the era of regulation: Policy and Internet during a pandemic	3
What is an online political advert? An interrogation of conceptual challenges in the formation of digital policy response	3
In AI we trust? Citizen perceptions of AI in government decision making	2
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Social media and politics on the local level	2
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The capricious relationship between technology and democracy: Analyzing public policy discussions in the UK and US	2
A legal cure for news choice overload: Regulating algorithms and AI with ‘light patterns’ to foster autonomy and democracy	2
Data protection and tech startups: The need for attention, support, and scrutiny	2
Platform regulation from the bottom up: Judicial redress in the United States and China	2
A comparative study on false information governance in Chinese and American social media platforms	2
Sanctions and infrastructural ideologies: Assessing the material shaping of EU digital sovereignty in response to the war in Ukraine	2
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Scholarly research and user‐centred policy design	2
Issue Information	2
‘Too smart’: Infrastructuring the Internet through regional and rural smart policy in Australia	2
Quantifying water effluent violations and enforcement impacts using causal AI	2
Who is listening? Profiles of policymaker engagement with scientific communication	2
Resisting and Claiming Digital Sovereignty: The Cases of Civil Society and Indigenous Groups	2
Reciprocity and asymmetry in digital diplomacy: Geopolitics of national identity in South Korea–Japan and South Korea–US relations	2