OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Internet 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Digital currencies, monetary sovereignty, and U.S.–China power competition	111
The client net state: Trajectories of state control over cyberspace	71
National markets in a world of global platform giants: The persistence of Russian domestic competitors	53
Broadcasting anti‐media populism in the Philippines: YouTube influencers, networked political brokerage, and implications for governance	41
Rage or rationality: Exposure to Internet censorship and the impact on individual information behaviors in China	39
From content moderation to visibility moderation: A case study of platform governance on TikTok	33
Issue Information	32
Accepting but not engaging with it: Digital participation in local government‐run social credit systems in China	29
Consumer IoT and its under‐regulation: Findings from an Australian study	28
Where are the ethical guidelines? Examining the governance of digital technologies and AI in Nigeria	28
Producing entrepreneurial citizens: Governmentality over and through Hong Kong influencers onXiaohongshu (Red)	25
Data justice in the “twin objective” of market and risk: How discrimination is formulated in EU's AI policy	23
The political origins of platform economy regulations. Understanding variations in governing Airbnb and Uber across cities in Switzerland	21
Procedural rights as safeguard for human rights in platform regulation	21
Watering down the wine: European Union regulation of violent right‐wing extremism content and the securitisation of new online spaces	18
SAVE YOUR INTERNET! The persuasion work of YouTube in the controversy over EU's digital market directive	18
Oegugin Influencers and pop nationalism through government campaigns: Regulating foreign‐nationals in the South Korean YouTube ecology	17
Do fake online comments pose a threat to regulatory policymaking? Evidence from Internet regulation in the United States	16
Unthinking Digital Sovereignty: A Critical Reflection on Origins, Objectives, and Practices	15
Rethinking the legal regulation of Internet platform monopoly in China	15
Regulating social media and influencers within Vietnam	15
Countering online terrorist content: A social regulation approach	15
The success of e‐participation. Learning lessons from Decide Madrid and We asked, You said, We did in Scotland	15
Special issue: The (international) politics of content takedowns: Theory, practice, ethics	14
Shedding light on transparency: A comprehensive study of state‐level transparency portals in Mexico	13

Social media governance and strategies to combat online hatespeech in Germany	13
Issue Information	13
The pursuit of ‘good’ Internet policy	12
Withdrawn: Power Relationships in China's Internet Governance	12
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Content takedowns and activist organizing: Impact of social media content moderation on activists and organizing	12
The (complex) effect of internet voting on turnout: Theoretical and methodological considerations	12
Pathways to Safeguarding Digital Sovereignty Within a Multi‐Level Governance Framework: A Cross‐National Comparative Study Based on the FsQCA Method	11
Issue Information	11
A process model of the public sphere: A case of municipal policy debates on Sina Weibo	11
NetzDG on Twitter: A Social Network Analysis of Stakeholders in Public Discourse About Platform Regulation in Germany	10
Issue Information	10
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An exploratory study of social media's role in facilitating public participation in e‐rulemaking using computational text analysis tools	9
The unjust burden of digital inclusion for low‐income migrant parents	9
Platform governance by competing systems of political economy: The United States and China	9
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Ghosts of YouTube: Rules and conventions in Japanese YouTube content creation outsourcing	9
Democracy in the digital era	8
“Dual‐Track” platform governance on content: A comparative study between China and United States	8
Issue Information	8
Regulating Zhibo in China: Exploring multiple levels of self‐regulation and stakeholder dynamics	8
Digitally skilled or digitally competent? Evaluating the impact of e‐Facilitation on young volunteers in Italy	8
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”	8
Geopolitics in Platform Governance: Algorithmic Sovereignty and Data Localization in China and the United States	8
Repackaging and Repurposing Digital Objects: A Conceptual Model to Understand the Malleability of Politics in Digital Environments	7
Blame and obligation: The importance of libertarianism and political orientation in the public assessment of disinformation in the United States	7
Open Government Data: The OECD's Swiss army knife in the transformation of government	7
Integrating Civic and Artificial Intelligence in Policymaking: Experimental Insights on Public Perceptions of Policy Proposals	7
Policy is theft: The state of global Internet policy in an age of revolutions	7
Can Facebook's community standards keep up with legal certainty? Content moderation governance under the pressure of the Digital Services Act	7
Issue Information	7
Does the level of e‐government affect value‐added tax collection? A study conducted among the European Union Member States	7
The responsibility to protect online: Lessons from R2P and the politics of Western‐Centricity in online harms regulation	7
GAFA's information infrastructure distribution: Interconnection dynamics in the global North versus global South	6
Issue Information	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	6
Enhancing Public Health Policy Communication Through Government–Citizen Social Media Interactions: The Impact of Replying Agents, Inquiry Tone, and Institutional Trust	6
Transitional affordances: A longitudinal mixed‐method study on the context and effects of changing mode of online access	6
Nerd Harder: A Typology of Techno‐Legal Solutionist Logics in Child Online Safety Laws	6
Understanding Chinese Internet users' information sensitivity in big data and artificial intelligence era	6
Mediated trust, the internet and artificial intelligence: Ideas, interests, institutions and futures	6
Content moderation and the digital transformations of gatekeeping	6
Lessons from France on the regulation of Internet pornography: How displacement effects, circumvention, and legislative scope may limit the efficacy of Article 23	6
Social imaginaries of digital technology in South Korea during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
A conceptual framework to explore considerations of the social implications in internet of things and smart city governance and policy: The case of Thailand	5
Models of State Digital Sovereignty From the Global South: Diverging Experiences From China, India and South Africa	5
“Never good enough.” A situated understanding of the impact of digitalization on citizens living in a low socioeconomic position	5
Regulating datafication and platformization: Policy silos and tradeoffs in international platform inquiries	5
Australia's News Media Bargaining Code and the global turn towards platform regulation	5

The cloud sovereignty nexus: How the European Union seeks to reverse strategic dependencies in its digital ecosystem	5
Hate speech on social media against German mayors: Extent of the phenomenon, reactions, and implications	5
Content Moderation and Community Standards: The Disconnect Between Policy and User Experiences Reporting Harmful and Offensive Content on Social Media	5
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A comparative study on false information governance in Chinese and American social media platforms	4
In AI we trust? Citizen perceptions of AI in government decision making	4
Invisible transparency: How different types of ad disclaimers on Facebook affect whether and how digital political advertising is perceived	4
Core concerns: The need for a governance framework to protect global Internet infrastructure	4
Issue Information	4
Platform regulation from the bottom up: Judicial redress in the United States and China	4
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Digital citizen participation in policy conflict and concord: Evaluation of a web‐based planning tool for railroad infrastructure	4
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Crowdfunding platforms as conduits for ideological struggle and extremism: On the need for greater regulation and digital constitutionalism	4
Issue Information	4
Data sovereignty: The next frontier for internet policy?	4
What is an online political advert? An interrogation of conceptual challenges in the formation of digital policy response	4
‘Too smart’: Infrastructuring the Internet through regional and rural smart policy in Australia	4
Issue Information	4
A new social contract for technology	4
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Patchwork Governance on KidTok: Balancing Regulation and Community Norms	4
Feminist struggles against criminalization of digital violence: Lessons for Internet governance from the global south	4
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Reciprocity and asymmetry in digital diplomacy: Geopolitics of national identity in South Korea–Japan and South Korea–US relations	3
Quantifying water effluent violations and enforcement impacts using causal AI	3
Multisolving innovations: How digital equity, e‐waste, and right‐to‐repair policies can increase the supply of affordable computers	3
The Internet regulation turn? Policy, Internet and technology	3
Social media and politics on the local level	3
Immigrants, deviants, and drug users: A rhetorical analysis of President Trump's fear‐driven tweets during the 2019 government shutdown	3
Influencer regulations, governance and sociocultural issues in Asia	3
Borderline content and platformised speech governance: Mapping TikTok's moderation controversies in South and Southeast Asia	3
Scholarly research and user‐centred policy design	3
A legal cure for news choice overload: Regulating algorithms and AI with ‘light patterns’ to foster autonomy and democracy	3
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Resisting and Claiming Digital Sovereignty: The Cases of Civil Society and Indigenous Groups	3
Sanctions and infrastructural ideologies: Assessing the material shaping of EU digital sovereignty in response to the war in Ukraine	3