OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Internet 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Conceptualizing the Gig Economy and Its Regulatory Problems	53
From content moderation to visibility moderation: A case study of platform governance on TikTok	37
Crowdsourcing: Citizens as coproducers of public services	30
Digital currencies, monetary sovereignty, and U.S.–China power competition	30
Australia's News Media Bargaining Code and the global turn towards platform regulation	25
In AI we trust? Citizen perceptions of AI in government decision making	22
How Online Content Providers Moderate User‐Generated Content to Prevent Harmful Online Communication: An Analysis of Policies and Their Implementation	22
What Drives U.S. Congressional Members’ Policy Attention on Twitter?	19
Regulation of platform market access by the United States and China: Neo‐mercantilism in digital services	17
Regulating the European Data‐Driven Economy: A Case Study on the General Data Protection Regulation	17
‘Too smart’: Infrastructuring the Internet through regional and rural smart policy in Australia	16
Unpacking government social media messaging strategies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China	15
Consumer IoT and its under‐regulation: Findings from an Australian study	15
Digital policy in European countries from the perspective of the Digital Economy and Society Index	15
Who is responsible for interventions against problematic comments? Comparing user attitudes in Germany and the United States	14
Centrality and power. The struggle over the techno‐political configuration of the Internet and the global digital order	12
Safe from “harm”: The governance of violence by platforms	12
The neo‐regulation of internet platforms in the United Kingdom	11
The Internet and public policy: Future directions	10
Super‐amplifiers! The role of Twitter extended party networks in political elections	9
Governing with health code: Standardising China's data network systems during COVID‐19	9
Gatekeepers of toxicity: Reconceptualizing Twitter's abuse and hate speech policies	9
Regulating datafication and platformization: Policy silos and tradeoffs in international platform inquiries	9
Open Government Data: The OECD's Swiss army knife in the transformation of government	8
The making of “good” citizens: China's Social Credit Systems and infrastructures of social quantification	8

The regulation of internet pornography: What a survey of under‐18s tells us about the necessity for and potential efficacy of emerging legislative approaches	8
Battle for Britain: Analyzing Events as Drivers of Political Tribalism in Twitter Discussions of Brexit	7
GAFA's information infrastructure distribution: Interconnection dynamics in the global North versus global South	7
The Instagram/Facebook ban on graphic self‐harm imagery: A sentiment analysis and topic modeling approach	7
A comparative study on false information governance in Chinese and American social media platforms	6
Credibility in enhanced self‐regulation: The case of the European data protection regime	6
Regulating the platform giants: Building and governing China's online economy	6
Governing social eating (chibo) influencers: Policies, approach and politics of influencer governance in China	6
Moving toward a “middle ground”?—The governance of platforms in the United States and China	6
Accepting but not engaging with it: Digital participation in local government‐run social credit systems in China	6
Research themes in big data analytics for policymaking: Insights from a mixed‐methods systematic literature review	5
Rethinking the legal regulation of Internet platform monopoly in China	5
Political online participation and its effects: Theory, measurement, and results	5
How does fake news spread? Understanding pathways of disinformation spread through APIs	5
Data protection and tech startups: The need for attention, support, and scrutiny	5
A policy impact tool: Measuring the policy impact of public participation in deliberative e‐rulemaking	4
“Never good enough.” A situated understanding of the impact of digitalization on citizens living in a low socioeconomic position	4
Digital diplomacy: Face management in MFA Twitter accounts	4
E‐Government maturity assessment: Evidence from Greek municipalities	4
Regulating social media and influencers within Vietnam	4
The Internet regulation turn? Policy, Internet and technology	4
Broadcasting anti‐media populism in the Philippines: YouTube influencers, networked political brokerage, and implications for governance	4
Who is leading China's family planning policy discourse in Weibo? A social media text mining analysis	4
Living in media and the era of regulation: Policy and Internet during a pandemic	4
“Dual‐Track” platform governance on content: A comparative study between China and United States	4
Immigrants, deviants, and drug users: A rhetorical analysis of President Trump's fear‐driven tweets during the 2019 government shutdown	4
Rage or rationality: Exposure to Internet censorship and the impact on individual information behaviors in China	4
Back from the dead (again): The specter of the Fairness Doctrine and its lesson for social media regulation	4
Digitalization and e‐government in the lives of urban migrants: Evidence from Bogotá	4
Democratic Innovation in Times of Crisis: Exploring Changes in Social and Political Trust	4
The barriers to regulating the online world: Insights from UK debates on online political advertising	3
Who is listening? Profiles of policymaker engagement with scientific communication	3
Procedural rights as safeguard for human rights in platform regulation	3
A process model of the public sphere: A case of municipal policy debates on Sina Weibo	3
Platform regulation from the bottom up: Judicial redress in the United States and China	3
Producing entrepreneurial citizens: Governmentality over and through Hong Kong influencers on Xiaohongshu (Red)	3
The Trichan takedown: Lessons in the governance and regulation of child sexual abuse material	3
The success of e‐participation. Learning lessons from Decide Madrid and We asked, You said, We did in Scotland	2
The weaponization of platform governance: Mass reporting and algorithmic punishments in the creator economy	2
Multisolving innovations: How digital equity, e‐waste, and right‐to‐repair policies can increase the supply of affordable computers	2
Reciprocity and asymmetry in digital diplomacy: Geopolitics of national identity in South Korea–Japan and South Korea–US relations	2
Influencing the influencers: Regulating the morality of online conduct in Indonesia	2
Prospects of blockchain governance: Understanding key public values, principles, challenges, and opportunities	2
Oegugin Influencers and pop nationalism through government campaigns: Regulating foreign‐nationals in the South Korean YouTube ecology	2
A new social contract for technology	2
Ghosts of YouTube: Rules and conventions in Japanese YouTube content creation outsourcing	2
The capricious relationship between technology and democracy: Analyzing public policy discussions in the UK and US	2
Effects of online citizen participation on legitimacy beliefs in local government. Evidence from a comparative study of online participation platforms in three German municipalities	2
Hypernudging in the changing European regulatory landscape for digital markets	2
Investigating the potential of civil disagreement to decrease issue polarization in China	2

Invisible transparency: How different types of ad disclaimers on Facebook affect whether and how digital political advertising is perceived	2
Influencer regulations, governance and sociocultural issues in Asia	2
Hate speech on social media against German mayors: Extent of the phenomenon, reactions, and implications	2
Content takedowns and activist organizing: Impact of social media content moderation on activists and organizing	1
Social media governance and strategies to combat online hatespeech in Germany	1
Ready but irresponsible? Analysis of the Government Artificial Intelligence Readiness Index	1
Feminist struggles against criminalization of digital violence: Lessons for Internet governance from the global south	1
The changing role of nation states in online content governance: A case of Google's handling of government removal requests	1
Crowdfunding platforms as conduits for ideological struggle and extremism: On the need for greater regulation and digital constitutionalism	1
Content moderation through removal of service: Content delivery networks and extremist websites	1
An exploratory study of social media's role in facilitating public participation in e‐rulemaking using computational text analysis tools	1
Platform governance by competing systems of political economy: The United States and China	1
Social media and politics on the local level	1
The client net state: Trajectories of state control over cyberspace	1
Assessing inclusivity in online platforms through usability evaluation with Google Analytics	1
Website blocking in the European Union: Network interference from the perspective of Open Internet	1
Regulating tuwei culture and migrant youth through Kuaishou's platform governance	1
Racial harmony and sexual violence: Uneven regulation and legal protection gaps for influencers in Singapore	1
Countering online terrorist content: A social regulation approach	1
Bridging the digital divide for Native American tribes: Roadblocks to broadband and community resilience	1
“Highly nuanced policy is very difficult to apply at scale”: Examining researcher account and content takedowns online	1
National markets in a world of global platform giants: The persistence of Russian domestic competitors	1
The cloud sovereignty nexus: How the European Union seeks to reverse strategic dependencies in its digital ecosystem	1
Power Relationships in China's internet Governance	1
Moderating manipulation: Demystifying extremist tactics for gaming the (regulatory) system	1
The public good and public attitudes toward data sharing through IoT	1
Transparency for what purpose?: Designing outcomes‐focused transparency tactics for digital platforms	1
Do fake online comments pose a threat to regulatory policymaking? Evidence from Internet regulation in the United States	1
Regulating Zhibo in China: Exploring multiple levels of self‐regulation and stakeholder dynamics	1
The political origins of platform economy regulations. Understanding variations in governing Airbnb and Uber across cities in Switzerland	1
Recommending instead of taking down: YouTube hyperpartisan content promotion amid the Brazilian general elections	1
Scholarly research and user‐centred policy design	1
Moderating borderline content while respecting fundamental values	1
Lessons from France on the regulation of Internet pornography: How displacement effects, circumvention, and legislative scope may limit the efficacy of Article 23	1