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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Digital currencies, monetary sovereignty, and U.S.–China power competition	106
The client net state: Trajectories of state control over cyberspace	62
National markets in a world of global platform giants: The persistence of Russian domestic competitors	51
Rage or rationality: Exposure to Internet censorship and the impact on individual information behaviors in China	39
Broadcasting anti‐media populism in the Philippines: YouTube influencers, networked political brokerage, and implications for governance	38
From content moderation to visibility moderation: A case study of platform governance on TikTok	31
Issue Information	28
Accepting but not engaging with it: Digital participation in local government‐run social credit systems in China	28
Consumer IoT and its under‐regulation: Findings from an Australian study	26
Where are the ethical guidelines? Examining the governance of digital technologies and AI in Nigeria	25
Producing entrepreneurial citizens: Governmentality over and through Hong Kong influencers onXiaohongshu (Red)	24
SAVE YOUR INTERNET! The persuasion work of YouTube in the controversy over EU's digital market directive	23
The political origins of platform economy regulations. Understanding variations in governing Airbnb and Uber across cities in Switzerland	20
Procedural rights as safeguard for human rights in platform regulation	19
Data justice in the “twin objective” of market and risk: How discrimination is formulated in EU's AI policy	19
Unthinking Digital Sovereignty: A Critical Reflection on Origins, Objectives, and Practices	17
Watering down the wine: European Union regulation of violent right‐wing extremism content and the securitisation of new online spaces	16
Do fake online comments pose a threat to regulatory policymaking? Evidence from Internet regulation in the United States	15
Rethinking the legal regulation of Internet platform monopoly in China	14
Oegugin Influencers and pop nationalism through government campaigns: Regulating foreign‐nationals in the South Korean YouTube ecology	14
Regulating social media and influencers within Vietnam	13
The success of e‐participation. Learning lessons from Decide Madrid and We asked, You said, We did in Scotland	13
Special issue: The (international) politics of content takedowns: Theory, practice, ethics	13
Countering online terrorist content: A social regulation approach	13
The pursuit of ‘good’ Internet policy	12

Social media governance and strategies to combat online hatespeech in Germany	12
Content takedowns and activist organizing: Impact of social media content moderation on activists and organizing	11
Withdrawn: Power Relationships in China's Internet Governance	11
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A process model of the public sphere: A case of municipal policy debates on Sina Weibo	10
Shedding light on transparency: A comprehensive study of state‐level transparency portals in Mexico	10
Pathways to Safeguarding Digital Sovereignty Within a Multi‐Level Governance Framework: A Cross‐National Comparative Study Based on the FsQCA Method	10
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The (complex) effect of internet voting on turnout: Theoretical and methodological considerations	10
An exploratory study of social media's role in facilitating public participation in e‐rulemaking using computational text analysis tools	9
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Regulating Zhibo in China: Exploring multiple levels of self‐regulation and stakeholder dynamics	8
Platform governance by competing systems of political economy: The United States and China	8
Geopolitics in Platform Governance: Algorithmic Sovereignty and Data Localization in China and the United States	8
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“Dual‐Track” platform governance on content: A comparative study between China and United States	8
Ghosts of YouTube: Rules and conventions in Japanese YouTube content creation outsourcing	8
Digitally skilled or digitally competent? Evaluating the impact of e‐Facilitation on young volunteers in Italy	7
Blame and obligation: The importance of libertarianism and political orientation in the public assessment of disinformation in the United States	7
Issue Information	7
Repackaging and Repurposing Digital Objects: A Conceptual Model to Understand the Malleability of Politics in Digital Environments	7
The unjust burden of digital inclusion for low‐income migrant parents	7
Democracy in the digital era	7
The responsibility to protect online: Lessons from R2P and the politics of Western‐Centricity in online harms regulation	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
Issue Information	7
Policy is theft: The state of global Internet policy in an age of revolutions	7
Does the level of e‐government affect value‐added tax collection? A study conducted among the European Union Member States	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
Can Facebook's community standards keep up with legal certainty? Content moderation governance under the pressure of the Digital Services Act	6
Issue Information	6
Open Government Data: The OECD's Swiss army knife in the transformation of government	6
“Never good enough.” A situated understanding of the impact of digitalization on citizens living in a low socioeconomic position	5
Digital diplomacy: Face management in MFA Twitter accounts	5
Political online participation and its effects: Theory, measurement, and results	5
What is the role of civil society in Internet governance? Confronting institutional passive perspectives with resource mobilization in Portugal	5
Social imaginaries of digital technology in South Korea during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Understanding Chinese Internet users' information sensitivity in big data and artificial intelligence era	5
Lessons from France on the regulation of Internet pornography: How displacement effects, circumvention, and legislative scope may limit the efficacy of Article 23	5
Enhancing Public Health Policy Communication Through Government–Citizen Social Media Interactions: The Impact of Replying Agents, Inquiry Tone, and Institutional Trust	5
Mediated trust, the internet and artificial intelligence: Ideas, interests, institutions and futures	5
Content moderation and the digital transformations of gatekeeping	5
Nerd Harder: A Typology of Techno‐Legal Solutionist Logics in Child Online Safety Laws	5
The cloud sovereignty nexus: How the European Union seeks to reverse strategic dependencies in its digital ecosystem	5
GAFA's information infrastructure distribution: Interconnection dynamics in the global North versus global South	5
Regulating datafication and platformization: Policy silos and tradeoffs in international platform inquiries	4
Content Moderation and Community Standards: The Disconnect Between Policy and User Experiences Reporting Harmful and Offensive Content on Social Media	4

Core concerns: The need for a governance framework to protect global Internet infrastructure	4
A new social contract for technology	4
Crowdfunding platforms as conduits for ideological struggle and extremism: On the need for greater regulation and digital constitutionalism	4
Transitional affordances: A longitudinal mixed‐method study on the context and effects of changing mode of online access	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
Digital citizen participation in policy conflict and concord: Evaluation of a web‐based planning tool for railroad infrastructure	4
Invisible transparency: How different types of ad disclaimers on Facebook affect whether and how digital political advertising is perceived	4
Australia's News Media Bargaining Code and the global turn towards platform regulation	4
Hate speech on social media against German mayors: Extent of the phenomenon, reactions, and implications	4
Models of State Digital Sovereignty From the Global South: Diverging Experiences From China, India and South Africa	4
What is an online political advert? An interrogation of conceptual challenges in the formation of digital policy response	4
Patchwork Governance on KidTok: Balancing Regulation and Community Norms	4
‘Too smart’: Infrastructuring the Internet through regional and rural smart policy in Australia	3
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Data sovereignty: The next frontier for internet policy?	3
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A legal cure for news choice overload: Regulating algorithms and AI with ‘light patterns’ to foster autonomy and democracy	3
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Living in media and the era of regulation: Policy and Internet during a pandemic	3
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A comparative study on false information governance in Chinese and American social media platforms	3
Feminist struggles against criminalization of digital violence: Lessons for Internet governance from the global south	3
Platform regulation from the bottom up: Judicial redress in the United States and China	3
Who is listening? Profiles of policymaker engagement with scientific communication	3
In AI we trust? Citizen perceptions of AI in government decision making	3
Social media and politics on the local level	3