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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
From content moderation to visibility moderation: A case study of platform governance on TikTok	49
Digital currencies, monetary sovereignty, and U.S.–China power competition	40
Crowdsourcing: Citizens as coproducers of public services	38
In AI we trust? Citizen perceptions of AI in government decision making	36
Australia's News Media Bargaining Code and the global turn towards platform regulation	28
Regulation of platform market access by the United States and China: Neo‐mercantilism in digital services	23
‘Too smart’: Infrastructuring the Internet through regional and rural smart policy in Australia	19
Digital policy in European countries from the perspective of the Digital Economy and Society Index	19
Unpacking government social media messaging strategies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China	18
Safe from “harm”: The governance of violence by platforms	17
Consumer IoT and its under‐regulation: Findings from an Australian study	16
Who is responsible for interventions against problematic comments? Comparing user attitudes in Germany and the United States	16
Regulating the platform giants: Building and governing China's online economy	15
Gatekeepers of toxicity: Reconceptualizing Twitter's abuse and hate speech policies	14
Centrality and power. The struggle over the techno‐political configuration of the Internet and the global digital order	12
The Internet and public policy: Future directions	12
The neo‐regulation of internet platforms in the United Kingdom	12
“Never good enough.” A situated understanding of the impact of digitalization on citizens living in a low socioeconomic position	11
Regulating datafication and platformization: Policy silos and tradeoffs in international platform inquiries	11
The Instagram/Facebook ban on graphic self‐harm imagery: A sentiment analysis and topic modeling approach	11
The making of “good” citizens: China's Social Credit Systems and infrastructures of social quantification	10
Governing social eating (chibo) influencers: Policies, approach and politics of influencer governance in China	10
Super‐amplifiers! The role of Twitter extended party networks in political elections	10
Accepting but not engaging with it: Digital participation in local government‐run social credit systems in China	10
The regulation of internet pornography: What a survey of under‐18s tells us about the necessity for and potential efficacy of emerging legislative approaches	10

Governing with health code: Standardising China's data network systems during COVID‐19	10
Open Government Data: The OECD's Swiss army knife in the transformation of government	9
Rethinking the legal regulation of Internet platform monopoly in China	8
Moving toward a “middle ground”?—The governance of platforms in the United States and China	8
A comparative study on false information governance in Chinese and American social media platforms	8
GAFA's information infrastructure distribution: Interconnection dynamics in the global North versus global South	7
“Dual‐Track” platform governance on content: A comparative study between China and United States	7
Credibility in enhanced self‐regulation: The case of the European data protection regime	6
Who is leading China's family planning policy discourse in Weibo? A social media text mining analysis	6
Producing entrepreneurial citizens: Governmentality over and through Hong Kong influencers onXiaohongshu (Red)	6
Back from the dead (again): The specter of the Fairness Doctrine and its lesson for social media regulation	6
How does fake news spread? Understanding pathways of disinformation spread through APIs	6
Research themes in big data analytics for policymaking: Insights from a mixed‐methods systematic literature review	6
Invisible transparency: How different types of ad disclaimers on Facebook affect whether and how digital political advertising is perceived	5
Digital diplomacy: Face management in MFA Twitter accounts	5
E‐Government maturity assessment: Evidence from Greek municipalities	5
Broadcasting anti‐media populism in the Philippines: YouTube influencers, networked political brokerage, and implications for governance	5
Data protection and tech startups: The need for attention, support, and scrutiny	5
The barriers to regulating the online world: Insights from UK debates on online political advertising	5
Political online participation and its effects: Theory, measurement, and results	5
Digitalization and e‐government in the lives of urban migrants: Evidence from Bogotá	4
Investigating the potential of civil disagreement to decrease issue polarization in China	4
Immigrants, deviants, and drug users: A rhetorical analysis of President Trump's fear‐driven tweets during the 2019 government shutdown	4
Who is listening? Profiles of policymaker engagement with scientific communication	4
Influencing the influencers: Regulating the morality of online conduct in Indonesia	4
Hypernudging in the changing European regulatory landscape for digital markets	4
Oegugin Influencers and pop nationalism through government campaigns: Regulating foreign‐nationals in the South Korean YouTube ecology	4
The Internet regulation turn? Policy, Internet and technology	4
The cloud sovereignty nexus: How the European Union seeks to reverse strategic dependencies in its digital ecosystem	4
Rage or rationality: Exposure to Internet censorship and the impact on individual information behaviors in China	4
Living in media and the era of regulation: Policy and Internet during a pandemic	4
Regulating social media and influencers within Vietnam	4
Procedural rights as safeguard for human rights in platform regulation	4
A policy impact tool: Measuring the policy impact of public participation in deliberative e‐rulemaking	4
A process model of the public sphere: A case of municipal policy debates on Sina Weibo	4
The Trichan takedown: Lessons in the governance and regulation of child sexual abuse material	3
Moderating manipulation: Demystifying extremist tactics for gaming the (regulatory) system	3
Prospects of blockchain governance: Understanding key public values, principles, challenges, and opportunities	3
The unjust burden of digital inclusion for low‐income migrant parents	3
Hate speech on social media against German mayors: Extent of the phenomenon, reactions, and implications	3
Does the level of e‐government affect value‐added tax collection? A study conducted among the European Union Member States	3
Multisolving innovations: How digital equity, e‐waste, and right‐to‐repair policies can increase the supply of affordable computers	3
The weaponization of platform governance: Mass reporting and algorithmic punishments in the creator economy	3
Moderating borderline content while respecting fundamental values	3
Platform regulation from the bottom up: Judicial redress in the United States and China	3
Bridging the digital divide for Native American tribes: Roadblocks to broadband and community resilience	3
The capricious relationship between technology and democracy: Analyzing public policy discussions in the UK and US	3
“Highly nuanced policy is very difficult to apply at scale”: Examining researcher account and content takedowns online	2
Core concerns: The need for a governance framework to protect global Internet infrastructure	2
Assessing inclusivity in online platforms through usability evaluation with Google Analytics	2

Support for misinformation regulation on social media: It is the perceived harm of misinformation that matters, not the perceived amount	2
Data sovereignty: The next frontier for internet policy?	2
National markets in a world of global platform giants: The persistence of Russian domestic competitors	2
The changing role of nation states in online content governance: A case of Google's handling of government removal requests	2
The client net state: Trajectories of state control over cyberspace	2
A new social contract for technology	2
Ghosts of YouTube: Rules and conventions in Japanese YouTube content creation outsourcing	2
Transparency for what purpose?: Designing outcomes‐focused transparency tactics for digital platforms	2
Influencer regulations, governance and sociocultural issues in Asia	2
The success of e‐participation. Learning lessons from Decide Madrid and We asked, You said, We did in Scotland	2
Social media and politics on the local level	2
Ready but irresponsible? Analysis of the Government Artificial Intelligence Readiness Index	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
Regulating Zhibo in China: Exploring multiple levels of self‐regulation and stakeholder dynamics	2
Data justice in the “twin objective” of market and risk: How discrimination is formulated in EU's AI policy	2
Mandate to overblock? Understanding the impact of the European Union's Article 17 on copyright content moderation on YouTube	2
Countering online terrorist content: A social regulation approach	2
Reciprocity and asymmetry in digital diplomacy: Geopolitics of national identity in South Korea–Japan and South Korea–US relations	2
The public good and public attitudes toward data sharing through IoT	2
Lessons from France on the regulation of Internet pornography: How displacement effects, circumvention, and legislative scope may limit the efficacy of Article 23	2
How harassment and hate speech policies have changed over time: Comparing Facebook, Twitter and Reddit (2005–2020)	2