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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The pursuit of ‘good’ Internet policy	60
Issue Information	40
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How harassment and hate speech policies have changed over time: Comparing Facebook, Twitter and Reddit (2005–2020)	28
The (complex) effect of internet voting on turnout: Theoretical and methodological considerations	23
Understanding Chinese Internet users' information sensitivity in big data and artificial intelligence era	19
Governing with health code: Standardising China's data network systems during COVID‐19	19
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Back from the dead (again): The specter of the Fairness Doctrine and its lesson for social media regulation	18
Issue Information	16
An evaluation of digital inclusion response policies for elderly in China	16
Issue Information	15
Effects of online citizen participation on legitimacy beliefs in local government. Evidence from a comparative study of online participation platforms in three German municipalities	14
Issue Information	12
Data protection and tech startups: The need for attention, support, and scrutiny	12
The Trichan takedown: Lessons in the governance and regulation of child sexual abuse material	12
The client net state: Trajectories of state control over cyberspace	12
Digital currencies, monetary sovereignty, and U.S.–China power competition	12
Issue Information	11
Power Relationships in China's internet Governance	11
Shedding light on transparency: A comprehensive study of state‐level transparency portals in Mexico	10
Who is leading China's family planning policy discourse in Weibo? A social media text mining analysis	10
Withdrawn: Power Relationships in China's Internet Governance	10
Unpacking government social media messaging strategies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China	10
Content takedowns and activist organizing: Impact of social media content moderation on activists and organizing	10

Content moderation and the digital transformations of gatekeeping	9
Digital diplomacy: Face management in MFA Twitter accounts	8
In AI we trust? Citizen perceptions of AI in government decision making	8
Digital policy in European countries from the perspective of the Digital Economy and Society Index	8
Follow to be followed: The centrality of MFAs in Twitter networks	7
What can drive a digital governance transformation? Greece, the Covid‐19 crisis and “a jump‐started Lamborghini”	7
Issue Information	7
The Instagram/Facebook ban on graphic self‐harm imagery: A sentiment analysis and topic modeling approach	7
Influencing the influencers: Regulating the morality of online conduct in Indonesia	6
GAFA's information infrastructure distribution: Interconnection dynamics in the global North versus global South	6
What is the role of civil society in Internet governance? Confronting institutional passive perspectives with resource mobilization in Portugal	6
Political online participation and its effects: Theory, measurement, and results	6
A legal cure for news choice overload: Regulating algorithms and AI with ‘light patterns’ to foster autonomy and democracy	6
Transitional affordances: A longitudinal mixed‐method study on the context and effects of changing mode of online access	6
Social imaginaries of digital technology in South Korea during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
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Moderating borderline content while respecting fundamental values	5
Quantifying water effluent violations and enforcement impacts using causal AI	5
Mediated trust, the internet and artificial intelligence: Ideas, interests, institutions and futures	5
Issue Information	5
Rage or rationality: Exposure to Internet censorship and the impact on individual information behaviors in China	4
Regulating datafication and platformization: Policy silos and tradeoffs in international platform inquiries	4
The cloud sovereignty nexus: How the European Union seeks to reverse strategic dependencies in its digital ecosystem	4
Social media and politics on the local level	4
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
Who is listening? Profiles of policymaker engagement with scientific communication	4
A process model of the public sphere: A case of municipal policy debates on Sina Weibo	4
Transparency as an empty signifier? Assessing transparency in EU and platform initiatives on online political advertising and actors	4
Protecting Children of the TikTok Era: A Discourse Analysis in the Absence of Law	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
Broadcasting anti‐media populism in the Philippines: YouTube influencers, networked political brokerage, and implications for governance	4
China's Internet sector reforms and the rise of ESG in the state techno‐nationalist agenda	4
The neo‐regulation of internet platforms in the United Kingdom	4
National markets in a world of global platform giants: The persistence of Russian domestic competitors	4
Issue Information	3
Accepting but not engaging with it: Digital participation in local government‐run social credit systems in China	3
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Issue Information	3
Scholarly research and user‐centred policy design	3
A conceptual framework to explore considerations of the social implications in internet of things and smart city governance and policy: The case of Thailand	3
Safe from “harm”: The governance of violence by platforms	3
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Impact of free trade agreements on Internet domain name arbitration cases: A cross‐national comparison of the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy	3
Immigrants, deviants, and drug users: A rhetorical analysis of President Trump's fear‐driven tweets during the 2019 government shutdown	3
From content moderation to visibility moderation: A case study of platform governance on TikTok	3
Gatekeepers of toxicity: Reconceptualizing Twitter's abuse and hate speech policies	2
Hate speech on social media against German mayors: Extent of the phenomenon, reactions, and implications	2
Research themes in big data analytics for policymaking: Insights from a mixed‐methods systematic literature review	2

The Chinese metaverse: An analysis of China's policy agenda for extended reality (XR)	2
The political origins of platform economy regulations. Understanding variations in governing Airbnb and Uber across cities in Switzerland	2
Issue Information	2
Models of State Digital Sovereignty From the Global South: Diverging Experiences From China, India and South Africa	2
Platform governance by competing systems of political economy: The United States and China	2
Bridging digital and knowledge divides: Concepts, frameworks and ethical concerns	2
Recommending instead of taking down: YouTube hyperpartisan content promotion amid the Brazilian general elections	2
Structuring different manifestations of misinformation for better policy development using a decision tree‐based approach	2
Reciprocity and asymmetry in digital diplomacy: Geopolitics of national identity in South Korea–Japan and South Korea–US relations	2
Invisible transparency: How different types of ad disclaimers on Facebook affect whether and how digital political advertising is perceived	2
Content moderation through removal of service: Content delivery networks and extremist websites	2
An exploratory study of social media's role in facilitating public participation in e‐rulemaking using computational text analysis tools	2
Where are the ethical guidelines? Examining the governance of digital technologies and AI in Nigeria	2
Producing entrepreneurial citizens: Governmentality over and through Hong Kong influencers onXiaohongshu (Red)	2
The capricious relationship between technology and democracy: Analyzing public policy discussions in the UK and US	2
Influencer regulations, governance and sociocultural issues in Asia	2
Consumer IoT and its under‐regulation: Findings from an Australian study	2
Promotion of hate speech by Spanish political actors on Twitter	2
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Resisting and Claiming Digital Sovereignty: The Cases of Civil Society and Indigenous Groups	2
Sanctions and infrastructural ideologies: Assessing the material shaping of EU digital sovereignty in response to the war in Ukraine	2
Governing social eating (chibo) influencers: Policies, approach and politics of influencer governance in China	2
Credibility in enhanced self‐regulation: The case of the European data protection regime	1
The News Media Bargaining Code: Impacts on Australian journalism one year on	1
Mandate to overblock? Understanding the impact of the European Union's Article 17 on copyright content moderation on YouTube	1
Crowdfunding platforms as conduits for ideological struggle and extremism: On the need for greater regulation and digital constitutionalism	1
The weaponization of platform governance: Mass reporting and algorithmic punishments in the creator economy	1
Digital citizen participation in policy conflict and concord: Evaluation of a web‐based planning tool for railroad infrastructure	1
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Australia's News Media Bargaining Code and the global turn towards platform regulation	1
Regulation of platform market access by the United States and China: Neo‐mercantilism in digital services	1
Ghosts of YouTube: Rules and conventions in Japanese YouTube content creation outsourcing	1
Allocating Content Governance Responsibility in China: Heterogeneous Public Attitudes Toward Multistakeholder Involvement Strategies	1
Borderline content and platformised speech governance: Mapping TikTok's moderation controversies in South and Southeast Asia	1
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The Internet regulation turn? Policy, Internet and technology	1
Procedural rights as safeguard for human rights in platform regulation	1
A new social contract for technology	1
What is an online political advert? An interrogation of conceptual challenges in the formation of digital policy response	1
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“Dual‐Track” platform governance on content: A comparative study between China and United States	1
Support for misinformation regulation on social media: It is the perceived harm of misinformation that matters, not the perceived amount	1
SAVE YOUR INTERNET! The persuasion work of YouTube in the controversy over EU's digital market directive	1
The unjust burden of digital inclusion for low‐income migrant parents	1
Data justice in the “twin objective” of market and risk: How discrimination is formulated in EU's AI policy	1
Traversing the digital divide in concept and effect: Relative interpretations and orientations	1
Core concerns: The need for a governance framework to protect global Internet infrastructure	1
Bridging the digital divide for Native American tribes: Roadblocks to broadband and community resilience	1