OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Policy and Internet is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Digital currencies, monetary sovereignty, and U.S.–China power competition	120
The client net state: Trajectories of state control over cyberspace	56
Broadcasting anti‐media populism in the Philippines: YouTube influencers, networked political brokerage, and implications for governance	44
Rage or rationality: Exposure to Internet censorship and the impact on individual information behaviors in China	43
National markets in a world of global platform giants: The persistence of Russian domestic competitors	39
From content moderation to visibility moderation: A case study of platform governance on TikTok	33
Issue Information	29
Consumer IoT and its under‐regulation: Findings from an Australian study	27
Where are the ethical guidelines? Examining the governance of digital technologies and AI in Nigeria	24
Producing entrepreneurial citizens: Governmentality over and through Hong Kong influencers onXiaohongshu (Red)	23
Accepting but not engaging with it: Digital participation in local government‐run social credit systems in China	23
Data justice in the “twin objective” of market and risk: How discrimination is formulated in EU's AI policy	21
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	20
SAVE YOUR INTERNET! The persuasion work of YouTube in the controversy over EU's digital market directive	19
Watering down the wine: European Union regulation of violent right‐wing extremism content and the securitisation of new online spaces	17
The Multiple Streams Framework: A Lens for Understanding Artificial Intelligence Adoption in the Public Sector	17
Regulating social media and influencers within Vietnam	16
Do fake online comments pose a threat to regulatory policymaking? Evidence from Internet regulation in the United States	15
Oegugin Influencers and pop nationalism through government campaigns: Regulating foreign‐nationals in the South Korean YouTube ecology	15
Countering online terrorist content: A social regulation approach	15
Unthinking Digital Sovereignty: A Critical Reflection on Origins, Objectives, and Practices	15
Rethinking the legal regulation of Internet platform monopoly in China	15
The success of e‐participation. Learning lessons from Decide Madrid and We asked, You said, We did in Scotland	15
Shedding light on transparency: A comprehensive study of state‐level transparency portals in Mexico	14

Social media governance and strategies to combat online hatespeech in Germany	14
Special issue: The (international) politics of content takedowns: Theory, practice, ethics	14
Withdrawn: Power Relationships in China's Internet Governance	13
Content takedowns and activist organizing: Impact of social media content moderation on activists and organizing	13
Issue Information	13
The (complex) effect of internet voting on turnout: Theoretical and methodological considerations	12
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Issue Information	11
The pursuit of ‘good’ Internet policy	11
Issue Information	10
NetzDG on Twitter: A Social Network Analysis of Stakeholders in Public Discourse About Platform Regulation in Germany	10
A process model of the public sphere: A case of municipal policy debates on Sina Weibo	10
Pathways to Safeguarding Digital Sovereignty Within a Multi‐Level Governance Framework: A Cross‐National Comparative Study Based on the FsQCA Method	10
Australian Teen Voices on Age Verification and Age Assurance Measures	9
An exploratory study of social media's role in facilitating public participation in e‐rulemaking using computational text analysis tools	9
Ghosts of YouTube: Rules and conventions in Japanese YouTube content creation outsourcing	9
Issue Information	9
Platform governance by competing systems of political economy: The United States and China	9
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Geopolitics in Platform Governance: Algorithmic Sovereignty and Data Localization in China and the United States	8
The unjust burden of digital inclusion for low‐income migrant parents	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
Regulating Zhibo in China: Exploring multiple levels of self‐regulation and stakeholder dynamics	8
“Dual‐Track” platform governance on content: A comparative study between China and United States	8
Issue Information	8
Does the level of e‐government affect value‐added tax collection? A study conducted among the European Union Member States	7
Issue Information	7
Repackaging and Repurposing Digital Objects: A Conceptual Model to Understand the Malleability of Politics in Digital Environments	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
Blame and obligation: The importance of libertarianism and political orientation in the public assessment of disinformation in the United States	7
Digitally skilled or digitally competent? Evaluating the impact of e‐Facilitation on young volunteers in Italy	7
Issue Information	7
The responsibility to protect online: Lessons from R2P and the politics of Western‐Centricity in online harms regulation	7
Integrating Civic and Artificial Intelligence in Policymaking: Experimental Insights on Public Perceptions of Policy Proposals	7
Democracy in the digital era	7
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
Mediated trust, the internet and artificial intelligence: Ideas, interests, institutions and futures	6
Social imaginaries of digital technology in South Korea during the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
Understanding Chinese Internet users' information sensitivity in big data and artificial intelligence era	6
Enhancing Public Health Policy Communication Through Government–Citizen Social Media Interactions: The Impact of Replying Agents, Inquiry Tone, and Institutional Trust	6
The cloud sovereignty nexus: How the European Union seeks to reverse strategic dependencies in its digital ecosystem	6
Nerd Harder: A Typology of Techno‐Legal Solutionist Logics in Child Online Safety Laws	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
“Never good enough.” A situated understanding of the impact of digitalization on citizens living in a low socioeconomic position	6
Regulating datafication and platformization: Policy silos and tradeoffs in international platform inquiries	6
Content Moderation and Community Standards: The Disconnect Between Policy and User Experiences Reporting Harmful and Offensive Content on Social Media	5
Digital citizen participation in policy conflict and concord: Evaluation of a web‐based planning tool for railroad infrastructure	5
Crowdfunding platforms as conduits for ideological struggle and extremism: On the need for greater regulation and digital constitutionalism	5

Transitional affordances: A longitudinal mixed‐method study on the context and effects of changing mode of online access	5
Models of State Digital Sovereignty From the Global South: Diverging Experiences From China, India and South Africa	5
What is an online political advert? An interrogation of conceptual challenges in the formation of digital policy response	5
Hate speech on social media against German mayors: Extent of the phenomenon, reactions, and implications	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
A new social contract for technology	5
Core concerns: The need for a governance framework to protect global Internet infrastructure	4
Invisible transparency: How different types of ad disclaimers on Facebook affect whether and how digital political advertising is perceived	4
Data sovereignty: The next frontier for internet policy?	4
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Social media and politics on the local level	4
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Quantifying water effluent violations and enforcement impacts using causal AI	4
Patchwork Governance on KidTok: Balancing Regulation and Community Norms	4
Issue Information	4
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‘Too smart’: Infrastructuring the Internet through regional and rural smart policy in Australia	4
Issue Information	4
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Australia's News Media Bargaining Code and the global turn towards platform regulation	4
Issue Information	4
Platform regulation from the bottom up: Judicial redress in the United States and China	4
WeChat‐as‐a‐Police Service	4
A comparative study on false information governance in Chinese and American social media platforms	4