OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
From content moderation to visibility moderation: A case study of platform governance on TikTok	45
Crowdsourcing: Citizens as coproducers of public services	36
Digital currencies, monetary sovereignty, and U.S.–China power competition	33
In AI we trust? Citizen perceptions of AI in government decision making	29
Australia's News Media Bargaining Code and the global turn towards platform regulation	27
Unpacking government social media messaging strategies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China	18
Digital policy in European countries from the perspective of the Digital Economy and Society Index	18
Regulation of platform market access by the United States and China: Neo‐mercantilism in digital services	17
‘Too smart’: Infrastructuring the Internet through regional and rural smart policy in Australia	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	14
Safe from “harm”: The governance of violence by platforms	13
Centrality and power. The struggle over the techno‐political configuration of the Internet and the global digital order	12
Gatekeepers of toxicity: Reconceptualizing Twitter's abuse and hate speech policies	12
The Internet and public policy: Future directions	11
The neo‐regulation of internet platforms in the United Kingdom	11
Regulating datafication and platformization: Policy silos and tradeoffs in international platform inquiries	10
Regulating the platform giants: Building and governing China's online economy	10
The making of “good” citizens: China's Social Credit Systems and infrastructures of social quantification	9
Super‐amplifiers! The role of Twitter extended party networks in political elections	9
The Instagram/Facebook ban on graphic self‐harm imagery: A sentiment analysis and topic modeling approach	9
Open Government Data: The OECD's Swiss army knife in the transformation of government	9
Accepting but not engaging with it: Digital participation in local government‐run social credit systems in China	9
Governing with health code: Standardising China's data network systems during COVID‐19	9
The regulation of internet pornography: What a survey of under‐18s tells us about the necessity for and potential efficacy of emerging legislative approaches	9

“Never good enough.” A situated understanding of the impact of digitalization on citizens living in a low socioeconomic position	9
A comparative study on false information governance in Chinese and American social media platforms	8
Battle for Britain: Analyzing Events as Drivers of Political Tribalism in Twitter Discussions of Brexit	8
GAFA's information infrastructure distribution: Interconnection dynamics in the global North versus global South	7
Governing social eating (chibo) influencers: Policies, approach and politics of influencer governance in China	7
Credibility in enhanced self‐regulation: The case of the European data protection regime	6
Data protection and tech startups: The need for attention, support, and scrutiny	6
Moving toward a “middle ground”?—The governance of platforms in the United States and China	6
Back from the dead (again): The specter of the Fairness Doctrine and its lesson for social media regulation	6
Rethinking the legal regulation of Internet platform monopoly in China	6
“Dual‐Track” platform governance on content: A comparative study between China and United States	6
How does fake news spread? Understanding pathways of disinformation spread through APIs	5
Digital diplomacy: Face management in MFA Twitter accounts	5
Research themes in big data analytics for policymaking: Insights from a mixed‐methods systematic literature review	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
Democratic Innovation in Times of Crisis: Exploring Changes in Social and Political Trust	4
Producing entrepreneurial citizens: Governmentality over and through Hong Kong influencers on Xiaohongshu (Red)	4
A policy impact tool: Measuring the policy impact of public participation in deliberative e‐rulemaking	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
Rage or rationality: Exposure to Internet censorship and the impact on individual information behaviors in China	4
Broadcasting anti‐media populism in the Philippines: YouTube influencers, networked political brokerage, and implications for governance	4
Living in media and the era of regulation: Policy and Internet during a pandemic	4
Procedural rights as safeguard for human rights in platform regulation	4
Immigrants, deviants, and drug users: A rhetorical analysis of President Trump's fear‐driven tweets during the 2019 government shutdown	4
A process model of the public sphere: A case of municipal policy debates on Sina Weibo	4
Who is leading China's family planning policy discourse in Weibo? A social media text mining analysis	4