OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Discourse Context & Media 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Racist call-outs and cancel culture on Twitter: The limitations of the platform’s ability to define issues of social justice	44
Beyond the online offline distinction: Entry points to digital discourse	25
“I miss my old life”: Regretting motherhood on Mumsnet	24
Multimodal approach to analysing big social and news media data	23
Managing image: The self-praise of celebrities on social media	20
Flu-like pandemics and metaphor pre-covid: A corpus investigation	16
Winning the discursive struggle? The impact of a significant environmental crisis event on dominant climate discourses on Twitter	15
Making sense of the “raw meat”: A social semiotic interpretation of user translation on the danmu interface	15
Reaching for the stars: DingTalk and the Multi-platform creativity of a ‘one-star’ campaign on Chinese social media	14
“Can you send us a PM please?” Service recovery interactions on social media from the perspective of organizational legitimacy	14
Marketing elite authenticity: Tradition and terroir in artisanal food discourse	14
‘Your mind is part of your body’: Negotiating the maternal body in online stories of postnatal depression on Mumsnet	13
The ‘team of 5 million’: The joint construction of leadership discourse during the Covid-19 pandemic in New Zealand	13
Nature, nationalism and neoliberalism on food packaging: The case of Sweden	13
The wounded leader: The illness narratives of Boris Johnson and Donald Trump	13
Strava as a discursive field of practice: Technological affordances and mediated cycling motivations	13
Design, resistance and the performance of identity on TikTok	13
Discourses of exclusion on Twitter in the Turkish Context: #ülkemdesuriyeliistemiyorum (#idontwantsyriansinmycountry)	13
The interactional principle in digital punctuation	12
Lovextortion: Persuasion strategies in romance cybercrime	12
Competence and collectivity: The discourse of Angela Merkel’s media communications during the first wave of the pandemic	12
Science on the web: The exploration of European research websites of energy-related projects as digital genres for the promotion of values	11
What are digital media?	11
Replacing actual political activism with ethical shopping: The case of Oatly	11
The impact of multimodal cohesion on attention and interpretation in film	11

Making sense of digitally remediated touch in virtual reality experiences	11
Homonationalist and homocolonialist discourses in Hong Kong’s anti-extradition protests: Online evaluations and representations of LGBT rights	11
Children’s experiences with a transmedia narrative: Insights for promoting critical multimodal literacy in the digital age	11
Between national and local: Identity representations of post-colonial Hong Kong in a local English newspaper	10
“You keep saying you are sorry”. Exploring the use of sorry in customer communication on Twitter	10
Pure in body, pure in mind? A sociohistorical perspective on the marketisation of pure foods in great Britain	10
The online activism of mock translanguaging: Language style, celebrity persona, and social class in China	10
Addressing international students on Australian and Chinese university webpages: A comparative study	10
The discursive construction of resistance to sex in an online community	10
Motherhood online: Issues and opportunities for discourse analysis	10
The role of offensive metaphors in Chinese diplomatic discourse	10
Emoji in social media discourse about working from home	9
Cultural dilemmas of motherhood and gendered public/private spheres: The case of a remediatized Chinese reality show	9
Collective colouring in danmu comments on Bilibili	9
Selling intimacy online: The multi-modal discursive techniques of China’s wanghong	9
A turn to language: How interactional sociolinguistics informs the redesign of prompt:response chatbot turns	9
Creating realities across languages and modalities: Multimodal recontextualization in the translation of online news reports	8
“I know it's sensitive”: Internet censorship, recoding, and the sensitive word culture in China	8
Negotiating the expertise paradox in new mothers’ WhatsApp group interactions	8
Responding to negative hotel reviews: A cross-linguistic perspective on online rapport-management	8
My sport, my perspectives: Intersubjectivity in cyclist Instagram posts	8
Messi hanging laundry at the Bernabéu: The production and consumption of Internet sports memes as trash talk	8
Sorry but no sorry: The use and effects of apologies in airline webcare responses to NeWOM messages of flight passengers	8
“I can feel myself being squeezed and stretched, moulded and grown, and expanded in my capacity to love loudly and profoundly”: Metaphor and religion in motherhood blogs	7
Nationalist language ideologies in tweets about the 2019 Canadian general election	7
Identity performance and self-branding in social commerce: A multimodal content analysis of Chinese wanghong women’s video-sharing practice on TikTok	7
Twitter as a right-wing populist’s playground: The algorithmic populism of Dutch political party ‘Forum voor Democratie’ and leader Thierry Baudet during their political rise	7
‘STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogyny on Twitter via #NotAllMen	6
Discursive approaches to webcare: A closer look at apologies, conversational human voice, legitimation, and emotion regulation	6
‘Am I being unreasonable to vaccinate my kids against my ex’s wishes?’ – A corpus linguistic exploration of conflict in vaccination discussions on Mumsnet Talk’s AIBU forum	6
Chinese social media: Technology, culture and creativity	6
A stranger in a foreign land: Identity transition in blogs about transnational relocation	6
COVID-19 and the discursive practices of political leadership: Introduction	6
The diplomatic interpreter’s negotiation of power and solidarity through engagement choices: A case study of the Chinese Foreign Minister’s 2018 press conference	6
The boob diaries: Discourses of breastfeeding in ‘exclusive pumping’ blogs	6
Social media and counterpublic spheres in an authoritarian state: Exploring online political discussions among Cambodian Facebook users	6
Online surveys as discourse context: Response practices and recipient design	6
Where neoliberalism shapes Confucian notions of child rearing: Influencers, experts and discourses of intensive parenting on Chinese Weibo	6
Online apologies to hotel guests in English and Japanese	6
COVID and the South African Family: Cyril Ramaphosa, President or father?	5
Introducing cohesion in multimodal discourse	5
A skirmish on the Czech political scene: The glocalization of Greta Thunberg’s UN Climate Action Summit speech in the Czech media	5
A discursive approach to disagreements expressed by Chinese spokespersons during press conferences	5
Convergence or divergence? A computer-assisted analysis of how Chinese state-sponsored and market-oriented newspapers discursively construct the newsworthiness of the Kunming terrorist attack	5
Linguistic evidence of in-group bias in English and Spanish Wikipedia articles about international conflicts	5
Sport in the new media landscape: Community, participation and discourse	5
Constructing a national identity in media editorials to promote affiliation with an international readership	5
Methodological issues in digital conversation analysis	5
“Loving you”: Use of metadiscourse for relational acts in WeChat public account advertisements	5
From public to digital spaces: Spatial and media practices of the 2017 ‘Unite Cyprus Now’ peace protests	5

Digital rockets: Resisting necropolitics through defiant languaging and artivism	5
A dialectical-relational approach to anti-trans sentiments on Hupu	5
The public loneliness of endurance athletes: Creating ambient affiliation through involvement strategies on Twitter	5
“Thank you for reaching out:” Brand relationship management and the conversational human voice of customer care in online service encounters	5
Is being right legitimate? Addressing public outcries on social media	4
Authenticating discourses of “being oneself” on monetary-motivated livestreams	4
Multimodal cohesion in persuasive discourse: A case study of televised campaign advertisements in the 2020 US presidential election	4
Membership categorization, humor, and moral order in sitcom interactions	4
It’s part of the job: How webcare agents regulate their emotions during service interactions on Facebook and Twitter	4
Men of today, soyboys of tomorrow: Constructions of masculinities in YouTube responses to Gillette’s The Best Men Can Be	4
Discourses of social media amongst youth: An ethnographic perspective	4
Discursive constructions of populism in opinion-based journalism: A comparative European study	4
Moral stance taking as a device of covert aggression in Chinese political language use	4
Radical contingency, radical historicity and the spread of ‘homosexualism’: A diachronic corpus-based critical discourse analysis of queer representation in The Times between 1957–1967 and 1979–1990	4
The Edwardian Selfies: A transhistorical approach to celebrity culture and pictorial bookplates	4
Language as the tip of the iceberg? Shedding a critical light on ‘hidden’ discourse in digital platforms	4
“This is not the place to bother people about BTS”: Pseudo-synchronicity and interaction in timed comments by Hallyu fans on the video streaming platform Viki	4
Corpus insights into the harmonization of commercial media in China: News coverage of migrant worker issues as a case study	4
Tracing museum exhibition reviews: References, replies and translations between the museum space and the mass media	4
“So-called influencers”: Stancetaking and (de)legitimation in mediatized discourse about social media influencers	4
Magical women: Representations of female characters in the Witcher video game series	3
‘My countrymen have never disappointed me’: Politics of service in Modi’s speeches during Covid-19	3
Othering as mediated soft-power practice: Chinese diplomatic communication of discourse about China-US trade war through the British press	3
The identity work of Chinese charities in their online donation-oriented crowdfunding appeals	3
Legitimation strategies and discourses in editorials: Myanmar’s new foreign policy on ASEAN membership	3
Discourses on discourse, shifting contexts and digital media	3
Describing the voice of online bullying: An analysis of stance and voice type in YouTube comments	3
Why the fruit picker smiles in an anti-corruption story: Analyzing evaluative clash and news value construction in online news discourse in China	3
Conceptualizing the dialogical structure of mass communication: A comparison of the dialogical networks and mediated social communication approaches	3
Why digital administrative systems create extra work and demoralize us: A study of performativity and decontextualization caused by Unikum in Swedish preschools	3
Teach me about liberalism: Constructing social elites and the English divide in the Japanese TV drama, Massan	3
Reporting ritual political advice in the Chinese state media: A study of the National People’s Congress	3
Fan activism as discursive action: Poaching foreign television series for political satire in China	3
Fragmented but coherent: Lexical cohesion on a YouTube channel	3
Clean eating’s surprising normalisation: The case of Nigella Lawson	3