OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Discourse Context & Media is 5. 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
Racist call-outs and cancel culture on Twitter: The limitations of the platform’s ability to define issues of social justice	56
Multimodal approach to analysing big social and news media data	27
Design, resistance and the performance of identity on TikTok	23
Managing image: The self-praise of celebrities on social media	20
Making sense of the “raw meat”: A social semiotic interpretation of user translation on the danmu interface	19
Reaching for the stars: DingTalk and the Multi-platform creativity of a ‘one-star’ campaign on Chinese social media	18
Flu-like pandemics and metaphor pre-covid: A corpus investigation	18
Winning the discursive struggle? The impact of a significant environmental crisis event on dominant climate discourses on Twitter	18
Selling intimacy online: The multi-modal discursive techniques of China’s wanghong	17
Competence and collectivity: The discourse of Angela Merkel’s media communications during the first wave of the pandemic	17
‘Your mind is part of your body’: Negotiating the maternal body in online stories of postnatal depression on Mumsnet	16
“Can you send us a PM please?” Service recovery interactions on social media from the perspective of organizational legitimacy	15
The interactional principle in digital punctuation	15
The ‘team of 5 million’: The joint construction of leadership discourse during the Covid-19 pandemic in New Zealand	15
Children’s experiences with a transmedia narrative: Insights for promoting critical multimodal literacy in the digital age	15
The wounded leader: The illness narratives of Boris Johnson and Donald Trump	14
Motherhood online: Issues and opportunities for discourse analysis	13
What are digital media?	13
Making sense of digitally remediated touch in virtual reality experiences	13
The impact of multimodal cohesion on attention and interpretation in film	12
Chinese social media: Technology, culture and creativity	11
Collective colouring in danmu comments on Bilibili	11
The online activism of mock translanguaging: Language style, celebrity persona, and social class in China	11
Identity performance and self-branding in social commerce: A multimodal content analysis of Chinese wanghong women’s video-sharing practice on TikTok	11
Homonationalist and homocolonialist discourses in Hong Kong’s anti-extradition protests: Online evaluations and representations of LGBT rights	11

Emoji in social media discourse about working from home	10
“I know it's sensitive”: Internet censorship, recoding, and the sensitive word culture in China	10
“You keep saying you are sorry”. Exploring the use of sorry in customer communication on Twitter	10
Cultural dilemmas of motherhood and gendered public/private spheres: The case of a remediatized Chinese reality show	10
Where neoliberalism shapes Confucian notions of child rearing: Influencers, experts and discourses of intensive parenting on Chinese Weibo	9
‘STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogyny on Twitter via #NotAllMen	9
“So-called influencers”: Stancetaking and (de)legitimation in mediatized discourse about social media influencers	9
Sorry but no sorry: The use and effects of apologies in airline webcare responses to NeWOM messages of flight passengers	9
From public to digital spaces: Spatial and media practices of the 2017 ‘Unite Cyprus Now’ peace protests	8
COVID-19 and the discursive practices of political leadership: Introduction	8
Digital rockets: Resisting necropolitics through defiant languaging and artivism	7
‘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	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
Discursive approaches to webcare: A closer look at apologies, conversational human voice, legitimation, and emotion regulation	7
Nationalist language ideologies in tweets about the 2019 Canadian general election	7
Describing the voice of online bullying: An analysis of stance and voice type in YouTube comments	7
Online surveys as discourse context: Response practices and recipient design	7
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	7
“Thank you for reaching out:” Brand relationship management and the conversational human voice of customer care in online service encounters	6
Introducing cohesion in multimodal discourse	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
COVID and the South African Family: Cyril Ramaphosa, President or father?	5
Enacting polyvocal scorn in #CovidConspiracy tweets: The orchestration of voices in humorous responses to COVID-19 conspiracy theories	5
Multimodal cohesion in persuasive discourse: A case study of televised campaign advertisements in the 2020 US presidential election	5
Methodological issues in digital conversation analysis	5
The Edwardian Selfies: A transhistorical approach to celebrity culture and pictorial bookplates	5
‘My countrymen have never disappointed me’: Politics of service in Modi’s speeches during Covid-19	5
Discourses of social media amongst youth: An ethnographic perspective	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 dialectical-relational approach to anti-trans sentiments on Hupu	5
“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	5
Corpus insights into the harmonization of commercial media in China: News coverage of migrant worker issues as a case study	5
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	5
Constructing a national identity in media editorials to promote affiliation with an international readership	5