William Merrin

510 total citations
24 papers, 242 citations indexed

About

William Merrin is a scholar working on Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Sociology and Political Science and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, William Merrin has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 242 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Visual Arts and Performing Arts, 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in William Merrin's work include Art, Politics, and Modernism (5 papers), Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies (3 papers) and Cultural Studies and Postmodernism (2 papers). William Merrin is often cited by papers focused on Art, Politics, and Modernism (5 papers), Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies (3 papers) and Cultural Studies and Postmodernism (2 papers). William Merrin collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom. William Merrin's co-authors include Andrew Hoskins and Catherine Happer and has published in prestigious journals such as Theory Culture & Society, Economy and Society and Mortality.

In The Last Decade

William Merrin

23 papers receiving 198 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Merrin United Kingdom 10 105 86 48 30 25 24 242
Deborah Shaw United Kingdom 6 81 0.8× 92 1.1× 24 0.5× 19 0.6× 12 0.5× 40 217
Rune Ottosen Norway 11 158 1.5× 215 2.5× 48 1.0× 31 1.0× 16 0.6× 40 350
James Hay United States 8 125 1.2× 84 1.0× 33 0.7× 20 0.7× 7 0.3× 20 272
David Dowling United States 10 92 0.9× 189 2.2× 25 0.5× 24 0.8× 9 0.4× 50 319
Gilbert B. Rodman United States 8 116 1.1× 56 0.7× 13 0.3× 25 0.8× 9 0.4× 27 257
Rico Neumann United States 8 120 1.1× 115 1.3× 45 0.9× 34 1.1× 16 0.6× 17 237
Mitchell Stephens United States 8 110 1.0× 133 1.5× 19 0.4× 50 1.7× 8 0.3× 27 282
David Hendy United Kingdom 8 78 0.7× 133 1.5× 23 0.5× 10 0.3× 9 0.4× 21 276
Olivier Voirol Switzerland 8 182 1.7× 25 0.3× 52 1.1× 64 2.1× 9 0.4× 43 295
Michèle Mattelart Chile 9 102 1.0× 68 0.8× 17 0.4× 20 0.7× 7 0.3× 22 235

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Merrin

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Merrin

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Merrin, William & Andrew Hoskins. (2025). SHARDED MEDIA. 1 indexed citations
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Merrin, William & Andrew Hoskins. (2024). Sharded War: seeing, not sharing. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 5(1-2). 115–118. 2 indexed citations
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Hoskins, Andrew & William Merrin. (2021). Remember Afghanistan?. 2(1-3). 1–8. 1 indexed citations
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Merrin, William. (2021). From television to the internet: from the reality of terror to reality terrorism. Critical Studies on Terrorism. 14(4). 450–454. 1 indexed citations
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Merrin, William & Andrew Hoskins. (2020). Tweet fast and kill things: digital war. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 1(1-3). 184–193. 14 indexed citations
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Merrin, William. (2020). Anthropocenic war: coronavirus and total demobilization. PubMed Central. 1(1-3). 36–49. 6 indexed citations
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Merrin, William. (2018). Digital War. 37 indexed citations
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Merrin, William. (2018). Digital War: A Critical Introduction. 24 indexed citations
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Happer, Catherine, Andrew Hoskins, & William Merrin. (2018). Trump’s Media War. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 11 indexed citations
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Merrin, William. (2014). The Rise of the Gadget and Hyperludic Me-Dia. Cultural Politics an International Journal. 10(1). 1–20. 4 indexed citations
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Merrin, William. (2014). Media Studies 2.0. 12 indexed citations
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Merrin, William. (2014). Media Studies 2.0. 22 indexed citations
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Merrin, William. (2008). `After the End' Baudrillard's Future. French Cultural Studies. 19(3). 255–271. 2 indexed citations
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Merrin, William. (2005). Baudrillard and the Media: A Critical Introduction. Cronfa (Swansea University). 29 indexed citations
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Merrin, William. (2005). Total Screen: 9/11 and the Gulf War Reloaded. Cronfa (Swansea University). 1 indexed citations
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Merrin, William. (2002). Implosion, simulation and the pseudo-event: a critique of McLuhan. Economy and Society. 31(3). 369–390. 3 indexed citations
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Merrin, William. (2001). To play with phantoms : Jean Baudrillard and the evil demon of the simulacrum. Economy and Society. 30(1). 85–111. 8 indexed citations
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Merrin, William. (1999). Crash, bang, wallop! What a picture! The death of Diana and the media. Mortality. 4(1). 41–62. 18 indexed citations
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Merrin, William. (1999). Television is Killing the Art of Symbolic Exchange. Theory Culture & Society. 16(3). 119–140. 9 indexed citations
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Merrin, William. (1994). Uncritical criticism? Norris, Baudrillard and the Gulf War. Economy and Society. 23(4). 433–458. 8 indexed citations

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