Andrew Whelan
Biographic Data
| ID | 245105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Whelan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Whelan |
| SIGNATURE | WHELAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9420-7456 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Addressing Weight Stigma in Perinatal Care: Strategies for Health Care Providers and Organizations
From access and transparency to refusal: Three responses to algorithmic governance
This paper critically engages with key responses to algorithmic governance, including access and inclusion, transparency, and refusal. How can these responses effectively address the harms produced by algorithmic governance
Genre work: How' vs 'what' questions in the sociology of music culture
The established conceptual frameworks in the sociology of music largely name forms of social collective, albeit emphasising different characteristics. 'Scene' and 'neo-tribe' are the principal contemporary examples of this. In this article, we describe scene and neo-tribe as conceptual responses to what questions (What kind of sociality is this? What kind of cultural context is this?). We engage critically with scene and neo-tribe, and with the u…
Ethical’ artificial intelligence in the welfare state: Discourse and discrepancy in Australian social services
In recent years, a discourse of ‘ethical artificial intelligence’ has emerged and gained international traction in response to widely publicised AI failures. In Australia, the discourse around ethical AI does not accord with the reality of AI deployment in the public sector. Drawing on institutional ethnographic approaches, this paper describes the misalignments between how technology is described in government documentation, and how it is deploy…
The Discourse Community of Electronic Dance Music (Anita Jóri)
Ask for More Time: Big Data Chronopolitics in the Australian Welfare Bureaucracy
Since 2016, welfare recipients in Australia have been subject to the Online Compliance Intervention (OCI), implemented through the national income support agency, Centrelink. This is a big data initiative, matching reported income to tax records to recoup welfare overpayments. The OCI proved controversial, notably for a 'reverse onus,' requiring that claimants disprove debts, and for data-matching design leading frequently to incorrect debts. As …
“Not like that, not for that, not by them”: Social media affordances of critique
This paper has two objectives: to explicate the sociotechnical conditions that facilitate critique on social media platforms (specifically: Tumblr); and to operationalize a “working theory” from Foucault’s conceptualization of critique. We analyze resistant practices observed (in ethnographic study) in a Not Safe For Work (NSFW) community on Tumblr, arguing that the potential for critique arises there at the intersection of platform architecture …
Vaporwave Is (Not) a Critique of Capitalism”: Genre Work in An Online Music Scene
Vaporwave, first emerging in the early 2010s, is a genre of music characterised by extensive sampling of earlier “elevator music,” such as smooth jazz, MoR, easy listening, and muzak. Audio and visual markers of the 1980s and 1990s, white-collar workspaces, media technology, and advertising are prominent features of the aesthetic. The (academic, vernacular, and press) writing about vaporwave commonly positions the genre as an ironic or ambivalent…
Ethics Are Admin: Australian Human Research Ethics Review Forms as (Un)Ethical Actors
In Australian universities, social research projects secure institutional approval as ethical through research ethics committees, and are defined and communicated to these committees through standardized local application forms. In organizational terms, ethics are instituted first as an administrative ritual anterior to research, and routinely elided as such. The documentation constituting this ritual thus bears scrutiny, in terms of what it says…
Socializing accountability in humanitarian settings: A proposed framework
A 3-Arm randomised controlled trial of Communicating Healthy Beginnings Advice by Telephone (CHAT) to mothers with infants to prevent childhood obesity
The CHAT Trial is registered with the Australian Clinical Trial Registry ( ACTRN12616001470482p ). It was registered on October 21, 2016
Sick bunnies and pocket dumps: “Not-selfies” and the genre of self-representation
This article develops and troubles existing approaches to visual self-representation in social media, questioning the naturalized roles of faces and bodies in mediated self-representation. We argue that self-representation in digital communication should not be treated as synonymous with selfies, and that selfies themselves should not be reductively equated with performances of embodiment. We do this through discussing "not-selfies": visual self-…
Networked Music Cultures
This collection presents a range of essays on contemporary music distribution and consumption patterns and practices. The contributors to the collection use a variety of theoretical and methodological
Networked Music Cultures: Contemporary Approaches, Emerging Issues
Academic critique of neoliberal academia
Academic texts running critiques of neoliberal capitalism do work: positioning and producing their authors, hailing and invoking their readers (particularly as subjects invested in the moral logic the critique establishes), and thereby, articulating and moralising the collaborative accomplishment of the reader-writer relation. This relation and its constitution is a feature of contemporary leftist academic culture, and of the mechanics of critiqu…
The Morality of the Social in Critical Accounts of Popular Music
Talk about music, broadly understood, is commonly conducted and regarded as a neutral or transparent window on its topic. However, both vernacular and formal-analytic scholarly accounts constitute music as morally significant, and in doing so, articulate particular narratives of the social. One such contextual frame of reference for talking about music is presented and described here as 'art vs. commerce'. A close analysis is conducted of a sente…
Zombies in the Academy: Living Death in Higher Education
Sharing beliefs: What sexuality means to Muslim Iranian women living in Australia
In Iran, women's sexual self-understandings are strongly determined by religious teaching. This study explores the meanings generated through the lived experience of sexuality of women residing in Australia that may challenge certain received Islamic notions of sexuality. Interviews and focus group discussions were conducted with 51 Iranian women in Sydney alongside 10 semi-structured interviews with Shi'ite clergy in Iran. Findings suggest that …
What do non-English-speaking patients value in acute care? Cultural competency from the patient's perspective: A qualitative study
Because of the specific nature of each patient-provider interaction within its particular social and political environment, culturally competent behaviour in one context may be culturally incompetent in another. We propose a model of cultural empowerment that reflects the phenomenological basis of cultural competence in that cultural competence must be consistently renegotiated with any particular patient in a particular healthcare context. Simil…
Communication and healthcare complexity in people with little or no English: The Communication Complexity Score
While most patients (69%) had no interpreter, patients with high or moderate CCSs were more likely to have an interpreter, demonstrating a robust relationship between these two variables. Poor usage of interpreters in the Emergency Department was observed. Family and friends had a significant role in communication. These findings have important safety, policy, and practice implications for patients with limited English proficiency
Conflict and Development: Challenges in Responding to Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs in Timor-Leste
In April and May 2006, internal conflict in Timor-Leste led to the displacement of approximately 150,000 people, around 15% of the population. The violence was most intense in Dili, the capital, where many residents were displaced into camps in the city or to the districts. Research utilising in-depth qualitative interviews, service statistics and document review was conducted from September 2006 to February 2007 to assess the health sector's res…
Halfway people’: Refugee views of reproductive health services
The objective of this study was to identify factors that facilitate or hinder access to, use of, and satisfaction with reproductive health services in refugee settings, from the perspective of beneficiaries. Rapid appraisal methods included 46 focus group discussions and interviews with over 800 refugees, audits of 14 health facilities, referral hospital reviews, exit interviews with clients, and interviews with health workers. The study was cond…
Congenital malformations in the fylde region of Lancashire, England 1957-1973
Sick bunnies and pocket dumps: “Not-selfies” and the genre of self-representation
This article develops and troubles existing approaches to visual self-representation in social media, questioning the naturalized roles of faces and bodies in mediated self-representation. We argue that self-representation in digital communication should not be treated as synonymous with selfies, and that selfies themselves should not be reductively equated with performances of embodiment. We do this through discussing "not-selfies": visual self-…
Ask for More Time: Big Data Chronopolitics in the Australian Welfare Bureaucracy
Since 2016, welfare recipients in Australia have been subject to the Online Compliance Intervention (OCI), implemented through the national income support agency, Centrelink. This is a big data initiative, matching reported income to tax records to recoup welfare overpayments. The OCI proved controversial, notably for a 'reverse onus,' requiring that claimants disprove debts, and for data-matching design leading frequently to incorrect debts. As …
Ethical’ artificial intelligence in the welfare state: Discourse and discrepancy in Australian social services
In recent years, a discourse of ‘ethical artificial intelligence’ has emerged and gained international traction in response to widely publicised AI failures. In Australia, the discourse around ethical AI does not accord with the reality of AI deployment in the public sector. Drawing on institutional ethnographic approaches, this paper describes the misalignments between how technology is described in government documentation, and how it is deploy…
Academic critique of neoliberal academia
Academic texts running critiques of neoliberal capitalism do work: positioning and producing their authors, hailing and invoking their readers (particularly as subjects invested in the moral logic the critique establishes), and thereby, articulating and moralising the collaborative accomplishment of the reader-writer relation. This relation and its constitution is a feature of contemporary leftist academic culture, and of the mechanics of critiqu…
What do non-English-speaking patients value in acute care? Cultural competency from the patient's perspective: A qualitative study
Because of the specific nature of each patient-provider interaction within its particular social and political environment, culturally competent behaviour in one context may be culturally incompetent in another. We propose a model of cultural empowerment that reflects the phenomenological basis of cultural competence in that cultural competence must be consistently renegotiated with any particular patient in a particular healthcare context. Simil…
Congenital malformations in the fylde region of Lancashire, England 1957-1973
Ethics Are Admin: Australian Human Research Ethics Review Forms as (Un)Ethical Actors
In Australian universities, social research projects secure institutional approval as ethical through research ethics committees, and are defined and communicated to these committees through standardized local application forms. In organizational terms, ethics are instituted first as an administrative ritual anterior to research, and routinely elided as such. The documentation constituting this ritual thus bears scrutiny, in terms of what it says…
Genre work: How' vs 'what' questions in the sociology of music culture
The established conceptual frameworks in the sociology of music largely name forms of social collective, albeit emphasising different characteristics. 'Scene' and 'neo-tribe' are the principal contemporary examples of this. In this article, we describe scene and neo-tribe as conceptual responses to what questions (What kind of sociality is this? What kind of cultural context is this?). We engage critically with scene and neo-tribe, and with the u…
Socializing accountability in humanitarian settings: A proposed framework
The Morality of the Social in Critical Accounts of Popular Music
Talk about music, broadly understood, is commonly conducted and regarded as a neutral or transparent window on its topic. However, both vernacular and formal-analytic scholarly accounts constitute music as morally significant, and in doing so, articulate particular narratives of the social. One such contextual frame of reference for talking about music is presented and described here as 'art vs. commerce'. A close analysis is conducted of a sente…
Conflict and Development: Challenges in Responding to Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs in Timor-Leste
In April and May 2006, internal conflict in Timor-Leste led to the displacement of approximately 150,000 people, around 15% of the population. The violence was most intense in Dili, the capital, where many residents were displaced into camps in the city or to the districts. Research utilising in-depth qualitative interviews, service statistics and document review was conducted from September 2006 to February 2007 to assess the health sector's res…
Congenital malformations in the fylde region of Lancashire, England 1957-1973
Halfway people’: Refugee views of reproductive health services
The objective of this study was to identify factors that facilitate or hinder access to, use of, and satisfaction with reproductive health services in refugee settings, from the perspective of beneficiaries. Rapid appraisal methods included 46 focus group discussions and interviews with over 800 refugees, audits of 14 health facilities, referral hospital reviews, exit interviews with clients, and interviews with health workers. The study was cond…
Sharing beliefs: What sexuality means to Muslim Iranian women living in Australia
In Iran, women's sexual self-understandings are strongly determined by religious teaching. This study explores the meanings generated through the lived experience of sexuality of women residing in Australia that may challenge certain received Islamic notions of sexuality. Interviews and focus group discussions were conducted with 51 Iranian women in Sydney alongside 10 semi-structured interviews with Shi'ite clergy in Iran. Findings suggest that …
What do non-English-speaking patients value in acute care? Cultural competency from the patient's perspective: A qualitative study
Because of the specific nature of each patient-provider interaction within its particular social and political environment, culturally competent behaviour in one context may be culturally incompetent in another. We propose a model of cultural empowerment that reflects the phenomenological basis of cultural competence in that cultural competence must be consistently renegotiated with any particular patient in a particular healthcare context. Simil…
Communication and healthcare complexity in people with little or no English: The Communication Complexity Score
While most patients (69%) had no interpreter, patients with high or moderate CCSs were more likely to have an interpreter, demonstrating a robust relationship between these two variables. Poor usage of interpreters in the Emergency Department was observed. Family and friends had a significant role in communication. These findings have important safety, policy, and practice implications for patients with limited English proficiency
Conflict and Development: Challenges in Responding to Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs in Timor-Leste
In April and May 2006, internal conflict in Timor-Leste led to the displacement of approximately 150,000 people, around 15% of the population. The violence was most intense in Dili, the capital, where many residents were displaced into camps in the city or to the districts. Research utilising in-depth qualitative interviews, service statistics and document review was conducted from September 2006 to February 2007 to assess the health sector's res…
Zombies in the Academy: Living Death in Higher Education
The Morality of the Social in Critical Accounts of Popular Music
Talk about music, broadly understood, is commonly conducted and regarded as a neutral or transparent window on its topic. However, both vernacular and formal-analytic scholarly accounts constitute music as morally significant, and in doing so, articulate particular narratives of the social. One such contextual frame of reference for talking about music is presented and described here as 'art vs. commerce'. A close analysis is conducted of a sente…
Academic critique of neoliberal academia
Academic texts running critiques of neoliberal capitalism do work: positioning and producing their authors, hailing and invoking their readers (particularly as subjects invested in the moral logic the critique establishes), and thereby, articulating and moralising the collaborative accomplishment of the reader-writer relation. This relation and its constitution is a feature of contemporary leftist academic culture, and of the mechanics of critiqu…
Networked Music Cultures
This collection presents a range of essays on contemporary music distribution and consumption patterns and practices. The contributors to the collection use a variety of theoretical and methodological
Networked Music Cultures: Contemporary Approaches, Emerging Issues
A 3-Arm randomised controlled trial of Communicating Healthy Beginnings Advice by Telephone (CHAT) to mothers with infants to prevent childhood obesity
The CHAT Trial is registered with the Australian Clinical Trial Registry ( ACTRN12616001470482p ). It was registered on October 21, 2016
Sick bunnies and pocket dumps: “Not-selfies” and the genre of self-representation
This article develops and troubles existing approaches to visual self-representation in social media, questioning the naturalized roles of faces and bodies in mediated self-representation. We argue that self-representation in digital communication should not be treated as synonymous with selfies, and that selfies themselves should not be reductively equated with performances of embodiment. We do this through discussing "not-selfies": visual self-…
Vaporwave Is (Not) a Critique of Capitalism”: Genre Work in An Online Music Scene
Vaporwave, first emerging in the early 2010s, is a genre of music characterised by extensive sampling of earlier “elevator music,” such as smooth jazz, MoR, easy listening, and muzak. Audio and visual markers of the 1980s and 1990s, white-collar workspaces, media technology, and advertising are prominent features of the aesthetic. The (academic, vernacular, and press) writing about vaporwave commonly positions the genre as an ironic or ambivalent…
Ethics Are Admin: Australian Human Research Ethics Review Forms as (Un)Ethical Actors
In Australian universities, social research projects secure institutional approval as ethical through research ethics committees, and are defined and communicated to these committees through standardized local application forms. In organizational terms, ethics are instituted first as an administrative ritual anterior to research, and routinely elided as such. The documentation constituting this ritual thus bears scrutiny, in terms of what it says…
Socializing accountability in humanitarian settings: A proposed framework
“Not like that, not for that, not by them”: Social media affordances of critique
This paper has two objectives: to explicate the sociotechnical conditions that facilitate critique on social media platforms (specifically: Tumblr); and to operationalize a “working theory” from Foucault’s conceptualization of critique. We analyze resistant practices observed (in ethnographic study) in a Not Safe For Work (NSFW) community on Tumblr, arguing that the potential for critique arises there at the intersection of platform architecture …
Ask for More Time: Big Data Chronopolitics in the Australian Welfare Bureaucracy
Since 2016, welfare recipients in Australia have been subject to the Online Compliance Intervention (OCI), implemented through the national income support agency, Centrelink. This is a big data initiative, matching reported income to tax records to recoup welfare overpayments. The OCI proved controversial, notably for a 'reverse onus,' requiring that claimants disprove debts, and for data-matching design leading frequently to incorrect debts. As …
Ethical’ artificial intelligence in the welfare state: Discourse and discrepancy in Australian social services
In recent years, a discourse of ‘ethical artificial intelligence’ has emerged and gained international traction in response to widely publicised AI failures. In Australia, the discourse around ethical AI does not accord with the reality of AI deployment in the public sector. Drawing on institutional ethnographic approaches, this paper describes the misalignments between how technology is described in government documentation, and how it is deploy…
The Discourse Community of Electronic Dance Music (Anita Jóri)
From access and transparency to refusal: Three responses to algorithmic governance
This paper critically engages with key responses to algorithmic governance, including access and inclusion, transparency, and refusal. How can these responses effectively address the harms produced by algorithmic governance
Genre work: How' vs 'what' questions in the sociology of music culture
The established conceptual frameworks in the sociology of music largely name forms of social collective, albeit emphasising different characteristics. 'Scene' and 'neo-tribe' are the principal contemporary examples of this. In this article, we describe scene and neo-tribe as conceptual responses to what questions (What kind of sociality is this? What kind of cultural context is this?). We engage critically with scene and neo-tribe, and with the u…
Addressing Weight Stigma in Perinatal Care: Strategies for Health Care Providers and Organizations
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Business (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works)