Andrew S Ro
Biographic Data
| ID | 336637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew S Ro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew S |
| FAMILY NAME | Ro |
| SIGNATURE | RO A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7005-9962 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 208 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Teacher readiness for generative AI: A Theory of Planned Behaviour approach
As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools become increasingly integrated into educational contexts, teacher readiness to adopt these technologies has emerged as a critical factor shaping their impact. This study investigates teacher readiness for GenAI adoption using the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) as a theoretical framework, focusing on the constructs of attitude, perceived behavioural control, and subjective norms. Positioned wi…
“Killing Demons is Cardio”: Participatory Culture and Parasocial Interaction in Online K-Pop Demon Hunters Discourse
This paper analyses YouTube comments on the viral short “ Do NOT Interrupt Our Mukbang!” from the Netflix phenomenon K-pop demon hunters to explore how participatory culture and parasocial interaction intersect in digital fandom. Drawing on 1,798 comments, we show how fans collaboratively construct meaning through humour, insider knowledge, and affective identification with animated idols and the K-pop industry beyond them. Commenters blend disco…
The discourse of sharing in digital spaces – Power, identity, and community
Fesshole and the discourse of confession on X: A study of online sharing and community building
As a centuries-old discursive practice, confessional acts that are typically understood as an acceptance of one’s guilt or shame regarding a particular action or thought, have been observed and studied in various contexts including religion, law and crime, and medicine. However, the nature and practice of confessions have been increasingly reconfigured within newer, evolving digital media contexts. Social media platforms, such as X (formerly Twit…
“We were cocked & loaded to retaliate”: An appraisal-based study of dichotomies in Trump’s tweets about Iran
The diplomatic relationship between the USA and Iran has long been fraught and is characterised by various conflicts and the implementation of economic sanctions. It can be argued that the relationship became even more hostile after Donald Trump was elected president of the US. Trump’s sentiments towards Iran were made public through his behavior on Twitter, both before and after he took over the Presidency. These sentiments have been a mix of ne…
‘Here is my shameful confession. I don’t really “get” poetry’: Discerning reader types in responses to Sylvia Plath’s Ariel on Goodreads
This article considers how readers engage with Sylvia Plath’s poetry collection Ariel (1965) – deemed as particularly ‘difficult’ – on Goodreads, in the context of online amateur reviewing. George Steiner’s (1978) fourfold typology of difficulty (contingent, modal, tactical and ontological) informs our approach and leads us to explore the ways in which difficulty is talked about and dealt with, especially since the poetry genre faces resistance i…
We shall not flag or fail, we shall go on to the end: Hashtag activism in Hong Kong protests
Focusing on the anti-extradition bill protests in Hong Kong, this article presents an analysis of Twitter posts adopting the hashtags #antiELAB, #NoChinaExtradition and #HongKongProtests. The analysis explores the public narrative among the collective identity of Hongkongers opposing the extradition bill as events unfolded during mid-2019 in Hong Kong. To do so, we adopt Bhatia’s (2015) multi-perspective framework for the Discourse of Illusion, w…
Metarecipient parents' #Bluey tweets as a distributed fandom affinity space
This article explores children's and adults' online fandom and engagement with the children's animated television programme Bluey. This Australian cartoon has proven extremely popular worldwide with its primary recipients, that is children, and has also received significant attention and positive evaluation from parents, who - we suggest - offer a metarecipient perspective on the series as they tweet about it, both voicing their own opinions and …
Making privilege palatable: Normative sustainability in chefs' Instagram discourse
In this article we consider the discursive production of status as it relates to democratic ideals of environmental equity and community responsibility, orienting specifically to food discourse and 'elite authenticity' (Mapes 2018), as well as to recent work concerning normativity and class inequality (e.g. Thurlow 2016; Hall, Levon, & Milani 2019). Utilizing a dataset comprised of 150 Instagram posts, drawn from three different acclaimed chefs' …
Language in action: Sport, mode and the division of semiotic labour
This paper explores language in sport. It draws on systemic functional linguistics to map variations in language as coaches and players change situation, from setting up drills and giving feedback to calling for the ball during the intensity of play. In particular, it explores grammatical and phonological shifts as coaches and players move more toward the ‘language–in–action’ pole of mode. It shows that the more language is used in relation to in…
‘Hello, this is Martha’: Interaction dynamics of live scambaiting on Twitch
The growth of the Internet has seen the emergence of elaborate examples of cybercrime in the form of ‘scams’. Alongside this, a resistance has also developed, with ‘scambaiters’ engaging in complex and deceptive scenarios to waste scammers’ time and educate others about online scams. This has been facilitated by the evolution of new media platforms inclusive of the live stream video-sharing site Twitch, where scambaiters take part in interactions…
New media and authentication of sport tourism place: Social (Re)production of Alpe d’Huez as a sacred Tour de France site
‘New media’ such as social media content-sharing apps and podcasting platforms have democratised mass media by enabling producers to disseminate content that is otherwise of limited interest to mainstream broadcast media, though may be of great interest to members of nuanced social worlds. Producers of bespoke sport-related content have recently harnessed new media platforms to create commercially viable broadcast outlets. We contend that the pro…
Winning the discursive struggle? The impact of a significant environmental crisis event on dominant climate discourses on Twitter
The devastating 2019–2020 Australian bushfires attracted significant activity on social media, both in Australia and worldwide. We use corpus-based discourse analysis to explore the impact of this significant environmental crisis event on climate discussions on Australian Twitter, with a focus on discursive struggle and (de-)legitimation. We examine the most-retweeted tweets across three 30-day time periods, combining quantitative and qualitative…
From the White House with anger: Conversational features in President Trump's official communication
You Don't Fool Me: On Scams, Scambaiting, Deception, and Epistemological Ambiguity at R/scambait on Reddit
With a focus on the online phenomena of scamming and scambaiting, this article explores users' communicative activities on Reddit's r/scambait subreddit. Drawing on a representative corpus viewed through grounded theory, we establish the basic categories of posts and then unpack those further to reveal the deceptive practices being undertaken by both scammers and scambaiters, as well as Redditors' untruthfulness in their fabricated posts. The ana…
Sport in the new media landscape: Community, participation and discourse
Ruled Britannia”: Metaphorical Construction of the EU as Enemy in Ukip Campaign Posters
The sweeping tide of populism across the globe has given rise to isolationist sentiments that call for the closing of national borders and a return to nativist roots. This has been most evident in Britain in terms of the controversial vote to exit the European Union (EU) during the 2016 referendum (to Leave or Remain) and more recently with the lead up to a general election and mounting pressure on the government to implement an exit strategy. Th…
Food, class and ideological political affiliation: Indexical fields in the #secondcivilwarletters tweets
Authority (de)legitimation in the border wall Twitter discourse of President Trump
The construction of a wall along the US/Mexico border was one of the main political platforms upon which the 2016 US presidential election campaign was fought. Ahead of the upcoming 2020 US presidential election, and with the border wall still not yet built or funded, this article uses the authorisation component of Van Leeuwen’s (2007) framework for the discourse of legitimation to show how President Donald J. Trump has sought legitimacy for the…
Going negative: An APPRAISAL analysis of the rhetoric of Donald Trump on Twitter
Donald Trump, legitimisation and a new political rhetoric
The rise to the US Presidency of Donald Trump has been accompanied by the emergence of a new political rhetoric, one that is most frequently observed on the social media platform Twitter. Although Twitter has been a feature of political campaigns and communication for several years now, the public has not been exposed to the de-professionalised, informal use demonstrated by Trump. The rhetoric of Trump can be said in large part to be influenced b…
Internet Memes, Media Frames, and the Conflicting Logics of Climate Change Discourse
Media frames have been applied to news information for decades to influence the manner in which news is both delivered and interpreted. However, media frames have tended to focus on traditional news media channels, but the emergence of new media platforms now necessitates a recalibration of how media framing is understood in relation to media and communication studies. With a focus on the issue of climate change, this study explores how framing i…
My sport, my perspectives: Intersubjectivity in cyclist Instagram posts
Discursive delegitimisation in metaphorical #secondcivilwarletters: An analysis of a collective Twitter hashtag response
In July 2018 the Twitter hashtag #secondcivilwarletters began trending as part of a collective response to conservative media personality Alex Jones’ warning that Democratic supporters were planning to launch a Second Civil War on Independence Day. The response consisted of tweets in the form of parodic letters written as though they were from the American Civil War period, and engaged in a collective form of political commentary and discussion, …
Secondcivilwarletters From the Front: Discursive illusions in a trending Twitter hashtag
When conservative media personality and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones warned of an impending Second Civil War to be initiated by Democrats, he instigated a viral hashtag on Twitter – #secondcivilwarletters – which drew tweets of political commentary and critique in a style mimicking war letters from the American Civil War. Using a sample of these tweets, this article explores the evocation of discursive illusions already established within mains…
Discursive Deflection: Accusation of 'Fake News' and the Spread of Mis- and Disinformation in the Tweets of President Trump
Twitter is increasingly being used within the sociopolitical domain as a channel through which to circulate information and opinions. Throughout the 2016 US Presidential primaries and general election campaign, a notable feature was the prolific Twitter use of Republican candidate and then nominee, Donald Trump. This use has continued since his election victory and inauguration as President. Trump's use of Twitter has drawn criticism due to his r…
Digital cultures of political participation: Internet memes and the discursive delegitimization of the 2016 U.S Presidential candidates
Making the Harder Yards: Environmental Policy Integration in Australia
Solutions to environmental problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and land and water resource degradation require long term integration of economic, social and environmental policies. This poses challenges to specialised, hierarchical public administration systems. The study reported here examined strategies, structures and processes to enable environmental policy integration in six Australian states and territories, and some federal…
All In The Family: On David Morley's Family Television: Cultural Power and Domestic Leisure (London: Comedia, 1986); and Philip Simpson's (editor), Parents Talking Television (London: Comedia, 1987)
Other| January 01 1988 All In The Family: On David Morley's Family Television: Cultural Power and Domestic Leisure (London: Comedia, 1986); and Philip Simpson's (editor), Parents Talking Television (London: Comedia, 1987) Andrew Ross Andrew Ross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 169–177. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-6-1_16-169 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search…
Idealized English Teachers: The Implicit Influence of Race in Japan
English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education within the context of Japan is firmly underpinned by sociohistorical constructions of racial difference and racial hierarchies that have considerable influence on contemporary student and institutional attitudes. Embracing these sociohistorical foundations, this article adopts experimental procedures to explore the implicit influence of race upon student ratings of desirability of prospective non-Japa…
Going negative: An APPRAISAL analysis of the rhetoric of Donald Trump on Twitter
Authority (de)legitimation in the border wall Twitter discourse of President Trump
The construction of a wall along the US/Mexico border was one of the main political platforms upon which the 2016 US presidential election campaign was fought. Ahead of the upcoming 2020 US presidential election, and with the border wall still not yet built or funded, this article uses the authorisation component of Van Leeuwen’s (2007) framework for the discourse of legitimation to show how President Donald J. Trump has sought legitimacy for the…
Deconstructing embedded meaning within cyclists’ Instagram discourse: Fromwhereiride
Social media is now a central communication centre within social worlds bound by particular leisure interests. In the digital age, leisure participants are able to generate and share bespoke, archival content and thus project nuanced messages regarding leisure experiences to their social networks. Adopting an interpretive approach to analyzing multimodal components of cyclists’ Instagram posts tagged with the popular hashtag #fromwhereiride, this…
Donald Trump, legitimisation and a new political rhetoric
The rise to the US Presidency of Donald Trump has been accompanied by the emergence of a new political rhetoric, one that is most frequently observed on the social media platform Twitter. Although Twitter has been a feature of political campaigns and communication for several years now, the public has not been exposed to the de-professionalised, informal use demonstrated by Trump. The rhetoric of Trump can be said in large part to be influenced b…
Secondcivilwarletters From the Front: Discursive illusions in a trending Twitter hashtag
When conservative media personality and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones warned of an impending Second Civil War to be initiated by Democrats, he instigated a viral hashtag on Twitter – #secondcivilwarletters – which drew tweets of political commentary and critique in a style mimicking war letters from the American Civil War. Using a sample of these tweets, this article explores the evocation of discursive illusions already established within mains…
The lonely hour of scarcity
We shall not flag or fail, we shall go on to the end: Hashtag activism in Hong Kong protests
Focusing on the anti-extradition bill protests in Hong Kong, this article presents an analysis of Twitter posts adopting the hashtags #antiELAB, #NoChinaExtradition and #HongKongProtests. The analysis explores the public narrative among the collective identity of Hongkongers opposing the extradition bill as events unfolded during mid-2019 in Hong Kong. To do so, we adopt Bhatia’s (2015) multi-perspective framework for the Discourse of Illusion, w…
Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property
Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property Andrew Ross (bio) Kurt Vonnegut published his first novel, Player Piano (1952), at a time of high, dystopian anxiety about the abuse of technology by the state and by industrialists alike. The novel—which depicts an unsavory future in which new technologies make everyone's skills obsolete—dutifully channeled these public concerns. Player pianos do not really figure in…
Making privilege palatable: Normative sustainability in chefs' Instagram discourse
In this article we consider the discursive production of status as it relates to democratic ideals of environmental equity and community responsibility, orienting specifically to food discourse and 'elite authenticity' (Mapes 2018), as well as to recent work concerning normativity and class inequality (e.g. Thurlow 2016; Hall, Levon, & Milani 2019). Utilizing a dataset comprised of 150 Instagram posts, drawn from three different acclaimed chefs' …
Discursive delegitimisation in metaphorical #secondcivilwarletters: An analysis of a collective Twitter hashtag response
In July 2018 the Twitter hashtag #secondcivilwarletters began trending as part of a collective response to conservative media personality Alex Jones’ warning that Democratic supporters were planning to launch a Second Civil War on Independence Day. The response consisted of tweets in the form of parodic letters written as though they were from the American Civil War period, and engaged in a collective form of political commentary and discussion, …
Metarecipient parents' #Bluey tweets as a distributed fandom affinity space
This article explores children's and adults' online fandom and engagement with the children's animated television programme Bluey. This Australian cartoon has proven extremely popular worldwide with its primary recipients, that is children, and has also received significant attention and positive evaluation from parents, who - we suggest - offer a metarecipient perspective on the series as they tweet about it, both voicing their own opinions and …
Winning the discursive struggle? The impact of a significant environmental crisis event on dominant climate discourses on Twitter
The devastating 2019–2020 Australian bushfires attracted significant activity on social media, both in Australia and worldwide. We use corpus-based discourse analysis to explore the impact of this significant environmental crisis event on climate discussions on Australian Twitter, with a focus on discursive struggle and (de-)legitimation. We examine the most-retweeted tweets across three 30-day time periods, combining quantitative and qualitative…
You Don't Fool Me: On Scams, Scambaiting, Deception, and Epistemological Ambiguity at R/scambait on Reddit
With a focus on the online phenomena of scamming and scambaiting, this article explores users' communicative activities on Reddit's r/scambait subreddit. Drawing on a representative corpus viewed through grounded theory, we establish the basic categories of posts and then unpack those further to reveal the deceptive practices being undertaken by both scammers and scambaiters, as well as Redditors' untruthfulness in their fabricated posts. The ana…
Sport in the new media landscape: Community, participation and discourse
My sport, my perspectives: Intersubjectivity in cyclist Instagram posts
An integrated approach to non-verbal performance in the Hybrid Political Interview
The new smartness
Fesshole and the discourse of confession on X: A study of online sharing and community building
As a centuries-old discursive practice, confessional acts that are typically understood as an acceptance of one’s guilt or shame regarding a particular action or thought, have been observed and studied in various contexts including religion, law and crime, and medicine. However, the nature and practice of confessions have been increasingly reconfigured within newer, evolving digital media contexts. Social media platforms, such as X (formerly Twit…
From the White House with anger: Conversational features in President Trump's official communication
Ruled Britannia”: Metaphorical Construction of the EU as Enemy in Ukip Campaign Posters
The sweeping tide of populism across the globe has given rise to isolationist sentiments that call for the closing of national borders and a return to nativist roots. This has been most evident in Britain in terms of the controversial vote to exit the European Union (EU) during the 2016 referendum (to Leave or Remain) and more recently with the lead up to a general election and mounting pressure on the government to implement an exit strategy. Th…
The Eternal Varieties
The Alcatraz Effect: Belief and Postmodernity
Visitors to Alcatraz Island, former Federal Penitentiary, know what to expect. To make the excursion worthwhile, however, demands a certain state of mind; their knowledge must be left hanging in the balance of a suspension of disbelief. Seeing, after all, is believing, which is no less than the commodity fetish of a tourist industry, content to trade in forms (as the phrase goes) of organized escapism. If that is so, then the trip out to Alcatraz…
The Waste Land and the Fantasy of Interpretation
Research Article| October 01 1984 The Waste Land and the Fantasy of Interpretation Andrew Ross Andrew Ross Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1984) 8: 134–158. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928561 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Andre…
Masculinity and Miami Vice: Selling In
Containing culture in the Cold War
Intellectuals and Ordinary People: Reading the Rosenberg Letters
T Tnder what circumstances could the respectable, standard-sized, dwelling units of a low-rent housing project on New York's Lower East Side come to be characterized accusingly as the visible manifestation of the mind?' In the tradition of establishing guilt by housing, it has long been a commonplace to see the petty-bourgeois mind and its place of residence being pilloried for their respective lack of distinction, their failure of imagination, o…
All In The Family: On David Morley's Family Television: Cultural Power and Domestic Leisure (London: Comedia, 1986); and Philip Simpson's (editor), Parents Talking Television (London: Comedia, 1987)
Other| January 01 1988 All In The Family: On David Morley's Family Television: Cultural Power and Domestic Leisure (London: Comedia, 1986); and Philip Simpson's (editor), Parents Talking Television (London: Comedia, 1987) Andrew Ross Andrew Ross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 169–177. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-6-1_16-169 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search…
Universal Abandon? The Politics of Postmodernism
Hacking Away at the Counterculture
Postmodern Culture - Volume 1, Number 1, September 1990
Postmodernism/Jameson/Critique
Universal Abandon: The Politics of Postmodernism
Universal Abandon was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.In recent years, the debate about postmodernism has become a full-blown, global discussion about the nature and future of society: it has challenged and redefined the cultural and sexual politics of the last two d…
The new smartness
Adolescents and Their Music: If It's Too Loud, You're Too Old
The lonely hour of scarcity
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
China After Seattle
U.S. trade policy has always been shaped, usually quite transparently, by Washington's geopolitical interests. In the case of trade with China, however, there is no telling the cart from the horse
Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property
Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property Andrew Ross (bio) Kurt Vonnegut published his first novel, Player Piano (1952), at a time of high, dystopian anxiety about the abuse of technology by the state and by industrialists alike. The novel—which depicts an unsavory future in which new technologies make everyone's skills obsolete—dutifully channeled these public concerns. Player pianos do not really figure in…
The Ballad of Becks and Posh
The arrival in the U.S. of global soccer star David Beckham, signed on a massive multiyear contract to the LA Galaxy, occasioned no end of media coverage. The hoopla surrounding this event saw the latest effort to change the national conversation regarding the grudging acceptance of soccer as a mass American sport. But the real story about U.S. men's soccer, as this essay argues, is the embryonic Latinization of the game along lines similar to Ma…
The political and military effectiveness of Commonwealth forces in Confrontation 1963–661
Low-intensity conflicts such as counterinsurgencies tend to be characterized by a large number of contacts. The sheer number and often inconclusive nature of these incidents makes it difficult to determine whether military operations are effective. This article uses Confrontation as a case study, first building a database of incidents (including contacts) and then analysing the database statistically to identify patterns. This process shows that …
Making the Harder Yards: Environmental Policy Integration in Australia
Solutions to environmental problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and land and water resource degradation require long term integration of economic, social and environmental policies. This poses challenges to specialised, hierarchical public administration systems. The study reported here examined strategies, structures and processes to enable environmental policy integration in six Australian states and territories, and some federal…
The Quandaries of Consumer-Based Labor Activism: A Low-Wage Case Study
This essay takes anti-sweatshop activism as a case-study of a labor movement that engages consumer politics with mixed results. It reviews the success of the media-honed strategies deployed to raise public concern about substandard workplace conditions in the global garment industry, and summarizes corporate efforts to redeem their tarnished image through the public relations vehicle of ‘corporate social responsibility’. The record of attention t…
The Greening of America Revisited: Can the U.S. Create High-Skill Green Jobs
Kinetics in counterinsurgency: Some influences on soldier combat performance in the 1st Australian Task Force in the Vietnam War
Counterinsurgency is often characterized by large numbers of small fire-fights interspersed with a few larger battles. Heavy firepower contributes to the outcome of the larger battles but the smaller contacts are often fought by infantry without heavy weapons support. Infantry combat performance in these fire-fights is therefore a key concern. It has been fashionable to discuss soldier combat performance in terms of ‘firers’, ‘non-firers’, and ‘p…
Occupy, Debt, and the Wages of the Future: A Response to Guy Standing
Working simply to pay off debt is an increasingly large component of the time quotient that characterizes our precarious economy. Since debts are the wages of the future, creditors are requiring debtors to tie up their time for decades to come. Just as the struggle over wages was a defining feature of the industrial era, the struggle over debt is becoming a frontline conflict of our times
Idealized English Teachers: The Implicit Influence of Race in Japan
English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education within the context of Japan is firmly underpinned by sociohistorical constructions of racial difference and racial hierarchies that have considerable influence on contemporary student and institutional attitudes. Embracing these sociohistorical foundations, this article adopts experimental procedures to explore the implicit influence of race upon student ratings of desirability of prospective non-Japa…
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