Alexander Ross

Biographic Data

ID5655025
NAMEAlexander Ross
GIVEN NAMESAlexander
FAMILY NAMERoss
SIGNATUREROSS A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Riverside
ORCID0009-0000-2200-131X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1885
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Gamespy: An Autopsy of a Dead Platform

    Open AccessNelanthi Hewa, Alexander RossARTICLEAoIR Selected Papers of Internet…2026

    In the late 90s and early 2000s, GameSpy Network, was an inescapable presence of the early interactive web—either in the GameSpy Network—a collection of websites dedicated to covering popular game franchises (e.g Planet Quake, Planet Half-Life) or by working with game developers and publishers to provide multiplayer capabilities for hundreds of PC and console games. Even in instances when GameSpy did not provide the online infrastructure for a ga…

  • Strategic considerations and support for direct democracy in the United States

    Open AccessDaniel R Biggers, Alexander RossARTICLEElectoral Studies2024References: 19

    Recent research finds that variation in direct democracy support is partially explained by whether this institution helps advance policy interests. We test this relationship in the United States, whose status as the world's most frequent practitioner of direct democracy and unique nature of citizen-legislating experiences allows us to contribute to this literature. Using a survey of thirteen initiative states that includes questions about every m…

  • Case Studies in the Sociology of Absence and Emergence: Anarcho-Populism in Russia and Mexico

    Open AccessAndrew Smolski, Andrew R Smolski et al.ARTICLETheory in Action2022

    This paper practices Sousa Santos’ sociology of absences and emergences by establishing the absence of anarchism in populism studies and the presence of anarcho-populism as a concrete yet underappreciated type of populism. We conduct a comparative case study analysis of a set of historical cases, Zemlya i Volya and the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM). We define the term “anarchopopulism,” and analyze the relationship between anarchism and populism…

  • Spinning is winning: Social casino apps and the platformization of gamble-play

    Open AccessAlexander Ross, D B Nieborg et al.ARTICLEJournal of Consumer Culture2021Cited by: 4References: 5

    Social casino apps are an emergent genre in the app economy that sits at the intersection of three different industries: casino gambling, freemium mobile games, and social media platforms. This institutional position has implications for the social casino app’s political economy and culture of consumption. We argue that social casino apps are representative of a broader casualization of risk that has taken hold in a platform society. By combining…

  • Corporate E-Learning: Strategien, Märkte, Anwendungen

    Alexander Ross, Ralf Nacke et al.BOOKCorporate E-Learning2014

  • Corporate E-Learning: Strategien, Märkte, Anwendungen

    Open AccessReiner Neumann, Ralf Nacke et al.BOOKCorporate E-Learning2002

  • Livres reçus

    Open AccessLivres Reus Amelincks, C Frans et al.ARTICLERevue d histoire de l Amérique…2000

  • Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River

    Alexander RossARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1924

    Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia river. By Alexander Ross. (London: Smith, Elder and company, 1849.) Reprint. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. [The Lakeside classics.] (Chicago: E. E. Donnelley and sons company, The Lakeside press, 1923. xxvii, 388 p.) Get access F. L. P. F. L. P. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 11, Issue 1, June 1924, Page 150, ht…

  • Notice of St Clement's Church at Rowdill, Harris

    Alexander RossARTICLEProceedings of the Society of…1885