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Jaqueline McLeod Rogers (Ph.D) is a Canadian writer, editor, and researcher and professor of rhetoric, writing and communications at the University of Winnipeg. She has been on the board of the Canadian Communication Association, the Media Ecology Association, and the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Communication.
McLeod Rogers is author of 3 books, co-author of 2, and co-editor of 3. Many of her publications address writing strategies and ethics, and she is a recognized as a leading scholar in studies of Marshall McLuhan. |
McLuhan Research
Book in Process: McLuhan Mid-century, with Tyrwhitt and Kepes: Crises then and Now
(Peter Lang: proposed publication date January 2024)
(Peter Lang: proposed publication date January 2024)
McLuhan's Techno-Sensorium City (2020)(Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)Marshall McLuhan was both an activist and a speculative urbanist who drew from cross-disciplinary and ahistorical sources to explore constitutive exchanges between humanity and technologies to alter human perception and imagine a sustainable future based on collective participation in a responsive urban environment. This environment—a techno-sensorium—would endeavour to design and program technology to be favourable to life and capable of engaging with multiple senses.
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Why we must embrace geoengineering and other technologies to stop the climate crisis
"Recent adverse climate events — such as summer wildfires — have given Canadians something to worry about. Despite reports that most countries are not on track to meet their 2030 emissions targets to keep the Earth’s warming to within 1.5 C to 2 C, many continue to pin their hopes on fulfilling the goals of the Paris Agreement."
(The Conversation, National Post, 2021)
(The Conversation, National Post, 2021)
Susanne Langer, Marshall McLuhan and media ecology: Feminist principles in humanist projects
Abstract
In current scholarship, Susanne Langer and her theories of art, perception and connectivity are less well known than McLuhan’s. Comparison brings to the fore that both were concerned with the dulling effects of heavy-handed science and technology unregulated by human hand and heart, and both understood the expressive and liberatory possibilities of language as media and metaphor. By reading ‘diffractively’ ‐ finding new connections and honouring patterns over polemics ‐ this article brings Langer back into the scholarly conversation and reinvigorates our understanding of McLuhan. Langer did not consider her thought as principled by feminism. Yet according to recent critical biographer Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin, her work was rooted in feminist ontology for espousing principles of relationality and embodiment. My article argues that McLuhan, too, eschewed dichotomies and linearities of traditional thought for the principle of relationality. Extending this claim further, my article also submits that media ecology ‐ with its emphasis on interconnectivities, on feeling and thinking, on non-linearity ‐ has features in common with feminist thinking.
(Explorations in Media Ecology, 2021)
In current scholarship, Susanne Langer and her theories of art, perception and connectivity are less well known than McLuhan’s. Comparison brings to the fore that both were concerned with the dulling effects of heavy-handed science and technology unregulated by human hand and heart, and both understood the expressive and liberatory possibilities of language as media and metaphor. By reading ‘diffractively’ ‐ finding new connections and honouring patterns over polemics ‐ this article brings Langer back into the scholarly conversation and reinvigorates our understanding of McLuhan. Langer did not consider her thought as principled by feminism. Yet according to recent critical biographer Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin, her work was rooted in feminist ontology for espousing principles of relationality and embodiment. My article argues that McLuhan, too, eschewed dichotomies and linearities of traditional thought for the principle of relationality. Extending this claim further, my article also submits that media ecology ‐ with its emphasis on interconnectivities, on feeling and thinking, on non-linearity ‐ has features in common with feminist thinking.
(Explorations in Media Ecology, 2021)
Imaginations: Marshall McLuhan and the Arts(Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 2017)
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OTHER RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS:
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Contested Sovereignties: States, Media Platforms, Peoples, and the Regulation of Media Content and Big Data in the Networked Society
Abstract
This article examines the legal and normative foundations of media content regulation in the borderless networked society. We explore the extent to which internet undertakings should be subject to state regulation, in light of Canada’s ongoing debates and legislative reform. We bring a cross-disciplinary perspective (from the subject fields of law; communications studies, in particular McLuhan’s now classic probes; international relations; and technology studies) to enable both policy and language analysis. We apply the concept of sovereignty to states (national cultural and digital sovereignty), media platforms (transnational sovereignty), and citizens (autonomy and personal data sovereignty) to examine the competing dynamics and interests that need to be considered and mediated. While there is growing awareness of the tensions between state and transnational media platform powers, the relationship between media content regulation and the collection of viewers’ personal data is relatively less explored. We analyse how future media content regulation needs to fully account for personal data extraction practices by transnational platforms and other media content undertakings. We posit national cultural sovereignty—a constant unfinished process and framework connecting the local to the global—as the enduring force and justification of media content regulation in Canada. The exercise of state sovereignty may be applied not so much to secure strict territorial borders and centralized power over citizens but to act as a mediating power to promote and protect citizens’ individual and collective interests, locally and globally.
(Laws, 2021)
This article examines the legal and normative foundations of media content regulation in the borderless networked society. We explore the extent to which internet undertakings should be subject to state regulation, in light of Canada’s ongoing debates and legislative reform. We bring a cross-disciplinary perspective (from the subject fields of law; communications studies, in particular McLuhan’s now classic probes; international relations; and technology studies) to enable both policy and language analysis. We apply the concept of sovereignty to states (national cultural and digital sovereignty), media platforms (transnational sovereignty), and citizens (autonomy and personal data sovereignty) to examine the competing dynamics and interests that need to be considered and mediated. While there is growing awareness of the tensions between state and transnational media platform powers, the relationship between media content regulation and the collection of viewers’ personal data is relatively less explored. We analyse how future media content regulation needs to fully account for personal data extraction practices by transnational platforms and other media content undertakings. We posit national cultural sovereignty—a constant unfinished process and framework connecting the local to the global—as the enduring force and justification of media content regulation in Canada. The exercise of state sovereignty may be applied not so much to secure strict territorial borders and centralized power over citizens but to act as a mediating power to promote and protect citizens’ individual and collective interests, locally and globally.
(Laws, 2021)
Oscars 2022: ‘Best director’ for Jane Campion’s slow-burn approach in
‘The Power of the Dog’
Published: March 17, 2022 4.52pm EDT Updated: March 28, 2022
https://theconversation.com/oscars-2022-best-director-for-jane-campions-slow-burn-approach-in-the-power-of-the-dog-176527
Mothering/Internet/Kids [M/I/K]
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Blog: Talking Care Family BloglinesJaqueline McLeod Rogers, Fiona Green, and other guest contributors explore ethics and privacy matters influencing family life and practices. Explores how the internet/social media enables and disables dreams, daily practices, and relationships. Who’s watching? Who’s talking? How much time are we spending/wasting?
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