Papers by Jaqueline Mcleod-Rogers
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
I approached this book with the hope that my past interest in reading, teaching, and writing abou... more I approached this book with the hope that my past interest in reading, teaching, and writing about Margaret Laurence, coupled with my current interests in rhetoric and composition, would enable me to respond to new critical perspectives. The Introduction to the volume encouraged this hope by profiling articles with familiar themes embedded in a postmodern context of open-minded pluralism. Yet in explaining the volume\u27s purpose, editor Christian Riegel tends to over-emphasize novelty at the expense of continuity, describing essays that go beyond revisionist readings to stake out critical territory, charting critical space never before traced (xvii). Much of his claim rests on the volume\u27s inclusion of essays that deal with Laurence\u27s early political writing and her African fictionsmaterial that has received scant critical attention. Yet of the collection\u27s twelve articles, only five address this work while the remaining seven deal with the Manawaka fiction, thereby creati...
Explorations in Media Ecology, 2021
In current scholarship, Susanne Langer and her theories of art, perception and connectivity are l... more 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 al...
Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, 2015
This article argues that while some mommy bloggers follow ethical practices in protecting the pri... more This article argues that while some mommy bloggers follow ethical practices in protecting the privacy of those they write about, others have given little thought to such self-regulation, leaving room and need for the dialogical blog-based forum proposed by the authors. Since mommy blogging takes family as its subject (and often family members who are dependent minors), confidentiality and privacy issues are particularly sensitive. Apart from an early effort to codify guidelines published on the BlogHer website, there has been little blog-based or scholarly discussion of ethical blogging practices. Several examples of prominent mommy bloggers who disclose sensitive information about others without apparent privacy concerns for purposes of entertaining or informing their audience are documented. To conclude, the authors propose opening their blog—Mommy Bloglines: Ta[l]king Care—as a forum for interactive community discussion of evolving practices, with a goal of identifying some share...
Artistic Approaches to Cultural Mapping, 2018
Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, 2015
This article argues that while some mommy bloggers follow ethical practices in protecting the pri... more This article argues that while some mommy bloggers follow ethical practices in protecting the privacy of those they write about, others have given little thought to such self-regulation, leaving room and need for the dialogical blog-based forum proposed by the authors. Since mommy blogging takes family as its subject (and often family members who are dependent minors), confidentiality and privacy issues are particularly sensitive. Apart from an early effort to codify guidelines published on the BlogHer website, there has been little blog-based or scholarly discussion of ethical blogging practices. Several examples of prominent mommy bloggers who disclose sensitive information about others without apparent privacy concerns for purposes of entertaining or informing their audience are documented. To conclude, the authors propose opening their blog—Mommy Bloglines: Ta[l]king Care—as a forum for interactive community discussion of evolving practices, with a goal of identifying some share...
Image, 2017
The copyright for each article belongs to the author and has been published in this journal under... more The copyright for each article belongs to the author and has been published in this journal under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives 3.0 license that allows others to share for non-commercial purposes the work with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal. The content of this article represents the author’s original work and any third-party content, either image or text, has been included under the Fair Dealing exception in the Canadian Copyright Act, or the author has provided the required publication permissions. To cite this article: Lauder, Adam and Jaqueline McLeod Rogers. “McLuhan and the Arts after the Speculative Turn.” Imaginations 8:3 (2017): Web (date accessed) 5-24. DOI: 10.17742/IMAGE.MA.8.3.1
Composition Studies, 2012
Laws, 2021
This article examines the legal and normative foundations of media content regulation in the bord... more 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 rel...
Canadian Journal for Studies in Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 1969
Narrative inquiry has become a growing part of scholarly work across disciplines and a common par... more Narrative inquiry has become a growing part of scholarly work across disciplines and a common part of student writing. I begin this article by proposing that undergraduate students can benefit from a course that teaches them about narrative, a mode of knowing many theorists claim is unique to humans and basic to our understanding. Students who understand the intersections of epistemology and narrative are more likely to avoid the intellectual pratfalls of writing narratives that are static, simple or entirely self-focused. The remainder of the article proposes texts and themes to constitute a course focused on narrative thinking and writing. I suggest that the major topics to take up are the role of narrative in human history, in contemporary scholarship, and in feminist and postmodern theory. Issues of interest include the function of narrative as evidence, the role of the personal and of experience in knowledge building according to feminist and postmodern theorizing, the ethical ...
TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 2017
This article examines a sign campaign posted by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (2012–2014) ... more This article examines a sign campaign posted by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (2012–2014) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and the Museum’s strategies for cultivating local publics at a time when its imposing exterior was under construction but its interior was not yet open to public view. Our study reveals that the Museum was more interested in constructing a façade of community goodwill than in responding to or engaging with particular publics and local concerns. Although our analysis concentrates on local details and contexts, it can inform other projects that examine the role of linguistic artifacts and discursive activities in place-forming and -making. We draw on rhetorical, visual, linguistic and critical museum studies to analyze this not-to-be-repeated formative time in a museum’s history, a discursive moment that is both ephemeral and enduring.
Explorations in Media Ecology, 2019
Explorations in Media Ecology, 2016
The Canadian Historical Review, 2012
quality. On the whole, the book does what it sets out to do – offer different readings on Canadia... more quality. On the whole, the book does what it sets out to do – offer different readings on Canadian identity. In isolated incidences copy editing could be better, although the errors are not substantial distractions. Care should be taken about some claims. Ammirante, for instance, asserts that the collapse of the reserve clause was due to the 1960s ‘US court rulings against the validity of the reserve clause in baseball’ (192). If he is referring to the Curt Flood case, which he does not identify by name, the US Supreme Court ruled against the plaintiff. In fact, the reserve clause’s demise had more to do with the professional baseball union’s methodical testing of the contract via bargaining. As Holman states in the introduction, there has been a difference in the perception of what being ‘Canadian’ means for the intelligentsia and for others. Part of the problem, it seems, lies in the difficulties of disseminating academic research to the general public. Canada’s Game may suffer from the same difficulties. Academic presses, such as this book’s publisher, target those in academia, although that is not to say that those outside academia would not or could not comprehend the material. Certainly, Canada’s Game is an accessible work and an important one at that. Despite the book’s insistence on examining Canadian identity through multiple texts, Canada’s Game will probably be preaching to the choir. What needs to happen is to extend this concept of multiple interpretations/texts beyond the ivied walls of higher learning. john wong Washington State University
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