Jaqueline McLeod Rogers

The University of Winnipeg · Rhetoric Writing and Communications

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;...

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...

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 const...

City as Classroom – a text McLuhan co-authored with Eric McLuhan and Kathryn Hutchon in 1977 – takes as its chief goal educating readers to identify ‘[p]atterns and structures [that] “make sense” of things’ (McLuhan et al. 1977: 165), presenting readers with a pedagogical model for exercising and attempting to balance their multiple senses. The tex...

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 p...

In this paper I examine the American presidential campaign cycle as a series of ritualized sociodramas. Examples are used from the campaigns of 1988, 1992, and 1996 to illustrate the role of ritual, rhetoric, symbol, and media in the process of presidential power acquisition. These political processes are analyzed utilizing the concepts of sociodra...

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 1979. Includes bibliographical references.

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 unde...