Russell Macdougall
Biographic Data
| ID | 384356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Russell Macdougall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Russell |
| FAMILY NAME | Macdougall |
| SIGNATURE | MACDOUGALL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Curry College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3362-5942 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Deconstructing the New Body Politic (Reconstruction Through Re-Embodiment)
‘Smart’ mobile communication technologies have ushered in new patterns of human-machine enmeshment that fundamentally alter the way people perceive, remember, think, communicate, act, and play. Over the past 2 decades, especially, these algorithmically enabled devices have diffused into human culture at an unprecedented pace and scale. Any so-equipped person can attest to the powerful effects such technological relation entails. However, tweens a…
When Bad Men Combine: The Star Route Scandal and the Twilight of Gilded Age Politics
Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle by Jamie Woodcock
Reviewed by: Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle by Jamie Woodcock Robert MacDougall Jamie Woodcock, Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle (Chicago: Haymarket Books 2019) Video games, computer games, electronic games—whatever we decide to call them, these games may be the paradigmatic media of 21st-century capitalism. Born in the interstices of the Cold War military-industrial complex, video games…
Old New Media: From Oral to Virtual Environments, Paul Grosswiler (2013)
Preview this article: Old New Media: From Oral to Virtual Environments, Paul Grosswiler (2013), Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/eme/18/1-2/eme.18.1-2.152-1.gif
Sympathetic Physics: The Keely Motor and the Laws of Thermodynamics in Nineteenth-Century Culture
In Philadelphia in the 1870s, John Worrell Keely announced the invention of a fantastic new motor that could, he promised, drive locomotives, power factories, and even defy gravity without fuel or heat. The Keely Motor became the most notorious perpetual motion scheme of the nineteenth century, attracting believers and investors for nearly thirty years. This article explores the "work" the motor performed for Keely, his supporters, and his critic…
Mapping the mind: A technophilosophical probe
This article describes a long-standing conceptual impasse regarding the ontological status of ‘mind’ at least since the time of Descartes. While this impasse finds root in a problematic mind-body dualism, a more recent and tenacious scientific preoccupation seeks to locate representational features of memory, cognition and consciousness in the biological substrate of the brain. The emergence and utility of a non-representational theory is then di…
Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura: A media ecological template
Titus Lucretius Carus, or simply Lucretius (~94–55 bce), wrote the epic philosophical poem De Rerum Natura (common translation: On the Nature of Things, On the Nature of the Universe or The Way Things Are). The poem is an early scientific treatise, a classic example of grammar-as-interpretation that added some needed nuance to the rigid determinism of Democritus’ atomistic ontology and, more generally, promised to enlighten popular understanding …
The ecological approach of J. J. Gibson
The affordance concept became a core feature of psychologist J. J. Gibson’s later work informing his ‘ecological approach’ to perception. Affordance refers to the practical properties of objects or artefacts; how these properties illuminate the many different possibilities and prohibitions for thought and action that emerge in that altered context. The aim of this article is to detail how and where Gibson’s thinking aligns with, qualifies, and ex…
Podcasting and Political Life
In this article, the author considers "podcasting" in relation to the work of McLuhan and other medium theorists. He then looks at the growing popularity of this new media form as another possible manifestation of Walter Ong's secondary orality. In the tradition of the town crier, the beat poet, the DJ, and most recently, the blogger, podcasting recasts the personal experience (the "phenomenological feel") as well as the actual perspectives and p…
Towards a Transnational Political History of North America: The View from Canada
Désenclaver l’histoire politique du Canada pour la situer dans une perspective transnationale et la faire dialoguer avec l’histoire nord-américaine suppose d’assumer la fécondité historiographique d’au moins trois « hérésies » opposées aux dogmes du nationalisme canadien: l’histoire canadienne est une histoire américaine, comme le montre notamment l’exemple de ses idées politiques; la formation de la nation canadienne ne date pas de l’instauratio…
The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870–1920 (review)
Reviewed by: The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870–1920 Robert MacDougall (bio) The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870–1920. By Maury Klein. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2007. Pp. xii+224. $22.99. This is a short, synthetic text by the prolific railway and business historian Maury Klein. It chronicles the rise of big business during the half-century following the Civil War and asserts the centrality of business to the broader narr…
Remaking the real man: Erectile dysfunction palliatives and the social re-construction of the male Heterosexual life cycle
Long Lines: AT&T's Long-Distance Network as an Organizational and Political Strategy
The primary importance of long-distance telephone service to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in the first two decades of the twentieth century was not commercial but organizational and political. The so-called Bell System was not a single firm before 1910 but was, rather, an association of regional companies with considerable autonomy. As AT&T's leaders worked both to overcome independent competitors and to curtail the autonomy of th…
The Wire Devils: Pulp Thrillers, the Telephone, and Action at a Distance in the Wiring of a Nation
The Wire Devils:Pulp Thrillers, the Telephone, and Action at a Distance in the Wiring of a Nation Robert MacDougall (bio) We can remember the monsters of the Gilded Age, but not the horror they once evoked. The octopus, the spider, the hydra—historians find these images of corporations and the technological networks they built strewn across the culture of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century United States like the bones of dinosaurs l…
Identity, Electronic Ethos, and Blogs: A Technologic Analysis of Symbolic Exchange on the New News Medium
News blogs (Web logs dedicated to the dissemination of news) are becoming the default political news source for a growing number of well-educated and apparently well-informed segments of the population. Bloggers and blog advocates suggest that blogs, online lists, and their various analogs offer something different and potentially unique to the 21st-century citizen. At their best, blogs represent a new form of open-sourced/open-access partisan pr…
Red, Brown and Yellow Perils: Images of the American Enemy in the 1940s and 1950s
Prying Open the Window of Opportunity: Some Rhetorical and Social Scientific Dynamics to Argumentation
Social scientists' arguments integrate both rhetorical and scientific features. Our belief is that analysis of these integrated arguments offers an opportunity to distinguish between the peculiarly rhetorical and scientific components of social scientists' argumentative efforts to resolve problems of inquiry. Our analysis shows that rhetorical forms combine with special empirical contents in problem-solving arguments that aim ultimately to establ…
Red, Brown and Yellow Perils: Images of the American Enemy in the 1940s and 1950s
The Wire Devils: Pulp Thrillers, the Telephone, and Action at a Distance in the Wiring of a Nation
The Wire Devils:Pulp Thrillers, the Telephone, and Action at a Distance in the Wiring of a Nation Robert MacDougall (bio) We can remember the monsters of the Gilded Age, but not the horror they once evoked. The octopus, the spider, the hydra—historians find these images of corporations and the technological networks they built strewn across the culture of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century United States like the bones of dinosaurs l…
Long Lines: AT&T's Long-Distance Network as an Organizational and Political Strategy
The primary importance of long-distance telephone service to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in the first two decades of the twentieth century was not commercial but organizational and political. The so-called Bell System was not a single firm before 1910 but was, rather, an association of regional companies with considerable autonomy. As AT&T's leaders worked both to overcome independent competitors and to curtail the autonomy of th…
Podcasting and Political Life
In this article, the author considers "podcasting" in relation to the work of McLuhan and other medium theorists. He then looks at the growing popularity of this new media form as another possible manifestation of Walter Ong's secondary orality. In the tradition of the town crier, the beat poet, the DJ, and most recently, the blogger, podcasting recasts the personal experience (the "phenomenological feel") as well as the actual perspectives and p…
Identity, Electronic Ethos, and Blogs: A Technologic Analysis of Symbolic Exchange on the New News Medium
News blogs (Web logs dedicated to the dissemination of news) are becoming the default political news source for a growing number of well-educated and apparently well-informed segments of the population. Bloggers and blog advocates suggest that blogs, online lists, and their various analogs offer something different and potentially unique to the 21st-century citizen. At their best, blogs represent a new form of open-sourced/open-access partisan pr…
Remaking the real man: Erectile dysfunction palliatives and the social re-construction of the male Heterosexual life cycle
Prying Open the Window of Opportunity: Some Rhetorical and Social Scientific Dynamics to Argumentation
Social scientists' arguments integrate both rhetorical and scientific features. Our belief is that analysis of these integrated arguments offers an opportunity to distinguish between the peculiarly rhetorical and scientific components of social scientists' argumentative efforts to resolve problems of inquiry. Our analysis shows that rhetorical forms combine with special empirical contents in problem-solving arguments that aim ultimately to establ…
Red, Brown and Yellow Perils: Images of the American Enemy in the 1940s and 1950s
Identity, Electronic Ethos, and Blogs: A Technologic Analysis of Symbolic Exchange on the New News Medium
News blogs (Web logs dedicated to the dissemination of news) are becoming the default political news source for a growing number of well-educated and apparently well-informed segments of the population. Bloggers and blog advocates suggest that blogs, online lists, and their various analogs offer something different and potentially unique to the 21st-century citizen. At their best, blogs represent a new form of open-sourced/open-access partisan pr…
Remaking the real man: Erectile dysfunction palliatives and the social re-construction of the male Heterosexual life cycle
Long Lines: AT&T's Long-Distance Network as an Organizational and Political Strategy
The primary importance of long-distance telephone service to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in the first two decades of the twentieth century was not commercial but organizational and political. The so-called Bell System was not a single firm before 1910 but was, rather, an association of regional companies with considerable autonomy. As AT&T's leaders worked both to overcome independent competitors and to curtail the autonomy of th…
The Wire Devils: Pulp Thrillers, the Telephone, and Action at a Distance in the Wiring of a Nation
The Wire Devils:Pulp Thrillers, the Telephone, and Action at a Distance in the Wiring of a Nation Robert MacDougall (bio) We can remember the monsters of the Gilded Age, but not the horror they once evoked. The octopus, the spider, the hydra—historians find these images of corporations and the technological networks they built strewn across the culture of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century United States like the bones of dinosaurs l…
The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870–1920 (review)
Reviewed by: The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870–1920 Robert MacDougall (bio) The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870–1920. By Maury Klein. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2007. Pp. xii+224. $22.99. This is a short, synthetic text by the prolific railway and business historian Maury Klein. It chronicles the rise of big business during the half-century following the Civil War and asserts the centrality of business to the broader narr…
Towards a Transnational Political History of North America: The View from Canada
Désenclaver l’histoire politique du Canada pour la situer dans une perspective transnationale et la faire dialoguer avec l’histoire nord-américaine suppose d’assumer la fécondité historiographique d’au moins trois « hérésies » opposées aux dogmes du nationalisme canadien: l’histoire canadienne est une histoire américaine, comme le montre notamment l’exemple de ses idées politiques; la formation de la nation canadienne ne date pas de l’instauratio…
Podcasting and Political Life
In this article, the author considers "podcasting" in relation to the work of McLuhan and other medium theorists. He then looks at the growing popularity of this new media form as another possible manifestation of Walter Ong's secondary orality. In the tradition of the town crier, the beat poet, the DJ, and most recently, the blogger, podcasting recasts the personal experience (the "phenomenological feel") as well as the actual perspectives and p…
The ecological approach of J. J. Gibson
The affordance concept became a core feature of psychologist J. J. Gibson’s later work informing his ‘ecological approach’ to perception. Affordance refers to the practical properties of objects or artefacts; how these properties illuminate the many different possibilities and prohibitions for thought and action that emerge in that altered context. The aim of this article is to detail how and where Gibson’s thinking aligns with, qualifies, and ex…
Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura: A media ecological template
Titus Lucretius Carus, or simply Lucretius (~94–55 bce), wrote the epic philosophical poem De Rerum Natura (common translation: On the Nature of Things, On the Nature of the Universe or The Way Things Are). The poem is an early scientific treatise, a classic example of grammar-as-interpretation that added some needed nuance to the rigid determinism of Democritus’ atomistic ontology and, more generally, promised to enlighten popular understanding …
Mapping the mind: A technophilosophical probe
This article describes a long-standing conceptual impasse regarding the ontological status of ‘mind’ at least since the time of Descartes. While this impasse finds root in a problematic mind-body dualism, a more recent and tenacious scientific preoccupation seeks to locate representational features of memory, cognition and consciousness in the biological substrate of the brain. The emergence and utility of a non-representational theory is then di…
Old New Media: From Oral to Virtual Environments, Paul Grosswiler (2013)
Preview this article: Old New Media: From Oral to Virtual Environments, Paul Grosswiler (2013), Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/eme/18/1-2/eme.18.1-2.152-1.gif
Sympathetic Physics: The Keely Motor and the Laws of Thermodynamics in Nineteenth-Century Culture
In Philadelphia in the 1870s, John Worrell Keely announced the invention of a fantastic new motor that could, he promised, drive locomotives, power factories, and even defy gravity without fuel or heat. The Keely Motor became the most notorious perpetual motion scheme of the nineteenth century, attracting believers and investors for nearly thirty years. This article explores the "work" the motor performed for Keely, his supporters, and his critic…
Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle by Jamie Woodcock
Reviewed by: Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle by Jamie Woodcock Robert MacDougall Jamie Woodcock, Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle (Chicago: Haymarket Books 2019) Video games, computer games, electronic games—whatever we decide to call them, these games may be the paradigmatic media of 21st-century capitalism. Born in the interstices of the Cold War military-industrial complex, video games…
When Bad Men Combine: The Star Route Scandal and the Twilight of Gilded Age Politics
Deconstructing the New Body Politic (Reconstruction Through Re-Embodiment)
‘Smart’ mobile communication technologies have ushered in new patterns of human-machine enmeshment that fundamentally alter the way people perceive, remember, think, communicate, act, and play. Over the past 2 decades, especially, these algorithmically enabled devices have diffused into human culture at an unprecedented pace and scale. Any so-equipped person can attest to the powerful effects such technological relation entails. However, tweens a…
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