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Channel Ocho

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • November 26, 2008
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Or, television without context. Warning: may be creepy. Will be weird.

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The Stoner and the Ant

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • November 25, 2008
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Luc Sante is my hero.

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  • Filed under: Asides, Found History
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I Am Oddly Relieved

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • November 23, 2008
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Blogging is dead, says Wired. Which is only fair since I declared Wired dead in 1998.

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What's Life? A Magazine

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • November 22, 2008
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Google posts millions of images from the Life magazine archives.

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  • Filed under: Asides, Eye Candy, Found History
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Fakelore for Stalin

  • Rob MacDougall,
  • November 21, 2008
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Our man Jess Nevins with some cool snippets from Frank Miller’s Folklore for Stalin: Russian Folklore and Pseudofolklore of the Stalin Era.

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  • Filed under: Asides, Russia is Neat
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Ahoy-hoy! I am an associate professor at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario, Canada, where I teach United States history and study the history of information and communication. My current research involves the history of pseudoscience and crank invention. I'm using computational methods like text mining and adaptive filtering to trace the circulation of "wrong, bad, or weird" science in 19th-century America. The goal is to draw lessons for our own time about the ways communication networks shape the ideas we have and share.

I am the author of The People’s Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) and several book chapters and articles. I also co-designed and directed Tecumseh Lies Here, an augmented reality game that commemorates and critiques the history of the War of 1812. And I co-host a bi-weekly podcast that explores the history and culture of the 1970s and 80s through the lens of the classic sitcom, WKRP in Cincinnati. I received a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University in 2004.

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