Malcolm Ogden is a media theorist and educator whose work examines the interrelations of digital media, bodily-sensation, and capitalist political economy. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies at the University of Richmond.

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Dissertation:

(2024) “Surrounding Bodies: Ambient Form on YouTube and TikTok.”
Advisors: Grant Bollmer, Chair; Andrew Johnston, Fernanda da
Costa Portugal Duarte, Tero Karppi, Rebecca Walsh.

Published Articles:

(2024) “Perfumed platforms, or common scents of post-Fordism.”
Communication and Critical Cultural Studies 21(3).

(2024) “Package wars and mouse movers: on the media escalation
of remote work during the COVID-19 global pandemic.”
Culture, Theory, and Critique.
 
(2023) “Legofied Sound: On the Labor and Leisure of LEGO White Noise.”
Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture.


Book Chapter:

(2025) “The Weird Internet and Speculative Knowledge.”
In Bollmer, G., Guinness, K., and Soncul, Y. (eds.), De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Cultures.


Book Reviews:

(2023) “The Prison House of the Circuit: Politics of Control from
Analog to Digital.” New Media & Society.

(2020) “Killer Apps: War, Media, Machine.” Critical Studies in Media Communication.

Contact:
mac.ogden[at]gmail[dot]com




© Malcolm Ogden — ’26