Jeremy Morris

Jeremy Morris is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He specializes in digital media's societal impact, focusing on music, software, and podcasting as cultural commodities. His work examines how digitization transforms creative industries and everyday media consumption.

Education: PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University (2010), MA from Ryerson/York Universities (2005), B.S. from Queen’s University (1998).

Research interests include app culture, music industry transformation, podcast preservation (via his PodcastRE.org initiative), and digital media's role in commodifying creativity. Recent projects explore music in virtual environments, historical software studies, and podcasting infrastructure analysis.

Publications include Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture (2015) and Appified: Culture in the Age of Apps (2018). His edited volume Saving New Sounds: Podcast Preservation and Historiography (2021) advances audio historiography.

Awards include the 2023 NEH Summer Stipend and 2021 Chancellor’s Teaching Innovation Award. He has secured grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and WARF.

Teaching includes courses on digital methodologies, media sociology, and sound cultures. He advises on digital humanities projects and collaborates internationally on media preservation initiatives.