Jeremy Swartz
Courtesy Research Associate
Past NSF/HHMI Scientific Teaching Fellow
Email: jher@uoregon.edu
Office: By appointment
Location: Remote
Biography
Jeremy Swartz is an adjunct assistant professor at Southern Oregon University, whose current research focuses on communication and curation as care, repair and melioration, which draws on his background in media ethics, communication law, media history, cognitive science, and the philosophy of language. Another area of Swartz’s research integrates communication, media, technology, biology and ecology, especially related to complex systems and pattern recognition. He co-organized the 44th conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), entitled Reimagining Sustainability, bringing 1,000 international and national scholars to Oregon.
He is the founder of Metamedia @ UofO, and also codirects the What is…? Series in cooperation with UO Portland and UO Remote, including two trilogies on themes of technology, information and communication, as well as media, life and universe (currently being adapted into three volumes for Intellect/University of Chicago Press). He has exhibited works by distinguished artists and scientists, and collaborated with The Royal Collection Trust, XVIVO Scientific Animation, Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, Portland Japanese Garden, NW Film Center/Portland Art Museum, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and Wayne Lyman Morse United States Courthouse. Swartz served as associated faculty of the UO Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences facilitating the communication, complexity, and sustainability group, as well as a committee member for the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics and UO Research Cyberinfrastructure Advisory Group.
Education | UO
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Media Studies
- PhD, Communication and Society
- MS, Interdisciplinary Studies
- BA, Music, emphasis composition
Research
Selected Works
Swartz, J. & Wasko, J. (eds) (2023). LIFE: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry. Bristol, UK: Intellect Ltd./University of Chicago Press.
Schoenberg, W. & Swartz, J. “System Dynamics, Machine Learning and Structural Validation.” (2023). In LIFE: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry. Bristol, UK: Intellect Ltd./University of Chicago Press. pp. 289-308.
Swartz, J. (2023). “Metaliving.” In LIFE: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry. Bristol, UK: Intellect Ltd./University of Chicago Press, pp. .
Swartz, J. (2023). “Exhibition • Experience • Nature.” In LIFE: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry. Bristol, UK: Intellect Ltd./University of Chicago Press, pp. .
Swartz, J. & Wasko, J. (eds) (2021). MEDIA: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry. Bristol, UK: Intellect/University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv36xw4q5.
Swartz, J. (2021). “Metamedia.” In MEDIA: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry. Bristol, UK: Intellect/University of Chicago Press, pp. 265-274. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv36xw4q5.22.
Swartz, J. (2021). “Exhibition • Experience • Music.” In MEDIA: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry. Bristol, UK: Intellect/University of Chicago Press, pp. 275-284. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv36xw4q5.23.
Xiong, L., Schoenberg, W., & Swartz, J. (2020). “Macroscale Network Feedback Structure of Transcriptome During Cell Fate Transition.” bioRxiv preprint, doi: 10.1101/2020.06.24.169490. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.24.169490.
Swartz, J., Wasko, J., Marvin, C., Logan, R. K., & Coleman, B. (2019). “Philosophy of Technology: Who Is in the Saddle?” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 96, 2. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699019841380.
Teaching
Southern Oregon University
• Mass Media Ethics and Law
• Technology, Communication, and Culture
• Strategic Social Media
University of Oregon
• Communication Law
• International Communication
• Philosophy of Communication and Language
• Communication Theory
• Media Ethics
• Media History
• Civic Media
• Ecologies of Media
• Introduction to Media Studies; Gateway to Media; Media & Society
Portland State University
• Media Literacy
Honors and Awards
Kappa Tau Alpha National Honor Society
Glenn Starlin Endowed Fellowship in Telecommunication & Theatre Arts
Outstanding Doctoral Student Teaching Award