Jeremy Swartz
Courtesy Research Associate
Past NSF and 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 cognitive science, communication law, media history and ethics, and the philosophy of language. Another area of Swartz’s research integrates biology, communication, ecology, and media/technologies, especially related to complex systems and pattern recognition. He co-organized the 44th conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Reimagining Sustainability, bringing 1,000 international and national scholars to Oregon.
He is the founder of Metamedia @ UofO, and co-directs the What is…? Series in cooperation with UO Portland, 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, Jeremy, Janet Wasko, Carolyn Marvin, Robert K. Logan, and Beth Coleman. 2019. “Philosophy of Technology: Who is in the Saddle?.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 96 (2): 351-366. doi.org/10.1177/1077699019841380.
Swartz, Jeremy, and Janet Wasko, eds. 2021. MEDIA: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry. Intellect/University of Chicago Press.
Swartz, Jeremy. 2021. “Metamedia.” In MEDIA: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry. Intellect, pp. 265-274.
Swartz, Jeremy, and Janet Wasko, eds. 2023. LIFE: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry. Intellect/University of Chicago Press.
Schoenberg, William, and Jeremy Swartz. 2023. “System dynamics, machine learning and structural validation.” In LIFE: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry. Intellect, pp. 289-308.
Swartz, Jeremy. 2023. “Metaliving.” In LIFE: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry. Intellect, pp. .
Xiong, Lingyun, William Schoenberg, and Jeremy Swartz. [2020] 2024. “Learning feedback loops in transcriptome network during cell fate transition.” bioRxiv preprint. doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.24.169490.
Teaching
Southern Oregon University
• Mass Media Ethics and Law
• Technology, Communication, and Culture
• Strategic Social Media
University of Oregon
• Communication Law
• Communication Theory
• International Communication
• Media Ethics
• Media History
• Philosophy of Communication and Language
• Civic Media (developed)
• Ecologies of Media (developed)
• Introduction to Media Studies; Gateway to Media; Media & Society
Portland State University
• Media Literacy
Honors and Awards
National Science Foundation and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scientific Teaching Fellow
Kappa Tau Alpha National Honor Society
Glenn Starlin Endowed Fellowship in Telecommunication & Theatre Arts
Outstanding Doctoral Student Teaching Award