Jeremy Wade Morris
Biographic Data
| ID | 292132 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy Wade Morris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy Wade |
| FAMILY NAME | Morris |
| SIGNATURE | MORRIS J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6419-0398 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Everyday Politics in Russia: From Resentment to Resistance
What do Russians really want? Do they want authoritarianism and are they prepared to go along with a war of conquest and destruction? Or do they want something else?A landmark contribution to the field, Morris is the only social researcher to have carried out fieldwork in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine, engaging with communities in Moscow, regional cities, as well as rural areas to bring perspectives on Russian everyday lives that are now e…
Artificial Audio: Emerging Uses of Ai in Podcasting
Like other media industries (e.g. music, film, TV), the podcasting industry has spent the last year coming to grips with the impact that generative artificial intelligence tools will have on the future of podcast production and consumption. Several high-profile examples of AI-generated podcasts have raised questions about the ethics, legality, and creativity of AI for creating podcast scripts, voices, and sound design. These in turn raise larger …
New Music Fridays: Now Available via Podcasts
This chapter examines the role music podcasts play in the current distribution ecosystem for digital music. It begins by briefly reviewing the historical relationship between music and radio and the central role radio played in the dissemination of popular music in the mid-twentieth century. It then explores a potential typology for the wide range of music podcasts available before focusing on particular cases of artists or companies using podcas…
Competing sounds? Podcasting and popular music
Podcasts and popular music are different kinds of sonic media, but they are increasingly in direct competition for our listening time within the ‘audio market’. Audio platforms like Spotify, Apple and Google host both podcasts and music (and other audio media) so their distribution decisions and infrastructure have a significant impact on musicians, podcasters, record labels, podcast networks and other industrial entities. Despite this convergenc…
PodcastRE Analytics: Using RSS to Study the Cultures and Norms of Podcasting
Over the past decade, podcasting has grown into one of the most important media forms in the world. This article argues that podcasting’s unique technical affordances — particularly RSS feeds and user-entered metadata — open up productive methods for exploring the cultural practices and meanings of the medium. We share three different methods for studying RSS feeds and podcast metadata: 1) visualizing how topics and keywords trend over time; 2) v…
Engineering culture: Logics of optimization in music, games, and apps
This article investigates the ways content producers, marketers, and other promotional stakeholders work to optimize cultural goods and services for platform-dependent production, distribution, and monetization. We are particularly interested in how content creators find novel ways to work within, around, and even against platform politics and policies by manipulating algorithms, business models, and guidelines, or otherwise readying their conten…
Infrastructures of discovery: Examining Podcast Ratings and Rankings
This article uses the case of podcasting to think through how elements and features like ratings, charts and other discovery mechanisms are at once part of the industrialization process and an arena where competing ideas about the industrialization of an emerging format play out. By looking at the twin problems of discoverability and measurability, I argue that ratings and reviews on platforms like Apple Podcasts are one of several means that pod…
When, Where, and How Is Digital Sound
This panel’s first author, in discussing podcast archiving, notes that internet archives like the Wayback Machine have had much more focus on preserving visual and text content than sound. Internet Research has similarly traditionally had less engagement with sound than with other forms of digital content. This panel seeks to contribute to ongoing work to bring Sound Studies and Internet Studies into better conversation with each other, taking di…
Saving New Sounds: Podcast Preservation and Historiography
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
Music Platforms and the Optimization of Culture
Drawing on Mark Katz's notion of phonographic effects-where musicians, during the advent of early recording technology, altered their style of play to be better captured by microphones-this article explores some of the 'platform effects' that arise in the shift to platformization and how cultural goods and user practices are re-formatted in the process. In particular, I examine the case of the music streaming service Spotify to think through the …
Hearing the Past: The Sonic Web from MIDI to Music Streaming
Informal Nationalism after Communism: The Everyday Construction of Post-Socialist Identities
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, nation building and identity construction in the post-socialist region have been the subject of extensive academic research. The majority of these studies have taken a 'top-down' approach - focusing on the variety of ways in which governments have sought to define the nascent nation states - and in the process have often oversimplified the complex and overlapping processes at play across the region. Drawing…
Post-Socialist Informalities: Power, Agency and the Construction of Extra-Legalities from Bosnia to China
Platform fandom
This chapter focuses on how existing scholarship on popular music fandom can contribute to emerging discussions of media streaming platforms. It examines how platforms reformat traditional fan practices and how fan patterns and behaviors are incorporated into the very workings of streaming media services. The chapter argues that future work at the intersection of fan studies and popular music studies needs to consider platforms as both objects of…
Everyday Post-Socialism: Working-Class Communities in the Russian Margins
This book offers a rich ethnographic account of blue-collar workers' everyday life in a central Russian industrial town coping with simultaneous decline and the arrival of transnational corporations
New Media in New Europe-Asia
Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture
Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture documents the transition of recorded music on CDs to music as digital files on computers. More than two decades after the first digital music files began circulating in online archives and playing through new software media players, we have yet to fully internalize the cultural and aesthetic consequences of these shifts. Tracing the emergence of what Jeremy Wade Morris calls the “digital music commodity,”…
Control, curation and musical experience in streaming music services
The growth and popularity of music streaming are generally seen as win for music consumers, giving them greater freedom and virtually limitless access to musical content. This article offers a different view. It examines how four prominent music streaming services position themselves in the marketplace, based on their interfaces, the quality of their curatorial devices, the identity projected for users and the control users have over their music …
Anti-Market Research: Piracy, New Media Metrics, and Commodity Communities
Over a decade after Napster’s introduction, file sharing programs still shoulder much of the blame for music and other media’s declining sales. Although labels and industry associations point their fingers at the harm digital piracy and file-sharing cause, they are less likely to admit the extent to which these anti-markets inform everyday decisions. File-sharing technologies create networks of users that serve as profitable data for ratings and …
Curation by code: Infomediaries and the data mining of taste
Automated recommendation systems now occupy a central position in the circulation of media and cultural products. Using music as a test case, this article examines the use of algorithms and data mining techniques for the presentation and representation of culture, and how these tools reconfigure the process of cultural intermediation. Expanding Bourdieu’s notion of cultural intermediaries to include technologies like algorithms, I argue that an e…
Artists as Entrepreneurs, Fans as Workers
This paper uses the increasing integration of social media into music making and marketing to reflect on the work artists and their fans perform. While new technologies are celebrated for making cultural production more accessible, there is also more pressure on artists, as cultural entrepreneurs, to produce and distribute their own work. At the same time, fans are facing greater invocations to participate through overt calls to become co-creator…
Making music behave: Metadata and the digital music commodity
This article offers a case study of the Compact Disc Database and ID3 tags, two instrumental information technologies for digital music on computers. Using an interpretive analysis of the technical and cultural features of the Compact Disc Database and ID3 tags as well as press releases and journalistic accounts detailing the rise of these services, this article places digital metadata within the broader history of recorded music specifically and…
Sounds in the cloud: Cloud computing and the digital music commodity
This paper investigates the rise of cloud computing, specifically for music. More than just new technologies for distribution, cloud services establish a fundamentally different relationship between listeners and their music. As the metaphor suggests, the cloud offers an infinite space where music is ever available, but cloud services also act as transient and enclosed spaces where the music we “own” is always at an ethereal distance. Cloud–based…
The Adoption of the Metric System in the Ordnance Survey: Discussion
Curation by code: Infomediaries and the data mining of taste
Automated recommendation systems now occupy a central position in the circulation of media and cultural products. Using music as a test case, this article examines the use of algorithms and data mining techniques for the presentation and representation of culture, and how these tools reconfigure the process of cultural intermediation. Expanding Bourdieu’s notion of cultural intermediaries to include technologies like algorithms, I argue that an e…
Music Platforms and the Optimization of Culture
Drawing on Mark Katz's notion of phonographic effects-where musicians, during the advent of early recording technology, altered their style of play to be better captured by microphones-this article explores some of the 'platform effects' that arise in the shift to platformization and how cultural goods and user practices are re-formatted in the process. In particular, I examine the case of the music streaming service Spotify to think through the …
Artists as Entrepreneurs, Fans as Workers
This paper uses the increasing integration of social media into music making and marketing to reflect on the work artists and their fans perform. While new technologies are celebrated for making cultural production more accessible, there is also more pressure on artists, as cultural entrepreneurs, to produce and distribute their own work. At the same time, fans are facing greater invocations to participate through overt calls to become co-creator…
Making music behave: Metadata and the digital music commodity
This article offers a case study of the Compact Disc Database and ID3 tags, two instrumental information technologies for digital music on computers. Using an interpretive analysis of the technical and cultural features of the Compact Disc Database and ID3 tags as well as press releases and journalistic accounts detailing the rise of these services, this article places digital metadata within the broader history of recorded music specifically and…
Infrastructures of discovery: Examining Podcast Ratings and Rankings
This article uses the case of podcasting to think through how elements and features like ratings, charts and other discovery mechanisms are at once part of the industrialization process and an arena where competing ideas about the industrialization of an emerging format play out. By looking at the twin problems of discoverability and measurability, I argue that ratings and reviews on platforms like Apple Podcasts are one of several means that pod…
Saving New Sounds: Podcast Preservation and Historiography
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
Anti-Market Research: Piracy, New Media Metrics, and Commodity Communities
Over a decade after Napster’s introduction, file sharing programs still shoulder much of the blame for music and other media’s declining sales. Although labels and industry associations point their fingers at the harm digital piracy and file-sharing cause, they are less likely to admit the extent to which these anti-markets inform everyday decisions. File-sharing technologies create networks of users that serve as profitable data for ratings and …
The Adoption of the Metric System in the Ordnance Survey: Discussion
Sounds in the cloud: Cloud computing and the digital music commodity
This paper investigates the rise of cloud computing, specifically for music. More than just new technologies for distribution, cloud services establish a fundamentally different relationship between listeners and their music. As the metaphor suggests, the cloud offers an infinite space where music is ever available, but cloud services also act as transient and enclosed spaces where the music we “own” is always at an ethereal distance. Cloud–based…
Making music behave: Metadata and the digital music commodity
This article offers a case study of the Compact Disc Database and ID3 tags, two instrumental information technologies for digital music on computers. Using an interpretive analysis of the technical and cultural features of the Compact Disc Database and ID3 tags as well as press releases and journalistic accounts detailing the rise of these services, this article places digital metadata within the broader history of recorded music specifically and…
Artists as Entrepreneurs, Fans as Workers
This paper uses the increasing integration of social media into music making and marketing to reflect on the work artists and their fans perform. While new technologies are celebrated for making cultural production more accessible, there is also more pressure on artists, as cultural entrepreneurs, to produce and distribute their own work. At the same time, fans are facing greater invocations to participate through overt calls to become co-creator…
Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture
Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture documents the transition of recorded music on CDs to music as digital files on computers. More than two decades after the first digital music files began circulating in online archives and playing through new software media players, we have yet to fully internalize the cultural and aesthetic consequences of these shifts. Tracing the emergence of what Jeremy Wade Morris calls the “digital music commodity,”…
Control, curation and musical experience in streaming music services
The growth and popularity of music streaming are generally seen as win for music consumers, giving them greater freedom and virtually limitless access to musical content. This article offers a different view. It examines how four prominent music streaming services position themselves in the marketplace, based on their interfaces, the quality of their curatorial devices, the identity projected for users and the control users have over their music …
Anti-Market Research: Piracy, New Media Metrics, and Commodity Communities
Over a decade after Napster’s introduction, file sharing programs still shoulder much of the blame for music and other media’s declining sales. Although labels and industry associations point their fingers at the harm digital piracy and file-sharing cause, they are less likely to admit the extent to which these anti-markets inform everyday decisions. File-sharing technologies create networks of users that serve as profitable data for ratings and …
Curation by code: Infomediaries and the data mining of taste
Automated recommendation systems now occupy a central position in the circulation of media and cultural products. Using music as a test case, this article examines the use of algorithms and data mining techniques for the presentation and representation of culture, and how these tools reconfigure the process of cultural intermediation. Expanding Bourdieu’s notion of cultural intermediaries to include technologies like algorithms, I argue that an e…
Everyday Post-Socialism: Working-Class Communities in the Russian Margins
This book offers a rich ethnographic account of blue-collar workers' everyday life in a central Russian industrial town coping with simultaneous decline and the arrival of transnational corporations
New Media in New Europe-Asia
Platform fandom
This chapter focuses on how existing scholarship on popular music fandom can contribute to emerging discussions of media streaming platforms. It examines how platforms reformat traditional fan practices and how fan patterns and behaviors are incorporated into the very workings of streaming media services. The chapter argues that future work at the intersection of fan studies and popular music studies needs to consider platforms as both objects of…
Informal Nationalism after Communism: The Everyday Construction of Post-Socialist Identities
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, nation building and identity construction in the post-socialist region have been the subject of extensive academic research. The majority of these studies have taken a 'top-down' approach - focusing on the variety of ways in which governments have sought to define the nascent nation states - and in the process have often oversimplified the complex and overlapping processes at play across the region. Drawing…
Post-Socialist Informalities: Power, Agency and the Construction of Extra-Legalities from Bosnia to China
Hearing the Past: The Sonic Web from MIDI to Music Streaming
When, Where, and How Is Digital Sound
This panel’s first author, in discussing podcast archiving, notes that internet archives like the Wayback Machine have had much more focus on preserving visual and text content than sound. Internet Research has similarly traditionally had less engagement with sound than with other forms of digital content. This panel seeks to contribute to ongoing work to bring Sound Studies and Internet Studies into better conversation with each other, taking di…
Saving New Sounds: Podcast Preservation and Historiography
Is this thing on?Part microphone check, part technical support query; the question seems a fitting way to start this collection, which is not just the book you hold in your hands (or the PDF you see on your screen) but also a vibrant, growing, and slightly temperamental database that indexes millions of podcasts
Music Platforms and the Optimization of Culture
Drawing on Mark Katz's notion of phonographic effects-where musicians, during the advent of early recording technology, altered their style of play to be better captured by microphones-this article explores some of the 'platform effects' that arise in the shift to platformization and how cultural goods and user practices are re-formatted in the process. In particular, I examine the case of the music streaming service Spotify to think through the …
PodcastRE Analytics: Using RSS to Study the Cultures and Norms of Podcasting
Over the past decade, podcasting has grown into one of the most important media forms in the world. This article argues that podcasting’s unique technical affordances — particularly RSS feeds and user-entered metadata — open up productive methods for exploring the cultural practices and meanings of the medium. We share three different methods for studying RSS feeds and podcast metadata: 1) visualizing how topics and keywords trend over time; 2) v…
Engineering culture: Logics of optimization in music, games, and apps
This article investigates the ways content producers, marketers, and other promotional stakeholders work to optimize cultural goods and services for platform-dependent production, distribution, and monetization. We are particularly interested in how content creators find novel ways to work within, around, and even against platform politics and policies by manipulating algorithms, business models, and guidelines, or otherwise readying their conten…
Infrastructures of discovery: Examining Podcast Ratings and Rankings
This article uses the case of podcasting to think through how elements and features like ratings, charts and other discovery mechanisms are at once part of the industrialization process and an arena where competing ideas about the industrialization of an emerging format play out. By looking at the twin problems of discoverability and measurability, I argue that ratings and reviews on platforms like Apple Podcasts are one of several means that pod…
Competing sounds? Podcasting and popular music
Podcasts and popular music are different kinds of sonic media, but they are increasingly in direct competition for our listening time within the ‘audio market’. Audio platforms like Spotify, Apple and Google host both podcasts and music (and other audio media) so their distribution decisions and infrastructure have a significant impact on musicians, podcasters, record labels, podcast networks and other industrial entities. Despite this convergenc…
New Music Fridays: Now Available via Podcasts
This chapter examines the role music podcasts play in the current distribution ecosystem for digital music. It begins by briefly reviewing the historical relationship between music and radio and the central role radio played in the dissemination of popular music in the mid-twentieth century. It then explores a potential typology for the wide range of music podcasts available before focusing on particular cases of artists or companies using podcas…
Everyday Politics in Russia: From Resentment to Resistance
What do Russians really want? Do they want authoritarianism and are they prepared to go along with a war of conquest and destruction? Or do they want something else?A landmark contribution to the field, Morris is the only social researcher to have carried out fieldwork in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine, engaging with communities in Moscow, regional cities, as well as rural areas to bring perspectives on Russian everyday lives that are now e…
Artificial Audio: Emerging Uses of Ai in Podcasting
Like other media industries (e.g. music, film, TV), the podcasting industry has spent the last year coming to grips with the impact that generative artificial intelligence tools will have on the future of podcast production and consumption. Several high-profile examples of AI-generated podcasts have raised questions about the ethics, legality, and creativity of AI for creating podcast scripts, voices, and sound design. These in turn raise larger …
Computer Science (14 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Art (9 works) · World Wide Web (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media (8 works) · Multimedia (7 works) · Music History and Culture (6 works) · Visual arts (6 works)