Morgan is a master's student of media studies interested in researching digital cultures and online entertainment. She completed her BA at Whitman College, where she began studying fan cultures and content trends on YouTube. Such work included research on the intersection of memes, politics, and hatred in PewDiePie’s fanbase, and research on the influx of nostalgia-centric long-form video essays on the platform. Morgan is continuing her work with a master's thesis interrogating the popularization of video essays as a form of edutainment on YouTube. She is interested in notions of authority in online creator/audience relationships, ecologies of online cultures, and YouTube as a space for non-academic media studies.
Area of Focus: Digital Cultures, YouTube, Fan Studies