Dr Brandon Harris
Husband + cat dad + Prof in AL studying: twitch, gaming, platforms, media industries, labor, & content creators one unhinged study at a time.
- @chefboibex.bsky.social Hi Bex, are you planning on writing a story about how French Kick streamers tortured Pormanov to death while live? If so, I can speak to how platform governance and terms of service agreements can allow this behavior in the first place. @bloggeronpole.bsky.social rec'd you
- I'll be discussing the state of political discourse on Twitch. Creators develop on- and offline harassment campaigns or "smear" attacks on rivals. I use "cycles of antagonism" to explain the cyclical nature of smear campaigns lnkd.in/gc6Jrd_J 3pm EST/12pm PST- VOD later
- Headed to #ICA25, excited to share 2 presentations w/ yall at the #DebatingCreatorCulture precon— talking how anon hate creators and NIL athletes do influencer work. Looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones, say hi 👋🏻
- Was recently quoted in CNN on the resurgence of the r-word as a slur by figures like Joe Rogan, Musk, and Ye. Cruelty is good for business in the creator economy but audiences need to reject it to make it less profitable lnkd.in/g2Um_b6J Thanks Scottie Andrew!
- Me and @bowmanspartan.bsky.social wrote on trad'l sports franchises experimenting w/ esports & gaming content for the Beyond Sports Initiative. icir.ua.edu/bsi/ NFL channel incorporated athletes to create new entertainment genre, NBA made esports tourneys but struggled for viewership
- Reposted by Dr Brandon HarrisIn a new paper for Convergence, @pamogranite.bsky.social & I examine the challenges Instagram & TikTok creators at risk of de-platforming face when holding onto communities, arguing that these spaces' turn towards entertainment & selling is producing fatigue: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- we talking about twitch again in games and culture class! teaching some of my favorite readings and doing twitch field trips in class... last week we found a musician playing guitar, class asked me to request "mr brightside" in chat, streamer said we had poor taste... poggers
- Excited to share ongoing work w/ The University of Alabama College of Communication & Information Sciences family this Friday. I'll present some current research on inconsistent platform governance on Twitch and how that benefits androcentric hegemony in gaming and esports communities.
- @tsingleton.bsky.social so great to connect with you at IACS this weekend!
- Headed to Chicago for the @IACSacademic conference, presenting ongoing work on professional sports leagues that are experimenting with esports and content creation w/coauthor @bowmanspartan.bsky.social — see my Beyond Sports Institute folks soon 🙌🏼
- 5 more days to submit to the @icagames.bsky.social precon on toxic masculinity! All disciplines are welcome because this is a problem that affects all of us, not just the games industry. Join us :) icagames.org/2025preconfe...
- Roses are red, violets are blue, plz keep applying to our tox masc precon In June! Submissions due Feb 28, all disciplines & fields encouraged to submit and join our conversation on how tox masc is a threat to the media industries and beyond icagames.org/2025preconfe...
- Reposted by Dr Brandon HarrisNew publication! 🚨 Together with my brill team (@taylorannabell.bsky.social & @cgoanta.bsky.social), we explore how parents turn kids into commodities on TikTok, diving into the nuances of *kidfluencers* & raising legal questions about platform governance. See🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
- Thrilled to be included in this list of finalists from @djeditorialteam in 2024. Go check out @MaxwellFoxman @william_partin and I's article on Twitch streamers doing news work on the platform - innovation and collapsing boundaries while producing news for fans doi.org/10.1080/2167...
- We’re all still waiting for ICA submission decisions, but a reminder that ICA GSD is hosting onsite precon on toxic masc in gaming & media industries June 12. Submissions due Feb 8th icagames.org/2025preconfe...
- Very excited for my games & media course this semester! Lots of exciting readings, guest speakers, activities, playing games, and thinking about how games are made/what they mean and represent in our culture. Hope my students are ready for me to absolutely nerd out on this every week
- Watching the beast games show on Amazon and I think Jimmy has finally transformed/emerged into a villain.. clip of him screaming “find you someone money can’t buy” while forcing ppl to compete for 5mil in his own squid games seems like he’s taken a turn for the worst
- Get your “Netflix is crashing, they bad at livestreaming” memes ready for the Beyoncé halftime show with a football game sandwiched around it next week
- I didn't think I would get to include "Twitch thot" in my manuscript but here we are... misogyny in streaming isn't v. creative. You can swap "topless meta" or "hot tub meta" and achieve the same article today www.polygon.com/2018/6/27/17...
- Almost 20 years of unsupervised internet culture straight to the dome and look at me now…
- @combatwombat1.bsky.social WELCOME BROTHER
- Yes!! Love when my friends publish amazing things, congrats on publication day, yall have been working on this for a while and it’s out in the world now!
- my latest with @jessmaddox.bsky.social is out this morning in @femmediastudies.bsky.social! We propose influencer snark as a feminist media practice to address concerns of credibility, authenticity, and representation in the influencer industry. please share!!! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XZSZD...
- safety.twitch.tv/s/article/An... More inconsistent governance from twitch, by banning streamers from using Zionist as personal critique, while allowing streamers to critique the political movement & policies… destiny, Ethan Klein, asmongold organizing off platform complaint campaigns to censor all
- Starting so soon! Making some coffee now 🙌🏼
- can't wait to be in conversation with @producing2power.bsky.social, @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social, and Michelle Beaver tomorrow!! we're gonna talk about all things creator studies. Link to register below ⤵️
- First of many #ccsnchats is tomorrow! Live discussion at 9am pt/12pm et. www.eventbrite.com/e/ccsn-chats...
- Reposted by Dr Brandon HarrisNow Live™️ (and asynchronous)! My interview with UAlbertaArts’s Playful Horizons featured speaker series about the past, future & artificial present of ✨🔮 livestreaming✨ 🔮 youtu.be/gB7lhBAzE6M?...
