Brandon Harris is an Assistant Professor of Sports Media at the University of Alabama’s Department of Journalism and Creative Media. He earned a Media Studies Ph.D. from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication. He’s broadly interested in labor, media production, gaming and esports, platforms, and the creative media industries. Dr. Harris researches cultural production, often focusing on the tensions and interplays between creators and commercial interests that structure norms, policies, and divisions of labor within the creator economy. His research has been published in venues such as Social Media & Society, Digital Journalism, New Media & Society, Games & Culture, Media Industries, Convergence, and Critical Studies in Media Communication.
