Ryan Stanton

Ryan Stanton is a PhD student at the University of Sydney. His doctoral research is the first large scale analysis of gaming podcasts and is focused on situating them within the broader gaming media ecosystem. He is particularly interested in issues of labor and precarity, analyzing how these creators make a living in the field, having published an article in Games and Culture about this topic. Prior to this, he completed his honors analyzing the fan communities of Actual Play podcast, The Adventure Zone, a summary of which has been published in the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds.