Christine H. Tran is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. With a focus on the creator economy, their work examines how live video platforms—from Twitch.tv to TikTok and even Zoom—transform our experiences of leisure, labour, and love in the home.
Funded by the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, her dissertation uses digital ethnography to document the cultural influence of Twitch.tv–Amazon’s world-leading game streaming platform–upon the future of “Work from Home” for marginalized groups in the cultural industries.
Christine’s research has recently been published in Television & New Media, Communication, Culture & Critique, New Media & Society, and The Canadian Journal of Communication. They have also been frequently interviewed as an expert in Internet culture & digital labour issues for news outlets like BBC Future, The Guardian, The Globe & Mail and Insider. Additionally, Christine has themselves translated their research into creative and public outputs for Midnight Sun, The Puritan, and scholarly performance workshops on/about Zoom.
She currently holds scholarly appointments as a Graduate Fellow at the Critical Digital Humanities Institute and a Junior Fellow at Massey College. Christine has held appointments also as Graduate Fellow at the McLuhan Centre for Culture & Technology, and they were a Research Assistant on the SSHRC-funded project, Cultural Workers Organize.
For queries, please reach out at christine.tran@mail.utoronto.ca
Christine H. Tran 