DrMark Johnson

Gambling live streaming - Dr Johnson is currently carrying out the first major research project into gambling-related live streams on sites like Twitch and Kick. Generously funded by the New South Wales Office of Responsible Gambling, this study is deploying a comprehensive mixed-methods approach to survey viewers of gambling channels; interview gambling live streamers themselves; study news and coverage of the controversies around gambling live streams; and carry out extensive ethnographic work in the channels themselves. Dr Johnson is assisted on this project by Dr Nathan Jackson as a research assistant.

Culture and language in game streaming - Dr Johnson is also currently studying linguistic, national, and cultural differences across game live streamers through a comparative study between English-speaking and Japanese-speaking broadcasters. Generously funded by the Hoso Bunka Foundation via two grants in the last several years, data collection on this project has almost finished - through both interviewing straemers and collecting large-scale survey data on viewers of Australian and Japanese channels - and findings are currently being written up for publication.Dr Johnson is assisted on this project by Mr James Baguley as a research assistant.

He is currently supervising four PhD projects and a number of MA Dissertation & UG Honours projects exploring these and other related areas.