Guy Healy

Dr Guy Healy works as a post-doctoral researcher on two Australian Research Council projects: one investigating the social, cultural, industrial and economic role of the web-series globally; the other maps the commercialization of childhood via online entertainments. Healy authored The Production of Global Web Series in Networked Age, released by Routledge in early 2022, which converted his PhD for broad audiences. He also co-authored YouTube: Australia’s Parallel Universe of Online Content Creation with Stuart Cunningham (2017); and authored Fast and Furious Filmmaking: YouTube’s Prospects for Budding and Veteran Screen Content Producers (2019), both for Metro magazine. Previously, he worked for about a decade at The Australian newspaper, mainly as a higher education writer; and for BBC Wildlife magazine as a freelance correspondent investigating population-level threats to wildlife. His most important story reported on calls from zoologists warning that research funding into, and surveillance of bat-borne viruses in Asia, Africa and elsewhere, had to be prioritised, in 2009.