Christopher Chesher
Professor
Department of Media and Communications
University of Sydney
Australia
Biography
Dr Chris Chesher is Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures in the Department of Media and Communications. His research investigates how information and communication technologies are implicated in changes to social structures and cultural practices. His current research interests centre on the cultural dimensions of robotics. Examples of his writing include a reading of mining automation as media; service robots and metacommunication; a comparison between satnavs and computer games; the cultural politics of educational software; blogs and the rediscovery of authorship; the relationship of console games players to their screens; and an actor network analysis of patterns of mobile phone use during a U2 concert.
Research Interest
autonomous mining systems disrupt labour and economic flows; educational robots and toys change learning practices; service robots reframe communication and sociality; military drones and medical robots take decisions at points of life and death. Robots are media, but only after redefining media.
