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Dr Chris Chesher

BA (Mitchell CAE), MA (UNSW), PhD (Macquarie)

Senior Lecturer
Discipline of Media and Communications

Phone

+61 404 095 480

Fax

+61 2 9351 2434

Email

chris.chesher@sydney.edu.au

Address

A20 - John Woolley Building

The University of Sydney

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Digital Cultures Program

Biographical details

Dr Chris Chesher is Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures in the Discipline of Media and Communications. He co-founded the Digital Cultures program and the Master of Digital Communication and Culture. He was previously senior lecturer in the School of Media and Communications at the University of New South Wales. He has a PhD from Macquarie University, a Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of New South Wales, and Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications) from Mitchell CAE (now Charles Sturt University). His transdisciplinary approach to digital cultures, media studies and cultural studies connects with philosophy of technology, science and technology studies, games studies, internet studies, sociology of technology, human-computer interaction, social robotics, cultural robotics and digital humanities.

Research interests

His current research includes:

Robotics and AI beyond anthropomorphism: This project is a collaboration with the Sydney institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (SIRIS) at the University of Sydney. It challenges dominant conceptions of human-machine relations by investigating the metaphors of thought and embodiment in social robotics. I have published on the aesthetics of the robotic moving camera; the role of media in mining automation; the significance of metacommunication (Bateson) in social robots; the media cultures of robotic toys such as Lego Mindstorms (using Simondon) and Furby memes on YouTube. My current work is on the history of robot voices until voice assistants (with Justine Humphry); the face of the robot in art, science and philosophy; robotic eye machines: mediated vision and the abject (with Fiona Andreallo).
Invocational media: reconceptualising the computer:I argue that what defines computers is their capacity to mediate invocations. This project draws on myth and magic, the history of computing, and the dynamics of human-computer interaction to re-read digital media as invocational media. Users get the seductive power of invocation (search, gameplay, media streaming, voice assistants) to call up things at will, but this power is conditional on becoming subject to forces outside one’s control. New forms of power have emerged including disciplinary and control society formations, monopolies of invocation (IBM, Microsoft, Google), and the involuntary invocations of government and capitalist surveillance. I aim to have this work published in book form by 2021.
Smart homes and smart cities: In the home and in the streets, wireless networking and the internet of things are increasingly mediators of space and place, contributing to renegotiations of the private and public. I am part of a collaboration on smart street furniture (in partnership with the Faculty of Architecture and the University of Glasgow) and smart home technology (with Justine Humphry). I am also researching internet transformations in real estate advertising with lifestyle images and opportunity images using rich media. I’ve written about police databases and territories (using Deleuze & Guattari), game-like satellite navigation (using Lefebvre), real estate media and music spectatorship.

Selected previous research:

police databases and remediations of space (using Deleuze and Guattari)
the digital dark age: the fragility of computers as time-binding media (using Innis)
blogs and the reassertion of authorship (Foucault and Barthes)
actor network analysis of music spectatorship with mobile phones
using game conventions to negotiate space with satnavs (using Lefebvre)
the cultural politics of educational software (with Sarah Howard)
player/screen relations in video games: ’the glaze’ (using Ellis)
the iPhone in the history of photography (using Guattari)
the 'network turn’: social networks, network society, actor-networks and social media

Emerging and other research interests:

brain-machine interfaces
technologically mediated visual cultures
artificial intelligence
games as media and culture

Teaching and supervision

Teaching:

ARIN3620 Technology and Culture
ARIN6903 Digital Media and Society

Research Degree Completions:

César Alberto Albarrán-Torres, PhD, Encoding chance: a technocultural analysis of
digital gambling (Principle Supervisor)
(Adam) Ping-I Ho, PhD, Value in Play: Game Items in Digital Environments (Principle Supervisor)
Punit Deepak Jagasia, PhD, Everyday struggles: User regulation of privacy, advertising and labour onFacebook (Associate Supervisor)
Eugenia Lee, PhD, Stories in the data: An analysis of climate change visualisations in online news (Associate Supervisor)

Awards and honours

2023 - University of Sydney Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Innovation Award

PhD and master's project opportunities

Digital Cultures

Current research students

Project title	Research student
Exploring the Intermediality between Film and Video Games: A Case Study on “Animatedness” in Both Cinema and Video Games	Will MU

Selected publications

Invocational Media: Reconceptualizing the Computer

(Bloomsbury Academic, 2024)

Publications

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Books

Chesher, C. (2024). Invocational Media: Reconceptualizing the Computer. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic. [More Information]

Book Chapters

Chesher, C. (2025). Exchanging Glances with Robots in Banks. In Jaime Banks (Eds.), Android, Assembled: The Explicit and Implicit Anatomy of Social Robots, (pp. 33-42). New York: Peter Lang. [More Information]
Chesher, C., Humphry, J. (2025). Robots in restaurants and emotional labour: a view from the Pepper Parlor. In Johanna Seibt, Peter Fazekas and Oliver Santiago Quick (Eds.), Social Robots with AI: Prospects, Risks and Responsible Methods, (pp. 157-167). Denmark: IOS Press. [More Information]
Boichak, O., Chesher, C. (2024). Convergent media: when MECO met Digital Cultures. In Agata Mrva-Montoya, Cheryl O'Byrne, and Pam Walker (Eds.), Inside Stories: 20 Years of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, (pp. 45-56). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Humphry, J., Maalsen, S., Gangneux, J., Chesher, C., Hanchard, M., Joss, S., Merrington, P., Wessels, B. (2022). The Design and Public Imaginaries of Smart Street Furniture. In Susan Flynn (Eds.), Equality in the City: Imaginaries of the Smart Future, (pp. 127-148). Bristol, UK; Chicago, U.S.A: Intellect. [More Information]
Chesher, C., Silvera-Tawil, D. (2020). A Robot-Human Handshake in Space: Touch and Lively Alterity Relations in Social Robotics. In Marco Norskov, Johanna Seibt, Oliver Santiago Quick (Eds.), Culturally Sustainable Social Robotics: Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2020, (pp. 86-95). Amsterdam: IOS Press. [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2020). How Computer Networks Became Social. In Not known (Eds.), Second International Handbook of Internet Research, (pp. 105-125). TBC. [More Information]
Chesher, C., Humphry, J. (2020). Our Own Devices: Living in the Smart Home. In Zlatan Krajina, Deborah Stevenson (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication, (pp. 185-193). New York: Routledge (Taylor and Francis). [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2018). Mechanology, Mindstorms, and the Genesis of Robots. In Steven John Thompson (Eds.), Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots in Contemporary Culture and Society, (pp. 120-137). Hershey: IGI Global. [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2017). Between Image and Information: The iPhone Camera in the History of Photography. In Jason Farman (Eds.), Foundations of Mobile Media Studies: Essential Texts on the Formation of a Field, (pp. 253-270). Oxford and New York: Routledge. [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2016). Robots and the Moving Camera in Cinema, Television and Digital Media. In Jeffrey T.K.V. Koh, Belinda J. Dunstan, David Silvera-Tawil, Mari Velonaki (Eds.), Cultural Robotics: First International Workshop, CR 2015, Held as Part of IEEE RO-MAN 2015, Kobe, Japan, August 31, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, (pp. 98-106). Cham: Springer International Publishing. [More Information]
Chesher, C., Howard, S. (2012). Balancing Knowledge Management and Knowledge Mobility in the Connected University. In Tara Fenwick, Lesley Farrell (Eds.), Knowledge Mobilization and Educational Research: Politics, languages and responsibilities, (pp. 154-166). United Kingdon: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2012). Between Image and Information: The iPhone Camera in the History of Photography. In Larissa Hjorth, Jean Burgess, Ingrid Richardson (Eds.), Studying Mobile Media: Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone, (pp. 98-117). New York: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2006). The muse and the electronic invocator. In John Potts and Ed Scheer (Eds.), Technologies of magic: a cultural study of ghosts, machines and the uncanny, (pp. 125-140). University of Sydney: Power Publications.
Chesher, C. (2001). An Inventory of Australian Net Culture, Criticism and Theory. Politics of a Digital Present: An Inventory of Australian Net Culture. Melbourne: Fibreculture Publications.
Chesher, C., Genosko, G. (2001). Digitising the beat: police databases and incorporeal transformations. Deleuze and Guattari: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers. United States: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
Chesher, C. (2001). What is new media research? Politics of a Digital Present: An Inventory of Australian Net Culture. Melbourne: Fibreculture Publications.

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Journals

Chesher, C., Hanchard, M., Humphry, J., Merrington, P., Gangneux, J., Joss, S., Maalsen, S., Wessels, B. (2023). Discovering smart: Early encounters and negotiations with smart street furniture in London and Glasgow. Digital Geography and Society, 4(100055). [More Information]
Chesher, C., Albarran-Torres, C. (2023). The emergence of autolography: the 'magical' invocation of images from text through AI. Media International Australia, 189(1), 57-73. [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2022). As evocacoes que assombram a interface do computador (Evocations that haunt the computer interface). Novos Olhares, 11(2), 141-145. [More Information]
Chesher, C., Jones, R., Abe, N. (2022). Beyond Anthropomorphism. International Journal of Social Robotics, 14, 2047-2048. [More Information]
Chesher, C., Andreallo, F. (2022). Eye Machines: Robot Eye, Vision and Gaze. International Journal of Social Robotics, 14(10), 2071-2081. [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2022). Lifestyle, opportunity and attraction images: real estate platforms and the digital remediation of space. Continuum, 36(2), 316-331. [More Information]
Gangneux, J., Joss, S., Humphry, J., Hanchard, M., Chesher, C., Maalsen, S., Merrington, P., Wessels, B. (2022). Situated, Yet Silent: Data Relations in Smart Street Furniture. Journal of Urban Technology, 29(3), 19-39. [More Information]
Humphry, J., Chesher, C. (2021). Preparing for smart voice assistants: Cultural histories and media innovations. New Media & Society, 35(7). [More Information]
Chesher, C., Andreallo, F. (2021). Robotic Faciality: The Philosophy, Science and Art of Robot Faces. International Journal of Social Robotics, 13(1), 83-96. [More Information]
Humphry, J., Chesher, C. (2021). Visibility and security in the smart home. Convergence, 27(5), 1170-1188. [More Information]
Andreallo, F., Chesher, C. (2019). Prosthetic Soul Mates: Sex Robots as Media for Companionship. M/C Journal, 22(5), 1-10. [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2019). Toy Robots on YouTube: Consumption and Peer Production at the Robotic Moment. Convergence, 25(1), 148-160. [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2013). Mining Robotics and Media Change. M/C Journal, 16(2), 1-9.
Chesher, C. (2012). Navigating sociotechnical spaces: comparing computer games and sat navs as digital spatial media. Convergence, 18(3), 315-330. [More Information]
Wilson, J., Chesher, C., Hjorth, L., Richardson, I. (2011). Distractedly Engaged: Mobile Gaming and Convergent Mobile Media. Convergence, 17(4), 351-355. [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2009). Binding time in digital civilisations: Re-evaluating Innis after new media. Global Media Journal: Australian Edition, 3(1), 1-17.
Chesher, C. (2007). Becoming the Milky Way: Mobile Phones and Actor Networks at a U2 Concert. Continuum: A Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 21(2), 217-225.
Crawford, A., Kucklich, J., Chesher, C. (2006). Gaming Networks. FibrecultureJournal: internet theory criticism research, Issue 8(2006), 1-5.
Chesher, C. (2004). Connection unbound by location. Griffith Review, 3.
Chesher, C. (2004). Neither gaze nor glance, but glaze: relating to console game screens. Scan (Sydney): journal of media arts culture, 1(1), 1-8.
Chesher, C., Costello, B. (2004). Why Media Scholars Should not Study Computer Games. Media International Australia, 110, 5-9.
Chesher, C. (2003). Layers of Code, Layers of Subjectivity. Culture Machine, 5. [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2002). Why the digital computer is dead. Ctheory.
Chesher, C. (2001). Console games and the glaze. Scan (Sydney): journal of media arts culture, , 30-37.

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Edited Journals

Chesher, C., Marks, P., Cleland, K. (2008). Screenscapes. Scan (Sydney): journal of media arts culture.
Chesher, C., Crawford, A., Kucklich, J. (2006). Fibreculture Journal; special edition: Gaming Networks. FibrecultureJournal: internet theory criticism research, 8(2006).
Chesher, C., Costello, B. (2004). Media International Australia. Media International Australia, 110.

Conferences

Chesher, C., Sutton, J., Backen, R., Tonkin, M. (2024). Vertigo and Emptiness in the Memory Palace. 29th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2024), Online: ISEA International. [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2019). Trusting Smart Speakers: a Typology of Invocationary Acts. 20th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers AoIR2019, Chicago, USA: Association of Internet Researchers. [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2012). FURO at Robotworld: human-robot metacommunication and media studies. ANZCA 2012 ADELAIDE: Communicating Change and Changing Communication in the 21s Century, Adelaide, Australia: Australian and New Zealand Communication Association.
Chesher, C. (2009). Converging mediations of space in computer games and spatial navigation systems. Sixth Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (IE09), New York, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2008). Binding time: Harold Innis and the balance of new media. Philosophy of the Information Society 30th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Frankfurt; Paris; Lancaster; New Brunswick: Ontos.
Chesher, C. (2005). Blogs and the crisis of authorship. Blogtalk Downunder, Sydney: incsub (Incorporated Subversion).
Chesher, C. (2004). How to tell apart video games and new media art. Interaction: Systems, Practice and Theory A Creativity & Cognition Symposium, NSW: Creativity and Cognition Studios Press, University of Technology Sydney.

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Magazine / Newspaper Articles

Humphry, J., Chesher, C., Maalsen, S. (2021). Smart street furniture in Australia: a public service or surveillance and advertising tool? The Conversation. [More Information]
Humphry, J., Chesher, C. (2020). From HAL 9000 to Westworld's Dolores: the pop culture robots that influenced smart voice assistants. The Conversation. [More Information]

Report

Flew, T., Chesher, C., Hutchinson, J., Stilinovic, M., Bailo, F., Gray, J., Lumby, C., Stepnik, A., Goggin, G., Humphry, J. (2023). Safe and Responsible AI in Australia: Submission Paper: University of Sydney. [More Information]
Wessels, B., Humphry, J., Gangneux, J., Hanchard, M., Chesher, C., Joss, S., Maalsen, S., Merrington, P., Sadowski, J., Dowling, R., Goggin, G., Horst, H. (2020). Smart Publics: Public Perceptions of Smart Street Furniture in London and Glasgow: insights for Policy and Practice. Sydney: The University of Sydney and The University of Glasgow. [More Information]

Reference Works

Chesher, C. (2014). Robotics. In Michael Kelly (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Oxford University Press.
Chesher, C. (2006). Multi-media. Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Blackwell Publishers.

Other

Chesher, C. (2023), The identity, emotion and gaze behind Apple's Vision Pro. [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2006), Game screens: not the gaze, nor the glance, but the glaze.
Chesher, C. (2006), The power of social networks.
Chesher, C. (2006), Topologies of desire, sensation and affect in computer games and new media art.

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By Year

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2025

Chesher, C. (2025). Exchanging Glances with Robots in Banks. In Jaime Banks (Eds.), Android, Assembled: The Explicit and Implicit Anatomy of Social Robots, (pp. 33-42). New York: Peter Lang. [More Information]
Chesher, C., Humphry, J. (2025). Robots in restaurants and emotional labour: a view from the Pepper Parlor. In Johanna Seibt, Peter Fazekas and Oliver Santiago Quick (Eds.), Social Robots with AI: Prospects, Risks and Responsible Methods, (pp. 157-167). Denmark: IOS Press. [More Information]

2024

Boichak, O., Chesher, C. (2024). Convergent media: when MECO met Digital Cultures. In Agata Mrva-Montoya, Cheryl O'Byrne, and Pam Walker (Eds.), Inside Stories: 20 Years of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, (pp. 45-56). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
Chesher, C. (2024). Invocational Media: Reconceptualizing the Computer. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic. [More Information]
Chesher, C., Sutton, J., Backen, R., Tonkin, M. (2024). Vertigo and Emptiness in the Memory Palace. 29th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2024), Online: ISEA International. [More Information]

2023

Chesher, C., Hanchard, M., Humphry, J., Merrington, P., Gangneux, J., Joss, S., Maalsen, S., Wessels, B. (2023). Discovering smart: Early encounters and negotiations with smart street furniture in London and Glasgow. Digital Geography and Society, 4(100055). [More Information]
Flew, T., Chesher, C., Hutchinson, J., Stilinovic, M., Bailo, F., Gray, J., Lumby, C., Stepnik, A., Goggin, G., Humphry, J. (2023). Safe and Responsible AI in Australia: Submission Paper: University of Sydney. [More Information]
Chesher, C., Albarran-Torres, C. (2023). The emergence of autolography: the 'magical' invocation of images from text through AI. Media International Australia, 189(1), 57-73. [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2023), The identity, emotion and gaze behind Apple's Vision Pro. [More Information]

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2022

Chesher, C. (2022). As evocacoes que assombram a interface do computador (Evocations that haunt the computer interface). Novos Olhares, 11(2), 141-145. [More Information]
Chesher, C., Jones, R., Abe, N. (2022). Beyond Anthropomorphism. International Journal of Social Robotics, 14, 2047-2048. [More Information]
Chesher, C., Andreallo, F. (2022). Eye Machines: Robot Eye, Vision and Gaze. International Journal of Social Robotics, 14(10), 2071-2081. [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2022). Lifestyle, opportunity and attraction images: real estate platforms and the digital remediation of space. Continuum, 36(2), 316-331. [More Information]
Gangneux, J., Joss, S., Humphry, J., Hanchard, M., Chesher, C., Maalsen, S., Merrington, P., Wessels, B. (2022). Situated, Yet Silent: Data Relations in Smart Street Furniture. Journal of Urban Technology, 29(3), 19-39. [More Information]
Humphry, J., Maalsen, S., Gangneux, J., Chesher, C., Hanchard, M., Joss, S., Merrington, P., Wessels, B. (2022). The Design and Public Imaginaries of Smart Street Furniture. In Susan Flynn (Eds.), Equality in the City: Imaginaries of the Smart Future, (pp. 127-148). Bristol, UK; Chicago, U.S.A: Intellect. [More Information]

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2021

Humphry, J., Chesher, C. (2021). Preparing for smart voice assistants: Cultural histories and media innovations. New Media & Society, 35(7). [More Information]
Chesher, C., Andreallo, F. (2021). Robotic Faciality: The Philosophy, Science and Art of Robot Faces. International Journal of Social Robotics, 13(1), 83-96. [More Information]
Humphry, J., Chesher, C., Maalsen, S. (2021). Smart street furniture in Australia: a public service or surveillance and advertising tool? The Conversation. [More Information]
Humphry, J., Chesher, C. (2021). Visibility and security in the smart home. Convergence, 27(5), 1170-1188. [More Information]

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2020

Chesher, C., Silvera-Tawil, D. (2020). A Robot-Human Handshake in Space: Touch and Lively Alterity Relations in Social Robotics. In Marco Norskov, Johanna Seibt, Oliver Santiago Quick (Eds.), Culturally Sustainable Social Robotics: Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2020, (pp. 86-95). Amsterdam: IOS Press. [More Information]
Humphry, J., Chesher, C. (2020). From HAL 9000 to Westworld's Dolores: the pop culture robots that influenced smart voice assistants. The Conversation. [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2020). How Computer Networks Became Social. In Not known (Eds.), Second International Handbook of Internet Research, (pp. 105-125). TBC. [More Information]
Chesher, C., Humphry, J. (2020). Our Own Devices: Living in the Smart Home. In Zlatan Krajina, Deborah Stevenson (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication, (pp. 185-193). New York: Routledge (Taylor and Francis). [More Information]
Wessels, B., Humphry, J., Gangneux, J., Hanchard, M., Chesher, C., Joss, S., Maalsen, S., Merrington, P., Sadowski, J., Dowling, R., Goggin, G., Horst, H. (2020). Smart Publics: Public Perceptions of Smart Street Furniture in London and Glasgow: insights for Policy and Practice. Sydney: The University of Sydney and The University of Glasgow. [More Information]

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2019

Andreallo, F., Chesher, C. (2019). Prosthetic Soul Mates: Sex Robots as Media for Companionship. M/C Journal, 22(5), 1-10. [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2019). Toy Robots on YouTube: Consumption and Peer Production at the Robotic Moment. Convergence, 25(1), 148-160. [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2019). Trusting Smart Speakers: a Typology of Invocationary Acts. 20th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers AoIR2019, Chicago, USA: Association of Internet Researchers. [More Information]

2018

Chesher, C. (2018). Mechanology, Mindstorms, and the Genesis of Robots. In Steven John Thompson (Eds.), Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots in Contemporary Culture and Society, (pp. 120-137). Hershey: IGI Global. [More Information]

2017

Chesher, C. (2017). Between Image and Information: The iPhone Camera in the History of Photography. In Jason Farman (Eds.), Foundations of Mobile Media Studies: Essential Texts on the Formation of a Field, (pp. 253-270). Oxford and New York: Routledge. [More Information]

2016

Chesher, C. (2016). Robots and the Moving Camera in Cinema, Television and Digital Media. In Jeffrey T.K.V. Koh, Belinda J. Dunstan, David Silvera-Tawil, Mari Velonaki (Eds.), Cultural Robotics: First International Workshop, CR 2015, Held as Part of IEEE RO-MAN 2015, Kobe, Japan, August 31, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, (pp. 98-106). Cham: Springer International Publishing. [More Information]

2014

Chesher, C. (2014). Robotics. In Michael Kelly (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Oxford University Press.

2013

Chesher, C. (2013). Mining Robotics and Media Change. M/C Journal, 16(2), 1-9.

2012

Chesher, C., Howard, S. (2012). Balancing Knowledge Management and Knowledge Mobility in the Connected University. In Tara Fenwick, Lesley Farrell (Eds.), Knowledge Mobilization and Educational Research: Politics, languages and responsibilities, (pp. 154-166). United Kingdon: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2012). Between Image and Information: The iPhone Camera in the History of Photography. In Larissa Hjorth, Jean Burgess, Ingrid Richardson (Eds.), Studying Mobile Media: Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone, (pp. 98-117). New York: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. [More Information]
Chesher, C. (2012). FURO at Robotworld: human-robot metacommunication and media studies. ANZCA 2012 ADELAIDE: Communicating Change and Changing Communication in the 21s Century, Adelaide, Australia: Australian and New Zealand Communication Association.
Chesher, C. (2012). Navigating sociotechnical spaces: comparing computer games and sat navs as digital spatial media. Convergence, 18(3), 315-330. [More Information]

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2011

Wilson, J., Chesher, C., Hjorth, L., Richardson, I. (2011). Distractedly Engaged: Mobile Gaming and Convergent Mobile Media. Convergence, 17(4), 351-355. [More Information]

2009

Chesher, C. (2009). Binding time in digital civilisations: Re-evaluating Innis after new media. Global Media Journal: Australian Edition, 3(1), 1-17.
Chesher, C. (2009). Converging mediations of space in computer games and spatial navigation systems. Sixth Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (IE09), New York, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]

2008

Chesher, C. (2008). Binding time: Harold Innis and the balance of new media. Philosophy of the Information Society 30th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Frankfurt; Paris; Lancaster; New Brunswick: Ontos.
Chesher, C., Marks, P., Cleland, K. (2008). Screenscapes. Scan (Sydney): journal of media arts culture.

2007

Chesher, C. (2007). Becoming the Milky Way: Mobile Phones and Actor Networks at a U2 Concert. Continuum: A Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 21(2), 217-225.

2006

Chesher, C., Crawford, A., Kucklich, J. (2006). Fibreculture Journal; special edition: Gaming Networks. FibrecultureJournal: internet theory criticism research, 8(2006).
Chesher, C. (2006), Game screens: not the gaze, nor the glance, but the glaze.
Crawford, A., Kucklich, J., Chesher, C. (2006). Gaming Networks. FibrecultureJournal: internet theory criticism research, Issue 8(2006), 1-5.
Chesher, C. (2006). Multi-media. Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Blackwell Publishers.
Chesher, C. (2006). The muse and the electronic invocator. In John Potts and Ed Scheer (Eds.), Technologies of magic: a cultural study of ghosts, machines and the uncanny, (pp. 125-140). University of Sydney: Power Publications.
Chesher, C. (2006), The power of social networks.
Chesher, C. (2006), Topologies of desire, sensation and affect in computer games and new media art.

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2005

Chesher, C. (2005). Blogs and the crisis of authorship. Blogtalk Downunder, Sydney: incsub (Incorporated Subversion).

2004

Chesher, C. (2004). Connection unbound by location. Griffith Review, 3.
Chesher, C. (2004). How to tell apart video games and new media art. Interaction: Systems, Practice and Theory A Creativity & Cognition Symposium, NSW: Creativity and Cognition Studios Press, University of Technology Sydney.
Chesher, C., Costello, B. (2004). Media International Australia. Media International Australia, 110.
Chesher, C. (2004). Neither gaze nor glance, but glaze: relating to console game screens. Scan (Sydney): journal of media arts culture, 1(1), 1-8.
Chesher, C., Costello, B. (2004). Why Media Scholars Should not Study Computer Games. Media International Australia, 110, 5-9.

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2003

Chesher, C. (2003). Layers of Code, Layers of Subjectivity. Culture Machine, 5. [More Information]

2002

Chesher, C. (2002). Why the digital computer is dead. Ctheory.

2001

Chesher, C. (2001). An Inventory of Australian Net Culture, Criticism and Theory. Politics of a Digital Present: An Inventory of Australian Net Culture. Melbourne: Fibreculture Publications.
Chesher, C. (2001). Console games and the glaze. Scan (Sydney): journal of media arts culture, , 30-37.
Chesher, C., Genosko, G. (2001). Digitising the beat: police databases and incorporeal transformations. Deleuze and Guattari: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers. United States: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
Chesher, C. (2001). What is new media research? Politics of a Digital Present: An Inventory of Australian Net Culture. Melbourne: Fibreculture Publications.

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Selected Grants

2019

Australia-Korea Partnership on Mobile Robot Development in Public Space, Abe N, Nebot E, Humphry J, Chesher C, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Federal)/Australia-Korea Foundation

2018

Public Forum on Urban Robots and the Future City, Abe N, Nebot E, Humphry J, Chesher C, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Federal)/Australia-Japan Foundation (AJF)

2014

Everyday Social Media Network, Goggin G, Vromen A, Martin F, Bednarek M, Bollmer G, Brevini B, Calvo R, Chen P, Chesher C, Driscoll C, Dwyer T, Elliot A, Hutchinson J, Mann A, Martin G, Michael M, Navarria G, Race K, Rolph D, Tormey S, Weatherall K, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme

In the media

01/05/2023 - interviewed in the Herald Sun: Customers hit back at new dining trend taking over Aussie restaurants
25/09/2022 - interviewed in The Daily Mail: Damning report reveals depths of TikTok misinformation

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Dr Chris Chesher

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