Chris Chesher is the Director of the Digital Technology and Culture Program in the School of English, Art History, Film and Media. He previously worked at the University of New South Wales, School of Media and Communications (1997-2004), Macquarie University (1995-1997), University of Technology, Sydney (1990-1994), and University of Newcastle (1993). He also worked at the Public Broadcasting Association of Australia (now CBAA), and the Centre for Independent Journalism at UTS. His work has combined media production and teaching (print, database, web and animation) with new media theory and research.

His teaching and research centres on information and communication technologies (in the broadest sense), and their interweaving with social structures and cultural practices. His background in sociologically inflected media studies is interlaced with critical theory and continental philosophy, and new media studies and cyberculture.

• medium specificity: what makes computers distinctive as a media form? What are the social and cultural implications of media change?
• conflicts and synergies in collaborative new media production work practices
• computer games as an emerging set of cultural conventions, and how they are articulated into wider contexts than traditional games subcultures
• emerging internet paradigms associated with the emergence of social software: new forms of publication including blogs, wikis, micro-blogs; new forms of mediated sociality including social networking, chat, media sharing and online games; new forms of broadcasting including streaming and downloads
• implications of residual materiality in information technology such as 'digital dark age', environmental impacts, (Harold Innis) and forms of exclusion

• Chesher, Chris (2008) 'Binding Time: Harold Innis and the balance of new media' in Herbert Hrachovec, Alois Pichler (Eds.) Philosophy of the Information Society, Proceedings of the 30th International Ludwig
• Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg 2007, Frankfurt / Paris / Ebikon / Lancaster / New Brunswick: Ontos-Verlag, 9-26.
• Chesher, Chris, Cleland, Kathy and Marks, Peter (2008) Screenscapes, special issue of Scan Journal, Macquarie University http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display_synopsis?j_id=13
• Chesher, C. (2007). Becoming the milky way: mobile phones and actor networks at a U2 concert. Continuum, 21(2), 217-225. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/ccon/2007/00000021/00000002/art00008
• Chris Chesher, Alice Crawford and Julian Kücklich (Eds) (2006) Gaming Networks, special issue of fibreculture journal http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue8/index.html
• Chesher C. and Costello B. (2004) 'Why media scholars should not study computer games' in Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, Volume 2004, Number 110, February 2004 , pp. 5-9(5), School of English, Media Studies and Art History and the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/griff/mia/2004/00002004/00000110
• Chesher, Chris (2004) ‘Connection unbound by location’ in Griffith Review, Meadowbrook: Griffith University and ABC Books, Autumn 2004. (http://www3.griffith.edu.au/01/griffithreview/get_content_file.php?id=235)
• (2004) ‘How to tell apart computer games and new media art’ in Interaction: systems, practice and theory: Creativity and cognition symposium, conference proceedings, University of Technology, Sydney, November 16-19, 2004. (http://research.it.uts.edu.au/creative/interaction/aw.php?papers=1).
• (2003) ‘Console games and the glaze’ in Scan: Journal of media arts culture, School of Media: Macquarie University. Online'>http://www.scan.net.au/scan/journal/display_article.php?recordID=19">Online.
• (2003) ‘Console games and the glaze’ Plaything Exhibition Catalogue Essay, Sydney: dLux Media Arts.
• (2006) ‘The Muse and the Electronic Invocator’ in Potts, John and Ed Scheer (2003) Technologies of magic, Sydney: Power Publications.

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