Paul Chambers

I am an anthropologist with interdisciplinary research interests in contemporary Australian social issues, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Media, Creative Industries, Musicology and the Digital Humanities. My research investigates how music is used to negotiate issues of significant concern in the lives of contemporary young people and adults, including the negotiation of non-normative gendered identities, precarity, climate change, and the consequences of screen-mediated interaction. My findings show how music making allows those engaged with its practice to deal with anxiety and alienation as well as the potential of digital platforms.

My thesis, ‘People, Platforms, Practice: The Social Mediation of Electronic Music Production’, available in the University library, investigated the impact of the Internet and digital technologies on contemporary music practice, social relationships and subjectivity.