Compressorhead: The robot band and its transmedia storyworld

Davies, A; Crosby, A

Compressorhead: The robot band and its transmedia storyworld

Davies, A Crosby, A

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Citation:: 2016, 9549 pp. 175 - 189
Issue Date:: 2016-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Davies, A	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Crosby, A https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8959-7971	en_US
dc.date.issued	2016-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	2016, 9549 pp. 175 - 189	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9783319429441	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/46411
dc.description.abstract	© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. Robot-human relationships are being developed and redefined due to the emerging cultural phenomenon of popular robot bands such as Compressorhead and Z-Machine. Our primary research interest in this paper is the ways in which robots relate to, interact with, and are perceived by humans - or in short, human-robot relationships. To this aim we have conducted a small-scale (multi- ‘species’) ethnography in which we were participant observers in the ongoing production of both the ‘onstage’ and ‘offstage’ transmedia storyworld of the allrobot band, Compressorhead. We use Henry Jenkins’s (2004, 2006, 2008) concept of ‘transmedia storytelling’ as a way of understanding how a storyworld that includes extensive human-robot interaction is simultaneously created by both humans and robots across multiple communication media platforms. In so doing, we argue that robots can indeed be seen as musicians, performers, and even celebrities, and therefore can be taken seriously as producers of culture.	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1007/978-3-319-42945-8_14	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	en_US
dc.title	Compressorhead: The robot band and its transmedia storyworld	en_US
dc.type	Chapter
utslib.citation.volume	9549	en_US
utslib.for	0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing	en_US
utslib.for	080602 Computer-Human Interaction	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Design
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	9549	en_US

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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016. Robot-human relationships are being developed and redefined due to the emerging cultural phenomenon of popular robot bands such as Compressorhead and Z-Machine. Our primary research interest in this paper is the ways in which robots relate to, interact with, and are perceived by humans - or in short, human-robot relationships. To this aim we have conducted a small-scale (multi- ‘species’) ethnography in which we were participant observers in the ongoing production of both the ‘onstage’ and ‘offstage’ transmedia storyworld of the allrobot band, Compressorhead. We use Henry Jenkins’s (2004, 2006, 2008) concept of ‘transmedia storytelling’ as a way of understanding how a storyworld that includes extensive human-robot interaction is simultaneously created by both humans and robots across multiple communication media platforms. In so doing, we argue that robots can indeed be seen as musicians, performers, and even celebrities, and therefore can be taken seriously as producers of culture.

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