This semester Chae has taken large steps into content production and branching out the Chae Media name. In light of recognising the historical development of internet networks, Chae has accepted and conquered the challenge set before us for this semester. Chae has successfully created and published two magazines within a semester (technically three when considering…

““Blogject” is a neologism that’s meant to focus attention on the participation of “objects” and “things” in the sphere of networked social discourse variously called the blogosphere, or social web.” (Bleeker, 2005) Blogjects are known as a relative of Spime, which is infamously known as Bruce Sterling’s resonant of the processes of searchable, trackable and…

Cyber Warfare is a complex danger to economical, political, governmental, military educational, health, social and many more aspects of daily life (Schreier, 2015). National security is not usually threatened as often as people believe (Lewis, 2002), however understanding cyberthreats arises from knowing three characteristics about it. That it is broad, “The nature of the threat…

This semester Chae has undergone the challenge of releasing two magazines within the semester. Chae released “Through the Screen” which is a magazine dedicated to the exploration of the digital world. We had our team create articles on what they believed would assist our student-based audience on the digital world.  We hoped that releasing this…

Hackers, whistleblowers and lulz. These are all people who developed with the innovative advancement of media-technologies. Their counter-cultural utilisation of technologies are seem as an invasion of the technologies purpose, particularly when information technologies are released for the general public. However, are these hackers doing this just because they can? No, they have a purpose. …

Social media revolutionaries have been catalysed by the exposure of images or videos online (posted to facebook, youtube twitter etc.) that usually abuses a person’s basic human rights. From this a movement is formed typically in accompany to a hashtag such as #January25, #euromaiden, #sandrabland and the very ominous and current #blacklivesmatter.  Online narratives are…

For this week’s lecture content one aspect stood out to me over the others, which was the exploration of a ‘walled garden’. “A walled garden is a closed ecosystem in which all the operations are controlled by the ecosystem operator”. (Poulpiquet, 2017). The ‘wall’ term for this metaphoric term is known as the associated restrictions…

Attention has been defined as: “Attention: a selective focus on some of the stimuli that we are currently perceiving while ignoring other stimuli from the environment” (Kane, 2019) The attention economy is a system built on the competitive marketing of consumers attention. To “pay attention” in this economy means to literally PAY the attention to…

As the media becomes increasingly intertwined with the utensils and materials used for work, home and workplace living has crossed boundaries and intercepted with each other. “ As work becomes a way of life, life increasingly displays all the characteristics of contemporary work” (Deuze, 2006) There have been perspectives where the technology of the media…

Cyberspace has been defined in many different ways, thus there are many different understandings of it. “cyberspace is a bioelectronic environment that is literally universal: It exists everywhere there are telephone wires, coaxial cables, fiber-optic lines or electromagnetic waves.” (Dyson E, Glider G, Keyworth G, Toffler A, 1994) “Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought…