Theorists 1
This theorist developed the concepts of the attention economy, NOMO, and NOSMO
Who is Odell
Saw networkING as an active process and being networkED as a passive process
Who is Misfud
The first at home video game system developed by Baer is 1972
What is Odyssey
Computer files that automatically collect and transfer information between a website and a user's browser, which makes revisiting a website easier or more personalized
What is a cookie
Open and collaborative websites where people work together to edit and create content
What are wikis
A researcher of intersection between ancient Greek culture and our digital era; "Plato would have wanted you to unplug"
Who is Scullin
Advocated for the algorithmic accountability movement and wanted equality in the tech industry
Who is Buolamiwini
A simple two dimensional tennis style game, with two vertical paddles that bounced a white dot back and forth, making a blip sound with each bounce
What is Pong
Software applications that help users navigate the web
What are browsers
Relying on mathematical algorithms offered a more automated way to find content by allowing users to enter keywords or queries to locate related web pages
What are search engines
A German immigrant and television engineer who developed the first home video game Odyssey
Who is Baer
A tech writer who focused on surveillance capitalism. "tech is overpriced, fin-sized plastic and metal surveillance machines"
Who is Pelly
An establishment that gathers together multiple coin-operated games
What is an arcade
Hyper Text Markup Language - a language used for displaying text, images, and other multimedia that allowed users to link files to one another
What is HTML
The notion that every citizen, regardless of income or location, should have the opportunity to use and benefit from a technology
Formed the company Atari and created the game Pong
Who is Bushnell
Linked open access initiatives to information "commons", underscoring the idea that the public collectively owns (or should own) certain public resources, like the airways, the internet, and public spaces (such as parks)
Who is Bollier
Devices that people use specifically to play video games
What is a console
A data linking system for organizing and standardizing information on the internet; enables computer-accessed information to associate with - or link to - other information, no matter where it is on the internet.
What is the World Wide Web
Spaces where we are exposed only to ideas and opinions that match our existing beleifs
What are filter bubbles
Invented the HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) in 1990
Who is Berners-Lee
An Oxford professor who beleived that algorithms reflect the inequalities of our society
Who is Watcher
The way in which the rules structure how players interact with the game
What is gameplay
Webpages and databases were created in such a way that a computer - funtioning as somthing akin to AI - can examine the web's cast quantities of data and automatically provide useful solutions to people's needs
What is the semantic web
The idea that all data being sent across the internet would be treated the same
What is net neutrality