Internet Terms
Each one or zero in binary code (Binary Digit)
What is a bit
A game played in class where players race in carts and bikes as Nintendo characters
What is Mario Kart
The Fear Of Missing Out
The uneasy and sometimes all-consuming feeling that you're missing out
What is FOMO
8 bits put together. The basic unit used to measure digital information
What is a byte
False or misleading information spread by people who assume that it is true
What is misinformation
Technology that allows a growing array of devices - TVs, tablets, and smartphones, but also cars, refrigerators, thermostats, traffic lights, and more - to communicate with each other and with the internet
What is the Internet of Things (IOT)
An augmented reality, geo-based game
What is Pokemon Go
The Necessity Of Missing Out (Odell)
What is NOMO
The vast network of fiber-optic lines, wireless connections, and satellite systems that links laptops, mobile phones, tablets, game consoles, smart TVs, and a growing array of smart devices to enormous data centers around the world
What is the Internet
False or misleading information spread knowingly by people with malicious intent
What is disinformation
Highly managed environments brought to us by apps
What are walled gardens
The altering of reality by overlaying digital information on real-world objects
What is Augmented Reality (AR)
The Necessity Of Sometimes Missing Out (Odell)
What is NOSMO
Newspaper editors, network TV managers, record executives, and others who have traditionally decided which messages get circulated
What are gatekeepers
The sharing of knowledge and ideas like a group playing a game together or looking up gaming hints online
This term was coined by Levy
What is collective intelligence
A set of instructions, designed and written by computer programmers that tells a computer how to analyze vast amounts of data
What are algorithms
A graphic interactive "character" situated within the world of the game
What is an avatar
Controlling our attention helps companies like Google and Facebook collect more data and create opportunities to sell more ads
What is Attention Economy
A society in which people are able to create and communicate by mixing, editing, combining, manipulating, or repurposing existing texts.
What is remix culture
Principles developed from research into human behavior modification
EX. Infinite scroll, notification, and the like button
What is addictive design
A category that refers to carious ways of encoding information that existed before binary code
Action
Adventure
Action-Adventure
Role-playing
MMPORG
Simulation
Strategy
Sports
Casual
What are video game genres
An increasingly important business model that involves making money by controlling the personal data of millions of users
What is surveillance capitalism
The growing contrast between the "internet haves" - those who can afford to purchase a computer and pay for internet services - and the "internet have-nots" - those who may not be able to afford those things
What is the digital divide
To favor information that conforms to our pre-existing beliefs over information that challenges them
What is confirmation bias