Internet Terms
Video Games
Theories
Internet Terms 2
Information
100

Each one or zero in binary code (Binary Digit)

What is a bit

100

A game played in class where players race in carts and bikes as Nintendo characters



What is Mario Kart

100

The Fear Of Missing Out

The uneasy and sometimes all-consuming feeling that you're missing out

What is FOMO

100

8 bits put together.  The basic unit used to measure digital information

What is a byte

100

False or misleading information spread by people who assume that it is true

What is misinformation

200

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)

200

An augmented reality, geo-based game

What is Pokemon Go

200

The Necessity Of Missing Out (Odell)

What is NOMO

200

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

200

False or misleading information spread knowingly by people with malicious intent

What is disinformation

300

Highly managed environments brought to us by apps

What are walled gardens

300

The altering of reality by overlaying digital information on real-world objects

What is Augmented Reality (AR)

300

The Necessity Of Sometimes Missing Out (Odell)

What is NOSMO

300

Newspaper editors, network TV managers, record executives, and others who have traditionally decided which messages get circulated

What are gatekeepers

300

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

400

A set of instructions, designed and written by computer programmers that tells a computer how to analyze vast amounts of data

What are algorithms

400

A graphic interactive "character" situated within the world of the game

What is an avatar

400

Controlling our attention helps companies like Google and Facebook collect more data and create opportunities to sell more ads

What is Attention Economy

400

A society in which people are able to create and communicate by mixing, editing, combining, manipulating, or repurposing existing texts.

What is remix culture

400

Principles developed from research into human behavior modification

EX. Infinite scroll, notification, and the like button

What is addictive design

500

A category that refers to carious ways of encoding information that existed before binary code

What is analog
500

Action 

Adventure
Action-Adventure

Role-playing

MMPORG

Simulation

Strategy

Sports

Casual

What are video game genres

500

An increasingly important business model that involves making money by controlling the personal data of millions of users

What is surveillance capitalism

500

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

500

To favor information that conforms to our pre-existing beliefs over information that challenges them

What is confirmation bias