Cultural Object | Cultural Artifact

Anything created by humans which has as central motivation the culture of its creator and/or users or audience.

Cultural objects can usually be found in disciplines such as architecture, sculpture, painting, music, photographs, textiles…

Cybernetic Totalism

The set of the following intelocking beliefs: (1) cybernetic patterns of information provide the ultimate way to understand reality, (2) people are no more than cybernetic patterns, (3) subjective experience either doesn’t exist or is unimportant, (4) evolution, and mankind at the center of…

Hypernarrative

Digital objects, usually texts, with a branching structure where the reader continually makes choices between sequential plot paths, so it offers multiple narrative that operates together as a network instead of linear sequences.

Intertextual Commodity

An approach to media production that integrates marketing and entertainment as the story unfolds across different media.

Term coined by David Marshall

Extratextual

Meaning that is created not in the cultural object being experienced, but in another cultural object, being up to the audience to recognize the reference and understand its hidden significance.

A common extratextual is an allusion to a character of another narrative,

Hedgehog’s Dilemma

A metaphor describing a situation in which two or more individuals share the intention to become closer to one another for a common goal but they must remain apart for reasons they cant avoid, what results is cautious behavior and weak relationships.

Least Objectionable Program Paradigm

The idea that viewers watch not programs they love but the best available option broadcasted on television in a particular time slot.