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…

Intertextual Commodity

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

Term coined by David Marshall

Nerd

An overly intellectual person, usually obsessive or lacking social skills, focusing their interests on non-mainstream activities, generally highly technical or related to fiction or fantasy narratives.

Conversational Interface

A user interface that mimics a chat with a human interlocutor with the goal of turning that interaction less time consuming and frustrating for the human partaker; that is, software adapts to human language -natural language- rather than the reverse -icons and syntax-specific commands- so the user simply tells the software what to do.

Hive Mind

A collective consciousness or behaviour in which a large number of people act as a single organism for the good of the group, characterized by uncritical conformity and a reduction of the sense of individuality and personal accountability.

Neural Network

A system of software and data structures that tries to mimic the operation of the human brain.