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.

Algorithmic Opacity

The effect of an algorithmic system designed in a way that makes difficult to explain why a certain decision was made by it.

An algorithmic system may be kept opaque deliberately to conceal how it operates, unintentionally due to the expert technical knowledge…

Attention Economy

The notion of human attention as a limited resource in the management of massive amounts of information and entertainment. As human attention can focus on a limited set of items of information at any given time, it turns into a limiting factor in the consumption of content.

Cyborg

A synthetic or natural biological organism that recurrently fulfills needs via artificial non-biological digital elements, being such elements independent or applied as enhancements to any of the physical parts of the organism.

Multimodality

The use of at least two sensory modalities such as tactile, visual, auditory, etc., to present information and receive a response.