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This was a little project I created to satisfy my needs as a student of digital humanities, and that later turned into a structured little dictionary.
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…
Scriptural algorithm generating a scripton.
Term coined by Katherine Hayles
A text string as it appears to readers in a digital text representation, that is, the textual instance of a texton.
Means of communication that are native to digital technologies, such as computers, for production and distribution.
Vandalism on a wiki or any other content piece on a collaborative online environment.
Examples of wandalism are: replacing information with false or satirical content, deleting it, or deliberately degrading its quality or accuracy.
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.
A type of malware that prevents one or multiple users from accessing their systems or data, demanding payment of a ransom to regain access.
The notion of preserving and enhancing personal privacy by building and/or using anonymous systems, electronic money, unregulated cryptography, and digital signatures.
Term coined by Jude Milhon
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.