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.
A type of malware that prevents one or multiple users from accessing their systems or data, demanding payment of a ransom to regain access.
An autonomous or semi-autonomous machine capable of carrying out a range of complex actions, or a single highly-complex one, automatically.
Term coined by Josef Čapek
See Android | DroidSee AutomatonSee BioroidSee Cyborg
A bot that carries out psychological operations to maximize impact and scale the disseminetion of fakes news and other misinformation campaigns.
See AgnotologySee Fake NewsSee PuppeteerSee Regimes of Truth
A forged online profile or identity used for misleading, deceiving, spamming, or mayheming.
See PuppeteersSee Fake NewsSee Agnotology
A person who operates one or multiple sockpuppets.
See Fake NewsSee Agnotology
Knowledge, be it intuitive or built up in repeated practice and experience, that is not explicitly expressed but is inherent to an affinity space of knowledge community, and counts a good deal and is honored accordingly.
Term coined by James Paul Gee
A future social setting which is neither dystopic nor utopic, but rather essentially identical to the present.
See Utopia
See Dystopia
A design practice that gives a designed object key features inherent to an original counterpart with the intention of mimicking it.
Many real-life objects are designed following this practice, for instance electric candles, as well as objects in software such as the trash can.