definition: A soceity based on the common ownership of the means of production, cooperative labour, and freely associated producers that administer production on the basis of a social or common plan.
direction: V
start: A10
category: Ideology
- word: Entertainment
definition:
definition: Forms of ------------- are activities that give people pleasure like: movies, books, video games, tv shows, sporting events, circuses, comedy events, music festival.
direction: H
start: R2
category: Ideology
- word: Taylorism
definition:
definition: A factory management system developed in the late 19th century to increase efficiency by evaluating every step in a manufacturing process and breaking down production into specialized repetitive tasks.
direction: H
start: M5
category: Ideology
- word: Counterculture
definition:
definition: It can be present as disturbance of defiance of any current stream as way to protest, as emancipation or contestation.
direction: V
start: C16
category: Ideology
- word: Hegemony
definition:
definition: “Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality.”
direction: H
start: F4
category: Ideology
- word: Mainstream
definition:
definition: Everything that is seen as normal, that is familiar to the masses and available to the general public.
direction: V
start: D13
category: Ideology
- word: Popculture
definition:
definition: The practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time.
direction: H
start: A7
category: Ideology
- word: Superstructure
definition:
definition: It refers to society's other relationships and ideas not directly related to production including its culture, institutions, political power structures, roles, rituals, religion, media, and state.
direction: V
start: C5
category: Ideology
- word:
definition:
direction:
start:
category: Ideology
- word: Base
definition:
definition: It refers to the mode of production which includes the forces and relations of production in a society.
direction: V
start: O2
category: Ideology
- word: Capitalism
definition:
definition: “It is easier to imagine the end of the world that the end of" an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.
direction: V
start: H18
category: Ideology
- word:
definition:
direction:
start:
category: Ideology
- word: Falseconsciousness
definition:
definition: The state in which one feels like they are given full agency of their own choices/actions when in fact they are subject to a certain ideology that has come to seem so self-speaking they wouldn't question it.
direction: H
start: P1
category: Ideology
- word: Cost
definition:
definition: The amount of money that is needed to pay for or buy a loot box.
direction: V
start: J1
category: Loot Box
- word: Exclusive
definition:
definition: Available to only a few people because users have a limited time frame to obtain the loot box.
direction: H
start: L4
category: Loot Box
- word: Collectible
definition:
definition: Something that is considered valuable because kept as part of a group of similar objects.
direction: H
start: J1
category: Loot Box
- word: Addictive
definition:
definition: That causes a strong and harmful need to regularly have or do something.
direction: H
start: R2
category: Loot Box
- word:
definition:
direction:
start:
category: Loot Box
- word: Reward
definition:
definition: A kind of payment that is given or received for something that has been done.
direction: H
start: N7
category: Loot Box
- word: Surprise
definition:
definition: Something unexpected.
direction: H
start: G3
category: Loot Box
- word: Gambling
definition:
definition: The investment will probably not come back, that makes paying for a loot box not just buying but...
direction: H
start: P5
category: Loot Box
- word: Exploitative
definition:
definition: When a company is taking advantage of users for profit.
direction: V
start: G10
category: Loot Box
- word: Addiction
definition:
definition: An uneasy amalgam of several contradictory legacies: a religious one, which has censured excessive drinking, gambling and drug use as moral transgressions; a scientific one, which has characterized alcoholism and drug addiction as biological diseases; and a colloquial one, which has casually applied the term to almost any fixation.
direction: V
start: H3
category: Predatory Schemes in Videogames
- word: HookModel
definition:
definition: A business model that is used also in videogames to ensure that microtransactions are turned from an occasional event into a rooted activity for gamers. This model functions following different strategies to ensure continuous profiting, like fast thinking processes, gatchas (collectible items), subscriptions, etc.
direction: H
start: G6
category: Predatory Schemes in Videogames
- word: IkeaEffect
definition:
definition: A cognitive bias in which consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created.
direction: H
start: N3
category: Predatory Schemes in Videogames
- word: Anchoring
definition:
definition: A cognitive bias whereby an individual's decisions are influenced by a particular point of reference.
direction: H
start: P5
category: Predatory Schemes in Videogames
- word: Clickfarm
definition:
definition: A large group of low-paid workers are hired to click on paid advertising links.
direction: H
start: K1
category: Predatory Schemes in Videogames
- word: Anxiety
definition:
definition: A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome.
direction: V
start: C13
category: Predatory Schemes in Videogames
- word: Microtransaction
definition:
definition: A business model where users can purchase virtual items for small amounts of money. It often appears in free-to-play games, meaning there is no cost to download the game, just a cost to buy the online virtual products.
direction: V
start: C11
category: Predatory Schemes in Videogames
- word: Monetization
definition:
definition: The type of process that a video game publisher can use to generate revenue from a video game product. Some in-game purchasing systems could be characterized as unfair or exploitative. These systems describe tactics that capitalize on informational advantages (e.g., behavioral tracking) and data manipulation to optimize offers to incentivize continuous spending, while offering limited or no guarantees or protections, with the potential to exploit vulnerable players (e.g., adolescents, problematic gamers).
direction: H
start: D2
category: Predatory Schemes in Videogames
- word: PAP
definition:
definition: When you describe something such as information, writing, or entertainment that you consider to be of no worth, value, or serious interest.
direction: V
start: C9
category: Predatory Schemes in Videogames
- word: MagicCircle
definition:
definition: The space in which the normal rules and reality of the world are suspended and replaced by the artificial reality of a game world.
direction: V
start: F1
category: Predatory Schemes in Videogames
- word: Fandom
definition:
definition: It often includes activities such as conventions, writing fictions, participating in online forums and discussions, purchasing merchandise and collector items in order to build a community around a common interest.
direction: H
start: K1
category: Modding and Videogames World
- word: GiftEconomy
definition:
definition: An alternative mode of exchange to the rationalist calculation of capitalist exchange, where valuables are not sold, but rather given without an explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards.
direction: V
start: E5
category: Modding and Videogames World
- word: WorldBuilding
definition:
definition: The art of creating a new fictional world inside videogames realities.
direction: H
start: M4
category: Modding and Videogames World
- word: Gift
definition:
definition: Something that it's given away without any expectation for payback allows us to act in a way that is non- alienated and differs considerably from the exchange of commodities with the aim of profit making.
direction: V
start: L14
category: Modding and Videogames World
- word: Mod
definition:
definition: Modification used to change the behaviour of a game to make it more fun for every gamers.
direction: V
start: K8
category: Modding and Videogames World
- word: Cheat
definition:
definition: Modification used to gain an unfair and unauthorized advantage in a game to make it more fun/accessible/easy for the user who is playing, but no-one else.
direction: H
start: P7
category: Modding and Videogames World
- word: Freework
definition:
definition: Time that modders spend in modifying and sometimes improving corporates' videogames in form of a hobby, but still producing profit for the company.
direction: H
start: G5
category: Modding and Videogames World
- word: Freetoplay
definition:
definition: A type of games that are monetised later either by using their user data or by adding payable content inside the game. Because of being so accessible, they became quite popular and attracted high numbers of players.
direction: H
start: E7
category: Modding and Videogames World
- word: Countergamification
definition:
definition: A form of opposition to the increasing use of game elements within non-game systems, which aims to disrupt the processing and exploitation of users’ data; it calls for a gaming with the system, for a disruptive play with its rules and content while being within it.
direction: V
start: A11
category: Modding and Videogames World
- word: ProductivePlay
definition:
definition: After-hours labour, masked with enjoyable activities that feel like leisure, also related to self-work (people trying to improve their own capital).
direction: H
start: L1
category: Productivity and Leisure
- word: Play
definition:
definition: A free activity standing quite consciously outside ordinary life as being "not serious", but at the same time absorbing the player intensely and utterly. It is an activity connected with no material interest, and no profit can be gained by it. It proceeds within its own proper boundaries of time and space according to fixed rules and in an orderly manner.
direction: H
start: G1
category: Productivity and Leisure
- word: Labour
definition:
definition: Physical or mental effort.
direction: V
start: N8
category: Productivity and Leisure
- word: Gamification
definition:
definition: The process of turning non-ludic activities into play. It might be seen as a form of ideology and it can be used as an online marketing technique to encourage engagement with a product or service.
direction: H
start: O1
category: Productivity and Leisure
- word: Selfwork
definition:
definition: Any action you take towards improvement of your own body or mind: incentives to quantify yourself couched in a “do what you love” rhetoric.
direction: H
start: J7
category: Productivity and Leisure
- word: Game
definition:
definition: A playable theory used to learn about reality without the consequences of reality.
direction: V
start: G8
category: Productivity and Leisure
- word: FreeTime
definition:
definition: Leisure practices included in humans' lives.
direction: V
start: J10
category: Productivity and Leisure
- word: Leisure
definition:
definition: Time when you have the freedom to choose how to use your time.
direction: V
start: G2
category: Productivity and Leisure
- word: Temporality
definition:
definition: Experienced or lived time.
direction: H
start: S3
category: Productivity and Leisure
- word: Fun
definition:
definition: Time flies when you're having..
direction: V
start: K5
category: Productivity and Leisure
- word: LootBox
definition:
definition: A consumable virtual item which can be redeemed to receive a randomised selection of further virtual items ranging from simple customization options for a player's avatar or character, to game-changing equipment such as weapons and armor.
direction: H
start: J4
category: What is the definition?
- word: Ideology
definition:
definition: The set of ideas that naturalises social-constructed beliefs and makes the subordinate class to accept a state of alienation without revolting.
direction: V
start: F14
category: What is the definition?
- word: Modding
definition:
definition: Player-driven modification of a computer game.
direction: V
start: I5
category: What is the definition?
- word: LeisureClass
definition:
definition: The economic ruling class, that is more present in consumption than production.
direction: H
start: G1
category: What is the definition?
- word: Responsability
definition:
definition: The agency the game is giving to the users while taking decisions in a game.
direction: V
start: F2
category: What is the definition?
- word: Inefficiency
definition:
definition: A process that involves unnecessary passages.
direction: H
start: Q2
category: What is the definition?
- word: Artificiality
definition:
definition: The quality of being made or produced by human beings.
