- definition: 8. A term used in Marxist theory to describe the state in which one feels like they are given full agency of their own choices and actions when in fact they are subject to a certain ideology that has come to seem so self-speaking they wouldn't question it.
- definition: 9. Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain. They have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion, like a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality.' [Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks]
- definition: 10. 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. It can be present as disturbance or defiance of any current stream as way to protest, as emancipation or contestation.
- definition: 11. "It is easier to imagine the end of the world that the end of…" [Slavoj Žižek] 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.
- definition: 12. According to Marxist theory, it refers to society's relationships that are not directly related to production. This includes culture, institutions, political power structures, roles, rituals, religion, media, and state.
- definition: 5. A form of government in which society is 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.
- definition: 6. 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 gaming with the system, for a disruptive play with its rules and content while being within it.
- definition: 8. 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.
- definition: 9. A type of game that is monetised later either by using the user data or by adding payable content inside the game. Because of being so accessible, it became quite popular and attracted high numbers of players.
- definition: 1. Time that modders spend in modifying and sometimes improving corporates' video games in form of a hobby, but still producing profit for the company.
- definition: 2. Something that is given away without any expectation for payback. It 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.
- definition: 4. 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.
- definition: 7. Modification used to gain an unfair and unauthorized advantage in a game to make it more fun, accessible, and easy for the user who is playing.
- definition: 1. 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.
- definition: 4. The type of process that a video game publisher can use to generate revenue from a video game. Tactics that capitalize on informational advantages (e.g., behavioral tracking) and data manipulation to incentivize continuous spending, while offering limited or no guarantees or protections, with the potential to exploit vulnerable players (e.g., adolescents, problematic gamers).
- definition: 5. 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.
- definition: "3. 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."
- definition: 6. When you describe something such as information, writing, or entertainment that you consider to be of no worth, value, nor serious interest.
- definition: 5. Any action you take towards the improvement of your own body or mind. You are incentivized to quantify yourself through a “do what you love” rhetoric.
- definition: 10. 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.
- definition: 8. 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 should be gained by doing it. It proceeds within its own proper boundaries of time and space according to fixed rules and in an orderly manner.
