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meme
A meme (; ) is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures. In popular language, a meme may refer to
hashtag
thumb|A post (tweet) on the social network X (social network)|X (Twitter) with several hashtags colored in blue text. A hashtag is a metadata tag operator that is prefaced by the hash symbol, #. On social media, hashtags are used on microblogging and photo-sharing services–especially Twitter and Tumblr–as a form of user-generated tagging that enables cross-referencing of content by topic or theme. For example, a search within Instagram for the hashtag #flowers returns all posts that have been tagged with that term. After the initial hash symbol, a hashtag may include letters, numerals or other
collective unconscious
psychological phenomenon regarding the structure of the unconscious mind between members of the same species
open-source intelligence
data collected from open and publicly available sources to be used in an intelligence context
tag
metadata used for classifications or adding of informations
collaborative software
application software to help people involved in a common task achieve goals
user-generated content
online content created by users
folksonomy
Folksonomy is a classification system in which end users apply public tags to online items, typically to make those items easier for themselves or others to find later. Over time, this can give rise to a classification system based on those tags and how often they are applied or searched for, in contrast to a taxonomic classification designed by the owners of the content and specified when it is published. This practice is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging. Folksonomy was originally "the result of personal free tagging of informatio
collective intelligence
group intelligence that emerges from collective efforts
collective memory
shared pool of memories, knowledge and information of a social group that is significantly associated with the group's identity
deliberative democracy
form of democracy focusing on consensus
swarm intelligence
collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems
collective consciousness
shared beliefs and ideas in society
superorganism
thumb|A mound built by Nasutitermes triodiae|cathedral termites thumb|A coral colony
social choice theory
academic discipline
collaborative filtering
algorithm
wisdom of the crowd
that a group is able to make far better decisions than any individual in the group
citizens' assembly
body formed from the citizens of a state to deliberate on an issue or issues of national importance
transgenerational trauma
process by which the psychological impact of a traumatic event is transmitted from one generation to the next
group mind
multiple minds are linked into a single super mind
smart mob
digital-communication coordinated group
World Brain
collection of essays by H. G. Wells
open publishing
online publishing model
e-participation
Electronic participation (e-participation) refers to the use of ICT in facilitating citizen participation in government-related processes, encompassing areas such as administration, service delivery, decision-making, and policy-making. As such, e-participation shares close ties with e-government and e-governance participation. The term's emergence aligns with the digitization of citizen interests and interactions with political service providers, primarily due to the proliferation of e-government.
ambient awareness
term used to describe a form of peripheral social awareness
web intelligence
area of scientific research and development
Real-time data
information delivered immediately after collection
distributed cognition
psychologic theory
social media intelligence
tools for analyzing data from social media websites
Dotmocracy
REDIRECT Cumulative voting#Dot voting
Kialo
Kialo is an online structured debate platform with argument maps in the form of debate trees. It is a collaborative reasoning tool for thoughtful discussion, understanding different points of view, and collaborative decision-making, showing arguments for and against claims underneath user-submitted theses or questions.
cold start
concept in information systems