19 of the Digital Society glossary’s terms, each with the part of the syllabus where you first meet it.
Material judged so harmful, for example terrorist attack footage or child abuse material, that law or platform rules restrict or ban it outright; New Zealand uses the term as a legal classification.
Speech or content that many people find upsetting, insulting or disrespectful; in many democracies it is legal, because freedom of expression protects speech that offends.
Moving work to another country, either to a firm's own operation abroad or to a foreign contractor.
A group of people who interact regularly through a digital platform around a shared interest, identity or purpose, and who develop shared norms, language and a sense of belonging.
The use of websites and apps to find, contact and assess possible romantic or sexual partners, usually through profiles, search filters and matching algorithms.
Hostile or threatening behaviour directed at a person through digital systems, including name-calling, threats, stalking, sexual harassment and publishing private information, which may come from strangers and need not be repeated.
The identity a person builds and displays through their online activity, such as profiles, usernames, posts and avatars, which may differ across platforms and from their offline identity.
A platform on which many independent sellers offer goods or services to buyers, with the platform handling search, payment and often delivery in return for fees.
Making research outputs, especially journal articles, freely available online to anyone, without subscription charges, often with permission to reuse them.
Teaching and learning materials in any medium that are free to access and released under an open licence, so that others can reuse, adapt and redistribute them.
Software whose source code is published under a licence that lets anyone read, use, modify and share it; the term is also used for other openly shared work.
Information gathered and analysed from publicly available sources, such as social media posts, satellite imagery, flight-tracking data and public records, to establish facts about events.
System software that manages a computer's hardware and resources, provides common services to applications and provides the user interface, such as Windows, macOS, Linux, Android or iOS.
Who made a source, when, where and why (to inform, persuade, sell or entertain), and what this suggests about its bias, value and limitations.
The result an algorithm produces from its input, such as a route, a ranking, a category or a decision.
Hardware that presents the results of processing to a user or another system, such as a screen, speaker, printer or vibration motor.
Contracting another company to carry out work that a firm used to do itself, whether in the same country or abroad.
A problem in which a machine learning model learns the details and noise of its training data so closely that it performs poorly on new data.
A situation in which the number of visitors to a place is so high that it damages the quality of life of residents, the environment or the experience of visitors themselves.