13 of the Digital Society glossary’s terms, each with the part of the syllabus where you first meet it.
The integration of computing and network connections into everyday objects and environments so that they are available everywhere and used without conscious attention.
A characteristic of an algorithm: every step has only one possible meaning, so anyone or any machine following it would do exactly the same thing.
The hypothesis, proposed by Masahiro Mori in 1970, that robots or images that look almost but not exactly human cause unease or revulsion, so that comfort with a robot falls sharply just before it becomes fully humanlike.
An outcome of an action or change that its designers or decision-makers did not intend and often did not foresee; it may be beneficial, harmful, or the opposite of what was intended.
A regular cash payment given to every individual in a community or country, without conditions or a means test, intended to provide a basic level of income security.
A declaration of 30 articles adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948 that sets out the basic rights and freedoms of all people. It is the reference point for later human rights treaties and for debates about rights in digital society.
An approach to design in which products, environments and digital content are made usable by people with the widest possible range of abilities from the start, without the need for later adaptation.
Data without a predefined format, such as free text, emails, images, audio and video.
Machine learning in which the algorithm is given unlabelled data and finds patterns, groups or unusual cases in it without being told the correct answers.
Uniform Resource Locator: the address of a resource on the web, giving the protocol, the server's domain name and the path to the resource.
The means by which a person and a computer communicate, including what the user sees, hears or feels and the controls they use to give commands.
Text, images, video, audio or other material created by the users of a platform, rather than by the platform itself or by professional media producers.
A consequentialist framework, associated with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, holding that the right action is the one that produces the greatest total well-being for everyone affected, with each person's well-being counting equally.