Internet

Internet

The Internet is the global telecommunication environment consisting of numerous smaller networks and gateways connecting millions of computers around the world. World-Wide Web is a part of Internet that consists of interlinked hypertext documents comprising global information system.

12Categories 59977Terms

Add a new term

Contributors in Internet

Become a Contributors

Internet > Social media

absolute poverty

Culture; Social media

Also known as subsistence poverty, this is an idea of poverty derived from the minimum requirements for subsistence: what a person must have to live and to make a living.

accommodation

Culture; Social media

When used to describe relations between discrete populations (defined, for example, by ethnicity or religion) the term suggests groups finding ways of co-existing without losing ...

commodification

Culture; Social media

In Marxist political economy, commodification takes place when economic value is assigned to something not previously considered in economic terms; for example, an idea, identity ...

consumer culture

Culture; Social media

Consumer culture refers both to the interest that citizens have in the consumption aspects of their lives and to the industries that have developed to cater to this taste.

cultural imperialism

Culture; Social media

Cultural imperialism is the practice of promoting a more powerful culture over a least known or desirable culture. It is usually the case that the former belongs to a large, ...

cultural pluralism

Culture; Social media

A situation of plurality of cultures (with the implication that they are co-existing tolerantly). The term is also used to describe a deliberate policy of encouraging awareness ...