Online services

Online services

Any business that provides its subscribers with a wide variety of data transmitted over telecommunications lines, an infrastructure in which they can communicate with one another as well as the means to connect with an almost unlimited number of third-party information providers.

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adaptation

Culture; Social media

Adaptation refers to changes that occur in order to maintain various aspects of a social system's culture or structure or, in extreme cases, to aid survival in any form at all. ...

age category

Culture; Social media

An age category is a culturally defined span of years, such as childhood or middle age, that is regarded as a social position affecting how people are perceived and treated and ...

ascription

Culture; Social media

In general usage, to ascribe is to give, impute or attribute certain features to some object, person, event or act without justification. In the absence of good evidence, to ...

ageism

Culture; Social media

Ageism, also called age discrimination is stereotyping of and discrimination against individuals or groups because of their age.

aggregate

Culture; Social media

An aggregate is a sum of individual characteristics, experiences, or behaviors that is used to reflect a collective phenomenon for an entire population.

behaviour

Culture; Social media

Although commonly used as a synonym for action or conduct, behaviour is usefully contrasted with action so that it refers to the automatic reflex (such as jumping when stung) ...