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182 | Digital Media and Storytelling in Higher Education information society (med): a term used in contemporary society to describe the social, cultural and economic importance of information and the tools and media associated with its production, processing and dissemination infotainment (med): a term deriving from the fusion of the words information and entertainment, which in modern mass media refers to tabloidized, entertaining information integrated learning environment (ped): synonym for blended learning; face-to-face learning and teaching supported by digital technology interactive interface (inf): synonym for responsive interface; allows the user to intervene in the narrative using an external device (typically a controller, smartphone, or remote control); typical of Web 2.0 platforms, video games and interactive television interactor (inf, med, narr): a 21"-century recipient, viewer or reader who establishes an active dialogue with the text and can manipulate its narrative arc and content through his or her activities (see also emergent narrative) interface (inf, med): the medium between a content delivery system and a human, such as a book, smartphone, or computer screen linear narrative (film): a plot structure that unfolds linearly in time LMS (inf, ped): learning management system luddites: English anti-machine movement in the 19th century manga (med): a Japanese comic book manhwa (med): a south Korean comic strip mashup (med): an edit of small parts of several films into a new scene media convergence (med): the interconnected info-communications environment of traditional and new media meme (med): an image-based micro-narrative of cultural codes that circulates on social media platforms memoriter (ped): a text to be memorized word-for-word and then reproduced micronarrative (med): compressed visual, verbal or audiovisual content, such as a meme mimetic (psych): based on imitation MOOC (inf, ped): abbreviation for Massive Open Online Course; an open, online form of education for large numbers of students multitasking (psych): carrying out several activities at the same time narration (lit, film, narr): narrative process and representation narrative (lit, film, narr): a paradigm of thought, interpretation; structuring of signs in a narrative way; verbal, kinetic, pictorial or audiovisual representation narrative economics: analysis of macroeconomic processes through dominant social narratives narrative transportation (lit): the level of experience at which the narrative engages the recipient, who feels that they are part of the story (see also immersion)