New Business / Internet Economy
How value is created, coordinated and owned across platforms, networks and emerging business structures.
AI Agent
An AI agent is a software system that uses AI to choose and carry out steps toward a goal, often by calling tools and responding to results.
Attention Economy
The attention economy is an economic system in which businesses compete to capture and monetize people's limited attention.
Automation
Automation uses systems or software to carry out tasks with reduced direct human intervention, according to defined rules or decision processes.
Clickbait
Clickbait uses sensational or misleading headlines, images, or teasers to persuade people to click on content.
Clout Chasing
Clout chasing is a critical label for pursuing fame or influence through conspicuous association, controversy, or attention-seeking behavior.
Community
A community is a group connected by shared interests, relationships or practices, with some continuing sense of participation and belonging.
Context Collapse
Context collapse occurs when audiences from different parts of a person's life converge in one communication space, complicating how the person presents themselves.
Creator Economy
The creator economy consists of people and businesses earning from original content, expertise or audience relationships, together with the services that support them.
DAO
A DAO, or decentralized autonomous organization, coordinates a group using blockchain-based rules and shared governance, often to manage a treasury or protocol.
Decentralization
Decentralization is the distribution of control, decision-making or operation across multiple participants rather than concentration in one central authority.
Digital Detox
A digital detox is a deliberate period of avoiding or reducing digital-device use to take a break from constant connectivity.
Digital Nomad
A digital nomad is a person who uses remote work to earn while moving between locations rather than remaining tied to one workplace.
Doomscrolling
Doomscrolling is repeatedly scrolling through distressing news or content despite the worry or unhappiness it causes.
Network Effects
Network effects occur when a product's value to a user changes as more people use it, including when growth on one side attracts another side.
Onchain
Onchain means an action, asset record or piece of data is recorded or processed on a blockchain, as distinct from activity kept outside it.
Oversharing
Oversharing is disclosing more personal information than is appropriate or welcome in a particular situation.
Ownership Economy
The ownership economy describes models that give users or contributors an economic stake or governance rights in services they help build or sustain.
Parasocial Relationship
A parasocial relationship is a one-sided emotional bond with a media figure or character who does not personally know the audience member.
Permissionless
Permissionless describes a system in which participation in a specified activity does not require advance approval from a central operator, provided its rules are met.
Personal Brand
A personal brand is the set of associations and expectations people connect with an individual, influencing attention, trust and opportunities.
Platform Economy
The platform economy consists of economic activity organized through digital services that connect participants such as buyers, sellers, workers, advertisers and audiences.
Rage Bait
Rage bait is content deliberately made to provoke anger so that people give it attention or engage with it.
Shadowban
A shadowban is a restriction on the visibility of a user’s account or content that is not made clear to the affected user.
Side Business
A side business is an organized commercial activity run alongside other main commitments, with customers, costs and continuing responsibilities.