Etymology

context collapse

Today it means: The flattening of multiple audiences into a single context, so that information intended for one audience finds its way to another, as with television and the Internet. Full definition →

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Coined by social media scholar and youth researcher danah boyd.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.