casino capitalism n.— «This book’s middle chapters succinctly show how “casino capitalism” (a coinage by Susan Strange, one of the left-wing critics of the market that Green deftly cites) led from late 2007 to a...
doujin game n.— «Doujin games are basically home-made videogames programmed, coded and created entirely by hardcore fans and game enthusiasts, but contrary to the perception of something “home-made,” they look and play like...
area-jacking n.— «Quinn was particularly enthusiastic about the “convergence between digital out-of-home and mobile.” In addition, the aggregation of video networks, either through M&A or by meta-networks like SeeSaw, will...
third culture kid n.— «Sonia wants to return to Kenya sometime—”I mean, it’s my home”—but doesn’t know when. As a Kenyan-Indian who moved to Singapore when she was six and lived there for 14 years before attending college in...
thrownaway n.—Gloss: a child who has been forced to leave home by a guardian or parent. «A federal study found that 45 percent of missing kids were either runaways or “thrownaways,” a term for kids kicked out of their homes by...
city-ot n.— «“For our parents, it was them working for the ’city-ots’—that’s what they called the summer people and rich people,” she said. That generation, she said, still keeps to itself, socializing with one another in the...