noun

• Software or online content that has been added to a CD or placed on the internet without having been altered so as to suit the new medium.

  ‘All stories in the Oklahoman are automatically included through computer software called shovelware.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘All of the candidates' sites provided important collateral materials - biographies, press releases, schedules, shovelware.’
  • ‘You don't want to ship shovelware and want to stay back to finish what you started’
  • ‘I am very aware that without the right questions and tasks, my work won't be changing anything much; it will be mere shovelware.’
  • ‘We see shovelware everywhere, but we know that the new media can be liberated - and still convergent - from its print and broadcast forebears.’