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Digital Citizenship
Terms: Cyberbullying, Plagiarism, and Copyright
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bystander | Someone who sees cyber bullying happening, but does nothing to help |
| Upstander | Someone who takes action and stands up for someone who is being (cyber)bullied |
| Empathize | to imagine the feelings that someone else is experiencing |
| Cyberbullying | the use of digital media tools such as the Internet and cell phones to deliberately upset or harass someone else |
| Bully | to deliberately intimidate or scare others. |
| Target | the person being cyberbullied |
| Malicious | intentfully mean |
| Flame (ing) | receiving/sending a nasty or abusive email that is meant to inflame a situation or enrage someone |
| Anonymity | Staying anonymous or unknown to another user or stealing passwords and sending out emails or instant messages pretending to be someone else. |
| Harassing | bombarding someone with messages over digital media, or repeated contact when it is least expected |
| Digital Citizen | a member of a worldwide community linked by the Internet |
| Creative work | any idea or artistic creation that is recorded in some form, whether it’s hard copy or digital |
| Copyright | a law that protects your control over the creative work you make so that people must get your permission before they copy, share, or perform your work |
| License | a clear way to define the copyright of your creative work so people know how it can be used |
| Piracy | Stealing copyrighted work by downloading or copying it in order to keep, sell, or give it away without permission and without paying |
| Plagiarize/Plagiarism | Copying, “lifting,” or making slight changes to some or all of someone else’s work and saying you created it. |
| Public Domain | Creative work that’s not copyrighted and therefore free for you to use however you want. |
| Fair Use | The ability to use a small amount of copyrighted work without permission, but only in certain ways and in specific situations (schoolwork and education, news reporting, criticizing or commenting on something, and comedy/parody) |
| Creative Commons | A kind of copyright that makes it easier for people to copy, share, and build on your creative work, as long as they give you credit for it |