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Digital Citizenship
Digital Citizenship Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Flaming & Trolling | sending or posting mean messages intended to hurt someone's feelings |
| Happy-Slapping | recording someone being harassed or physically bullied, then posting the video online for everyone to see |
| Physical Threats | sending messages to involve threats to a person's physical safety |
| Identity Theft / Impersonation | stealing someone's password and taking over their online accounts to send or post incriminating or humiliating pictures, videos, or information |
| Photoshopping | altering digital images so that the main subject is placed in a compromising or embarrassing situation |
| Rumor Spreading | spreading gossip through e-mail, text messaging, or social networking sites |
| Instant Messaging | real-time communication over the Internet |
| IM Slang | new word phrase in the form of abbreviations invented for faster online communication |
| Username | usually not someone's real name, but the name the person uses online |
| Private Message | a message privately sent to someone |
| Community Chat | online chatroom conversation in which all members participate publicly |
| Unwanted Messages | messages that range from annoying advertisements to messages that promote hate, violence, or sexuality |
| Petitions | online surveys about current events or social issues that are often sent by spamming |
| Spamming | sending messages to many e-mail addresses of people you don't know |
| Cyberstalking | stalking or harassing someone online |
| Forward | a message or article sent to you by someone who was not the original writer of the message |
| Netiquette | polite, courteous online behavior |
| Chatrooms | a virtual "room" in which you send messages that appear almost instantly on the computer monitor of other people who are also participating in the chat or discussion |
| Adware | computer software that displays advertisements |
| Application (app) | computer software created for a particular task - used on smart phones and tablets |
| MMS | multimedia messaging service - allows for sending video, audio, pictures, ringtones and other media |
| Blog | a website that is regularly updated and operates like a journal with writing, opinions, experiences, photos, videos, and links to other information |
| Bystander | one present but not taking part in a situation or event (like bullying) |
| Cyberbullying | using technology to harm others through deliberate, repeated hostile attacks |
| Operating System | group of software programs that provide instructions to a computer so that it may operate |
| Central Processing Unit (CPU) | Carries out the functions in a computer |
| Cloud Computing | a computer network that allows for software and hardware to be placed on it |
| Cookie | a packet of data sent by an Internet server to a browser, which is returned by the browser each time it subsequently accesses the same server, used to identify the user or track their access to the server |
| Copyright | exclusive rights given to someone who creates original work |
| Coverage Area | refers to the area in which a service provider offers its communication service |
| Piracy | reproduction or copying of music, video, or literature without proper compensation or permission |
| Plagirism | Using someone's work without giving credit to the original author |
| Plug-In | something you can add to a software application to enhance its abilites |
| Sexting | the act of sending inappropriate sexual material between cell phones |
| Digital Addiciton | dependence on the use of digital technologies |
| Digital Security Certificate | verifies whether a website is secure or not |
| Domain Name | type of internet address (.gov, .com, .edu....) |
| Downloading | receiving data from a server or another computer |
| electronic mail | |
| Emoticon | indicates emotion - uses letters and punctuation |
| Social Network | website designed for groups of people who publish their own information and share it with others |
| Fair Use | A limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work |
| Hacked | your computer or network has been broken into without your permission |
| Spam | e-mail sent to a large group of people who did not sign up to receive it - often requests information or money and can contain viruses |
| Spyware | a type of malware that unknowingly collects information from a computer |
| HTTP | used to transfer data over the World Wide Web - required before a web address in a URL |
| HTTPS | securely used to transfer data over the World Wide Web - required before a web address in a URL |
| Identity Theft | form of fraud where one person assumes the identity of another person |
| IP Address | string of numbers that indicates the location of a computer or server |
| Malware | computer software designed to harm a computer |
| Virus | type of malware that replicates itself and spread to other comptuers |
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