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Digital Citizenship
Digital Citizenship Terms
Term | Definition |
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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 |