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AUP / Ethics
Graves AUP / Ethics Flashcards
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| AUP | A legal contract detailing the conditions a technology provider has set that a user must agree to in order to use the service. |
| Harassment | Repeated messages or images meant to threaten, embarrass, or make someone uncomfortable. |
| Username | A combination of letters, numbers, or symbols that are used to identify a specific account. |
| Password | A security code used with a username to grant access to a specific account. |
| Creative work | An idea or artwork recorded in digital or hard copy form |
| Copyright | A law that protects creative people's opportunity to benefit from their work, by giving them ownership rights. |
| Creative Commons | A specific kind of copyright that allows others to copy, share, and improve on your work, if credit is given to you. |
| License | A definition of copyright where you can set rules as to how others can use you work. |
| Piracy | The illegal use, copying, or giving away of someone's copyright work, whether for money or not. |
| Plagiarize | Using or slightly changing someone else's work without giving them credit. |
| Public Domain | Creative work that is free for all to use however they want, because the rights to it have been given away or have expired. |
| Fair Use | The ability to use small parts of someone's copyrighted work, for purposes like education, journalism, criticism, etc. |
| Netiquette | Etiquette or manners for online communication. |
| Emoji | Small cartoon pictures used for showing feelings in online communications. |
| Emoticon | Use of combinations of keyboard characters like ;-)to express emotions in online communications. |
| SPAM | Unwanted e-mail that often tries to sell you things. One message to many people , or many messages to one person. |
| Chain Letters | Messages that try to get you to resend them on to many people that you know. |
| Personal Information | Phone numbers, addresses, birthdays, passwords, account numbers, current location, last names, school names |
| Suspend | Temporarily revoke or cut off |
| Terminate | Permanently revoke or cut off |
| Vandalism | Intentional damage to data or equipment |
| Authorized | Have permission to access or use |
| Troll | Someone that seeks to start arguments in online discussions |
| Anonymous | Someone is unknown by others |
| Flames | Messages that are insulting to others |
| Flame wars | Insulting message exchanges |
| Privilege | Something you get to do because you are allowed to do it |
| Agenda | A message or point of view that someone that someone wants you to convince you of |
| Bias | An unfair/unbalanced point of view |
| Impartial or Objective | (adjective) fair or balanced |
| Informed | Well-researched, well-thought through |
| Domain | A section of the Internet, like .com, .net, .gov, .edu, or .org |
| Open domain | Non-commercial parts of the Internet, like .gov, .edu, or .org |
| Bibliography | A part of a report that details sources of information |
| Qualifications | Jobs or experiences that make a person a reliable sources of information on a related topic |