Question | Answer |
Browsing | the process of performing a serch of online categories in order to find a website or web page |
Citation | A qoute from a larger work |
Credibility | Whether or not a source provides reliable, accurate information, checked and verified by experts |
Domain name | The words or numbers that identify a website (also known as IP addresses) |
e-commerce | The buying and selling of goods online |
Home page | The first page in a group of pages on a website that describes the site's purpose and provides the navigational structure for moving through the website |
Internet Service Provider (ISP) | A company that sells Internet connectivity to individuals |
Keyword | A term or group of terms used to find information on the web |
Malware | Computer software that works as an independent program that infects a computer's files and programs after being downloaded from what looks like a trusted source |
Netiquette | Informal rules of behavior for communicating on the web |
New media | Content not traditionally delivered in digital form that is now found online (music, movies, newspapers, or books) |
Phishing | The practice of using spam e-mail to elicit a response and obtain a computer user's private information |
Rootkit | A computer virus that attacks a computer's internal storage system |
Search engine | an automated database that delivers a list of links as a response to a specific keyword request from the user |
Social engineering | The usually criminal practice of manipulating a person into providing sensitive information online |
Social networks | An online community |
Trojan horse | A computer virus disguised as a normal program that infects a computer after being downloaded from an e-mail, pop-up ad, or downloaded software |
World Wide Web | A collection of Internet sites that provide text, grapics, sound, video, and other digital content |