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 |