Question | Answer |
anonymous | someone who does not reveal their name. |
comments or posting | messages people write on a website message board. |
message board | a website where a group can gather and communicate through chat or message posting. |
email | messages you get through the internet. |
cyber-bully | someone who picks on, harasses, or embarrasses over and over again using technology, such as the internet or cell phones. |
insulting | rude or hurtful. |
harass | to bother repeatedly. |
password | a special word you use to get into your own network or web accounts. |
insecure | lack of confidence |
screen name or user name | the name that someone uses online. |
webmaster | a person who is in charge of a website. |
media | internet. different people communicate with others such as newspapers, television, radio, and the internet |
authorship | the origin of a piece of work usually the person or people who constructed it. |
format | the way a communication is presented each type of unique set of creative tools and techniques to help form the message. |
audience | the people who receive a communication different people understand the message in different ways. |
content | a message or messages in particular communication some of these are embedded values and ideas. |
purpose | the reason a communication is made might be informing, persuading, selling, entertaining, or a combination. |
influence | to cause someone to believe or feel something. |
construct | deliberately create a message. |
deconstruct | deliberately examine a message to understand the whole meaning. |
embedded | assumptions made about values, attitudes, and points of view that are important but not always obvious parts of a media message |
fact | something that can be proven to be true or not |
opinion | something that someone believes but isn't necessarily true for everyone |
verify | to examine something to make sure it is true or not |
true | something that can be shown to be real |
false | something that can be shown to be not real |
message | a piece of communication between people |
media | internet. different people communicate with others such as newspapers, television, radio, and the internet |
internet | a communication system that connects computers all over the world; also known as the web |
expert | someone who has studied a great deal about a particular subject |
misinformation | information that is not a fact but that appears to be a fact; sometimes on purpose |
blog | a type of website where people (even kids!!) write about things that interest them |