Cassandra Morath's List: DGL Vocabulary

• Digital identity is a psychological identity that prevails in the domains of cyberspace, and is defined as a set of data that uniquely describes a person or a thing (sometimes referred to as subject or entity) and contains information about the subject's relationships to other entities.^[

• Definition - What does   Digital Identity mean?

   

  A digital identity is an online or networked identity adopted or claimed in cyberspace by an individual, organization or electronic device. These users may also project more than one digital identity through multiple communities. In terms of digital identity management, key areas of concern are security and privacy.

• "Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use."   --Mike Ribble
• Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship

• Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship
• 1.   Digital Access: 
• full electronic participation in society.
• electronic buying and selling of goods
• 2.   Digital Commerce:
• Digital Communication
• electronic exchange of information.
• process of teaching and learning about technology and the use of technology.
• Digital Literacy:
• electronic standards of conduct or procedure.
• Digital Etiquette:
• electronic responsibility for actions and deeds
• 6.   Digital Law
• Digital Rights & Responsibilities
• those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world
• physical and psychological well-being in a digital technology world.
• Digital Health & Wellness:
• electronic precautions to guarantee safety.
• Digital Security (self-protection):

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• Digital literacy is the ability to effectively and critically navigate, evaluate and create information using a range of digital technologies. It requires one "to recognize and use that power, to manipulate and transform digital media, to distribute pervasively, and to easily adapt them to new forms".^[1] Digital literacy does not replace traditional forms of literacy, it builds upon the foundation of traditional forms of literacy.^[2]
• Marc Prensky invented and popularized the terms "digital native" and "digital immigrant." A digital native, according to Prensky, is one who was born into the digital age. A digital immigrant refers to one who adopts technology later in life.^[5] These terms aid in understanding the issues of teaching digital literacy, however, simply being a digital native does not make one digitally literate.

• What is Digital Literacy?

   
   
  •  The ability to use digital technology, communication tools or networks to locate, evaluate, use and create information.  ¹ 
   
  •  The ability to understand and use information in multiple formats from a wide range of sources when it is presented via computers.  ² 
   
  •  A person’s ability to perform tasks effectively in a digital environment... Literacy includes the ability to read and interpret media, to reproduce data and images through digital manipulation, and to evaluate and apply new knowledge gained from digital environments.  ³

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• Internet security involves the protection of a computer's internet account and files from intrusion by an outside user. Internet users today are very familiar with companies like Symantec (Norton Anti-Virus) and McAfee that provide them with internet security products to guard against computer viruses, as well as to provide secure firewalls and protection against spyware.

   

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• The full definition of Digital Security (self-protection) is: taking necessary precautions to guarantee electronic digital safety. Any digital product can be hacked and stolen, hence the hacker or the theif may and can get personal information of the digital product; comprimising you since amoug the things they can steal is your credit card number, or even your social security number (only in the US). In any society, there are individuals who steal, deface, or disrupt other people.

• disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence: The questions are intended to develop your critical thinking.

• "Critical thinking is the identification  and evaluation of evidence to guide  decision making. A critical thinker  uses broad in-depth analysis of evidence  to make decisions and communicate  his/her beliefs clearly and accurately."
   

• Under the copyright law, the creator of the original expression in a work  is its author. The author is also the owner of copyright unless there is  a written agreement by which the author assigns the copyright to another  person or entity, such as a publisher. In cases of works made for hire, the  employer or commissioning party is considered to be the author.

• Definition of COPYRIGHT

  : the exclusive legal right to reproduce, publish, sell, or distribute the matter and form of something (as a literary, musical, or artistic work)

• Definition of PLAGIARIZE

  transitive verb

  : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source

• Plagiarism is defined as presenting someone else's work, including the work of other students, as one's own. Any ideas or materials taken from another source for either written or oral use must be fully acknowledged, unless the information is common knowledge. What is considered "common knowledge" may differ from course to course.

• Rights and Responsibilities Definition:

   
   The privileges and freedoms extended to all digital technology users, and the behavioral expectations that come with them
   

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   "In the digital world, users should expect that if they post information to a site (whether it is a poem, a picture, a song, or some other form of original research or creative expression), others will enjoy it without vandalizing it, passing it off as their own, or using it as a pretext to threaten or harass.

• “Collaborative media” is the term we use to refer to digital media that enables broad-range participation where the distinctions between production, consumption and design are dissolving. Read the open-access article Designing Collaborative Media: A Challenge for CHI? as an introduction to the concept.

• Internet privacy involves the right or mandate of personal privacy concerning the storing, repurposing, providing to third-parties, and displaying of information pertaining to oneself via the Internet.

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  Definition - What does   Internet Privacy mean?

   

  Internet privacy is the privacy and security level of personal data published via the Internet. It is a broad term that refers to a variety of factors, techniques and technologies used to protect sensitive and private data, communications, and preferences.

   

  Internet privacy and anonymity are paramount to users, especially as e-commerce continues to gain traction. Privacy violations and threat risks are standard considerations for any website under development.

   

  Internet privacy is also known as online privacy.