vocabulary

online privacy

A broad term that usually means the  ability to control what information you share about  yourself online and who can see and share it 

Personal information

Information that identifies  you—for example, your name, street address, phone  number, social security number, email address,  etc.—is called personal (or sensitive) info. It’s a  good idea to make a rule for yourself not to share  this kind of information online.

Reputation

The ideas, opinions, impressions, or  beliefs that other people have about you—something  that you can’t be totally sure about but that you  usually want to be positive or good 

Code

A word or phrase, an image (like a logo or  emoji) or some other symbol or collection of symbols  that represent a certain meaning or message.  Sometimes it’s a secret code that only certain people  understand; often it’s just a symbol that stands for  something almost everybody understands.

 Context

Information that surrounds the message or  whatever we’re seeing which helps us understand it.  Context can include the place where the message is,  the time when it appears or who it’s coming from.

 Interpret

   The way a person understands a message,  or the meaning they get from it 

Frame

When you take a photo or video of a  landscape, person or object, the frame is what  defines the section that the viewer can see. The  part you decide to leave outside the frame is what  your viewer won’t be able to see.

Assumption

Something that you or other people  think is true about a person or thing but there is no  proof that it’s true

Curate

To decide what to post online—text, photos,  sounds, illustrations or videos—and then organize  and present it while thinking about what effects it  might have on people who see it, or what it might  make them think about you 

Digital footprint (or digital presence)

Your digital  footprint is all the information about you that appears  online. This can mean anything from photos, audio,  videos and texts to “likes” and comments you post  on friendsʼ profiles. Just as your footsteps leave  prints on the ground while you walk, what you post  online leaves a trail too

Oversharing

Sharing too much online—usually it  means sharing personal information or just too much  about yourself in a certain situation or conversation