Chapter 1 Flashcards
Websites or apps that allow users to create and share content and/or participate in Social Networking with others.
Social Media
Crisis-mapping tool that collects information from emails, texts, blogs and Twitter. Maps the info and makes it accessible to the public.
Ushahidi
The discrepancy between those who have access to the opportunities and knowledge that computers and the Internet offer and those who do not.
Digital Divide
Autonomy
Mastery
Purpose
Motivation to apply free time to altruistic causes.
Tools and web based services that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users.
Web 2.0
Being familiar enough with computers that a user knows how to use them and understands their capabilities and limitations.
Computer Literate
A small text file that some websites automatically store on a clients computer hard drive when a user visits the site.
Cookie
A software program or hardware device designed to prevent unauthorized access to computers or networks.
Firewall
The set of computer programs or instructions that tells the computer what to do and enables it to perform different tasks.
Software
The set of techniques used in processing and retrieving information.
Information Technology (IT)
Very large data sets that are analyzed to reveal patterns, trends and associations.
Big Data
The process by which great amounts of data are analyzed and investigated. The objective is to spot significant patterns or trends within the data that would otherwise not be obvious.
Data Mining
The application of of computer systems and techniques to gather potential legal evidence; a law enforcement specialty used to fight high tech crime.
Computer Forensics
A type of computing that relates to emotion or that deliberately tries to influence emotion.
Affective Computing
A combination of our normal sense of the objects around us with an overlay of information displayed.
Augmented (augmentative) reality.
