Media Balance
Content (text, audio, images, video) or devices that allow people to share information, communicate, and collaborate over internet or computer networks.
What is digital media?
A type of crime in which your private information is stolen and used for criminal activity
What is identity theft?
A machine that changes information from one form into another by performing input, processing, output, and storage
What is a computer?
Using media in a way that feels healthy and in balance with other life activities (family, friends, school, hobbies, etc.)
What is media balance?
Information that can be used to identify you because it is unique to you (e.g., your full name
or your address)
What is private information?
Raw information, or data that is entered into a computer
What is input?
When something happens on digital media that makes you feel uncomfortable, worried, sad, or anxious
What is a red flag feeling?
An attempt to trick someone online, usually with the intention of stealing money or private
information
What is an internet scam?
a number that is a building block for computer languages; short for binary digit
What is a bit?
To engage in activities that don't involve devices, apps, or the internet
What is unplug?
When someone poses as an institution, like a bank or a school, and sends you a personalized message asking you to provide private information
What is phishing?
a group of bits combined into groups of eight or more
What is a byte?
a task a computer carries out with data
What is processing?