Chat Group: is an Internet site that allows users to engage in large group conversation.
Citizen journalist: is an individual that uses technology such as smart phones to record police or government representative actions and disseminate that evidence to the community at large as well as interested activists.
Consumer-generated content: is digital content that is produced by self-publishers and sometimes picked up or referenced in traditional media.
Disinformation: is false and irrelevant information made available to deceive.
Exposure tactics: most often involves the unauthorized release of information that could embarrass or otherwise jeopardize the owner or creator of the information exposed.
Media convergence: is the melding of different media types into multi-faceted streams of information and entertainment including video, text, photos, sound, and graphics which were at one time all delivered from separate platforms and applications.
Publicly Available Social Media: is social media applications and content that can access and viewed by a general public without restrictions.