diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 56bfad130..6ca5deb49 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Scrapy
 Overview
 ========
 
-Scrapy is a fast high-level web crawling and screen scraping framework, used to
+Scrapy is a fast high-level web crawling and web scraping framework, used to
 crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for
 a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing.
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index c3dae341e..15743767b 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ Depends: ${python:Depends}, python-lxml, python-twisted, python-openssl,
 Recommends: python-setuptools
 Conflicts: python-scrapy, scrapy, scrapy-0.11
 Provides: python-scrapy, scrapy
-Description: Python web crawling and screen scraping framework
- Scrapy is a fast high-level web crawling and screen scraping framework, 
+Description: Python web crawling and web scraping framework
+ Scrapy is a fast high-level web crawling and web scraping framework,
  used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. 
  It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to 
  monitoring and automated testing.
diff --git a/docs/intro/overview.rst b/docs/intro/overview.rst
index 8777ac891..820581457 100644
--- a/docs/intro/overview.rst
+++ b/docs/intro/overview.rst
@@ -8,10 +8,9 @@ Scrapy is an application framework for crawling web sites and extracting
 structured data which can be used for a wide range of useful applications, like
 data mining, information processing or historical archival.
 
-Even though Scrapy was originally designed for `screen scraping`_ (more
-precisely, `web scraping`_), it can also be used to extract data using APIs
-(such as `Amazon Associates Web Services`_) or as a general purpose web
-crawler.
+Even though Scrapy was originally designed for `web scraping`_, it can also be
+used to extract data using APIs (such as `Amazon Associates Web Services`_) or
+as a general purpose web crawler.
 
 
 Walk-through of an example spider
@@ -171,7 +170,6 @@ your code in Scrapy projects and `join the community`_. Thanks for your
 interest!
 
 .. _join the community: http://scrapy.org/community/
-.. _screen scraping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_scraping
 .. _web scraping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping
 .. _Amazon Associates Web Services: http://aws.amazon.com/associates/
 .. _Amazon S3: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
diff --git a/docs/topics/selectors.rst b/docs/topics/selectors.rst
index ccac9ec0b..231119f3b 100644
--- a/docs/topics/selectors.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/selectors.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ When you're scraping web pages, the most common task you need to perform is
 to extract data from the HTML source. There are several libraries available to
 achieve this:
 
- * `BeautifulSoup`_ is a very popular screen scraping library among Python
+ * `BeautifulSoup`_ is a very popular web scraping library among Python
    programmers which constructs a Python object based on the structure of the
    HTML code and also deals with bad markup reasonably well, but it has one
    drawback: it's slow.
diff --git a/scrapy/__init__.py b/scrapy/__init__.py
index 1f38299d2..31ad2ff02 100644
--- a/scrapy/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 """
-Scrapy - a web crawling and screen scraping framework written for Python
+Scrapy - a web crawling and web scraping framework written for Python
 """
 
 __all__ = ['__version__', 'version_info', 'optional_features', 'twisted_version',
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d463bccd9..bacdca358 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ setup(
     name='Scrapy',
     version=version,
     url='http://scrapy.org',
-    description='A high-level Web Crawling and Screen Scraping framework',
+    description='A high-level Web Crawling and Web Scraping framework',
     long_description=open('README.rst').read(),
     author='Scrapy developers',
     maintainer='Pablo Hoffman',