Dogpiling (Internet)

Dog-piling, or a dog-pile is a form of online harassment,[1] or online abuse. Examples of online abuse include: flaming, doxing (online release of personal information without consent), impersonation, and public shaming.[2][3] Dog-pilers often focus on harassing, exposing, or punishing a target for an opinion that the group does not agree with, or just simply for the sake of being a bully and targeting a victim.[3] participants use criticism and/or insults,[3][4][5] to target a single person.[6] In some definitions, it also includes sending private messages.[7]

"dogpiling" redirects here. For the computing term, see cache stampede.

History

Today, the use of dog-pile is most popular in terms of the internet in the form of online harassment. For example, the term dog-piling is used in reference to the Gamergate harassment campaign.[8][9][10]

See also

References
  1. "dog-pile". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 2021-10-11.
  2. "When Online Harassment is Perceived as Justified".
  3. "Defining Online Harassment".
  4. Blackwell, Lindsay; Chen, Tianying; Schoenebeck, Sarita; Lampe, Cliff (2018). "When Online Harassment Is Perceived as Justified (Proceedings of the Twelfth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2018))". Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence - aaai.org. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  5. Kiener-Manu, Katharina (February 2020). "Cybercrime Module 12 Key Issues: Cyberstalking and Cyberharassment". UNODC. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  6. Jhaver, Shagun; Ghoshal, Sucheta; Bruckman, Amy; Gilbert, Eric (2018-04-26). "Online Harassment and Content Moderation: The Case of Blocklists". ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 25 (2): 1–33. doi:10.1145/3185593. ISSN 1073-0516.
  7. Jhaver, Shagun; Chan, Larry; Bruckman, Amy (2018-02-02). "The view from the other side: The border between controversial speech and harassment on Kotaku in Action". First Monday. arXiv:1712.05851. doi:10.5210/fm.v23i2.8232. ISSN 1396-0466.
  8. Young, Cathy (2015-10-13). "Blame GamerGate's Bad Rep on Smears and Shoddy Journalism". Observer. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  9. Sarkeesian, Anita (2019-12-23). "Anita Sarkeesian looks back at GamerGate". Polygon. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  10. Mortensen, Torill Elvira (2016-04-13). "Anger, Fear, and Games: The Long Event of #GamerGate:". Games and Culture. doi:10.1177/1555412016640408.


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