Dogpiling (Internet)

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Online harassment is a common method of dogpiling.

Dogpiling,dog-piling or simply a piling-on is a form of online harassment [1] or online abuse characterized by having groups of harassers target the same victim. 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]

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Historical

The expression comes from the dog-pile in American football, in which a person who has the ball is targeted by the entire opposing team who come and jump on him. It became popular with the rise of social networks.

Dogpiling is a form of bashing  to which a pack effect is added, creating a collective scapegoat.

Consequences

On the victim

The victim of dogpiling feels isolated and can hardly defend himself. It can have difficult psychological consequences.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "dog-pile". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 2021-10-11.
  2. ↑ "When Online Harassment is Perceived as Justified". Archived from the original on 2020-09-18.
  3. 1 2 3 "Defining Online Harassment". 11 April 2018. Archived from the original on 2019-07-03.
  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. Archived from the original on 2020-09-18. 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. S2CID   4315029.
  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. S2CID   3653593.
  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 . 13 (8): 787–806. doi:10.1177/1555412016640408. S2CID   147383984.


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