Dogpiling (Internet)

{{Short description|A form of online harassment}}

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Dogpiling, dog-piling or simply a piling-on is a form of online harassment{{Cite web|title=dog-pile|url=https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/dog-pile/|access-date=2021-10-11|website=Dictionary.com|language=en-US}} 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.{{Cite web|title=When Online Harassment is Perceived as Justified|url=https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM18/paper/viewFile/17902/16993|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918111507/https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM18/paper/viewFile/17902/16993 |archive-date=2020-09-18 }}{{Cite web|title=Defining Online Harassment|date=11 April 2018 |url=https://onlineharassmentfieldmanual.pen.org/defining-online-harassment-a-glossary-of-terms/#mob|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703160604/https://onlineharassmentfieldmanual.pen.org/defining-online-harassment-a-glossary-of-terms/ |archive-date=2019-07-03 }} 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. Participants use criticism and/or insults {{Cite web|last1=Blackwell|first1=Lindsay|last2=Chen|first2=Tianying|last3=Schoenebeck|first3=Sarita|author-link3=Sarita Schoenebeck|last4=Lampe|first4=Cliff|date=2018|title=When Online Harassment Is Perceived as Justified (Proceedings of the Twelfth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2018))|url=https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM18/paper/viewFile/17902/16993|access-date=2020-08-31|website=Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence - aaai.org|archive-date=2020-09-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918111507/https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM18/paper/viewFile/17902/16993|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|last=Kiener-Manu|first=Katharina|date=February 2020|title=Cybercrime Module 12 Key Issues: Cyberstalking and Cyberharassment|url=https://www.unodc.org/e4j/en/cybercrime/module-12/key-issues/cyberstalking-and-cyberharassment.html|access-date=2020-08-31|website=UNODC|language=en}} to target a single person.{{Cite journal|last1=Jhaver|first1=Shagun|last2=Ghoshal|first2=Sucheta|last3=Bruckman|first3=Amy|last4=Gilbert|first4=Eric|date=2018-04-26|title=Online Harassment and Content Moderation: The Case of Blocklists|url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3185593|journal=ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction|language=en|volume=25|issue=2|pages=1–33|doi=10.1145/3185593|s2cid=4315029 |issn=1073-0516|url-access=subscription}} In some definitions, it also includes sending private messages.{{Cite journal|last1=Jhaver|first1=Shagun|last2=Chan|first2=Larry|last3=Bruckman|first3=Amy|date=2018-02-02|title=The view from the other side: The border between controversial speech and harassment on Kotaku in Action|url=https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/8232|journal=First Monday|arxiv=1712.05851|doi=10.5210/fm.v23i2.8232|s2cid=3653593 |issn=1396-0466 |doi-access=free }}

== See also ==

• Ad hominem
• Bandwagon effect
• Cyberbullying
• Flaming (Internet)
• Gamergate harassment campaign{{Cite web|last=Young|first=Cathy|author-link=Cathy Young|date=2015-10-13|title=Blame GamerGate's Bad Rep on Smears and Shoddy Journalism|url=https://observer.com/2015/10/blame-gamergates-bad-rep-on-smears-and-shoddy-journalism/|access-date=2020-08-31|website=Observer|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last=Sarkeesian|first=Anita|date=2019-12-23|title=Anita Sarkeesian looks back at GamerGate|url=https://www.polygon.com/2019/12/23/20976891/anita-sarkeesian-gamergate-review-feminist-frequency-game-industry|access-date=2020-08-31|website=Polygon|language=en}}{{Cite journal|last=Mortensen|first=Torill Elvira|date=2016-04-13|title=Anger, Fear, and Games: The Long Event of #GamerGate|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1555412016640408|journal=Games and Culture|volume=13 |issue=8 |pages=787–806 |language=en|doi=10.1177/1555412016640408|s2cid=147383984 }}
• Internet troll
• Online shaming