Dogpiling (Internet)

Dogpiling or a dog-pile is a form of online harassment where a large number of accounts suddenly fill the comment thread of a controversial post with criticisms and/or insults,[1][2][3][4][5] or target a single person.[6] Some definitions require coordination.[7][8][9] In some definitions, it also includes sending private messages.[10]

History

First comes to mind is the sports reference when a team piles on top of each other in celebration but this reference has no happy ending. The expression has been used in reference to the Gamergate controversy.[11][12][13]

Basic Information

Nowadays with the swipe of a finger Dogpiling is easier than ever before. It is a form of cyberbullying that can get way out of hand with the large amount of harassment that happens in a big quantity on a single post. It is mainly with negative connotation but also in some cases it can be positive too. These "dogpiliers" or even "trolls" get some high or gain out of commenting negative things on ones post just to hurt someone out of spite while hiding behind a screen. This affects mental health and causes so much hate and pain in our society and local communities. No good things comes from the negative comments people post on others pages.

Media Platforms

The social media platforms have a large impact when it come to dogpiling or even just cyberbullying overall. They are on a tend where it seems that they are glorifying the bullying and not taking the right actions. The top comments on social media are the most hateful ones and get highlighted in the comments and have no repercussions. There is not much you can do to avoid this negativity on social media [14] other than block commets or just ignore them the best you can. It is all easier said than done but a part of being on social media is dealing with these trolls even though no one signed up for this harassment to begin with. Twitter plays a large part of this, they even have a hashtag for dogpiling that tends to trend when it is glorified for a certain trend. Twitter harassment alone is known of one of the worst tending thing in media, when you know something is blowing you go straight to twitter to see what everyone is saying. [15] This makes many users not want to user Twitter let alone any social media because of this unasked for negative that just comes with the apps.

References
  1. "dog-pile". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  2. Hoyt, Alia (2015-05-18). "10 Forms of Online Harassment". HowStuffWorks. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  3. Quinn, Zoë (January 30, 2018). "What It's Like to Be Targeted by an Online Mob". KQED. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  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. "Defining "Online Harassment": A Glossary of Terms". Online Harassment Field Manual. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  8. Sarkeesian, Anita (2015-02-20). "Anita Sarkeesian's Guide to Internetting While Female". Marie Claire. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  9. Curtin University. "Discussing online harassment: background and teaching strategies" (PDF).CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  10. 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.
  11. Young, Cathy (2015-10-13). "Blame GamerGate's Bad Rep on Smears and Shoddy Journalism". Observer. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  12. Sarkeesian, Anita (2019-12-23). "Anita Sarkeesian looks back at GamerGate". Polygon. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
  13. Mortensen, Torill Elvira (2016-04-13). "Anger, Fear, and Games: The Long Event of #GamerGate:". Games and Culture. doi:10.1177/1555412016640408.
  14. https://skwawkbox.org/2018/05/07/dogpiling-and-how-to-avoid-being-a-victim-of-it/
  15. https://medium.com/@Brad_Glasgow/a-definition-of-twitter-harassment-f8acfa9ae3a8

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