{{Short description|Form of online harassment}} {{redirect|Dogpiling|the type of computing system failure|cache stampede}} thumb|Online harassment is a common method of dogpiling.
'''Dogpiling,''' '''dog-piling''' or simply a '''piling-on''' is a form of online harassment<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{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 }}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0" /> Participants use criticism and/or insults <ref name=":0" /><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> to target a single person.<ref>{{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}}</ref> In some definitions, it also includes sending private messages.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>
== Etymology == The word 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.
== Harmful effects ==
=== On the victim === Victims of dogpiling may feel less self-esteem, various emotional reactions, self-harm ideations, and suicidal thoughts. Adolescents, particularly female adolescents, are more likely to be susceptible to these effects from dogpiling.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Yang |first1=B. |last2=Wang |first2=B. |last3=Sun |first3=N. |last4=Xu |first4=F. |last5=Wang |first5=L. |last6=Chen |first6=J. |last7=Yu |first7=S. |last8=Zhang |first8=Y. |last9=Zhu |first9=Y. |last10=Dai |first10=T. |last11=Zhang |first11=Q. |last12=Sun |first12=C. |pmid=34614443 |title=The consequences of cyberbullying and traditional bullying victimization among adolescents: Gender differences in psychological symptoms, self-harm and suicidality |journal=Psychiatry Research |date=Dec 2021 |volume=305 |article-number=114252 |doi=10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114252 |pmc=8857765 }}</ref>
== See also ==<!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order ♦♦♦---> * Ad hominem * Bandwagon effect * Cyberbullying * Flaming (Internet) * Gamergate harassment campaign<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> * Internet troll * Online shaming
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