Sealioning

Sealioning (also spelled sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment which consists of pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or repeated questions, while maintaining a pretense of civility.[1][2][3] The troll pretends ignorance and feigns politeness, so that if the target is provoked into making an angry response, the troll can then act as the aggrieved party.[4][5] Sealioning can be performed by a single troll or by multiple ones acting in concert.[6] The technique of sealioning has been compared to the Gish gallop and metaphorically described as a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings.[6]

The term originated with a 2014 strip of the webcomic Wondermark, where a character expresses a dislike of sea lions and a sea lion intrudes to repeatedly ask the character to explain.[7] "Sea lion" was quickly verbed, the term gained popularity as a way to describe online trolling, and it was used to describe some of the behavior of supporters of the Gamergate controversy.[8][9]

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References

  1. ↑ Poland, Bailey (November 2016). Haters: Harassment, Abuse, and Violence Online. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 144–145. ISBN 978-1-61234-766-0.
  2. ↑ Sarkeesian, Anita (2015-02-20). "Anita Sarkeesian's Guide to Internetting While Female". Marie Claire. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
  3. ↑ Chandler, Daniel; Munday, Rod (2016-03-03). A Dictionary of Social Media. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192518521. OCLC 952388585.
  4. ↑ Lindsay, Jessica (2018-07-05). "Sealioning is the new thing to worry about in relationships and online". Metro.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
  5. ↑ Stokel-Walker, Chris (2018-08-18). "How to handle a troll … and neuter a sea lion". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
  6. 1 2 Johnson, Amy (2017). Gasser, Urs, ed. "The Multiple Harms of Sea Lions" (PDF). Perspectives on Harmful Speech Online. Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. p. 14. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
  7. ↑ Maxwell, Kerry (2015-10-06). "Definition of Sea lion". Macmillan Dictionary. Retrieved 2018-01-10.
  8. ↑ Jhaver, Shagun; Ghoshal, Sucheta; Bruckman, Amy; Gilbert, Eric. "Online Harassment and Content Moderation: The Case of Blocklists". ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 25 (2): 12. doi:10.1145/3185593.
  9. ↑ Massanari, Adrienne L. (2016). ""Damseling for Dollars": Toxic Technocultures and Geek Masculinity". In Lind, Rebecca Ann. Race and Gender in Electronic Media: Content, Context, Culture. Routledge. ISBN 9781317266129. OCLC 948090024. For supporters [of Gamergate], however, the hashtag became an effective way to swarm the mentions of users perceived as not sharing their views, which became known colloquially as "sea lioning" (Malki, 2014).

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