Sealioning
Vorlage:Short description 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]
Origins
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]
See also
References
External links
- The Terrible Sea Lion, the Wondermark comic strip that inspired the term
- Wondermark Errata defending the cartoon against accusations of classism and speciesism.
- ↑ Bailey Poland: Haters: Harassment, Abuse, and Violence Online. University of Nebraska Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1-61234-766-0, S. 144–145 (google.com).
- ↑ Anita Sarkeesian: Anita Sarkeesian's Guide to Internetting While Female In: Marie Claire, 20. Februar 2015. Abgerufen am 11. Januar 2018 (amerikanisches Englisch).
- ↑ Daniel Chandler, Rod Munday: A Dictionary of Social Media. Oxford University Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0-19-251852-1 (englisch, oxfordreference.com).
- ↑ Jessica Lindsay: Sealioning is the new thing to worry about in relationships and online In: Metro.co.uk, 5. Juli 2018. Abgerufen am 13. September 2018 (britisches Englisch).
- ↑ Chris Stokel-Walker: How to handle a troll … and neuter a sea lion. In: The Guardian. 18. August 2018, abgerufen am 13. September 2018 (englisch).
- ↑ a b Amy Johnson: The Multiple Harms of Sea Lions. Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2017, S. 14, abgerufen am 16. September 2018.
- ↑ Kerry Maxwell: Definition of Sea lion. In: Macmillan Dictionary. 6. Oktober 2015, abgerufen am 10. Januar 2018 (englisch).
- ↑ Shagun Jhaver, Sucheta Ghoshal, Amy Bruckman, Eric Gilbert: Online Harassment and Content Moderation: The Case of Blocklists. In: ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 25. Jahrgang, Nr. 2, S. 12, doi:10.1145/3185593.
- ↑ Vorlage:Cite encyclopedia