digital harassment
Internet-based intimidation tactics
Digital harassment is hostile behavior conducted through electronic means—social media, email, text messages, online forums.
It includes threats, doxxing, coordinated pile-ons, revenge porn, and persistent unwanted contact.
The digital environment enables anonymity, amplifies reach, and creates permanent records: The campaign of digital harassment drove her off the platform.
Also called online harassment or cyberbullying.
- social mediaOnline content-sharing platforms
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
- power imbalanceUnequal distribution of control
- anonymityUnknown identity state
- screen nameOnline identity alias
burner account · deepfakes · content moderation · consent · depression · privacy rights · bots · mob mentality · PTSD · doxing · trauma · public shaming · cancel culture · accountability · forums · isolation · gaming platforms · peer pressure
- stalkingstalking behavior, cyberstalking, following, obsession, social media stalking
- online vigilantismdoxxing, mob justice, public shaming, cancel culture, online mobs
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