Social media has become a significant part of the daily landscape of society. This week a former graduate student from my Department at the University of Georgia introduced me to the term "sealioning." Upon learning what it means, I realized that it happens a lot on social media, especially to scientists. Daniel Chandler and Rod Munday have actually published the book, A Dictionary of Social Media. In the essay "The Multiple Harms of Sea Lions," Amy Johnson writes:Rhetorically, sealioning fuses persistent questioning—often about basic information, information on easily found elsewhere, or unrelated or tangential points—with a loudly-insisted-upon commitment to reasonable debate.

Source: Forbes March 07, 2019 12:01 UTC