Grant has compiled his ninth annual words-of-the-year piece for The New York Times Sunday Review section. Among these gems is the verb doxing, as in documenting someone’s life and share it on the web. What were your picks for the words of 2012? This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Words of the Year 2012”
Every year I look back on the previous 12 months and come up with the words of the year.
And publish a column in the New York Times and I want to share some of those words with you this year.
Great.
Do you know the term doxing?
Doxing.
D-O-X-I-N-G.
To dox someone is to document their life.
Dox is a long-standing abbreviation for to document, a verb.
And so if I was doxing you, I’d find out everything I could about you.
I’d look for the secret stuff, and then I would share it with the world.
And this came out because there was some scandal involved with the website Reddit.
One of their longtime users was involved in not very pleasant activities and exposing pictures of people and things like that.
So he got doxed in Gawker.
So doxing is one of my words of the year.
I’ll share a few more as we go on through the show.
Okay, great.
What’s your word of the year?
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