Welcome to the Website of the ERC Project DigiHate!


Situated within the Advertising and Media Psychology (AdMe) Research Group at the Department of Communication of the University of Vienna, the European Research Council-funded project "Digital Hate: Perpetrators, Audiences, and (Dis)Empowered Targets" (DIGIHATE) delves into reasons, perceptions, and consequences of hateful online actions across several involved actors. Given the complex field of study, the project understands itself as multi-disciplinary (by involving, e.g., communication science, psychology, computational social science), multi-methodological (by combining, e.g., quantitative, qualitative, and computational paradigms), and multi-contextual (e.g., by addressing digital hate across four countries: Austria, France, Hungary, and Sweden). In this way, DIGIHATE aims not only to exceed the current state-of-the-art in a significant manner. Its findings will also contribute to building and maintaining dignified societies in the digital world.

Team
 

We are delighted to announce that Giao recently joined our project team as...

Presentations
 

Our project team received two Top Paper Awards at this year's AEJMC annual...

Presentations
 

The DigiHate team was honored with two awards at this year's annual...

Publications
 

Computers in Human Behavior just released a new article on Stephanie...

Media
 

The ORF (Austrian national broadcaster) interviewed Stephanie Bührer about...

Publications
 

The journal New Media & Society recently published our first project...