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.

Presentations
 

We will present first findings of our project at ICA's annual conference in...

Media
 

The ORF (Austrian national broadcaster) recently interviewed Jörg Matthes...

Media
 

The Austrian private broadcaster PULS 24 interviewed Stephanie about the...

Presentations
 

As part of the annual congress for journalists, Stephanie Bührer will...

Presentations
 

Our first project paper was honored by the Communication Theory and...

Team
 

We are very happy to announce that Rinat has joined our team from July 15.