Digital Hate: Perpetrators, Audiences, and (Dis)Empowered Targets

Project Information

DIGIHATE

Grant agreement ID: 101055073

DOI

10.3030/101055073

EC signature date 18 October 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 31 December 2027

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 499 591,25

EU contribution

€ 2 499 591,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT WIEN
Austria

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (18)

All Roads Lead to Hate? Examining Five Prediction Paths for Online Incivility and Intolerance Perpetration

Author(s): Kevin Koban, Stephanie Bührer, Jörg Matthes
Published in: Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2026, ISSN 1077-6990
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/10776990261429081

Over-Time Relationships of Direct and Indirect Digital Hate Victimization on Fundamental Needs and Prosocial Bystander Intervention: A Two-Wave Panel Study

Author(s): Maryam Khaleghipour, Kevin Koban, Jörg Matthes
Published in: Media Psychology, 2026, ISSN 1521-3269
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/15213269.2026.2636055

Digital She-nanigans: Social media users’ response toward online hostilities targeting a female science communicator with marginalized identities

Author(s): Melanie Saumer, Kevin Koban, Jörg Matthes
Published in: New Media & Society, 2025, ISSN 1461-4448
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/14614448251342242

Platform-led content moderation through the bystander lens: a systematic scoping review

Author(s): Rinat Meerson, Kevin Koban, Jörg Matthes
Published in: Information, Communication & Society, 2025, ISSN 1369-118X
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2025.2483836

The WWW of digital hate perpetration: What, who, and why? A scoping review

Author(s): Stephanie Bührer, Kevin Koban, Jörg Matthes
Published in: Computers in Human Behavior, Issue 159, 2024, ISSN 0747-5632
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.CHB.2024.108321

Nudging against judging? Mitigating anti-LGBTQIA + online hostility by raising bystanders’ awareness and behavioral intentions

Author(s): Melanie Saumer, Kevin Koban, Jörg Matthes
Published in: Information, Communication & Society, 2026, ISSN 1369-118X
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2026.2636134

Reflective smartphone disengagement as a coping strategy against cyberbullying: A cross-country study with emerging adults from the United States and Indonesia

Author(s): Maryam Khaleghipour, Kevin Koban, Anja Stevic, Jörg Matthes
Published in: New Media & Society, 2024, ISSN 1461-4448
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/14614448241254015

Misreading uncivil and intolerant anti-immigration content in digital spheres: The role of recent online perpetration

Author(s): Stephanie Bührer; Kevin Koban; Jörg Matthes
Published in: New Media & Society, 2025, ISSN 1461-7315
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/14614448251401865

Annotation in Action: Experimental Perspectives on Perceiving and Labeling Digital Hate Across Four European Countries

Author(s): Thomas Kirchmair, Kevin Koban, Jörg Matthes
Published in: Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, Issue 2026, 2026, ISSN 2578-1863
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1155/HBE2/3332187

Digital She-nanigans: Social media users’ response toward online hostilities targeting a female science communicator with marginalized identities

Author(s): Melanie Saumer, Kevin Koban, Jörg Matthes
Published in: New Media & Society, 2025, ISSN 1461-4448
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/14614448251342242

Caught in the storm: A qualitative study on digital hate targeting scholars

Author(s): Maryam Khaleghipour, Kevin Koban, Jörg Matthes
Published in: Computers in Human Behavior Reports, Issue 22, 2026, ISSN 2451-9588
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.CHBR.2026.101059

Discursive consequences of social media hostility: Chilling effects, avoidance, and intervention behaviors of emerging adults in the U.S. and Indonesia

Author(s): J. Matthes, G. Nguyen, K. Koban, R. Meerson, M. Khaleghipour, D.S. Garner, S. Bührer, T. Kirchmair
Published in: Computers in Human Behavior, Issue 171, 2025, ISSN 0747-5632
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.CHB.2025.108704

Too much of what? Longitudinal evidence for selective (de-)sensitization through frequent exposure to different kinds of digital hate

Author(s): Rinat Meerson, Kevin Koban, Jörg Matthes
Published in: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2025, ISSN 1083-6101
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/JCMC/ZMAF002

Listen to Me! Target Perceptions of Digital Hate: A Scoping Review of Recent Research

Author(s): Maryam Khaleghipour, Kevin Koban, Jörg Matthes
Published in: Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 2025, ISSN 1524-8380
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/15248380241303725

A narrow gateway from misogyny to the far right: empirical evidence for social media exposure effects

Author(s): Phelia Weiss, Kevin Koban, Jörg Matthes
Published in: Information, Communication & Society, 2024, ISSN 1369-118X
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2024.2445637

Immigration-related socio-cognitive dynamics driving digital hate: a four-country study on online incivility and intolerance perpetration

Author(s): Stephanie Bührer, Kevin Koban, Jörg Matthes
Published in: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Issue 31, 2026, ISSN 1083-6101
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/JCMC/ZMAF026

Four eyes, two truths: Explaining heterogeneity in perceived severity of digital hate against immigrants

Author(s): Thomas Kirchmair, Kevin Koban, Jörg Matthes
Published in: Communications, Issue 49, 2024, ISSN 1613-4087
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/COMMUN-2023-0133

Communication Research

Author(s): Jörg Matthes; Kevin Koban; Stephanie Bührer; Thomas Kirchmair; Phelia Weiss; Maryam Khaleghipour; Melanie Saumer; Rinat Meerson
Published in: Communication Research, 2025, ISSN 0093-6502
Publisher: Sage Journals
DOI: 10.1177/00936502251365724

Other (1)

Der Public Spaces Incubator: Dysfunktionale Onlineräume in funktionierende öffentliche Arenen verwandeln

Author(s): Kevin Koban, Rinat Meerson, Jörg Matthes
Published in: Fast Forward. Digitale Innovation öffentlich-rechtlicher Medien in Europa. Public Value Studie, 2024
Publisher: ORF – Oesterreichischer Rundfunk