ERC Advanced Grant · 2021
Digital Hate: Perpetrators, Audiences, and (Dis)Empowered Targets
The skyrocketing rise of digital hate can be considered the dark side of the democratizing power of the internet. Despite growing interest in the topic, there has never been a systematic investigation about the perpetrators, audiences, and targets of digital hate. To discover why digital hate emerges, why it is often tolerated, and what kind of effects it has, DIGIHATE will analyze the reasons, perceptions, and consequences of digital hate for all involved actors. In particular, DIGIHATE will cause a paradigm shift by systematically looking at both disempowered and empowered targets of digital hate as well as their complex intersections. Nine work packages (WPs) will form a unique…
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