The State of Evidence in Digital Hate Research: An Umbrella Review

IF 3.2 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Communication Research Pub Date : 2025-08-29 DOI:10.1177/00936502251365724

Jörg Matthes, Kevin Koban, Stephanie Bührer, Thomas Kirchmair, Phelia Weiss, Maryam Khaleghipour, Melanie Saumer, Rinat Meerson

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Abstract

Digital hate poses a threat to citizens, communities, and societies. Despite numerous studies and reviews on the concept of digital hate, we lack a systematic view of the entire body of scholarship. The aim of this umbrella review is therefore to evaluate the scope, definitions, main findings, and identified gaps of digital hate research. An umbrella review allows one to examine, compare, and evaluate the state of the research across all available reviews in order to point to larger, overarching patterns, shortcomings, and contradictions. We analyzed N = 206 narrative, systematic, and meta-analytical reviews. Findings suggest a lack of conceptual clarity, a need to study platform and age differences as well as a need to study digital hate across actors. Also, the analyzed reviews consistently call for experimental, longitudinal, and non-Western, cross-country research. We call for a coordinated cross-disciplinary effort to restructure and harmonize digital hate research.

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数字仇恨研究中的证据现状：概览

数字仇恨对公民、社区和社会构成威胁。尽管对数字仇恨的概念进行了大量的研究和评论，但我们缺乏对整个学术体系的系统看法。因此，本综述的目的是评估数字仇恨研究的范围、定义、主要发现和确定的差距。概括性审查允许人们检查、比较和评估所有可用审查的研究状态，以便指出更大的、总体的模式、缺点和矛盾。我们分析了N = 206篇叙述性、系统性和元分析性综述。研究结果表明，缺乏概念清晰度，需要研究平台和年龄差异，以及需要研究演员之间的数字仇恨。此外，分析的评论一致呼吁进行实验性的、纵向的、非西方的、跨国的研究。我们呼吁进行协调的跨学科努力，以重组和协调数字仇恨研究。

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Communication Research COMMUNICATION-

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期刊介绍： Empirical research in communication began in the 20th century, and there are more researchers pursuing answers to communication questions today than at any other time. The editorial goal of Communication Research is to offer a special opportunity for reflection and change in the new millennium. To qualify for publication, research should, first, be explicitly tied to some form of communication; second, be theoretically driven with results that inform theory; third, use the most rigorous empirical methods; and fourth, be directly linked to the most important problems and issues facing humankind. Critieria do not privilege any particular context; indeed, we believe that the key problems facing humankind occur in close relationships, groups, organiations, and cultures.