Coping with online harassment: a well-being perspective
PI: Postdoctoral researcher Magdalena Celuch
What are the best ways to deal with online harassment? This is the central question of Magdalena Celuch’s, PhD, research project, titled “Vulnerable, but resilient: Identifying coping strategies that mitigate adverse well-being consequences of online harassment victimization. Cross-national and work-life perspectives.”
Despite online harassment being a pervasive and timely issue, limited research exists on how affected individuals cope with these experiences. This project utilizes longitudinal and cross-national data to explore how victims’ coping behaviors can mitigate the negative consequences of online abuse in both private and professional contexts. The project pays special attention to workplace cyberbullying, and investigates ways in which organizations can successfully encourage their employees to report workplace cyberbullying to appropriate authorities.
Funded by the Wihuri Foundation (2025–2027).
Aftermath of Internet abuse: Targets’ and bystanders’ reactions to online harassment
Magdalena Celuch’s PhD dissertation in social psychology examines online harassment experiences among adults in both professional and personal contexts. This research delves into the impact that the harassment has on individuals and investigates how victims and bystanders react and deal with the experience. The results yield valuable insights for effectively supporting those affected by online harassment.
Funded by the Faculty of Social Sciences of Tampere University (2021–2024).
Supervisors: Atte Oksanen & Noora Ellonen.
Hate and public sphere: Societal impacts and legal remedies
PI professor Atte Oksanen. Research consortium together with professor Päivi Korpisaari
This project aims to provide research-evidence on how to tackle this major problem of cyberhate (i.e. online hate) and related intensions to influence on societal decision and policy making legally and societally. To this end, our objective is to analyze, explain and decrease cyberhate, and reduce its effects. The project will conduct state-of-art review of legal protection and use legal documents to see if citizens are equally protected by the law. Also employer’s actions in work related online hate are studied.
Funded by the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation (2020–2022)
Online Extremism in a Cross-National Context: Risk, Exposure and Participation
Cross-national research project group James Hawdon, Atte Oksanen, John Ryan, Pekka Räsänen, Catherine Blaya, Vincent Llorent & Izabela Zych
This project aims to analyze cyberhate victimization and offending using cross-national surveys from Finland, France, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States of youth and young adults ages 18-25. The study goes beyond existing research on hate speech exposure by adding new measures and selection of countries including the American and European perspectives to the phenomenon.
Funded by the Institute for Society, Culture and Environment, Virginia Tech, US (2017–2020)
Past projects on Cyberhate
Hate Communities: A Cross-National Comparison. PIs Atte Oksanen & Pekka Räsänen. Funded by the Kone Foundation (2013–2016).
Web of Rage: Extreme online communities in the light of research and analytic journalism. PI Atte Oksanen. Funded by the Kone Foundation (2014–2015).
Web of Hatred and Violence? Virtual Generation and Youth Cultural Change. PI Atte Oksanen. Funded by the Youth Research Society & Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland (2012–2013).