Friday, July 2, 2010

Football, Internet and Racism

300 million people are estimated to access Internet in the world. Among them you can see racist , violent and extremist who try to learn about this new medium and use it for their purpose. Internet is a very strong tool for individuals, organizations and groups who want to reach new audiences and recruiting especially among young generation.In 1995 just one site on the Internet has racism activity ,then in 1997 the statistics increased to 600 and today unfortunately it goes up to more than 2500 sites.
Sports world also are used as a tool for racism. For instance some groups that link to the neo-Nazis and right wing extremist use Internet to spread racism behaviour inside and outside football stadiums.Football supporter sites are the most active party in racism and xenophobia . Furthermore, some players, managers and clubs also work in this part but their activities are invisible to all.



1 comment:

  1. Dear marzieh
    It’s correct and I think any person isn’t safe from news and events. In recent fifteen years any famous people can’t hide information and biography about his/her self in Cyber Space. Finally, people around a world can learn information’s about beliefs.
    If you see, captain of teams in Fifa world cup 2010, read some essay at first of game start about avoiding racism. maybe it can be formality, but better than not!

    ReplyDelete