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Racism, football fans, and online message boards: how social media has added a new dimension to racist discourse in English football
journal contribution
posted on 2015-06-17, 10:42 authored by Jamie ClelandThis article presents the findings of a discourse analysis carried out from November 2011 to February 2012 on two prominent association football (soccer) message boards that examined fans’ views towards racism in English football. After analyzing over 500 posts, the article reveals the racist discourse used by some supporters in their online discussions and the extent to which posts like this were either supported or contested by fellow posters. The overall findings are that social media sites like fan message boards have allowed racist thoughts to flourish online, in particular by rejecting multiculturalism and Islam through the presentation of whiteness and national belonging and an outright hostility and resistance towards the Other. Despite this, the majority of posts that contained some form of racist discourse were openly challenged.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
Journal of Sport and Social IssuesVolume
38Issue
5Pages
415 - 431 (17)Citation
CLELAND, J., 2013. Racism, football fans, and online message boards: how social media has added a new dimension to racist discourse in English football. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 38 (5), pp. 415 - 431.Publisher
Sage Publications / © The AuthorsVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2013Notes
This article was published in the serial, Journal of Sport and Social Issues [Sage Publications / © The Authors]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0193723513499922ISSN
0193-7235Publisher version
Language
- en