Episode 4: The Impact of Online Hate on Football Fans

The TOHIF Podcast

TOHIF Project

October 1, 202454 min
Soccer

Episode 4: The Impact of Online Hate on Football Fans

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In this episode we look at how the problem of online hate in football impacts on fans. When the problem is discussed by politicians, researchers or journalists, fans tend to characterised solely as perpetrators of online hate, but this overlooks the rich variety of fan experience online: they can be targets of hate and activists in the fight against it.

Content creator and Spurs fan, Davina Pindoria talks about her experiences - both good and bad - of being a football fan who's active online.

Davina is then joined by Loughborough University's Dr Mark Doidge for a general discussion on why online hate against fans has been overlooked by authorities, and what fans can offer in the battle against this problem.