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PROGETTO "ODIARE NON è UNO SPORT"
THE HATE IS NOT A SPORT PROJECT IS STARTING
CSEN JOINS THE CAMPAIGN
to prevent and combat
Online hate speech in sports
From Coder's (UniTo) research on the Facebook pages of the 5 main national sports newspapers, three out of four posts contain hate speech comments
A ground for inclusion and social aggregation, a vehicle for growth and comparison, a gym for life. It is sport, the one that can lead to the Olympic dream or simply help you feel better, the one that involves millions of kids in our country. Sport that, unfortunately, also has another face and can turn into a furnace of hate speeches and gestures, which in the digital dimension, are strengthened and spread exponentially.
According to the EU Kids Online research, 41% of children between 15 and 17 have read hate messages or offensive comments on the internet. Those who target people because of the color of their skin, their religious or sexual choices, their country of origin, or simply because they are female or have a disability.
But something can be done to counteract the growth of this phenomenon. On the one hand, study and understand it, on the other, mobilize youth activism and put a different thought into circulation, also thanks to the help of several Italian champions who have made their life out of sport and who oppose with words and example on the field any form of hatred or discrimination.
This is how the #Odiarenoneunosport campaign kicked off , supported by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation and promoted by the Centro Volontariato Cooperazione allo Sviluppo, with a dense network of partners throughout the country.
The study of the phenomenon is entrusted to the University of Turin, which through the multidisciplinary team of the Coder Advanced Research Center is working to develop a Barometer of Hate in Sport , monitoring the main social media and sports newspapers. From the first previews of the report, which will be released at the end of March, alarming data emerge. Of the 4,857 posts analyzed, for a total of over 443 thousand comments on the Facebook pages of the five main national sports newspapers, it emerges that three out of four posts contain comments that use some form of hate speech. The latter can manifest itself as generic vulgar language (13.5%), verbal aggression (73%), real threats (6.8%), or, finally, as various forms of discrimination (6.7%). The highest peaks of hate messages occur in conjunction with football events and concern refereeing decisions in particular.
The team's intervention, however, will not only be based on observation, but will also aim to intercept the various forms of online hate speech and will experiment with the application of real-time responses by enhancing a specific algorithm and a chatbot developed by the Innovation Laboratory of the School of Management of Turin and by Informatici senza Frontiere. These tools are supported by the "Bullyctionary", a real dictionary of online bullying , created thanks to Assicurazioni Generali.
The project has collected and is still collecting the testimonies of champions of Italian sports such as Igor Cassina, Stefano Oppo , Alessia Maurelli, Frank Chamizo, Valeria Straneo , alongside the extraordinary stories of social inclusion that have occurred through sport on Italian soil and the spontaneous participation of dozens of athletes, professionals and amateurs, associations, schools or ordinary citizens who support the campaign by portraying themselves with the writing Hating is not a sport.
The campaign will last throughout 2020, the Olympic year in which the media will be particularly focused on sports, and will include several events and tools to raise awareness among citizens: ten simultaneous flash mobs http://cel.cus.ac.in/ in various Italian cities on Monday 6 April, on the occasion of the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, educational activities in 55 schools and 44 sports clubs, participation in numerous sporting events. Finally, with the territorial anti-hate "teams" that will monitor the profiles and social pages of various sports clubs to intercept and respond pertinently to hate speech messages.
All together, with a common goal: to say no to hate in sports and in life.
The project is supported by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation and promoted by the Centro Volontariato Cooperazione allo Sviluppo, in partnership with 7 Italian NGOs with extensive experience in global citizenship education (ADP, CeLIM, CISV, COMI, COPE, LVIA, Progettomondo.mlal), the CSEN Sports Promotion Agency, the training agencies FormaAzione, SIT and SAA-School of management, Informatici senza Frontiere for the development of technological solutions and Tele Radio City and Ong 2.0 for the communication campaign .
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