The project Hate is not a sport 2 intends to develop the actions of the previous edition andcontribute to combating online hate speech related to the sports sector, maintaining the centrality of educational activities to foster young people's resilience in the face of the phenomenon.
The project is being implemented in 7 Italian regions (FVG, Veneto, Lombardy, Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna, Lazio, Sicily) to maintain attention on online hate speech as a changing and insidious phenomenon and to encourage the participation of schools and the amateur sports sector in educating young people to recognize and combat it.
The project includes preliminary research activitieson the attitudes and behaviors of young people in virtual relationships containing hate speech with the involvement of the University of Trieste - Department of Life Sciencesand investigationson the trends assumed by the phenomenon in the main social networks and newspapers in collaboration with the University of Turin - Department of Cultures, Politics and Society.
The outcomes of these activities will support the development of a software by ISF – Informatici senza frontiere, capable of intercepting conversations containing hostile and discriminatory tones and proposing dissuasive responses, which will be a fundamental tool for experiments and simulations in subsequent prevention and contrast education activities.
These first phases will therefore guide the implementation of training activities for teachers, coaches and other personnel involved in sport, promoted by the ADP, ASPEm, CELIM, Comi, COPE, LVIA, ProgettoMondo CSOs in collaboration with ISF and the CSI and LIBERTAS sports promotion bodies, so that create a solid educational presence around young people that can foster dynamics of opposition to hate speech.
The same partners will be involved in the implementation ofeducational activities in schools and amateur sports groups, aimed at developing transversal digital skills in students and young athletes, linked to sociality and the exercise of citizenship, with hate speech having a direct relevance to the sphere of rights.
Young people will therefore be able to experiment with the skills they have learned, actively participating in the alternative storytelling web campaign coordinated by the partner ImpactSkills, which will accompany the entire project and will be enriched by the presence of testimonials selected among athletes and sportsmen loved by the target.
Finally, some of the young participants in educational courses carried out in classes and amateur sports groups will be involved in the creation of territorial digital activism teams who will have the task of intercepting and countering hate speech related to sport, proposing dissuasive reactions and responses on social media.
