RACE AND RISK: EXPLORING ONLINE RESPONSES TO THE EURO 2020 FINAL

In July 2021, England lost the Euro 2020 football final to Italy. Following loss, Black players were widely racially abused online. As Twitter took down over 1900 offensive posts directed at players, and commentators condemned racism, sending supportive messages controversy continued generate traffic. How might online platforms reconfigure according a late-neoliberal logic of assetized attention identity? game, as publicized symbolic site which stages relation between competition, chance, nationhood, inflect these expressions racism? this paper, I analyze responses finals, with focus on narratives expressing expectations about posters’ platforms’ roles in propagating racism. how express conflicts race reputational terms status metrics. Extending insights from W.E.B. Du Bois, Cedric Robinson, Cheryl Harris, arrive an account assetized, racial capitalism, recodes racism uneven distribution risk.