The Role of Social Media in Developing Hooliganistic Behavior among Football Spectators

The present study concerns the impact of social media on violence and hooliganism in Iranian first class football league and FA Cup spectators in the 2011 and 2012. At first, the instrument was validated by the experts and its reliability was also calculated in a pilot study with 25 subjects (r =0.91). Because of special conditions and limitations, a total of 100 football fans who had at least one previous sport hooliganism history (everybody were arrested more than once by the Police was) were randomly selected from among those who answered the questionnaire. The KMO test was used to investigate the suitability of elements for socialization process which was followed by the GAMA test and C coefficient to assess the likely correlations. The results showed a significant correlation between the degree of media impact on spectators and the hooligan behavior (0.05>p).
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