From Munich to Boston, and from Theater to Social Media: The Evolutionary Landscape of World Sporting Terror

Modern terrorist attacks are usually characterized by intentionally extreme public displays of massive violence to get wide propagation, courtesy of the media. This article uses large-scale, world sporting events, from the 1972 Munich massacre to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing to document and anal...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inStudies in conflict and terrorism Vol. 38; no. 12; pp. 998 - 1007
Main Authors Galily, Yair, Yarchi, Moran, Tamir, Ilan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Routledge 02.12.2015
Taylor & Francis LLC
Subjects
Bombings
Boston Massachusetts
IS (Organization)
Mass media violence
Massacre
Massacres
Media
Munich Germany
Public spaces
Social media
Sports
Terrorism
Terrorism (International law)
IRAQ
SYRIA
Boston Massachusetts
Munich Germany
United States > US
Germany
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:Modern terrorist attacks are usually characterized by intentionally extreme public displays of massive violence to get wide propagation, courtesy of the media. This article uses large-scale, world sporting events, from the 1972 Munich massacre to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing to document and analyze how terror acts grew and acclimatized into a reality in which the symbiotic, massive linkage between two gigantic entities-sports and the media-allows terrorism to prosper.
Bibliography:STUDIES IN CONFLICT AND TERRORISM, Vol. 38, No. 12, Dec 2015, 998-1007
Informit, Melbourne (Vic)
ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
content type line 23
ISSN:1057-610X
1521-0731
DOI:10.1080/1057610X.2015.1076640