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

Yair Galily, Moran Yarchi and Ilan Tamir

Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 2015, vol. 38, issue 12, 998-1007

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2015.1076640

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