From Munich to Boston,and from Theater to Social Media: The Evolutionary Landscape of World Sporting Terror |
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| Authors: | Yair Galily Moran Yarchi Ilan Tamir |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Sammy Ofer School of Communications, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel;2. School of Communication, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel |
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| 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. |
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