The police vs. social media
The Vancouver Canucks went to the final game of the Stanley Cup finals in 1994 and 2011. They lost each time, and each time their fans rioted. There was considerable variation in scale between the eruptions, but the main distinction was that 1994 was an essentially familiar episode in Canada's...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Maclean's 2016, Vol.129 (16), p.56-56 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The Vancouver Canucks went to the final game of the Stanley Cup finals in 1994 and 2011. They lost each time, and each time their fans rioted. There was considerable variation in scale between the eruptions, but the main distinction was that 1994 was an essentially familiar episode in Canada's rich history of off-ice hockey violence, while 2011, a Vancouver Police Department report noted, was "North America's first social media sports riot." |
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ISSN: | 0024-9262 0024-9262 |