Social Tragedy The Power of Myth, Ritual, and Emotion in the New Media Ecology
Description
A social tragedy is a collective representation of injustice. Baker demonstrates how social tragedies facilitate moral action and discusses a series of contemporary case studies – the death of Princess Diana, Zinédine Zidane's 2006 World Cup scandal, KONY 2012 – to examine their social and political effects.
Keywords
Social ScienceSociologyPolitical ScienceMedia StudiesHistorySocial HistoryAnthropologyCultural & SocialRegional Studies
2014Book
Author(s)S. Baker
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9781137386137
LanguageEnglish
