Social Tragedy: The Power Of Myth, Ritual, And Emotion In The New Media Ecology (Cultural Sociology)

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, Zin?ine Zidane's 2006 World Cup scandal, KONY 2012 ?to examine their social and political effects.

• • Author: S. Baker
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Jun 05, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 235 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1137386134
• • ISBN-13: 9781137386137