Social Tragedy: The Power of Myth, Ritual, and Emotion in the New Media Ecology (Cultural Sociology)

by S. Baker

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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, Zinedine Zidane's 2006 World Cup scandal, KONY 2012 - to examine their social and political effects.
  • ISBN13 9781137386137
  • Publish Date 5 June 2014
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 224
  • Language English