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

By Stephanie Alice Baker

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349481505
• ISBN13: 9781349481507
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"