Social Tragedy

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

• Author(s): S. Baker,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 224
• ISBN_10: 1137379138
  ISBN_13: 9781137379139
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Media Studies , History / Social History , Social Science / General , Social Science / Sociology of Religion , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

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.