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

S. Baker

Social Tragedy: The Power of Myth, Ritual, and Emotion in the New Media Ecology
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Country
United Kingdom
Published
5 June 2014
Pages
224
ISBN
9781349481507

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

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.

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