Social Tragedy : The Power of Myth, Ritual, and Emotion in the New Media Ecology Paperback / softback
by S. Baker
Part of the Cultural Sociology series
Paperback / softback
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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages, XI, 224 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:05/06/2014
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- ISBN:9781349481507
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages, XI, 224 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:05/06/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781349481507