Social Tragedy

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

S. Baker (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2014 | 1st ed. 2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-48150-7 (ISBN)

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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, Zinédine Zidane's 2006 World Cup scandal, KONY 2012 – to examine their social and political effects.

Stephanie Alice Baker is a Researcher in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Plato's Challenge 2. What is Social Tragedy? 3. Performing Social Tragedy: Exploring the "new British spirit" a Decade Beyond the Death of Princess Diana 4. Recalling Social Tragedy: Staging Zinédine Zidane's Transgression on France's Postcolonial Arena 5. Mediating Social Tragedy: The 2011 English Riots and the Emergence of the "mediated crowd" 6. Mediation as Moral Education: KONY 2012 - Can Social Tragedies Teach? 7. Conclusion: Social Tragedy's Democratic Vision References Notes Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	Cultural Sociology
Zusatzinfo	XI, 224 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	action • Ecology • Emotion • Moral • New Media • Plato • Ritual
ISBN-10	1-349-48150-5 / 1349481505
ISBN-13	978-1-349-48150-7 / 9781349481507
Zustand	Neuware