Social Tragedy

1. Introduction: Plato’s Challenge
Stephanie Alice Baker

2. What is a Social Tragedy?
Stephanie Alice Baker

3. Performing Social Tragedy: Exploring the “New British Spirit” a Decade Beyond the Death of Princess Diana
Stephanie Alice Baker

4. Recalling Social Tragedy: Staging Zinédine Zidane’s Transgression on France’s Postcolonial Arena
Stephanie Alice Baker

5. Mediating Social Tragedy: the 2011 English Riots and the Emergence of the “Mediated Crowd”
Stephanie Alice Baker

6. Mediation as Moral Education: Kony 2012—Can Social Tragedies Teach?
Stephanie Alice Baker

7. Conclusion: Social Tragedy’s Democratic Vision
Stephanie Alice Baker

Keywords: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, Media Studies, Cultural History, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Regional and Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture