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Social Tragedy : The Power of Myth, Ritual, and Emotion in the New Media Ecol.... Social Tragedy : The Power of Myth, Ritual, and Emotion in the New Media Ecology, Hardcover by Baker, Stephanie Alice, ISBN 1137386134, ISBN-13 9781137386137, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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. Social Tragedy : The Power of Myth, Ritual, and Emotion in the New Media Ecology, Hardcover by Baker, Stephanie Alice, ISBN 1137386134, ISBN-13 9781137386137, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.