Creating Chaos Online : : Disinformation and Subverted Post-Publics.

• Author: Zelenkauskaite, Asta.
• Place / Publishing House: Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (319 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction. A Déjà Vu from the Silenced Generation -- Disinformation -- Soviet Propaganda in the Eyes of a Child -- Vulnerabilities of Social Media -- Trolling and Russian Trolling -- Russian Trolling Circulation -- Chapter 1. Propagandistic Masquerade -- Text as a Mask -- Paradoxes of a Mask -- Subversiveness of a Mask -- Performativity and Modus Operandi of a Propagandist Mask: self-sabotage -- Multiple Faces for the Masks: Commenting User Typology -- Discussion -- Summary -- Chapter 2. Divide and Conquer: Exploiting Political Polarization -- Frameworks of Information Persuasion -- Communication Persuasion Models -- Mechanics of Propaganda -- Communicative Tactics: Attack, Defense, and Whataboutism -- Tactics Used in Online News Comments -- Discussion -- Summary -- Chapter 3. Instilling Mistrust in Institutions -- Living in Media -- Comments as Forms of News Deliberations -- News Portals Comments as Information Warfare Zones -- Contexts That Situate Online Public Deliberation -- Discrediting Media as an Institution -- Attack on Government Institutions -- Discussion -- Summary -- Chapter 4. Roots of Russia's Victim's Playing -- New Media and Information Warfare in Authoritarian Regimes -- Roots of Russia's (Information) Warfare -- Information Warfare in Action by Russia -- Victim-Playing Russian Trolls in the News Comments -- Delegitimization Rhetoric -- Summary -- Chapter 5. Deny and Conquer: Fears of Looking Like a "Pussy State" -- Implications of the Denialism Discourse regarding Russian Trolling -- Psychology of Denialism -- Denial and Conspiracy Theories -- Denial Normalization Traps to Avoid -- Discussion -- Summary -- Epilogue: Now What? -- Imperviousness to Chaos -- What Solutions Are There for Russian Trolling? -- Web as a Zero Institution -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.