Creating Chaos Online : Disinformation and Subverted Post-Publics.

By: Zelenkauskaite, AstaMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022Copyright date: �2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (319 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780472902903Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Creating Chaos OnlineOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction. A D�ej�a 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.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction. A D�ej�a 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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