Creating chaos online : disinformation and subverted post-publics / Asta Zelenkauskaitė.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zelenkauskaite, Asta, author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fake news--Political aspects.

Fake news.

Online trolling--Political aspects--Russia (Federation).

Online trolling.

Disinformation--Political aspects.

Disinformation.

Deception--Political aspects.

Deception.

Social media--Authorship--Political aspects.

Social media.

Internet--Political aspects.

Internet.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 293 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2022.

Summary:

With the prevalence of disinformation geared to instill doubt rather than clarity, Creating Chaos Online unmasks disinformation when it attempts to pass as deliberation in the public sphere and distorts the democratic processes. Asta Zelenkauskaitė finds that repeated tropes justifying Russian trolling were found to circulate across not only all analyzed media platforms' comments but also across two analyzed sociopolitical contexts suggesting the orchestrated efforts behind messaging. Through a dystopian vision of publics that are expected to navigate in the sea of uncertain both authentic and orchestrated content, pushed by human and nonhuman actors, Creating Chaos Online offers a concept of post-publics. Post-publics is reflected within the continuum of treatment of public, counter public, and anti-public. This book argues that affect-instilled arguments used in public deliberation in times of uncertainty, along with whataboutism constitute a playbook for chaos online.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-293) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472902903

0472902903

9780472075522

0472075527

9780472055524

0472055526

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access