Creating Chaos Online : Disinformation and Subverted Post-Publics.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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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.