Creating Chaos Online

Titel: Creating Chaos Online : disinformation and subverted post-publics / Asta Zelenkauskaitė, Ann Arbor
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Veröffentlicht: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Michigan Press, 2022
Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (319 Seiten)
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9780472075522 ; 9780472055524 ; 9780472902903
  • Introduction. A Déjà Vu from the Silenced Generation
  • p. 1
  • Disinformation
  • p. 3
  • Soviet Propaganda in the Eyes of a Child
  • p. 9
  • Vulnerabilities of Social Media
  • p. 17
  • Trolling and Russian Trolling
  • p. 23
  • Russian Trolling Circulation
  • p. 30
  • Chapter 1
  • Propagandistic Masquerade
  • p. 38
  • Text as a Mask
  • p. 39
  • Paradoxes of a Mask
  • p. 40
  • Subversiveness of a Mask
  • p. 46
  • Performativity and Modus Operandi of a Propagandist Mask: self-sabotage
  • p. 56
  • Multiple Faces for the Masks: Commenting User Typology
  • p. 64
  • Discussion
  • p. 75
  • Summary
  • p. 79
  • Chapter 2
  • Divide and Conquer: Exploiting Political Polarization
  • p. 81
  • Frameworks of Information Persuasion
  • p. 84
  • Communication Persuasion Models
  • p. 85
  • Mechanics of Propaganda
  • p. 87
  • Communicative Tactics: Attack, Defense, and Whataboutism
  • p. 99
  • Tactics Used in Online News Comments
  • p. 102
  • Discussion
  • p. 119
  • Summary
  • p. 121
  • Chapter 3
  • Instilling Mistrust in Institutions
  • p. 127
  • Living in Media
  • p. 129
  • Comments as Forms of News Deliberations
  • p. 136
  • News Portals Comments as Information Warfare Zones
  • p. 139
  • Contexts That Situate Online Public Deliberation
  • p. 143
  • Discrediting Media as an Institution
  • p. 146
  • Attack on Government Institutions
  • p. 154
  • Discussion
  • p. 157
  • Summary
  • p. 162
  • Chapter 4
  • Roots of Russia's Victim's Playing
  • p. 171
  • New Media and Information Warfare in Authoritarian Regimes
  • p. 173
  • Roots of Russia's (Information) Warfare
  • p. 177
  • Information Warfare in Action by Russia
  • p. 186
  • Victim-Playing Russian Trolls in the News Comments
  • p. 195
  • Delegitimization Rhetoric
  • p. 202
  • Summary
  • p. 218
  • Chapter 5
  • Deny and Conquer: Fears of Looking Like a "Pussy State"
  • p. 220
  • Implications of the Denialism Discourse regarding Russian Trolling
  • p. 221
  • Psychology of Denialism
  • p. 227
  • Denial and Conspiracy Theories
  • p. 231
  • Denial Normalization Traps to Avoid
  • p. 234
  • Discussion
  • p. 245
  • Summary
  • p. 249
  • Epilogue: Now What?
  • p. 255
  • Imperviousness to Chaos
  • p. 255
  • What Solutions Are There for Russian Trolling?
  • p. 260
  • Web as a Zero Institution
  • p. 265
  • Appendix
  • p. 267
  • Bibliography
  • p. 271
  • Index
  • p. 295