[Air-L] new open access book: Creating Chaos Online

[Asta Ze]

New book (free open access) on disinformation online published this week by
University of Michigan Press: *Creating Chaos Online: Disinformation and
Subverted Post-Publics* by Asta Zelenkauskaite:
https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/7h149s20q

Short description:

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. The idea of
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.

If you are interested in hard copy you can use promotion code UMF22 to get
30% off at press.umich.edu.

Asta Zelenkauskaite, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Communication

Graduate Program in Communication, Culture, & Media

Affiliated with Center for Science, Society, and Technology

Drexel University

3201 Arch, #165

Philadelphia, PA 19104


*2021-22 Provost Fellow for Global* *Engagement, Drexel University*
*co-chair IAMCR Audience section*
*co-chair AABS Communication and the Media division*
*Google
Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cDxS2wwAAAAJ&hl=lt&oi=ao
<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cDxS2wwAAAAJ&hl=lt&oi=ao>*
*Author: **Creating Chaos Online: Disinformation and Subverted
Post-Publics, **University of Michigan Press, September
2022 https://www.press.umich.edu//12237294
<https://www.press.umich.edu//12237294>*