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>*