A framework for digital resilience

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In this seminar, Dr. Zelenkauskaite offers a framework for digital resilience based on her recently published  book Creating Chaos Online

This event is online. Join us on Zoom.A framework for digital resilience: Lessons learned from the Russia trolling case Digital resilience is vital for healthy democracies, particularly in times of high uncertainty. In this talk, Dr. Asta Zelenkauskaite offers a framework for digital resilience based on empirical work from her recently published book Creating Chaos Online (University of Michigan Press). With the prevalence of disinformation geared to instil 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. Dr. Zelenkauskaite finds that repeated tropes justifying Russian trolling were found to circulate across not only all analysed media platforms’ comments but also across two analysed 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. Based on the case of Russian trolling, this talk showcases examples of lessons learned that are proposed to serve as a framework to build more resilient democratic societies and combat chaos online.Creating Chaos Online book is available open access via University of Michigan Press and may be downloaded here: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/7h149s20q#descriptionThis seminar will be chaired by Nicole Curato. This event is part of the Paths of Digital Democracy seminar series jointly hosted by the News and Media Research Centre and the Centre for Democracy and Global Governance. About the speakerDr. Asta Zelenkauskaite is an associate professor in the department of Communication, Drexel University. Her research focuses on emergent practices in online spaces that are traceable through digital meta data and discourses. Her work is based on interdisciplinary perspectives that intersect information science, discourse studies, and computational social sciences. She is part of the Center for Science, Technology &amp; Society. Her work has been published in New Media &amp; Society, Social Media &amp; Society, Convergence, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, and First Monday, among others.Photo credit: Elizabeth Waldie

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