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Acting is another. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2014\/04\/14\/russian-media-bloopers\/\">Here are some priceless encounters with news fabrication.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ve begun paying attention to web sites about the ongoing events in Ukraine, I&#8217;ve noticed how similar Russian web trolls are to climate denialist trolls. Both seem to operate on an industrial scale. Trolling is one way of fabricating news. Acting is another. 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Their Spring catalogue, which can be downloaded here, includes two new books on Jean-Luc Godard (adding to an impressive back catalog of film titles), as well as Gary Genosko's When Technocultures Collide, Kamboureli and Verduyn's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Media ecology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Media ecology","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/media_ecology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1021,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/01\/23\/deleuzeguattari-ecology\/","url_meta":{"origin":7493,"position":1},"title":"Deleuze\/Guattari &amp; ecology","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"January 23, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Several prominent Deleuzians are collected in Bernd Herzogenrath's \"Deleuze\/Guattari and ecology.\" The opening chapter is on the publisher's web site.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Eco-culture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Eco-culture","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/ecoculture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1177,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/01\/12\/climate-rage\/","url_meta":{"origin":7493,"position":2},"title":"climate rage","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"January 12, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Just a quick follow-up to the previous post... 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