“What is the difference,” went an old joke in the Soviet Union, “between the Soviet and U.S. Constitutions? The Soviet Constitution guarantees freedom of speech; the U.S. Constitution guarantees freedom after speech.” The joke captures the common intuition about the function (or dysfunction, rather) of constitutions in authoritarian regimes. Many other examples abound: citizens of North Korea m...

Increasingly scholars are emphasizing the importance of community driven media such as indigenous media for foregrounding marginalized voices. However, not all the indigenous media across the globe receive adequate attention in discursive spaces such as Adivasi (indigenous) media in India. Consequently, little is known about these media, their characteristics and relevance, and such gaps essent...

Abstract In this article, we reply to ‘Ethics and Epistemic Injustice in the Global South’ (Kaur et al. 2023), a response original article ‘Covert Qualitative Research as Method Study Human Rights Under Authoritarian Regimes’ (Hopman 2022). Our is written by authors who have expertise direct experience with issues at stake (authoritarianism, North/Global South relations, covert research methods...

The article observes the discourse about methodological and theoretical frameworks of sharp power’s concept. Since first publications power in 2017, this concept has already become central issue all researches on public diplomacy world. Sharp observed by western researchers as antipode soft power, which is used «authoritarian regimes» (including Russia, China, Iran a number other states) to des...

Social media influencers (SMIs) as significant stakeholders are increasingly collaborating with brands to cultivate marketing campaigns. However, literature concerning the narrative strategies used by SMIs create electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) introduce and products remains under-theorised. This research takes a theoretical perspective of communication, advances eWOM theory develop SMIs’ model...

We consider systems of equations which arise in modelling strong interactions of weakly nonlinear long waves in dispersive media. For a certain class of such systems, we prove the existence and stability of localized solutions representing coupled solitary waves travelling at a common speed. Our results apply in particular to the systems derived by Gear and Grimshaw and by Liu, Kubota, and Ko a...

This paper reports findings from a content analysis of the main messages about sexuality in media outlets consumed by young people. It examines how sexuality is represented and the level of sexual health information provided in some UK magazines and TV programmes targeted at young people. Our findings show that such outlets included a vast range of useful discussion including information about ...