Communication Regimes Research Articles

Shannon meets Myerson: Information extraction from a strategic sender

We study a setting where a receiver must design a questionnaire to recover a sequence of symbols known to a strategic sender, whose utility may not be incentive compatible. We allow the receiver the possibility of selecting the alternatives presented in the questionnaire, and thereby linking decisions across the components of the sequence. We show that, despite the strategic sender and the noise in the channel, the receiver can recover exponentially many sequences, but also that exponentially many sequences are unrecoverable even by the best strategy. We define the growth rate of the number of recovered sequences as the information extraction capacity. A generalization of the Shannon capacity, it characterizes the optimal amount of communication resources required while communicating with a strategic sender. We derive bounds leading to an exact evaluation of the information extraction capacity in many cases. Our results form the building blocks of a novel, non-cooperative regime of communication involving a strategic sender.

Novel design of cryptographic architecture of nanorouter using quantum-dot cellular automata nanotechnology

The article introduces a revolutionary Nanorouter structure, which is a crucial component in the Nano communication regime. To complete the connection, many key properties of Nanorouters are investigated and merged. QCA circuits with better speed and reduced power dissipation aid in meeting internet standards. Cryptography based on QCA design methodologies is a novel concept in digital circuit design. Data security in nano-communication is crucial in data transmission and reception; hence, cryptographic approaches are necessary. The data entering the input line is encrypted by an encoder, and then sent to the designated output line, where it is decoded and transferred. The Nanorouter is offered as a data path selector, and the proposed study analyses the cell count of QCA and the circuit delay. In this manuscript, novel designs of (4:1)) Mux and (1:4) Demux designs are utilized to implement the proposed nanorouter design. The proposed (4:1) Mux design requires 3–5% fewer cell counts and 20–25% fewer area, and the propsoed (1:4) Demux designs require 75–80% fewer cell counts and 90–95% fewer area compared to their latest counterparts. The QCAPro utility is used to analyse the power consumption of several components that make up the router. QCADesigner 2.0.3 is used to validate the simulation results and output validity.

Communication Regime in Georgia: Dialogue in the Context of Severed Diplomatic Relations

This article presents the results of a research on the information and communication situation in Georgia, the role and importance of national and foreign communication resources, conducted by the annual monitoring of the friendliness of communication regimes of the National Research Institute of Communication Development (NRICD). The authors examined the main challenges and threats in the communication regime of the two countries. The article reveals the latent problems of the communication regime, including the concentration of media in the hands of a narrow circle of individuals and political forces, as well as the increasing politicization of information. The article examines the peculiarities of presentation of news materials that shape anti-Russian rhetoric and agenda. The communication regime between the two countries is largely determined by the continuing tension around the Tskhinvali region and Abkhazia, as well as the instability of the internal political situation. The increasing fragmentation of Georgian society, the extreme polarization of various political forces, and the growing role of non-regional actors have a great impact on Georgian political discourse and official rhetoric and serve as a facilitator for the complication of bilateral relations.The article uses the materials of the annual monitoring of the communication regimes of post-Soviet countries. Monitoring is provided by the National Research Institute for the Communications Development (Moscow).

Social processes in Modern Georgia: Is There any Potential for the Development of Russian-Georgian Cooperation?

The authors of the article, participants in the discussion “Georgia’s Communication Regime: Development Trends,” presented their views on social processes in modern Georgia. It is substantiated that the spiritual ties between Georgians and Russians are based on Orthodoxy and the mutual assistance that Russians and Georgians have provided to each other for centuries. The historical and cultural origins of Russian-Georgian relations are examined. The common historical past contributed to the interpenetration of cultures and traditions. However, under the influence of Western ideologies, a large part of modern Georgian youth has formed a different worldview. The authors of the article propose how to overcome the ideological gap through the implementation of cultural projects. Promising areas of cooperation between Russia and Georgia are considered in the absence of diplomatic relations and the anti-Russian position of the Georgian authorities. Youth communications and cooperation in the economy (primarily in agriculture) are also promising. The following risks of cooperation are considered: the unresolved issue of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, fluctuations of the political elites of Georgia, the chaotic nature of the Georgian economy, the role of anti-Russian position of Russians in Georgia, insufficient work with Georgian society on the Russian side and the need to activate the potential of the Georgian diaspora in Russia.The article was prepared based on the materials of the international round table “Georgia’s Communication Regime: Development Trends” (conducted by the National Research Institute for the Communications Development in December 2023).

Dynamics of Friendliness of Communication Regimes in the South Caucasus Countries

The article presents a Rating of the friendliness of the communication regimes of post-Soviet countries for 2023. The author focuses on the countries of the South Caucasus, shows the trends in the development of communication regimes, the degree of their friendliness towards Russia. The communication regime is defined as a system of rules, norms, conditions and opportunities for communication between state and non-state actors. To determine friendliness, the legal, political, and socio-cultural conditions for the development of 12 types of cross-country communications are analyzed. The strengthening of the formation of a common communication space with Russia in South Ossetia and Abkhazia is argued. In Azerbaijan and Georgia, the strengthening of a pragmatic approach to the development of communications with Russia and the strengthening of the role of the economic factor are being recorded. The example of Armenia shows how the political elite strengthen the movement towards unfriendliness in conditions when there is no deep anti-Russian position in the consciousness of the Armenian society. The author has compiled profiles of the friendliness of communication regimes for each country and reveals their features. The article uses the materials of the annual monitoring of the communication regimes of post-Soviet countries. Monitoring is provided by the National Research Institute for the Communications Development (Moscow) under the guidance of the author of this article.

Russia and South Ossetia: Factors Influencing Cooperation in the Field of Education

The article analyzes Russian-South Ossetian cooperation in the field of education, in which great importance is paid to integration and internationalization. Characteristics are given to the official documents that make up the legal framework of this cooperation. The role of ministries and departments in the development of international educational interaction is shown. Various forms of cooperation are considered: scientific projects, the opportunity to enter Russian universities, joint Olympiads, competitions, conferences. The article pays more attention to the role of South Ossetian State University in the development of educational, scientific and social cooperation. The article reveals the role of interuniversity interaction in the development of Russian-South Ossetian cooperation. Non-governmental organizations and their projects play an important role in this process. Russian-South Ossetian cooperation demonstrates a wide range of opportunities and the growing potential for mutually beneficial activities in the field of education.The article uses the materials of the annual monitoring of the communication regimes of post-Soviet countries. Monitoring is provided by the National Research Institute for the Communications Development (Moscow).

Conditions and Opportunities of Youth Communications Development in Post-Soviet Space: on the Results of Foreign Experts Survey

The article is based on the analysis of conditions and opportunities of youth cooperation development between Russia and Post-Soviet countries. In majority of studies on this matter, the analysis of the situation is conducted by the Russian experts. This paper features unique data - the assessment provided by foreign experts from all post-Soviet countries. The issue is not revealed exceptionally via the direct questions on the possibility of youth cooperation. The conditions, such as possibility of communication in Russian, ability for Russian Media activity and reception of accurate and valid information about Russia, ability for cooperation between NGOs are assessed. Memory policy and foreign policy guidelines of the post-Soviet countries governments, attitude towards Russia as to an ally and partner or as to an enemy and opponent are considered crucial for youth cooperation development. The article is prepared as a part of post-Soviet countries communication regimes monitoring conducted by the National Research Institute for Communications Development (Moscow) under the directorship of the author.

Political Communication and Mediatic Urgency: An Ethnographic Approach of Portuguese Parliamentary Journalists at Work

ABSTRACT What kinds of relationships exist between Members of Parliament (MPs), journalists, and spin doctors in Parliament, and how do these relationships influence the performance and representation of politics? Drawing on an unprecedented ethnographic investigation on the Portuguese Parliament, this article suggests that these relations, marked by both closeness and conflict, structure a communication regime driven by social acceleration and mediatic urgency. It is also noteworthy that the media rhythm is intensified by the precariousness of journalism, the hyper-communication of the political parties, and the role of spin doctors in shaping the narratives of political communication. It is concluded that journalism, self-proclaimed an instrument of scrutiny of the political reality, is in practice an instrument of construction of that same reality, reproducing an idea of politics as a specialized practice, as opposed to its understanding as a potential dimension of human relations.

Russian Federation and Uzbekistan: Russian Identity and Attitude to Russians

The article presents the results of a study of the communication regime of the Republic of Uzbekistan in relation to the Russian Federation, in the context of modern changes in the world order. Despite the global challenges, the Republic of Uzbekistan is strengthening its close and friendly relations with the Russian Federation. The Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty underlines the importance of strengthening cooperation between the two countries. The analysis of the communication regime covers both official resources and the media, while revealing a positive trend in communicationswith Russia. Russian identity and the degree of positivity of communication in relation to the Russian language and Russian identity in Uzbekistan are considered in the article. The Russian language is preserved, and the Russian identity is encouraged and supported. The Republic supports friendly and positive communication with respect to Russia, Russians, Russian language and Russian identity, even in the face of global changes. Uzbekistan continues to strengthen relations with Russia on the basis of mutual respect, partnership and common historical memory, which remains important in the modern geopolitical reality.

Evil is on this earth: on the compositions in Karajá healing practices and the spirits’ communication regime

Resumo Em busca de tratamento para doenças resultantes de acometimento por espíritos, os Karajá, povo indígena centro-brasileiro, recorrem hoje, além de seus próprios xamãs, a xamãs de outras etnias e curandeiros regionais, bem como a sua fé em Deus. E todos esses curadores, a despeito de seus diferentes conhecimentos e técnicas, são considerados igualmente xamãs. Os médicos não indígenas, em contraste, não podem curar esses adoecimentos, e a esses especialistas só se recorre para tratar as ‘doenças de branco’. A diferença marcada entre doenças e especialistas, no último caso, contrasta com o regime de comunicação absoluta no primeiro. É a essa diferença que o artigo se dedica. Dialogando com a antropologia da saúde, por um lado, e com a questão da religião, por outro, proponho que o que permite que curadores de origens diversas tratem pessoas enfeitiçadas, diferentemente dos médicos, é o fato de que o xamanismo atualiza o regime de diferença infinita, ou de transparência absoluta, dos tempos primordiais.

Жануарларға жауапкершілікпен қарау туралы заңнаманы бұзғаны үшін заңды жауапкершілік

The article deals with topical issues related to bringing to justice for animal cruelty in modern Kazakh law. In this regard, there is a need to study offenses against animals, in particular violations of legislation on responsible treatment of animals. The purpose of the study is to study the legal regime of communication with animals in the modern legal system of the Republic of Kazakhstan, to determine the types of liability for violation of legislation on responsible treatment of animals, legal control over the protection of animals from erroneous manifestations, to prepare proposals to improve the rules and current legislation to ensure the needs of animals. The objectives of the study are to characterize the types of offenses based on foreign legislation and judicial practice, the reasoning of scientists and to give their own author's conclusions on improving the current legislation. The authors, starting with the analysis of the legal status of animals and ending with the attitude towards animals not only as things, but also recognizing them as beings capable of experiencing suffering and emotions, draw attention to the need to clarify the responsibility of the animal owner in this area of public relations in case of violation of the rules of keeping pets, a possible threat to the safety of others. Various branches of the law of the Republic of Kazakhstan analyzed the responsibility for animal cruelty established by civil, criminal and administrative law. The work carried out as a result allowed the authors to formulate a number of recommendations on current legislation in the field of regulating the situation when pets violate the rules of handling them.

Communication Regime of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Socio-Political Analysis

The article contains the results of a pilot study of the controllability of information and communication processes in Afghanistan. The author defines the concept of “communication regime” and “controllability”, describes the indicators of controllability of communication regimes and their main types. The concept of communication regime is applied for the first time in the context of Afghanistan. The author analyzes the degree of conventionality of the communication regime control center in Afghanistan and comes to the conclusion that the regime, in general, is weakly conventional. The centers of control of the communication regime inside and outside the country are considered, and the conclusion is made about the weak controllability of the communication regime on the part of the Taliban*. The ability of the Taliban* to transfer the communication regime from one state to another without conflict, the ability to control and achieve the target parameters of the communication regime, the ability of the Taliban* to use the mechanisms of self-organization and society are evaluated. to regulate communication regimes. A number of features of the communication regime are highlighted, for example, the presence of “blind spots” that are not always seen and understood by those who manage public communications. The article contains web analytics, statistical data on mass media, popular browsers, search engines, transmitting devices.

From the cocoon to la chape de plomb: The birth and persistence of silence around sexism in academia

AbstractDrawing on narrative accounts of French business school staff and faculty about their experiences and observations of actions taken by different organizational actors in response to a trigger event, we theorize the intricate connections between organizational practices conducive to sexism and the persistence of silence around such practices. Specifically, empirical investigation demonstrates how managerial practices such as the allocation of organizational tasks and valorization of individual contributions prompt organizational members to assume a variety of stances toward gender issues. The enactment of these stances in various interactions provokes organizational counteraction in the form of sanctions, the establishment of a hermetic and formulaic communication regime, and public reinforcement of meritocratic narratives. This results in silence around organizational sexism manifesting as a collective and individual inability and unwillingness to react. This study contributes to a broader and rapidly developing literature on sexism in academic settings and the phenomenon of silencing in organizations by shedding light on the mechanisms of its persistence.

Communication Regime in Telematic Media

Communication Regime in Telematic Media

Cluster-Free NOMA Communications Toward Next Generation Multiple Access

A generalized downlink multi-antenna non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmission framework is proposed with the novel concept of cluster-free successive interference cancellation (SIC). In contrast to conventional NOMA approaches, where SIC is successively carried out within the same cluster, the key idea is that the SIC can be flexibly implemented between any arbitrary users to achieve efficient interference elimination. Based on the proposed framework, a sum rate maximization problem is formulated for jointly optimizing the transmit beamforming and the SIC operations between users, subject to the SIC decoding conditions and users’ minimal data rate requirements. To tackle this highly-coupled mixed-integer nonlinear programming problem, an alternating direction method of multipliers-successive convex approximation (ADMM-SCA) algorithm is developed. The original problem is first reformulated into a tractable biconvex augmented Lagrangian (AL) problem by handling the non-convex terms via SCA. Then, this AL problem is decomposed into two subproblems that are iteratively solved by the ADMM to obtain the stationary solution. Furthermore, to reduce the computational complexity and alleviate the parameter initialization sensitivity of ADMM-SCA, a Matching-SCA algorithm is proposed. The intractable binary SIC operations are solved through an extended many-to-many matching, which is jointly combined with an SCA process to optimize the transmit beamforming. The proposed Matching-SCA can converge to an enhanced exchange-stable matching that guarantees the local optimality. Numerical results demonstrate that: i) the proposed Matching-SCA algorithm achieves comparable performance and a faster convergence compared to ADMM-SCA; ii) the proposed generalized framework realizes scenario-adaptive communications and outperforms traditional multi-antenna NOMA approaches in various communication regimes.

The Friendliness of Armenia's Communication Regime: Towards the Question of Media and Public Attitudes

The article is devoted to the issue of friendliness as a category of the current state of the communication regimes of the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation. The orientation of the friendliness of the Armenian communication regime is largely determined by the sharp contradictions between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the continuing tension in the Karabakh conflict zone, and the instability of the internal political situation. The confrontation of various political forces and the large role of the external factor have a great influence on the Armenian political discourse and favor the emergence of trends that are contrary to Russian national interests and can be considered by Russia as threats. The article analyzes the features of the news materials presented by the information and information-analytical agencies of Armenia in Russian. Information occasions, the emotional tone of information messages are studied, it is assessed how fully the Russianlanguage content reflects the events in the life of Armenian society and, in particular, the trends in the development of relations between Armenia and Russia. It is concluded that the potential for more detailed news coverage in Russian of Russian-Armenian relations, the results of cooperation between Russia and Armenia has not yet been revealed. The article was based on the results of a scientifc discussion held at the National Communications evelopment Research Institution (NIIRC), Moscow, Russia in 2022.

Communication Regime in Belarus: State, Challenges and Threats

The article is devoted to the results of the study of the information and communication sphere in the Republic of Belarus, the role, place and importance of national and foreign information and communication resources. The state, challenges and threats to the national security of the Republic, the tools for conducting the information war of the Western countries against the Belarusian state are considered. Examples of the information impact of opposition channels in Telegram, Twitter, You Tube on the authorities in Belarus with the aim of removing A.G. Lukashenko from the post of the President of the Republic are given. Comparisons were made between the effectiveness and popularity of state-owned media and foreign private information resources. Priority areas of the research are identified and presented, the results should be used to strengthen counteraction to information and psychological attacks against Russia and Belarus.

Russia in the Media and Public Space of Modern Kyrgyzstan

The article was prepared on the materials of a scientifc discussion held by the National Communications Development Research Institution, dedicated to the study of the communication regime in Kyrgyzstan. The authors examine the decline in the level of knowledge of the Russian language and interest in the Russian-language media, talk about the need to develop cooperation between the Kyrgyz and Russian media and civil society institutions, and develop the infrastructure of Russian schools, especially in rural areas. The question is raised about changing approaches to the choice of an event series to preserve the common historical memory of peoples. Noting the great positive signifcance of cooperation between Kyrgyzstan and Russia for the development of Kyrgyz society, the authors talk about important problems: the development of an anti-Russian infrastructure in Kazakhstan (supported by Western investors) and its impact on public opinion, especially Kyrgyz youth. The article was based on the results of a scientific discussion held at the National Communications Development Research Institution (NIIRC), Moscow, Russia in 2022.

Dynamics of Friendliness of Communication Regimes of Neighboring Countries (Based on the Results of Annual Monitoring)

The article contains the results of monitoring the friendliness of communication regimes in the post-Soviet countries and an analysis of the friendliness rating of these countries for 2022. The author identifies a number of trends: the strengthening of the polarization of friendly and unfriendly communication regimes; strengthening state control over information content and communication channels; reducing the subjectivity of civil society institutions as actors of communication regimes; increased pressure on the Orthodox Church. Fluctuating type of communication regimes are revealed, in which, according to the author, one should expect changes in the conditions of communications with Russia. It spoken about critically significant factor in the successful promotion of Russia's interests – the development of special communication strategies for intercountry interactions. The author argues that the phenomenon of "post-Soviet" is alive and is used by different countries either to build up friendly communications or to increase hostility towards Russia.

Landscape of Friendliness of Country Communication Regimes on Post-Soviet Space: 2022 Monitoring Results

The author presents the monitoring results of friendliness of communication regimes of neighboring countries. It is pointed out that communication regime concept has a significant gnoseological, predictive and interpretative potential for analysis of internal political processes and external policy strategy of the countries. Monitoring of amicable attitude of communication regimes considers research of practices, conditions, regulations imposed in a particular country in context of communication with Russia. Governmental and Non-governmental actors are assessed – as well as political and civil communications are observed. In 2022, intensification of polarity between friendly and unfriendly countries has been noted. Unfriendly counties have established a model of total prohibition of communication with Russia. Political pressure on religious and civil society institutions has increased. Friendly and partially friendly countries, meanwhile, have improved conditions for economic, educational and scientific communications.