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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение. Журналистика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2312-9220</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2312-9247</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">46780</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-9220-2025-30-3-598-609</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">BPYCND</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>JOURNALISM</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Журналистика</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">India-Pakistan Conflict on the Global Mental Landscape: Media Geographical Focus</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Конфликт Индии и Пакистана на глобальном ментальном ландшафте: медиагеографический фокус</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5640-267X</contrib-id><contrib-id contrib-id-type="spin">9009-2212</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Yakova</surname><given-names>Tamara S.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Якова</surname><given-names>Тамара Сергеевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Journalism and Literature, Faculty of Journalism</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат филологических наук, доцент, доцент кафедры зарубежной журналистики и литературы, факультет журналистики</p></bio><email>t-yakova@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Lomonosow Moscow State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Московский государственный университет имени М.В. Ломоносова</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-10-30" publication-format="electronic"><day>30</day><month>10</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>30</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">New Indiaʼs voice: media, culture, and communication</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Новый голос Индии: медиа, культура и коммуникации</issue-title><fpage>598</fpage><lpage>609</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-10-30"><day>30</day><month>10</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2025, Yakova T.S.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2025, Якова Т.С.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Yakova T.S.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Якова Т.С.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/46780">https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/46780</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Presented the results of a study of the behavior of the global Internet audience in relation to the conflict between India and Pakistan. For the first time in scientific research, the media geographic approach is applied to the analysis of this topic. The objective of the study is to identify semantic morphosculptures associated with the relations between India and Pakistan and determine their place in the global mental landscape. The methodology of the study was based on the theory of rank analysis. The chronological framework of the study covers the period from 2004 to May 2025. The results of the analysis of big data extracted using the Google Trends service showed that the semantic morphosculpture associated with IndoPakistani relations on the mental landscapes of a number of South Asian countries has become the Kashmir conflict. Correlations are revealed between the media space of the conflict, mediated by the world mass media, and the mental space manifested in the search queries of Internet users in different countries of the world. The results of the analysis of the dynamics of reactions of Internet audiences to conflict processes can become the basis for predicting the behavior of the population in conditions of their escalation and modeling solutions.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Представлены результаты исследования поведения глобальной интернетаудитории по отношению к конфликту Индии и Пакистана. Впервые в научных исследованиях медиагеографический подход применяется к анализу данной темы. Задача - выявить смысловые морфоскульптуры, связанные с отношениями Индии и Пакистана, определить их место на глобальном ментальном ландшафте, - решалась при помощи медиагеог рафического инструментария. Методология базировалась на теории рангового анализа. Хронологические рамки исследования охватывают период с 2004 по май 2025 г. Результаты анализа Big Data, извлеченных при помощи сервиса Google Trends, показали, что смысловой морфоскульптурой, связанной с индо-пакистанскими отношениями, в ментальных ландшафтах целого ряда стран Южной Азии стал кашмирский конфликт. Выявлены корреляции между медийным пространством конфликта, опосредованным мировыми средствами массовой информации, ментальным пространством, проявленным в запросах интернет-пользователей разных стран мира. Результаты анализа динамики реакций интернет-аудиторий на конфликтные процессы могут стать основой для прогно зирования поведения населения в условиях их обострения и моделирования решений.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>international conflicts</kwd><kwd>Kashmir conflict</kwd><kwd>rank analysis</kwd><kwd>media space of conflict</kwd><kwd>mental space of conflict</kwd><kwd>semantic morphosculpture</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>международные конфликты</kwd><kwd>кашмирский конфликт</kwd><kwd>ранговый ана лиз</kwd><kwd>медийное пространство конфликта</kwd><kwd>ментальное пространство конфликта</kwd><kwd>смысловая морфоскульптура</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta><fn-group/></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Asmolov, K.V., &amp; Babaev, K.V. (2024). Tripolar world and bloc triangles in East Asia. Rossiya v Globalnoy Politike, 22(3), 165–181. 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