In this article, we take dating apps as a case study to tackle the question of desire and enjoyment in contemporary society. Moving away from an instrumental conception digital media, focus on their (mis)functions related (dis)satisfactions. We argue that apps’ key function significance is not offering means through which find potential partner, but rather engaging subject’s without need for ac...

The Qisas and Diyat is product of Islamic jurisprudence. laws in Pakistan with distinct applicability conceptual approach trails are inadequately address the purposes criminal justice along consequences vast judicial dircretion cases will not serving purpose administering justice. Holy Quran hasn’t provided dictionary definition justice, but it establishes to principle equilibrium, parity, righ...

Two recent decisions of the Chief Justice BC Supreme Court, Evans (2016) and Brett (2020), introduced a dangerous new idea into homeless encampment jurisprudence: that purportedly “private” character sites determines defendants’ Charter rights are not engaged, government landowners entitled to interlocutory injunctions evicting encampments from publicly owned land. These distort established tes...

Although previous research has investigated consumer mythopoesis (consumers’ identity work using marketplace myths), little is known about its enactment involving ambiguous myths. Here, we investigate the myth of witch (predominantly depicted by dominant mythmakers as a villain but recently repositioned more positively) and describe how consumers reclaim empowering heroic aspects myth. Based on...

Gender difference graphs and tables typically present data representing males first, ahead of females. The Publication Manual the American Psychological Association in 2010 advised authors against this “bias” when reporting gender differences. An experiment examined how preference is related to embodied cognition, two content analytic studies its persistence despite APA’s advice it. In Study 1,...