Mixed reaction to Azeri leader’s pardon decree BBC Monitoring International Reports – Friday, December 28, 2012 Azerbaijani human rights activists have displayed a mixed reaction to the 26 December pardoning decree of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. The president pardoned 87 people, including two prisoners of conscience and 11 political prisoners according to the lists of…
I wrote a piece on why technology penetration rates are meaningless. This is something I’m constantly complaining about, so I was glad to get it out there.
I’ll be giving a talk at Stanford’s Liberation Technology Center in January. Link here Title: Not Free to Be You and Me: Equivocation and Internet Freedom in Azerbaijan Abstract: Azerbaijan has a unique approach to Internet regulation that represents a ‘middle path’ between open access and censorship. Because the Internet is both unpredictable and a…
Lots of attacks on the Freedom House report Azerbaijani Council of State Support to NGOs disagrees with report of Freedom House Azeri-Press News Agency ( Azerbaijan ) – Monday, December 17, 2012 The Council of State Support to Non-Governmental Organizations under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan objected to the inclusion of Azerbaijan into…
I have a new article out with Beverly Bondad-Brown and Ron Rice. Bondad-Brown, B., Rice, R. E., & Pearce, K. E. (2012). Understanding the role of motivations, audience activity, generational cohort, & contextual age in online video use & recommendations. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 56, 471-493. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08838151.2012.732139?journalCode=hbem20 We worked on this project in…
A fun new trend in the constant stream of nonsense that is the Azerbaijani government’s Internet policy. (tl;dr the government is setting up new ways to control the Internet without appearing to control the Internet.) Keep those Azerbaijani kids off the Interwebz! Now we’re worried about the kids! Here are some news stories (some copy…