Paruyr Hayrikyan, a candidate in the current campaign for the presidency of Armenia was shot late Thursday evening in Tpagrichner street, downtown Yerevan. The wound was not fatal and it is reported that he was shot in the shoulder. ArmeniaNow (English), RFERL (Armenian). Who is talking about Hayrikyan on Twitter? Here’s a hashtag analysis from…
I am so impressed with the linguistic abilities of my Caucasus friends. Growing up in a culture where bilingualism is uncommon, I am so envious of all the languages spoken by these friends. I have a piece in progress right now that looks at the influence of English language proficiency on Internet use in Armenia,…
For a variety of reasons, I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a good citizen in the Caucasus. With the growing differences between Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan (differences culturally, politically, etc.), I was wondering how people view themselves vis-a-vis their country. And lo-and-behold, there were major differences (all noted here are statistically significant)….
For the last 2 weeks, I’ve been posting a lot of images on my blog, but I haven’t taken the time to explain what or why or how these are happening. Azerbaijan, one of the countries that I study, is experiencing some turmoil right now. Briefly, a soldier was killed in the military as a…
So there is a new protest on January 26. It started at 3pm Baku time. Here’s the analysis for 4pm Baku time. full report 229 users with 3559 in the last 5 hours. most common words: protestbaku – the hashtag itself rt – retweet ismayilli – the hashtag for the other event of the week…
Looks like #protestbaku is being used again, possibly for a planned protest on Saturday. full report
Click here to see the #ismayilli hashtag grow. Here’s my analysis of this hashtag.
More stuff happening in Baku. While I would argue that Facebook is the best place to get news about Azerbaijan, there is some Twitter activity too. Tonight there was some sort of protest outside of Baku, this via Khadija Ismayil’s Facebook. “It seems there is a social protest in Ismayilli, 300 km to the north…
Just a quick update… Full analysis
Not too much to say here that is new, but I want to ensure that I continue updating. Link to full report