Harvard talk
I’m giving a talk on social media in Azerbaijan on March 27 at The Davis Center at Harvard. Details
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The Story of Stuff
I’ve written before on consumption in the Caucasus, but here’s a 2012 update. Any interesting ownership differences? Azerbaijanis like A/C, I guess. No major differences here, but looks like Armenians love their phones! People bought this stuff pretty recently. I admit, this isn’t the most interesting analysis, but because it is so difficult to measure…
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Regional and gender differences in Internet activities in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia
A recent RFERL report about social networking site use in rural Azerbaijan got me thinking about doing a blog post about regional differences in Internet activities in the Caucasus. (And whenever we’re talking about Internet and Azerbaijan, gender needs to be looked at as well.) I have a forthcoming paper in the Journal of Communication…
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Atheism in the Caucasus
Atheism in the Former Soviet Union is a complicated subject. During the Soviet period, everyone was encouraged to be atheist, but what about now? While it is difficult to ask people about their religion, asking them about their attitudes toward particular religions (or lack there of) IS possible. First people were asked how often they…
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Armenian, Azerbaijani, and Georgian Internet user types
What are the typical Internet users in the Caucasus? Using factor analysis (a technique where you see what things are related to other things), I’ve created some Caucasus Internet user types. I then used regression to see what demographic characteristics made it more or less likely for someone to be in a particular user type….
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Age distributions on Internet and Social Networking Sites in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia
I had a request via Twitter for age analysis on social media use in the Caucasus. Ask and you shall receive. But first, let’s start with Internet frequency. Certainly, there are a lot more younger people online than there are older people in all 3 countries. Interestingly, two-thirds of Armenian 18-24 year olds are online…
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#protestbaku analysis – the day after
ProtestBaku was the “official” hashtag of the protests in Baku over the past few months. It has been used by both the opposition and pro-government groups. I’ve done a number of hashtag analyses on it. Throughout the last few months, the pro-government tweeple have both hijacked the ProtestBaku hashtag and started a few of their…
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Cyberfuckery in Azerbaijan
I’ve documented a bunch of the hashtag hijaking in Azerbaijan, but today they took it to a new level. Fake Twitter accounts for Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizada were created. REAL EMIN FAKE EMIN REAL ADNAN FAKE ADNAN The fakes used the same Twitter photos. With Emin, his real account is @eminmilli and the fake…
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More hashtag tomfoolery
While I’ll do a full #protestbaku hashtag analysis, I wanted to share some odd hashtag behavior. The hashtag molotovlugenclik (Molotov Cocktail Youth) is being used by pro-government forces to attack the N!DA detainees. Full analysis. An analysis of this hashtag shows some interesting things. The largest group was around Rauf Mardiyev. There was another group…
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Hashtag analysis #protestbaku #10mart – March 10
Lots of action in Azerbaijan right now – I can barely begin to describe. But here’s some hashtag analysis. #protestbaku from 10 March 3am full report I don’t have much to say about this right now, but more will come tomorrow. #10mart full report 10 March 3pm full report 10 March 4pm full report 10…