By requests, let’s look at voting behaviors in the 2012 Caucasus Barometer. Do Caucasians think that it is important for a good citizen to vote? With three-quarters of Georgians believing that it is extremely important for a good citizen to vote (mean 8.74/10), and less than two-thirds of Armenians (8.37/10) and half of Azerbaijanis believing…
USDA just released new data on household spending in various countries and looked at percentage of household spending on food. Azerbaijan is the second highest percentage of food versus household expenditures in the world. link Azerbaijanis spend 2,862 USD on all household expenditures and 1,257 USD on food per capita. This means food is 44%…
3 young activists are currently in administrative detention in Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani internet is in a tizzy because photos emerged in the past few days of these young men cleaning bathrooms. Today some Azerbaijanis on Facebook are posting “solidarity” photos of themselves cleaning bathrooms. (Here is a May 14 RFERL piece on this.) As I…
I’m giving a talk in Uppsala, Sweden on May 21. Information here!
Yerevan voted today! Here’s the TAGS explorer analysis. And NodeXL for 830pm May 5. Honestly I slept through all of this, so I don’t have much analysis yet. More to come! NodeXL for 11pm May 5. NodeXL for 10am May 6.
On May 2 I gave a talk at UW: Networked Authoritarianism in Azerbaijan: How the Azerbaijani government uses the Internet to deter dissent Slides Video
Hey, let’s check in on #evnvote13, shall we? This is the Yerevan mayor election. On Sunday May 5 people will vote. I’m trying out a tool called TAGS explorer. What I like about it is that it automatically archives Tweets and the visualization is constantly updated. Also some of the different metrics are a bit…