Month: September 2013

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Talk on 10/10: Maintaining scholarly distance, developing trust, and protecting sources online and offline in an authoritarian context
Byadmin September 30, 2013

Pearce, K. E. (2013, October). Maintaining scholarly distance, developing trust, and protecting sources online and offline in an authoritarian context. Digital methods, ethical challenges: A symposium hosted by the Annenberg School Center for Global Communication Studies and the Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Philadelphia, PA. Doing research in authoritarian states is not easy….

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Transnational Families in Armenia and Information Communication Technology Use
Byadmin September 17, 2013September 17, 2013

New study out today. Considerable evidence has shown that migrants use ICT to maintain connections to their families and home. Unlike most previous researchers of migrant ICT use, we study those left behind. Using a nationally representative sample in which two thirds of respondent households have a migrant, we determine the effect of this on…

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The Internet Cafe is dead – most Armenians get online at home
Byadmin September 16, 2013January 7, 2014

More from the new Alternative Media USAID-CRRC dataset. Most Armenians are getting online (primarily) from home. (I wish that it had had some sort of ranking or estimate of hours, but it is what it is.) And how do people get online at home? Cable, 3G flash card, and still dial up (I can do…

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What are Armenians doing online in 2013?
Byadmin September 15, 2013January 7, 2014

Here’s an update to this 2012 post. Green is of Internet users and blue is for all Armenian adult citizens. In the near future I’ll do a break down of these activities by region, sex, etc. In this recent publication of mine, we show that rural, less educated, and poorer Armenians weren’t engaging in capital-enhancing…

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Media trust in Armenia – a methodological mess
Byadmin September 15, 2013September 15, 2013

A few years ago I wrote a report summarizing a USAID-funded CRRC-conducted study of the Armenian media environment. They re-did this study this summer (no report seems to be available yet), but the data is up so I will be slowly but surely posting some findings. Let’s start with media trust. This graphic makes it…

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Honor and Death: Is the Internet Exacerbating Suicide in Azerbaijan?
Byadmin September 10, 2013September 11, 2013

September 10 is World Suicide Prevention day. The most recent data on suicide in Azerbaijan is from 2007. However, according to this (iffy) website, suicide is the 20th most common cause of death in Azerbaijan, with over 400 each year. In an informal analysis of Azerbaijani news stories, I came up with 6 young female…

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