Well, really just Armenia and Azerbaijan… Googling for Georgia is too difficult. Inspired by this campaign that looked what Google automatically fills in for searches about men and women, I tried to do this with Armenia and Azerbaijan. I was logged out of Google, so these are the “natural” search results, not influenced by my…
Demand for democracy is one of my favorite outcome (dependent) variables. It isn’t perfect, but it is used frequently in public opinion surveys and has been shown to be correlated with all sorts of interesting things. In a transitional society, popular demand for democracy (or legitimation) takes the form of a choice between competing regime…
#azvote13 – mid-September to today #secki2013 – mid-September to today
I’ve written a lot about “winning” hashtags and how this is a boastful tool for organizations. Here’s what I wrote yesterday on it. I’ve also written about trickery using Twitter. Here’s a good one. But now I have a new story… As I was going through the Azerbaijani election hashtags, I noticed something funny. This…
Hashtags are an interesting 21st century phenomenon. Hashtags are keywords to organize information to describe a tweet and aid in searching (Small, 2011). Hashtags also take on a symbolic quality and perhaps are an example of metacommunication. When I post a picture of parents recording every minute of a kids’ holiday concert, complaining about how…
More to come, but… #azvote13 for last 48 hours Group 1, the largest group, was unnetworked people. Group 2 is a big cluster of foreign organizations and some individuals, Azerbaijani and foreign, associated with them. Seems like it was a lot of discussion and re-tweeting of Rebecca Vincent. Group 3 is pro-government. Group 4 is…
#secki2013 – just for the last day #azvote13 – just for the last day
#azvote13 mid-September – October 8 Interesting changes here. Group 1, the pro-government forces, are a really tight cluster now. They used to be much less close. Seems like they’re talking to each other more now. Group 3 is a VERY tight cluster of oppositionists. Strong ties exist between Group 3 and Group 4, centered around…
The reproduction and amplification of gender inequality online: The case of Azerbaijan abstract: Inequalities found offline are replicated and are often amplified online. Results from a nationally representative survey in Azerbaijan, an authoritarian post-Soviet petrostate with a tradition of gender inequality, demonstrates that being female is not only a barrier to Internet use, but the…
I’ll be continuing to monitor the hashtags, but here is where we stand on Monday morning before the Wednesday election: #secki2013 for the weekend – pretty dead, but probably will pick up in the coming days full analysis #secki2013 for the past 10 days full analysis Opposition blogger muntezir is the most powerful tweeter in…