Azeri opposition daily links new internet project to presidential election BBC Monitoring International Reports – Sunday, September 30, 2012 An influential Azerbaijani opposition newspaper has linked the launch of a new social networking website, www.butalife.com, to the 2013 presidential election. The owner of the website is Ilham Abduyev, brother-in-law of powerful Azerbaijani Emergencies Minister Kamaladdin…
Here are the results of analysis about attitudes toward gender issues in Azerbaijan. The upper left graph about women and work is particularly interesting. Women and men tend to agree on these items, except that men are more likely to believe that university education is more important for a boy than a girl and men…
Link to full image Data analysis from ERBD’s Life in Transition Survey, late 2010.
Link to full image Data analysis from ERBD’s Life in Transition Survey, late 2010.
Link to full image Data analysis from ERBD’s Life in Transition Survey, late 2010.
I am incredibly lucky to have some amazing research collaborators and friends. For the project that I’m about to describe, I’m working with three women who rock my world. Two of them are also academic mommies of young kids (together we have 5 kids under age 6), two are non-native English speakers working in English…
Public hearings in October to precede VII meeting of Internet Governance forum in Baku 17 July 2012 ABC.AZ Daily News Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Azerbaijan Internet Forum’s Board has considered the issues of holding of the VII meeting of the international Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Baku this November. The Azerbaijan Internet Forum reports that the Board…
This July we moved from Washington, DC to Seattle so I can start a position as an assistant professor in the Communication Department at the University of Washington in the fall. We have 2 cats, Bachik and Tina. Katy got Bachik in 2000 and she has lived in Michigan, Vermont, California, Washington DC, and now…