This is an update to this post from January and this post from March and this post from September. It is hard to know how many people in a country are using Facebook, but through Facebook’s Ad selling program, you can get some rounded information. The numbers they give are not exact, so these percentages…
This week the mascots for the 2015 Baku European Games were released. And they’re so cute! Jeyran (deer) is a female deer/gazelle (despite having antlers – only male deer have antlers) and Nar (pomegranate) is a boy with a pomegranate for a head (?). Maybe Nar is a girl? The eyelashes seem feminine. Social media…
Twitter is a great platform, but for better or worse, it added support for non-Latin alphabets quite late. Today media.am had a great article on the use of the hashtags #Armenia, #Հայաստան (Armenia in Armenian script), and #Армения (Armenia in Russian). I thought that I’d add an additional layer by doing a NodeXL hashtag analysis….
I gave a poster at NCA14!
My classroom is literally a sea of devices. This may surprise those of us that went to college before the era of affordable laptops, tablets, and smartphones. For us, going to class meant writing notes in a notebook. Only two of my undergraduate professors used PowerPoint and I explicitly remember getting a C in a…
It has been awhile since there has been hashtag shenanigans in the Caucasus. Some of the major hashtag shenanigans players fell out of favor. But this week things heated up again. I started seeing random odd tweets from accounts and upon clicking through it seemed like they were likely fake accounts – brand new, stock…
There is so much discussion about Armenia’s possible membership in the Eurasian Economic Union. Today I was in the 2013 Caucasus Barometer for other reasons and noticed that the EEU came up in a question. I’ve also posted the results for EU and NATO. I’m a little annoyed that EEU wasn’t asked about in Azerbaijan….
Recently former Ambassador Richard Kauzlarich and Freedom House head David J. Kramer published an article calling for sanctions against Azerbaijan. And while I agree that more drastic and creative measures must be taken, I am not sure that experience shows that sanctions are an effective tool against an authoritarian regime. Now, you may wonder if…
Pretending to create an advertisement on Facebook allows for insight into who is using Facebook in a particular place. I document how I do this here. Today I was playing around with the Ad tool to see what Azerbaijanis are on Facebook. According to Facebook Ads, 52% of Azerbaijanis accessing Facebook own a smartphone, 25%…
This is an update to this post from January and this post from March. It is hard to know how many people in a country are using Facebook, but through Facebook’s Ad selling program, you can get some rounded information. The numbers they give are not exact, so these percentages displayed below are not accurate…