There has been a lot of activity related to homosexuality in the Caucasus this week. Armenia’s favorite LGBT-friendly bar was firebombed, Azerbaijan is hosting Eurovision, and Georgia has had some LGBT activism and negative responses. So, in light of this, here is some analysis of CRRC data on attitudes toward homosexuality in the Caucasus to…
After a long love affair with Europe’s campiest song contest, I’m very excited to see it be hosted in the Caucasus this year. However, there are of course many challenges here. Sarah Kendzior and I have a piece in Slate about Azerbaijan’s demonization of the Internet in light of Eurovision.
From Interfax January 17, 2012 Tuesday 2:04 PM MSK President Aliyev backs unrestricted Internet access in Azerbaijan LENGTH: 170 words DATELINE: BAKU. Jan 17 Unhindered access to the Internet should help bolster freedom of speech in Azerbaijan, the country’s President Ilham Aliyev said. “Azerbaijan supports freedom of speech and freedom of information. It has a…
I stumbled across this article from Trend News out of Azerbaijan (I can’t link because it is from an academic news search service). I’m going to take this apart line by line. Blue is the original, my text is red. Trend News Agency, Baku, Azerbaijan April 7, 2012 Saturday Internet penetration level among home users…
More infographics! This time on attitudes toward parliamentary elections (and parliament itself) in Armenia. As usual, please let me know if you have any questions. I know that there were no gender differences in any of these reported Link to full view.
There were a few reports this morning that Azerbaijan will stop broadcasting foreign TV content. This was from news.az and this hunky one from Turkish Hurriyet. I did a LexisNexis search though and it seems to be an older story. And apparently there were rumors that foreign shows would be allowed to remain. I’m not…
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Link to full screen This is my first attempt at making an infographic, so forgive me.
Recently Armenian political figure Vartan Oskanian joined Twitter. He tweeted a speech that he gave where he claimed that lack of trust in government is a cause of migration in Armenia. Thanks to him for giving me a hypothesis to test! Using the preliminary 2011 Caucasus Barometer, I looked at the relationship between desire to…
Networked Authoritarianism and Social Media in Azerbaijan is an article by myself and Sarah Kendzior about Azerbaijan and Internet control. Here is the abstract. (Translation via Google translate.) And here is the link to the study. (Contact me if you need a copy because of lack of library access.) English: The diffusion of digital media…