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…
(This is a continuation of a post I made in 2010 about this issue. This analysis based on the 2013 Alternative Resources in Media dataset.) So, the social networking site that one spends time on isn’t arbitrary. Research tells us that generally people go where their friends are, but also that there are demographic differences…
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….
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…
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…
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…