Protected: Caucasian Consumption
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Protected: Azerbaijan establishes commission on Internet content
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Baby Makin’ in the Caucasus
There are a number of initiatives to try to increase the number of babies born in the Caucasus. But how many kids do people want? It seems that Armenians, Azerbaijanis, and Georgians have very different feelings on this question. Also noteworthy is that only in Armenia do women and men see things differently. But there…
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#ismayilli hashtag analysis Jan 27 – Feb 4
Ismayilli isn’t “over,” at least on Twitter. full report What is really interesting about this updated analysis is the exceptionally tight cluster in group 1 – full of foreign NGOs and news organizations as well as English-tweeting Azerbaijanis and group 2 is again strange with all of these non-profile picture accounts. The tweets themselves are…
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Low level corruption in the Caucasus
While corruption is without a doubt a major issue in the Caucasus, many think about higher level corruption rather than day-to-day corruption. This is an analysis of the 2011 Caucasus Barometer. All differences are statistically significant. Although these questions were asked with a great deal of privacy, there is certainly a social desirability effect here….
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Social media in the Caucasus Part 2 — չորս քառակուսի, dörd kvadrat, ოთხი მოედანზე
After yesterday’s post on my thoughts on social media in the Caucasus, I came across Foursquare maps of Yerevan, Baku, and Tbilisi. I love this sort of visualization and how you can sort of see the life of the city in it. Foursquare is a mobile-based “game” (it gets its name from an American (?)…
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Georgians are social, women get out less than men do, and other unsurprising findings
2011 Caucasus Barometer FWIW, Armenia doesn’t have a chaixana/birja culture. This was going to be the end of this blog post, but then I figured that I’d put a more interesting spin on it and look at gender as well. I noted some of the more interesting items, but please come to your own conclusions…
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Tweet tweet – թռչուն, quş, ფრინველის, птица – social media in the Caucasus
With all of the Twitter analysis I’ve been doing lately, I’ve been seriously thinking about social media use in the Caucasus. We know that a larger percentage of Georgians and Armenians are online than Azerbaijanis (2011 stats – I’ve seen the 2012 stats and this pattern continues) and weekly or more often adult Internet users…
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#armvote13 hashtag analysis
A few months ago it was decided that #armvote13 would be used as the hashtag for the upcoming presidential election. With one of the candidates being shot earlier today, the election has been postponed. (English RFE/RL) The #armvote13 hashtag isn’t too busy, but it does seem like some people talking about this are using that…
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Hayrikyan hashtag analysis
Paruyr Hayrikyan, a candidate in the current campaign for the presidency of Armenia was shot late Thursday evening in Tpagrichner street, downtown Yerevan. The wound was not fatal and it is reported that he was shot in the shoulder. ArmeniaNow (English), RFERL (Armenian). Who is talking about Hayrikyan on Twitter? Here’s a hashtag analysis from…