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…
Images from my #ictd2012 poster, plus some updates on April 1. Some fun bits: – 37% of Armenians have used the Internet — that’s some major growth, as you can see on slide 2. – And Armenians are using the Internet more often. 22% of Armenians are online daily and 8% are online weekly. Big…
I’m at the #ictd2012 conference right now and I’ve been asked about Armenian Internet use. Business Internet use is actually quite low, especially compared to household use. This surprises a lot of people. So I did a quick analysis to find out where Armenians get online most often. (This is rough 2011 Caucasus Barometer —…
Happy International Women’s Day. This month I’m going to share initial early analysis of the 2011 Caucasus Barometer that focuses on women. The first set is Georgia. This is early data, so there is a possibility of error. I apologize in advance if there is and will update this blog post if any errors are…
More from the ArMedia dataset… With so many Armenians on social networking sites (85% of mobile Internet users, 83% of Armenians that have both mobile and PC-based Internet, and 54% of PC-based Internet users in Armenia, as of a year ago), what are they doing on there? Mostly communicating with friends! While only a little…
With all of the activity in Kazakhstan right now, I wanted to pull some findings from a conference paper/ article in submission about Central Asian Internet. (I can’t post the entire paper while it is still in submission – sorry!) If you have questions or are interested in more detailed analysis, contact me and I’d…
Based on data from the Armenian Media landscape report, here are the regional breakdowns of means of accessing the Internet in Armenia (in early 2011). You can see that for the country as a whole, most Internet users are personal computer based – although mobile is not insignificant. In the capital, PC dominates, but for…
I’m working on a project right now looking at the relationship between English language proficiency and Internet use in the Caucasus. Although wandering around Yerevan, Baku, or Tbilisi might tell you something different, English language proficiency in these countries is actually quite low. Between 1-4% of the population considers themselves “advanced” in the English language…
Since I posted a lot of analyses on economic wellbeing in the Caucasus, I thought that I’d put links to them all in one post. Overall, I hope that this gives people a better sense of what dire poverty exists in all three states. If pressed, I’d say that based on these analyses, Georgia is…