The Internet is a strange thing. In the early life of the Internet there was a lot of rhetoric about how bad the Internet would be for all sorts of things – relationships, social life, civic engagement, etc. Now we know that 1) the Internet is here to stay and 2) the effects of the…
A new report came out today that describe how Twitter clusters work. A GREAT read! Highly recommended.
While figuring out technology penetration rates isn’t my main interest, people do ask me a lot. I get nervous about giving percentages because I am more interested in demographic divides – gender, wealth, education, region, etc. And for the most part, giving penetrations rates doesn’t allow for that. (See here for more on this.) But…
Christopher Walker, the executive director of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Bob Orttung, an associate professor of international affairs at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs have an article in this month’s Journal of Democracy, and an accompanying Washington Post article and upcoming event. I like both of them a lot,…
People that know me personally know that I LOVE Beyonce a lot. When the new album came out, I listened to it and watched the videos (while in Baku) over and over and over again. It is weeks later and I still listen at least once a day. One of the early singles from the…
A Facebook plugin called Find Your Best Friend On FB has blown up this week. I assume that it looks at private messaging frequency and frequncy of likes and comments and then pops out a photo of you with that person. I don’t really like these apps because they’re scanning your private messages and that…
Since it seems like people enjoyed my last post about poverty, I thought I’d do a quick additional analysis. (By the way, ALL posts related to poverty are tagged for your easy browsing). And why do I, a scholar of technology do all this analysis of poverty? Because my research is actually about technology and…
More poverty updates…
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I wrote a blog post a few weeks ago about interpersonal trust (using EBRD data). One of my arguments is that Azerbaijanis have very low interpersonal trust. After a conversation with a girlfriend, I had the idea to look at gender differences in trust as well. This is with CRRC data. First, without gender, you…