A few years ago I wrote a piece about measuring poverty in the South Caucasus. That paper ended with 2010, but I was talking about it with someone yesterday, so I did some quick 2012 updates. As far as monthly household income in 2012, the distribution hasn’t changed much since that 2010 paper, but you…
Sometimes sitting around in a coffeeshop brings interesting ideas. While sitting with Jale Sultanli today, she speculated that IDPs in Azerbaijan hold different attitudes toward Karabakh than other Azerbaijanis. I, always the nerd, said LET’S TEST THIS! So we did a series of analyses comparing IDPs and non-IDPs. Here is the first set of attitudes…
*Someone* is working on their thesis about media in Armenia, so in honor of this, some quick media freedom charts from the 2013 Alternative Resources in Media project.
(Via Civilnet.am) There is a series of protests in Armenia right now, focused on Vladimir Putin’s visit, but overall critiquing Armenia’s possibly joining the Eurasian Union. Unzipped does a nice summary here. Here’s my Dec 3 hashtag analysis that is the following relationships. It is basically Armenians (far left), foreigners (middle), and Russians (right). You…
Interpersonal trust is, arguably, the most important concept for a society. Interpersonal trust is understood as the general inclination of people to trust their fellow citizens (Hall, 2002). Interpersonal trust is related to EVERYTHING – democratization, economic wellbeing… you name it. I did an analysis of some of the trust measures in the ERBD Life…
Well, really just Armenia and Azerbaijan… Googling for Georgia is too difficult. Inspired by this campaign that looked what Google automatically fills in for searches about men and women, I tried to do this with Armenia and Azerbaijan. I was logged out of Google, so these are the “natural” search results, not influenced by my…
Demand for democracy is one of my favorite outcome (dependent) variables. It isn’t perfect, but it is used frequently in public opinion surveys and has been shown to be correlated with all sorts of interesting things. In a transitional society, popular demand for democracy (or legitimation) takes the form of a choice between competing regime…
#azvote13 – mid-September to today #secki2013 – mid-September to today
I’ve written a lot about “winning” hashtags and how this is a boastful tool for organizations. Here’s what I wrote yesterday on it. I’ve also written about trickery using Twitter. Here’s a good one. But now I have a new story… As I was going through the Azerbaijani election hashtags, I noticed something funny. This…
Hashtags are an interesting 21st century phenomenon. Hashtags are keywords to organize information to describe a tweet and aid in searching (Small, 2011). Hashtags also take on a symbolic quality and perhaps are an example of metacommunication. When I post a picture of parents recording every minute of a kids’ holiday concert, complaining about how…