Feb 19 noon full report Feb 19 5:30pm full report Focusing on the 5:30 analysis, things have gotten really interesting! Group 1 is full of Armenians, Group 2 is Azerbaijanis (but not pro-government ones) and foreigners (with some foreign Armenians thrown in the mix), Group 3 is Rauf et al. Group 1 is talking about…
Okay, the hashtag is a bit back to normal. Here’s the full report. Group 1 is foreigners mixed in with some Armenians. Group 2 is local Armenians. Group 3 are the Azerbaijanis that tried to hijack the hashtag. Will keep tracking! Here’s the 1st and 2nd analysis. Also I did a quick search for Raffi…
It is now 4pm in Yerevan, 5am in Seattle and I awoke to the #armvote13 hashtag having been taken over. #armvote13 was a “nice” hashtag for tweeple living in or interested in Armenia to discuss an election. It was really a democratic spirit. (Here are the analyses that I conducted over the past day or…
Today Armenia has a presidential election. I’ve been tracking the election hashtag #armvote13 as well as the election monitoring hashtag #iditord. When I say tracking, I mean running #nodexl analysis on the hashtags. I explained how I did this for recent events in Azerbaijan here – basically why I am doing this, how I am…
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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…
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….
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 (?)…