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…
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…
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…
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…
I am so impressed with the linguistic abilities of my Caucasus friends. Growing up in a culture where bilingualism is uncommon, I am so envious of all the languages spoken by these friends. I have a piece in progress right now that looks at the influence of English language proficiency on Internet use in Armenia,…
For a variety of reasons, I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a good citizen in the Caucasus. With the growing differences between Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan (differences culturally, politically, etc.), I was wondering how people view themselves vis-a-vis their country. And lo-and-behold, there were major differences (all noted here are statistically significant)….
Fairly regularly people ask me how the Caucasus countries are similar and different. For the most part the 3 countries share a lot. But there are some meaningful differences, to me, qualitatively. But one way to look at this is to think about how people raise their children. I don’t have any literature on this,…
Link to full version. While politicians love to cite percentage of Internet users as a meaningful metric for Internet development, this may not be the case. In this example from late 2011 in Armenia, we use that the sociodemographic differences between those that do not know what the Internet is, those who never use the…
Link to full image Data analysis from ERBD’s Life in Transition Survey, late 2010.