Election day hashtags 8am
#secki2013 – just for the last day #azvote13 – just for the last day
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Hashtags day before election
#azvote13 mid-September – October 8 Interesting changes here. Group 1, the pro-government forces, are a really tight cluster now. They used to be much less close. Seems like they’re talking to each other more now. Group 3 is a VERY tight cluster of oppositionists. Strong ties exist between Group 3 and Group 4, centered around…
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Election week hashtag analyses
I’ll be continuing to monitor the hashtags, but here is where we stand on Monday morning before the Wednesday election: #secki2013 for the weekend – pretty dead, but probably will pick up in the coming days full analysis #secki2013 for the past 10 days full analysis Opposition blogger muntezir is the most powerful tweeter in…
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Honor and Death: Is the Internet Exacerbating Suicide in Azerbaijan?
September 10 is World Suicide Prevention day. The most recent data on suicide in Azerbaijan is from 2007. However, according to this (iffy) website, suicide is the 20th most common cause of death in Azerbaijan, with over 400 each year. In an informal analysis of Azerbaijani news stories, I came up with 6 young female…
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Attitudes toward protest over time
(I did a quick blog post on this earlier this year, FWIW) Attitudes toward protest is one of my favorite Caucasus Barometer questions. (Sarah Kendzior and I wrote a piece centered around this measure in 2012). It is an interesting way to ask a question in a vignette format. People are asked which statement they…
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Let’s have a data party
Last year I wrote a blog post about triangulating different data sources. I used the example of mobile phone ownership and the ITU, Caucasus Barometer, and Gallup. In that post I said: “The point I’d like to make is that these statistics are complicated and it is hard to get at the “right” number. That’s…
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Ten thousand signatures felt like ten thousand hands, they carry me
An online petition has been recently been circulating through Azerbaijani Internet circles asking people to support freeing youth activists who have been arrested in 2013, in light of the October 2013 presidential election. As of early August, 2000 people have signed. (The hashtag suggests they need 10,000 signatures.) I’m pretty meh about online petitions, although…
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Do they even know his name?
The Azerbaijani opposition has cooperated and agreed upon (for now) a single candidate for the upcoming presidential election: Rustam Ibragimbekov. Ibragimbekov (Ibrahimbekov /Ibrahimbeyov / Ibragimbeyov) is a 74-year-old screenwriter, best known for winning an Oscar for the (awesome) 1995 film “Burnt by the Sun.” (Well, it won best foreign film, so he shared the award.)…
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Update to Azerbaijan tech trends slideshow
Here’s a 2012 update to this slideshow. Azerbaijanicts2013 from Katy Pearce
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Voting – 2012 version
By requests, let’s look at voting behaviors in the 2012 Caucasus Barometer. Do Caucasians think that it is important for a good citizen to vote? With three-quarters of Georgians believing that it is extremely important for a good citizen to vote (mean 8.74/10), and less than two-thirds of Armenians (8.37/10) and half of Azerbaijanis believing…