The new Caucasus Barometer is out and I did some analysis on voting behaviors. (Here’s 2011 and Here’s 2012.) These voting rates seem to match up with the official reported rates. Wow – this is all over the place. Georgia isn’t a surprise, Armenia is interesting, and Azerbaijan is depressing. Interesting with regard to the…
#armvote13 #barevolution
barevolution What is my analysis? The Armenian twittersphere is SMALL. As has been the norm with these hashtags, foreigners and locals are divided. #armvote13
So now that some real stuff is happening in Armenia, we have a new hashtag! #barevolution or Բարեւոլյուշըն in Armenian – so this is a play on words. Raffi say “Barev, Hayastan” to the crowd – meaning “Hello, Armenia.” Moreover, the word “arev” means sun. I’m not really sure if this has totally caught on…
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…
More infographics! This time on attitudes toward parliamentary elections (and parliament itself) in Armenia. As usual, please let me know if you have any questions. I know that there were no gender differences in any of these reported Link to full view.