Armenia: Social Networking and the Expanding Public Discourse
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Copyright show: No Yerevan’s city government, a body not generally known for being digitally savvy, is making a break with the Analog Age. Seeking to encourage the use of public transportation,...
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Copyright show: No With political jockeying already underway in advance of Armenia’s parliamentary vote next spring, civil society activists are pondering ways to use the Internet to promote electoral...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Networking Its Way to Political Change?
Copyright show: No With eight months to go before Azerbaijan holds a presidential election, a series of recent initiatives suggests citizens are becoming more politically active, and Facebook, along...
View ArticleIn Kazakhstan, New Networking Site Groups Users By Tribe
Copyright show: Hide copyrights ALMATY -- When Kazakhs meet for the first time, two key questions are all it takes to figure each other out: What part of the country are they from? And what horde and...
View ArticleTajikistan: Can Dushanbe Keep the Lid on the Internet?
Copyright show: No “Emomali Rahmon for president of the United States!” reads a recent post on the Facebook group Platforma, a 15,000-strong webpage for digital opposition to Tajikistan’s...
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