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Comments on: Nagorno Karabakh: Blogs, social networking sites cross ethnic fault lines http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/peace_building_and_social_networking_sites/ Championing Independent Journalism Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:24:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Onnik Krikorian http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/peace_building_and_social_networking_sites/#comment-992 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:51:34 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=3742#comment-992 opposing views on the Karabakh question are proliferating on Facebook, for instance. Meanwhile both Armenian and Azerbaijani bloggers admit they are using their blogs to offer opinionated analysis to Western audiences who, in their view, receive sanitized and inaccurate information about the countries of the South Caucasus. Some observers see hidden benefits to all the online jousting. Before the advent of blogs and social networks, Armenians and Azerbaijanis rarely had opportunities to exchange views. Krikorian expressed hope that the changing means of communication might ultimately alter opinions. "The Internet keeps lines of communication open, even if there are those in both countries who would rather they didn’t exist at all," he wrote in an April 2009 blog entry. <a href="http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insightb/articles/eav091809b.shtml" rel="nofollow">link</a></blockquote> ]]> Nice. Today EurasiaNet quoted this blog post:

Azerbaijan and Armenia: Online Conflict Engulfs Nagorno Karabakh Peace
The information war surrounding the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process appears to be intensifying. Electronic sniping between Armenians and Azerbaijanis is spreading into new areas, including social networks, wikis and blogs. Some commentators believe that Azerbaijan is gaining the upper hand.
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But Azerbaijan has made major advances of late on the online battlefield. This has prompted calls for a counter-attack by Armenian Internet users. “Many nationalist activists here seem to think that Azerbaijan has gotten an upper hand in the online information war,” commented Onnik Krikorian, a prominent Yerevan-based blogger and the Caucasus editor for Global Voices Online, an international network of bloggers and citizen journalists.
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Among the few exceptions is DOTCOM, a US State Department-sponsored program that selects 90 students from Armenia, Azerbaijan and the United States to provide coverage of issues of mutual interest, including the Nagorno-Karabakh situation, and to distribute it through international online networks.
But this appears to be a drop in the sea of blogs and online campaigns that seem to perpetuate the divisions between the two countries. Initiatives to collect signatures for both sides’ opposing views on the Karabakh question are proliferating on Facebook, for instance. Meanwhile both Armenian and Azerbaijani bloggers admit they are using their blogs to offer opinionated analysis to Western audiences who, in their view, receive sanitized and inaccurate information about the countries of the South Caucasus.
Some observers see hidden benefits to all the online jousting. Before the advent of blogs and social networks, Armenians and Azerbaijanis rarely had opportunities to exchange views. Krikorian expressed hope that the changing means of communication might ultimately alter opinions. “The Internet keeps lines of communication open, even if there are those in both countries who would rather they didn’t exist at all,” he wrote in an April 2009 blog entry. link

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