Azerbaijan: Social Networks and Youth Activism · Global Voices
Onnik Krikorian

Writing on Quirk Global Strategies, the former Country Director of the National Democratic Institute in Azerbaijan comments on the use of social networking sites such as Facebook by supporters of recently imprisoned video blogger Adnan Hadjizadeh and youth activist Emin Milli. The blog criticizes them for the tactic employed with the aim of mobilizing people inside and outside Azerbaijan. Meanwhile, writing on Thoughts on the Road, an American journalist fresh from a working stay in the country disagrees and says that such tools are necessary to effect political change.