The State of Emergency and Blogs
Hetq Online carries an article on the role of blogs during the recent state of emergency in Armenia. As was pointed out at the time in a post on Global Voices, blogs and other internet sites such as YouTube rapidly took over from the established online media as the main source of information from Armenia.
During the twenty-day period after March 1st, when the media outlets in Armenia were only permitted to publish officially sanctioned news, it was the Internet that became the alternate source for the dissemination of news and opinion.
And on March 2nd, when the Armenian “Internet Society” NGO, a group that registers .am domain names in Armenia, froze many information websites according to the decree of the National Security Agency the exchange of news and debate was concentrated in the blogs and social networks.
- Published:
- 05.06.08 / 12am by Onnik
- Category:
- Armenia, Armenia Presidential Election 2008, Blogs, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Global Voices, Media, News Briefs, Opinion, State of Emergency
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