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Heritage, Republican most active Armenian parties on Facebook - expert
13:55 - 20.04.13
A monitoring of the political forces' Facebook activeness has revealed
that the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) and Heritage are the
most active parties on the popular social networking site.
At a news conference on Saturday, information security expert Tigran
Kocharyan said that a high level of activeness was particularly
observed in the period of the February presidential polls.
`Political parties decided, over the recent years, to be represented
there for conducting their campaigning. We particularly became the
eyewitness of that in the course of the recent presidential election.
The RPA and Heritage are the more active. Then comes the [Armenian
Revolutionary Federtation-] Dashnaksutyun, but not as a party but in
terms of the individual representatives,' he said, noting that the
opposition Armenian National Congress is working in parallel with the
Prosperous Armenia party which was formerly represented in the ruling
coalition.
Official data have revealed that 400,000 Armenians are registered on
Facebook, of whom 300,000 are real users, the expert said.
Kovharyan noted that an increasing number of people seek to subscribe
to the website now in order to be better informed of the ongoing
developments around.
`[Heritage party leader] Raffi Hovhannisyan's April 9 rally was
attended on average by 15,000 people, but more than 18,000 watched it
live. So, people turn out to prefer watching more,' he said, adding
that the digital space makes a person feel himself or herself feel a
participant of the process without going out.
Kocharyan noted in the meantime that Facebook doesn't reflect the
society's opinion on the whole, as people in the village are very
often inactive on the online platform.
Armenian News - Tert.am
13:55 - 20.04.13
A monitoring of the political forces' Facebook activeness has revealed
that the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) and Heritage are the
most active parties on the popular social networking site.
At a news conference on Saturday, information security expert Tigran
Kocharyan said that a high level of activeness was particularly
observed in the period of the February presidential polls.
`Political parties decided, over the recent years, to be represented
there for conducting their campaigning. We particularly became the
eyewitness of that in the course of the recent presidential election.
The RPA and Heritage are the more active. Then comes the [Armenian
Revolutionary Federtation-] Dashnaksutyun, but not as a party but in
terms of the individual representatives,' he said, noting that the
opposition Armenian National Congress is working in parallel with the
Prosperous Armenia party which was formerly represented in the ruling
coalition.
Official data have revealed that 400,000 Armenians are registered on
Facebook, of whom 300,000 are real users, the expert said.
Kovharyan noted that an increasing number of people seek to subscribe
to the website now in order to be better informed of the ongoing
developments around.
`[Heritage party leader] Raffi Hovhannisyan's April 9 rally was
attended on average by 15,000 people, but more than 18,000 watched it
live. So, people turn out to prefer watching more,' he said, adding
that the digital space makes a person feel himself or herself feel a
participant of the process without going out.
Kocharyan noted in the meantime that Facebook doesn't reflect the
society's opinion on the whole, as people in the village are very
often inactive on the online platform.
Armenian News - Tert.am