{"id":794,"date":"2012-06-29T07:03:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T07:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnews.harouta.sg-host.com\/2012\/06\/29\/final-report-2012-monitoring-of-armenian-online-media-coverage-of-may-6-2012-elections-to-ra-national-assembly\/"},"modified":"2022-05-27T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T12:31:15","slug":"final-report-2012-monitoring-of-armenian-online-media-coverage-of-may-6-2012-elections-to-ra-national-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jff.am\/en\/2012\/06\/29\/final-report-2012-monitoring-of-armenian-online-media-coverage-of-may-6-2012-elections-to-ra-national-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Report 2012. Monitoring of Armenian Online Media Coverage of May 6, 2012 Elections to RA National Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Final Report on Monitoring of Armenian Online Media Coverage of May 6, 2012 Elections to RA National Assembly conducted by the Journalists for the Future NGO is possible to download HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This monitoring is conducted by the Journalists for the Future NGO (JFF)<\/strong> with the financial support of the Open Society Foundations-Armenia<\/strong> (OSF-Armenia)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The aim of the research is to study Armenian online media coverage concerning parliamentary elections during the 3 months of pre-election period and 2 weeks after the elections, i.e. February 6 \u2013 May 20, 2012 (105 days).<\/p>\n

There has been no research of online media conducted in Armenia during electoral processes. The need of such monitoring has risen during the recent 3-4 years with the increase of Internet users and the decrease of prices. The number of news-making websites increased too.<\/p>\n

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Final Report on Monitoring of Armenian Online Media Coverage of May 6, 2012 Elections to RA National Assembly conducted by the Journalists for the Future NGO is possible to download HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This monitoring is conducted by the Journalists for the Future NGO (JFF)<\/strong> with the financial support of the Open Society Foundations-Armenia<\/strong> (OSF-Armenia)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The aim of the research is to study Armenian online media coverage concerning parliamentary elections during the 3 months of pre-election period and 2 weeks after the elections, i.e. February 6 \u2013 May 20, 2012 (105 days).<\/p>\n

There has been no research of online media conducted in Armenia during electoral processes. The need of such monitoring has risen during the recent 3-4 years with the increase of Internet users and the decrease of prices. The number of news-making websites increased too.<\/p>\n

In 2007, during the Parliamentary elections there were less than 10 Armenian active online media outlets. Today, there are 224 websites registered only in the \u201cNews and Media\u201d section of Circle.am rating system. The leading 50 websites have 1.000-150.000 visitors per day (Not all news websites are registered in this system. e.g. Azatutyun.am <\/strong>and PanArmenian.Net<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Expansion of social networks in Armenia also conduced to increasing the number of online media visitors. Especially in Facebook, almost all the Armenian websites have their corresponding page where they share the links of all articles from their website. For example, the News.am<\/strong> Facebook page has more than 50.000 \u00ablikes\u00bb.<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that TV remains the most required media in Armenia, online media outlets are already able to affect the news forming of traditional media with the variety and efficiency of their information.<\/p>\n

The current research will allow understanding the impartiality of online media in covering such an important social-political event in Armenia as parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n

Besides the number and nature of references, their types of sources, number, genres and media content have been monitored too.<\/p>\n

Current report presents the results of monitoring for it\u2019s full length, as well as by following periods:<\/p>\n