The study aims to provide a systematic examination of the discursive and structural mechanisms employed to target civil society and the media landscape in the lead-up to the forthcoming parliamentary elections. It analyzes the narratives advanced by domestic and external actors, assesses their impact on civil society’s operational capacity and democratic processes, and explores the...
Researchers: Mariam Khalatyan, Arpy Manusyan, Sona Martirosyan Author: Sona Martirosyan Editor: Arpy Manusyan Translator: Kristine Goroyan Foreign interference in elections: recurring patterns The use of digital information technologies before elections by both domestic and foreign actors is reaching ever greater proportions and becoming a bigger threat to democracy around the world. Targeting of...
This comprehensive two-phase study enabled us to identify the disinformation narratives prevalent in public discourse and analyze the specific features of public perception and response to them. In the first phase of the research we conducted expert interviews with representatives from the media sector and civil society to identify the disinformation narratives circulating in the...
The article of Socioscope’s researchers Arpy Manusyan, Mariam Khalatyan, and Nvard Margaryan titled “Imagined Future[s] of Armenia after the Second Karabakh War 2020” is featured in the book “Armenia after 2018: Social and Political Transformations” published as a volume of the “Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe” series. The article examines how different political...
The perceptions of peace and war and the influence of the Karabakh conflict have been focal points of Socioscope’s recent research studies. These research studies have, in various ways, addressed the socio-economic impacts of the conflict and raised issues related to inequality and poverty. Discussions and analyses regarding the socio-economic aftermath of wars are not widespread and often...