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From Blogging Central Asia to Citizen Media: A Practitioners’ Perspective on the Evolution of the Blog Project

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  • Cai Wilkinson
  • Yelena Jetpyspayeva

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This essay examines the development of one regional blogosphere, the Central Asian ‘Stanosphere’, through a focus on the neweurasia blog project. The neweurasia project began in 2005 as an English-language volunteer-run blog project about the former Soviet republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus, rapidly becoming one of the most visited blogs about the region. Following this auspicious start, over the next five years neweurasia developed into a multi-language locally driven project with more than 80,000 unique page views on average per month. Despite its indisputable successes, the project was often a steep learning curve for all involved. In this essay, we examine neweurasia's evolution from ‘blogging Central Asia’ towards a citizen media project, and reflect on some of the issues and challenges encountered. On the basis of our discussion, we reflect upon how neweurasia, and citizen media in general, can maximise its impact on the nascent Stanosphere, in the process helping to give Central Asia a voice in the global blogosphere.

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  • Cai Wilkinson & Yelena Jetpyspayeva, 2012. "From Blogging Central Asia to Citizen Media: A Practitioners’ Perspective on the Evolution of the Blog Project," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 64(8), pages 1395-1414.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:64:y:2012:i:8:p:1395-1414
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2012.712267
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