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From blogging Central Asia to citizen media : a practitioners’ perspective on the evolution of the neweurasia blog project

Wilkinson, Cai and Jetpyspayeva, Yelena 2012, From blogging Central Asia to citizen media : a practitioners’ perspective on the evolution of the neweurasia blog project, Europe-Asia studies, vol. 64, no. 8, Special Issue : New Media in New Europe-Asia, pp. 1395-1414.

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Title From blogging Central Asia to citizen media : a practitioners’ perspective on the evolution of the neweurasia blog project
Author(s) Wilkinson, Cai
Jetpyspayeva, Yelena
Journal name Europe-Asia studies
Volume number 64
Issue number 8
Season Special Issue : New Media in New Europe-Asia
Start page 1395
End page 1414
Total pages 20
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Place of publication Abingdon, England
Publication date 2012-10
ISSN 0966-8136
1465-3427
Keyword(s) neweurasia
blogging
Central Asia
new media
Summary 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 Englishlanguage 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.
Notes Version of record first published: 17 Sep. 2012
Language eng
Field of Research 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
190399 Journalism and Professional Writing not elsewhere classified
Socio Economic Objective 950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2012, University of Glasgow
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30048430

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