Protests Armenia 2018: Video Database

Description

The collection “Protests Armenia 2018: Video Database” is part of a larger and ongoing collection of videos on protest events in the post-Soviet region. It contains a database describing 219 videos (mp4) of protests in Armenia in April 2018 (mainly Yerevan area) also known as the Velvet Revolution of 2018. We compiled the material in February to April 2019. All data is processed in an MS Excel database with metadata.
For this kind of collections on protest events we take into account all videos that 1) are event related AND show actions of this event, 2) are fully accessible, 3) we can find with our search words during a particular period. We strictly aim at a systematic and unbiased selection and organized precessing of protest-related videos. We identify particular event-related search words or phrases after intense research on the event. According to the snowball principle, we then start the search of videos and try to describe as much relevant content as possible. However, we cannot guarantee the completeness of protest videos on the particular event. We search the videos and include them into the collection until a particular degree of saturation has been reached.
The videos have been posted mainly by the participants of the events. Therefore, the material is only an extract and biased by the perspective of the single creator.
Due to data privacy regulations and copyright restrictions, we are only allowed to give access to the database of the collected video files including the hyperlinks with its metadata and not to the videos themselves. YouTube’s user guidelines do not allow us to store copies of the video collection described above.

Countries

Armenia

Keywords

Protest Armenia Yerevan Velvet Revolution Civil Disobedience

Language of data

Armenian English Russian

Disciplines

Comparative Politics Political Science

Methods of data collection

Keyword Search Snow Ball Search

Methods of data analysis

Raw Data Raw Data For Analysis