The Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON) Lab is located in the Research School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University. We are advancing the Social Science of the Internet through an innovative program of research, research tool development, teaching & research training. We use various terms to describe what we do: web science, network science, computational social science, big data analytics, e-research.
The VOSON Lab was formally established in 2005 with an Australian Research Council Special Research Initiative grant. We have been researching online networks since before the era of Facebook and Twitter, and our research has been funded by several ARC grants.
Professor Robert Ackland along with researchers from the University of Canberra: A/Professor Mathieu O'Neil and Dr Michael Jensen (in a private capaci... read more
Researchers from the ANU (School of Sociology and Centre for Digital Humanities) and the 'Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique' [CNRS] prese... read more
This open online seminar will run this Monday, as two-panel discussions bringing together ANU sociologists to reflect on the emerging social relations... read more
The VOSON Lab (ANU School of Sociology) has teamed up with Dr Diane Smith (Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) to explore new avenues to ... read more
VOSON Dashboard latest package's update (0.5.4) is now available in the Comprehensive R Archive Network [CRAN].... read more
Rob Ackland presented in the inter-disciplinary webinar ‘The impact of information (and misinformation) on mental health and wellbeing during the C... read more
