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.
The article "Risk issue adoption in an online social movement field" was recently published in the Information, Communications & Society Journal.... read more
Rob Ackland will be presenting "Mapping Australia’s Blockchain Ecosystem: Insights from Digital Trace Data" at the “Foundations of Blockchain Empi... read more
Belgium based researcher, Dr Jamsheed Shorish (Honorary Associate Professor at School of Sociology & VOSON Lab, Australian National University) ha... read more
From February 11 to March 28, 2019 Dr Tommaso Venturini (Internet and Society Center, CNRS - National Center for Scientific Research, France) visited... read more
Rob Ackland along with University of Melbourne affiliates Lisa Cameron (Department of Economics) and Yoshi Kashima (School of Psychological Science... read more
The VOSON Lab and the ANU Research School of Economics have successfully launched the new course: Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy. The und... read more
