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.
Our funding is via the Australian Research Council (five grants to date), and a current Volkswagen Foundation (AI and Society of the Future Stream) grant led by Bielefeld University. VOSON tools have been publicly available since 2006. The current suite of VOSON R tools are available on CRAN and GitHub, with +85K downloads to date, and are downloaded over 1K times per month.
How can people become more resilient to misinformation? What exactly does resilience mean when it comes to information literacy? Where can information... read more
The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia has recently relased its Discussion Paper: D... read more
Prof Rob Ackland is part of the international panel of scientists working on the world's information environment. The International Panel on the Inf... read more
Recently, social media companies have announced major changes to API access and data, specifically for Twitter and Reddit.... read more
Bots Building Bridges (3B) project's preliminary research was presented by Rob Ackland at Sunbelt 2023 -- The International Network for Social Ne... read more
Rob Ackland and Florian Muhle co-taught the intensive masters course 'Empirical Market Research', during his academic visit to Zeppelin University, i... read more
