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), Defence Science Technology Group 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 over 40K downloads to date, and are downloaded over 1K times per month.
The following guides include methodological steps, examples and code, that the VOSON Lab has developed in the context of research. The focu... read more
The VOSON Lab has developed a new open-source package: voson.tcn, an R tool to collect tweets belonging to specified threaded conversations vi... read more
The project "Bots Building Bridges (3B): Theoretical, Empirical, and Technological Foundations for Systems that Monitor and Support Political Delibera... read more
The article "Important relationships in a multilevel world: The role of network structure in explaining closeness of relationships and access to resou... read more
Former VOSON Lab student and team member Kyosuke Tanaka, has recently graduated with a Ph.D. from the Media, Technolgy, and Society program at No... read more
Rob Ackland presented the opening keynote "Deliberation and Influence on Social Media: Insights from Network Analysis" on the online workshop "Practi... read more
