This open online seminar will run this Monday, as two-panel discussions bringing together ANU sociologists to reflect on the emerging social relations of the pandemic.
The webinar will address how the pandemic is changing society, the sociological thinking that can help to come to terms with the changes, and the types of post-pandemic social organisations.
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 adapt traditional social science methods—anthropology, ethnography, social network analysis and actor-network theory—to better elucidate
VOSON Dashboard latest package's update (0.5.4) is now available in the Comprehensive R Archive Network [CRAN].
Rob Ackland presented in the inter-disciplinary webinar ‘The impact of information (and misinformation) on mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 Pandemic’.
We are pleased to see that the two main R-based tools developed at the VOSON Lab continue to be relevant and useful for academics and researchers around the world.
The Digital Concepts and Methods Workshop - organised by the Critical Conversations Lab, News & Media Research Centre University of Canberra- will be held today via ZOOM video conferencing.
Expert presentations include:
On 5 December 2019, the Senate resolved to establish a Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media to inquire into and report on the risk posed to Australia’s democracy by foreign interference through social media.
The four-day event took place last week, consisting of two days of masterclasses and two days of data sprint. Rob Ackland opening masterclass included an introduction to data collection and network visualisation using the VOSON Lab open source tools: vosonSML and VOSON Dashboard as well as the
The VOSON Lab hosted the research workshop "Social and Behavioural Dynamics of attention", aimed at bringing together academics, ECRs and PhD candidates from diverse disciplines to present their research utilising Computational Social Science methods and online data.
PD Dr Florian Muhle (Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany) visited the VOSON Lab as part of the ANU Global Research Partnership Scheme to establish the "ANU Social Dynamics of Attention Centre".
