Robert Ackland presented on "Using Big Data to study society: Abortion debate on the Web Eating disorder communities on Twitter" at the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria, on September, 8, 2015.
Robert Ackland gave presentation (via skype) on "Using R stats for Social Media Analytics" at the Tools for Teaching and Learning of Social Media Analytics Blue Sky workshop, at the 2015 International Communication Association (ICA) conference (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 21-25 May, 2015).
A/ Professor Robert Ackland and Kyosuke Tanaka presented on "Social Media and Development" at the "Information and Communication Technologies in Melanesia - Building a
The Studying the Chinese Web workshop (研究中国互联网／ 研究中國互聯網) was held at the ANU, 31 July and 1 August 2014. The workshop was co-hosted by VOSON/ADSRI and the Australian Centre on China in the World. The keynote presenter was Professor Jonathan Zhu (City University of Hong Kong) who presented on
Dr Robert Ackland ran a five-day course on Social Media Analysis at the ACSPRI Winter Program, University of Queensland, 7-11 July 2014. The course provided students with an introduction to social media analysis in the context of social research. The course is designed for social researchers interested in social media, and covers methods of
The Smart Sensing & Big Data Analytics: Governing through Information symposium was held at the ANU, on March, 3-4, 2014. The symposium was co-organised by Gavin Smith (School of Sociology, ANU) and Robert Ackland (VOSON Project, ADSRI).This symposium aims to pr
Dr Robert Ackland organised a seminar on "The 2013 Web Index - Methodology, Results and Discussion", held at the ANU on 3 December, 2013.
Robert Ackland presented a master class on "Social Network Analysis: Its Utility for Global Leadership", hosted by the Area Studies Innovation Program at Tsukuba University, Japan.
Robert Ackland was awarded a 3-year Australian Research Council Grant for the project "Understanding online attention and user-generated content creation: An information consumption and production perspective". There is a strong practical need for methods for understanding and measuring online behaviour.
As part of The Australian Sociological Association’s 50 Year Celebrations, Robert Ackland ran a master class for Masters and PhD students titled "Digital Methodologies: The next 50 years of research?" The master class was designed for Masters or PhD students who are thinking about or doing research drawing upon digitized methodologies, such as web based, s
