Rob Ackland along with University of Melbourne affiliates Lisa Cameron (Department of Economics) and Yoshi Kashima (School of Psychological Sciences) are coorganising the workshop "Economics and Computational Behavioural Science"
The VOSON Lab and the ANU Research School of Economics have successfully launched the new course: Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy. The undergraduate version started on Semester 1, 2019 with over 60 students enrolled.
RSSS Visiting Fellow Dr Tommaso Venturini (Internet and Society Center, CNRS - National Center for Scientific Research, France) will be presenting a masterclass at the ANU School of Sociology.
The VOSON Lab and the ANU School of Sociology have organised and hosted the first RSSS Data Sprint 2019; one of the activities associated with the visit by RSSS Visiting Fellow Dr Tommaso Venturini (Internet and Society Center, CNRS - National Center for Scientific Research, France).
Rob Ackland gave a seminar presentation at the Catalyst, Facutly of Communication and Design, Ryerson University.
Rob Ackland presented at Social Media Lab, an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.
The VOSON Lab and the ANU School of Sociology hosted ASNAC 2018: The third national meeting in Australia for social network analysis (SNA) researchers and practitioners. The ASNAC conference brought together scholars from key universities and research institutes in Australia and neighbouring countries.
Dr Florian Muhle (Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany) visited the VOSON Lab as part of the Germany Joint Research Co-operation Scheme 2017-18 (Universities Australia – DAAD) “Socialbots as political actors? Autonomous communication technologies as tools and objects for digital sociology”.
Rob Ackland presented VOSON Lab research at the 10th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2018). During the workshop "Big data analysis for Social Scientists", VOSON Dashboard- the most recent tool designed and developed in the Lab- was launched.
