Social Science Week is taking place this week (10-16 September, 2018), in different locations across Australia. In #SocSciWeek, social science researchers will be presenting papers, public lectures, seminars and workshops on varied topics, open to academic and non-academic audiences.
The event of media misinformation, defined as an "accidental statement of factually incorrect claims" - which can be "strategic or intentional", leads to raise questions on to what extent Echo Chambers (media environments where people only connect with like-minded others) and Filter Bubbles (resulting from media content being algorithmically selected to match previous consumer choices) impact p
Rob Ackland and Tim Graham visited the Médialab Sciences Po in Paris, where they presented at the weekly research methods workshop. Organised by the Medialab director Paul Girard, the visit was an opportubity for the VOSON Lab to exchange ideas around digital tools for social Sciences and to meet with Gephi developer: Mathieu Jacomy.
Rob Ackland has been invited to participate in the workshop: 10 Years of Web Science: Closing The Loop, organised by the Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics), where he presented the research: #DebateNight: The Role and Influence of Socialbots on Twitter Du
via Policy Forum
Social media platforms are driving the creation of a new type of knowledge, even if it’s false, writes Timothy Graham.
The VOSON Lab was awarded a Cross-College Research Grant from the ANU Research School of Social Sciences.
The journal article: Engagement with News on Twitter: Insights from Australia and Korea, has been accepted for publication in the Asian Journal of Communication's special issue on Introducing Computational Social Science for Asia-Pacific Communication Research.
