Celebrating 10 years of Web Science Trust
On November 29, 2016, the Web Science Trust -an organization supporting the development of global Web science- celebrated its 10th birthday.
VOSON Lab at the 1st Australian Social Network Analysis Conference
The inaugural Australian Social Network Analysis Conference (ASNAC 2016) was held on the 16-17 of November 2016 in Hawthorn, Australia. This conference marked the first national meeting in Australia for researchers and practitioners who are working with Social Network Analysis (SNA).
VOSON turns 10
10 years ago today, VOSON first became publicly available for academics and students as a web application. This is how it all started...
VOSON Lab at the 2016 ACSPRI Social Science Methodology conference
As part of the Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research (ACSPRI) Social Science Methodology Conference 2016, researchers from the VOSON Lab gave the following presentations:
Big Data Analysis for Social Scientists @ACSPRI
Rob Ackland and Timothy Graham (University of Queensland) ran a five-day course on Social Media Analysis at the ACSPRI Winter Program, University of Queensland.
Computational Methods for Communication Research at ICA 2016
Dr Robert Ackland presented at two panel sessions at the International Communication Association (ICA) conference in Fukuoka, Japan:
Scraping web data at the CityU Hong Kong
Dr Robert Ackland presented on “Collecting and analysing online social network data with SocialMediaLab” at the 2016 CityU Workshop on Computational Approaches to Big Data in the Social Sciences and Humanities, event organised by the City University of Hong Kong and the Web mining Lab.
Frames and Fields on Twitter talk at SONIC Speaker series
Dr Robert Ackland presented on "Frames and Fields on Twitter" and ran a SocialMediaLab workshop at the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Lab at Northwestern University.
Visualising Online Social Networks talk at Indiana University.
Dr. Ackland presented at Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (CNS) talk series, Indiana University. The presentation compiled an introduction to the VOSON Lab and research undertaken over the years, to provide a Social Science perspective of the use of big data.
Discussing the role of Social Media in social and economic development @Quello Center
During his visit to Quello Center (Michigan State University) in early May, Dr Robert Ackland presented on social media and development at a Quello seminar.