VOSON Lab at the RC33 Eighth International Conference on Social Science Methodology

At the RC33 Eighth International Conference on Social Science Methodology (University of Sydney, 9-13 July), Robert Ackland:

• Ran a workshop titled "Social Media Network Analysis with NodeXL and VOSON" (attended by over 15 people).
• Presented a paper Horses for Courses? A Comparative Study of Web Crawlers for the Social Sciences (with Francisca Borquez)
• Chaired a session on Social Media Network Analysis, featuring the following papers:
  • Categorizing and measuring social ties (Matti Nelimarkka, with Juuso Karikoski - Helsinki Institute for Information Technology)
  • From transaction to meaning: Internet-mediated communication as an object of modelling (Lucy Resnyansky, with Lucia Falzon - Defence Science and Technology Organisation)
  • Online advocacy networks, issue mobilisations and the Coal Seam Gas controversy (Declan Kuch, with Asha Titus - University of Newcastle)
  • Twitter as a social network medium and a communication network medium - Opportunities, challenges and limitations (Maurice Vergeer - Radboud University Nijmegen)
• Chaired a rountable on Computational Social Science, with the following presenters:
  • Maurice Vergeer, Radboud University
  • Mark S. Handcock, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Lexing Xie, Australian National University
  • Michael Jacobson, University of Sydney
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• Mahin Raissi presented on Snowball Sampling in Online Social Networks at  RC33 Eighth International Conference on Social Science Methodology.