VOSON Lab presents at the 2018 AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)

Tim Graham presented the paper "#DEBATENIGHT: The Role and Influence of Socialbots on Twitter during the 1st 2016 U.S. Presidential Debate" at the 12th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). The study is the result of the combined work of researchers from the VOSON Lab, the Computational Media Lab in ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science and Data61 CSIRO. During the conference, Tim was awarded second place in the 3-minute pitch session.

The ICWSM is a multidisciplinary forum for researchers to share new perspectives in social theories, as well as computational approaches for analysing social behaviour, through social media data.

The 12th International Conference on Web and Social Media was held on June 25-28, 2018 in Stanford, California.