VOSON Lab presents at the 2017 Australian Social Networks Analysis conference (ASNAC)

The 2017 ASNAC conference was the second national meeting in Australia for researchers and practitioners who are working on the theory, method and application of Social Network Analysis.

Dr Robert Ackland presented the paper “Identifying and Analysing Political Conversations on Twitter” (Ackland, Graham & Muhle), a study analysing the impact of impact of socialbots on politically-oriented conversations on Twitter, using a dataset of 6.5 million tweets containing hashtags relating to the 2016 US presidential debates.

The conference took place on November 28 and 29, 2017, at the University of Sydney.