Refereed journal articles
Ackland, R. and E. Gray (2005), "What Can Potential Migrants Find Out About Australia from the WWW?," published in People and Place, vol. 13, no. 4, 2005, pp. 12-22. Download PDF (399K)
Refereed conference papers
Ackland, R. (2005), "The Role of Digital Networks in Promoting Collaboration and Innovation," refereed paper presented (by R. Ackland) to the Africa-Asia-Australasia Conference of the International Telecommunications Society, 28-30 August 2005, Perth. Download PDF (63K)
Ackland, R. (2005), "Mapping the U.S. Political Blogosphere: Are Conservative Bloggers More Prominent?," refereed paper presented (by R. Ackland) to BlogTalk Downunder 2005, 19-22 May, Sydney. Download PDF (482K)
Ackland, R. (2005), "Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON) - Progress and Plans," refereed paper presented (by R. Ackland) at the First International Conference on e-Social Science, 22-24 June 2005, University of Manchester. Download PDF (199KB)
Non-refereed conference papers/presentations
Ackland, R. (2005), "Estimating the Size of Political Web Graphs," paper presented (by R. Ackland) to ISA Research Committee on Logic and Methodology (RC33) Conference, 17-20 May 2004, Amsterdam Download PDF (156K). Note: this is a revised version.
Ackland, R., Gibson R. and M. O'Neil (2005), "Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON)," poster presentation at the First International Conference on e-Social Science, 22-24 June 2005, University of Manchester. Download A4 PDF (281K) Download A1 PDF (282K)
Ackland, R. and A. Evans (2005), "The Visibility of Abortion-Related Information on the World Wide Web," conference presentation by Ann Evans at The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Annual Conference, 6 December 2005, University of Tasmania. Download PDF (293K)
Grants
Australian Research Council Special Research Initiative (e-Research Support) Grant SR0567298 "Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON)" (Ackland, Gibson, O'Neil, Buchhorn, Bimber, Ward; $98,586; 2005)
R. Ackland - travel grant to attend NSF-funded Social Networks and Cyberinfrastructure (SNAC) workshop held at National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Nov 3-5, 2005.
Seminar/workshop presentations
R. Ackland - "Data for Studying the Blogosphere," Presentation at Centre for New Media Arts seminar, The Australian National University, 16 May 2005.
R. Gibson and M. O'Neil - presentation of VOSON Poster (by R. Ackland, R. Gibson and M. O'Neil) to ARC-DEST Joint Workshop of Funded Projects in e-Research Support and Australian Research Information Infrastructure Committee Schemes, Monash University, 2-3 November 2005, Monash University, Australia. Download A4 PDF (312K) Download A1 PDF (313K)
R. Ackland presentation on VOSON at NSF-funded Social Networks and Cyberinfrastructure (SNAC) workshop held at National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3-5 November 2005.