JOURNAL ARTICLES
Ackland, R., Gumbert, F., Pütz, O., Gertzel, B. & M. Orlikowski (2023). "Reciprocal Communication and Political Deliberation on Twitter," Special Issue on Rethinking and Analyzing Political Communication in the Digital Era, Social Sciences, 13 (1), 5.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Ackland, R and F. Borquez (2023). "Ethics of Research using Digital Trace Data: A Computational Social Science Perspective," forthcoming in (eds B. Smyth, M. Downing, M. Martin) Human Research Ethics and Integrity in the Australian Context.
OTHER OUTPUTS
O’Neil, M., Ackland, R. and Cunneen, R. (2023). Submission to the Senate Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media 2023. Submission #21 'Building Resilience with Information Literacy and Information Health', available here.
CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP/SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS/PANEL
Johan Koskinen, academic visitor from the University of Stockholm, presented the seminar "Making Sense of Imperfectly Observed Networks" at the ANU School of Sociology on 8 March 2023. Johan's visit to ANU was organised by the VOSON Lab and co-hosted by the ANU School of Sociology and the School of Politics and International Relations.
Rob Ackland presented "Characterising Political Discussion Networks on Twitter" at the Social Networks lab at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, on 28 March 2023.
Rob Ackland and Florian Muhle co-taught the intensive masters course 'Empirical Market Research', at Zeppelin University, in Friedrichshafen, Germany, on 3-6 April 2023.
Rob Ackland presented "Heuristics for Identifying Echo Chambers in Political Discussions on Twitter" at the International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology 2023, Melbourne, 25 June – 1 July 2023.
Rob Ackland presented (online) "Identifying Echo Chambers in Political Discussions on Twitter" at the Sunbelt International Social Networks Conference, Portland, Oregon, 27 June – 1 July 2023.
Rob Ackland presented the poster (with T. Graham) "Monadic Network Analysis of Twitter Activity" at the Understanding and Countering Mis/Disinformation Workshop 2023, University of Melbourne, 25-26 September 2023.
At the Australian Social Network Analysis Conference (ASNAC), University of NSW, 28-29 November:
- Francisca Borquez presented the poster (with B. Gertzel and R. Ackland): "Exploring Decentralised Online Social Networks: The Case of Mastodon"
- Rob Ackland gave a presentation titled "Reciprocal Communication and Political Deliberation on Twitter"
- Rob Ackland contributed to the panel session "Teaching Social Network Analysis" (other panelists were: Malcolm Alexander, Johan Koskinen, Dean Lusher)
TRAINING PROGRAMS
6-8 February 2023 - "Social Media Network and Text Analysis" 3-day course held at the 2023 ACSPRI Summer Program, online (R. Ackland and Bryan Gertzel) (ACSPRI page) (course page).