Rob Ackland robackland.bsky.social

Social network analysis, economics, social science of the Internet. Prof in School of Sociology, Australian National University. @vosonlab @uberlink

[Rob Ackland robackland.bsky.social @RobAckland]

I haven't been very active here recently. Have been planning to move to #BlueSky, and Musk's salute at the Trump inauguration gave me the push I needed. See you on #BlueSky. @mathieuoneil @timothyjgraham @vosonlab

[ANU Sociology @ANU_SOCY]

Join us for the launch of The Routledge Handbook of Human Research Ethics and Integrity in Australia 🥂 The volume features a chapter from @ANU_SOCY Prof Rob Ackland on ethics & digital trace data, co-authored w M. Francisco Bórquez Vivanco

@RobAckland
https://t.co/QABQgnUOtb

[ANU Sociology @ANU_SOCY]

Wonderful to see our brilliant staff and affiliates presenting at the "Authoritarian Information Manipulation and Dissemination" @populismstudies workshop at @Deakin_ADI last week 🌐

@RobAckland @timothyjgraham, @mathieuoneil

[Tim Graham 🌻 [email protected] @timothyjgraham]

So awesome meeting new and old friends at this conference! So much discussion during the luxurious 90 minute sessions for speakers

[ANU Sociology @ANU_SOCY]

A full house for today's Sociology seminar series with Prof Roger Patulny @rpatulny visiting fellow at @ANU_SOCY speaking on narratives of climate anxiety

"Climate anxiety can feel immobilizing but can in turn be used to mobilize publics" 🌏

https://t.co/sL412kb8AW

[Jürgen Pfeffer @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social @JurgenPfeffer]

Open post-doctoral researcher position in Computational Social Science @TU_Muenchen - please share the information! #CSS
More info here: https://t.co/kUPl9LSMNt

[Rob Ackland robackland.bsky.social @RobAckland]

I think it was called Twitter last time I was here, anyway here is @mathieuoneil presenting at the Authoritarian Info Manipulation & Dissemination workshop. @ihsanylmz

[Rob Ackland robackland.bsky.social @RobAckland]

My 3-day online course "Social Media Network & Text Analysis", 5-7 Feb. Data: Reddit, Mastodon, WWW websites, YT vid comments (X, maybe...). #rstats igraph for #SNA, & quanteda, titdytext etc for #textmining. If interested, DM/email me. @vosonlab. https://t.co/GzNsc74QcM

[OOIR @ObserveIR]

Trending in #Sociology:
https://t.co/LaQ3jNGPTl

1) The Right to Work & American Inequality (@ASR_Journal)

2) Pathways of Intergenerational Support between Parents & Children throughout Adulthood (@SOPJournal)

3) Bridging in network organisations: The case of IPCC

4) Beds for rent (@econsocjournal)

5) Classes Without Labor: Three Critiques of Bourdieu (@critsoc)

[VOSON Lab ANU @vosonlab]

VOSON Lab at #ANSNAC2023 at @UNSW. As we move to study the #fediverse, this poster includes preliminary research into signed networks using #mastodon data and R open-source tools.
#SNA #Rstats #rtoot @ANU_SOCY @RobAckland

[VOSON Lab ANU @vosonlab]

New data source: #Mastodon data collection and network generation now available via `voson.SML`!
#Rstats #SNA #threadedconversationnetworks #fediverse #decentralisednetworks @RobAckland @ANU_SOCY #opensource

https://t.co/vI6TzdPonA

[Mathieu O'Neil mathieuon.bsky.social @mathieuoneil]

New report by yours truly @RobAckland R.Cunneen: how #informationliteracy such as #lateralreading and #informationhealth tools can boost information resilience and respond to epistemic pollution @UniCanberra @NewsMediaRC @vosonlab https://t.co/P5aO8grxNh

[Research at ANU @ANU_Research]

Delving into the sci-fi realm of the internet, Professor Robert Ackland from @ANU_SOCY uses network science to explore online social networks and virtual communities. His research sheds light on the evolving landscape of our interconnected world. Read more https://t.co/6QmFz7lju5

[VOSON Lab ANU @vosonlab]

What we know so far about the API changes, what we can currently do with the VOSON Lab tools and future developments #Rstats #SNA #reddit #API #data @ANU_SOCY @RobAckland
https://t.co/9rpr5foZ35

[VOSON Lab ANU @vosonlab]

Dear VOSON tools users: We're closely monitoring the @Reddit and @Twitter API changes and their impact on data collection. Stay tuned! #rstats #SNA #opensource #reserachtools @RobAckland @ANU_SOCY

[Rob Ackland robackland.bsky.social @RobAckland]

@mathieuoneil @Eventmechanics @divinameigs @Irfan_khan26 @DeniseThwaites @Kerrymccallum @XiaolanSharon Congrats Mathieu! Great to still be working with you after all these years, as the internet enters another phase

[VOSON Lab ANU @vosonlab]

Thanks for visiting us, @drjohankoskinen. His seminar presentation "Making Sense of Imperfectly Observed Networks" covered various examples of research, with a focus on network data and statistical methods. @ANU_SOCY @politicsANU @ANUcass @RobAckland #SNA https://t.co/BSderOdJfE

[VOSON Lab ANU @vosonlab]

Exciting news! @RobAckland and Florian Muhle co-taught an intensive masters course on Empirical Market Research at @zeppelin University, Germany, using VOSON software and #Rstats tools to analyse social media networks and text data #SNA @ANU_SOCY @ANUcass

[VOSON Lab ANU @vosonlab]

Check out our new blog post on text analysis using website text content. Learn how to collect, process and analyse text using frequency counts, word clouds, and comparison clouds in #Rstats. @RobAckland @sidiqmadya @ANU_SOCY #TextAnalysis #Code #SNA
https://t.co/0jH1JxQVVp

[VOSON Lab ANU @vosonlab]

See our new blog post: 'Analysis of website text content using #quanteda.' Visualisations, code and techniques to conduct basic text analysis, using #Rstats packages. #TextAnalysis #Web #quantitative @RobAckland @sidiqmadya @ANU_SOCY
https://t.co/0zio48t9mb