Researcher Profile

  • Professor in School of Sociology and Leader of VOSON Lab, Australian National University

  • Social network analysis, computational social science and web science

  • Social network analysis, computational social science and web science

  • Ackland, R. and K. Gwynn (2020). Truth and the dynamics of news diffusion on Twitter. Chapter in R. Greifeneder, E. Newman, N. Schwarz, M. Jaffé (eds) The Psychology of Fake News: Sharing, Accepting and Correcting Misinformation.

    O'Neil, M. and R. Ackland (2020), "Online Field Theory," in M. Allen, J. Hunsinger & L. Klastrup (eds), International Handbook of Internet Studies Vol.2. Amsterdam: Springer.

    O’Neil, M. and Ackland, R. (2019) "Risk issue adoption in an online social movement field," Information, Communication & Society, 23(13), 1854-1873. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1620823

    Ackland, R, O'Neil, M. and S. Park (2019), "Engagement with News on Twitter: Insights from Australia and Korea," Asian Journal of Communication, special issue on Introducing Computational Social Science for Asia-Pacific Communication Research. 29(3), 235-251. https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2018.1462393

    Rizoiu, M.-A., Graham, T., Zhang, R., Zhang, Y., Ackland, R. and L. Xie (2018), "#DebateNight: The Role and Influence of Socialbots on Twitter During the 1st 2016 U.S. Presidential Debate", In International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM ’18), pages 1–10. https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09808

    Graham, T. and R. Ackland (2017), "Do Socialbots Dream of Popping the Filter Bubble? The Role of Socialbots in Promoting Deliberative Democracy in Social Media", in M. Bakardjieva and R. W. Gehl (eds) Socialbots and Their Friends: Digital Media and the Automation of Sociality. New York: Routledge. http://vosonlab.net/papers/Graham_and_Ackland_2016_SocialBots_preprint.pdf

    Ackland, R. and J. Zhu (2015), "Social Network Analysis," in P. Halfpenny and R. Procter (eds) Innovations in Digital Research Methods, SAGE Publications. http://vosonlab.net/papers/Ackland_Zhu_2015_preprint.pdf

    Ackland, R. and J. Shorish (2014), "Political Homophily on the Web," in M. Cantijoch, R. Gibson and S. Ward (eds) Analysing Social Media Data and Web Networks, Palgrave Macmillan. http://vosonlab.net/papers/Ackland_Shorish_2014_preprint.pdf

    Ackland, R. (2013), Web Social Science: Concepts, Data and Tools for Social Scientists in the Digital Age, SAGE Publications.

  • Social Network Analysis And Network Disruption; Social Influence – Micro, Meso And Macro Levels; Disinformation And Social Cohesion; Radicalisation And Extremism


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    Email Address robert.ackland@anu.edu.au

 

Robert Ackland

Overview

Robert Ackland is a Professor in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University (ANU), specialising in social network analysis, computational social science and the social science of the Internet. Robert leads the Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON) lab (http://vosonlab.net) which develops open source software for the collection and analysis of network and text data from social media and the WWW. Robert’s book Web Social Science was published by Sage in 2013, and he teaches courses on online research methods and the digital economy and society.