If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more, here are some materials to check out:

Web Resources Related to Rob’s Academic Work:

• University academic profile: https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/ackland-rj
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=nkVb74YAAAAJ&hl=en
• Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON) Lab: http://vosonlab.net
• VOSON Lab GitHub page: https://github.com/vosonlab

Some of Rob’s Articles:

• Ackland, R. (2005), “Mapping the U.S. Political Blogosphere: Are Conservative Bloggers More Prominent?,” refereed paper presented at BlogTalk Downunder 2005, 19-22 May, Sydney. [pre-print]
• Ackland, R. and J. Shorish (2009), “Network Formation in the Political Blogosphere: An Application of Agent Based Simulation and e-Research Tools,” Computational Economics, 34(4), 383-398. [pre-print]
• Ackland, R. and M. O’Neil (2011), “Online collective identity: The case of the environmental movement,” Social Networks, 33, 177-190. This paper received the 2012 Communication and Information Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association (CITASA) Paper Award. [pre-print]
• R. Ackland and R. Gibson (2013), “Hyperlinks and Networked Communication: A Comparative Study of Political Parties Online,” International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 16(3), special issue on Computational Social Science: Research Strategies, Design & Methods, 231-244. [pre-print]
• Ackland, R. and A. Evans (2017), “Using the Web to Examine the Evolution of the Abortion Debate in Australia 2005-2015,” in N. Brügger and R. Schroeder (eds), Web as History. London: UCL Press. [open access book] [pre-print of chapter]
• 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. [pre-print]
• Raissi, M. and R. Ackland (2021), “Important relationships in a multilevel world: The role of network structure in explaining closeness of relationships and access to resources in later life,” forthcoming in Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Rob’s Book:

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

• SAGE web page: https://au.sagepub.com/en-gb/oce/web-social-science/book234439
• Amazon web page: https://www.amazon.com/Web-Social-Science-Concepts-Scientists/dp/1849204810

VOSON Lab R tools:

• VOSON Dashboard – R Shiny application for interactive analysis of networks created by vosonSML. GitHub CRAN
• vosonSML – R package for collecting social media and web data (Twitter, YouTube, Reddit and WWW hyperlinks) and generating different types of networks for analysis. GitHub CRAN
• voson.tcn – R package for collecting threaded twitter conversations and generating networks. GitHub
• VOSON Lab Coding Blog

Rob’s Social Media:

Twitter: @robackland

VOSON Lab on Twitter: @vosonlab