[Air-L] social media network analysis course - Melbourne, 27 Sep to 1 Oct

Robert Ackland robert.ackland at anu.edu.au
Fri Jul 23 01:13:47 PDT 2010


I will be conducting a 5-day training course in online research 
methods, with particular focus on analysing social media network data.

The course is part of the ACSPRI 2010 Spring Program 
(http://www.acspri.org.au) and runs 27 Sep to 1 Oct, hosted by Monash 
University, Clayton Campus (Melbourne).

Here is the blurb for the course:

The World Wide Web is only around 20 years old, but it has become 
central to our economic, political and social lives. This course will 
provide students with thorough training in online research methods for 
social science Internet research. While "obtrusive" social research 
methods (e.g. online surveys and focus groups) will be covered, there 
is greater emphasis on unobstrusive research methods, e.g. 
quantitative analysis of digital trace data from websites, blogsites, 
microblogs (Twitter) and social networking sites such as Facebook.

The course has a mixture of lectures and practical sessions. Practical 
sessions will be focused on unobtrusive online research and will 
involve the use of the VOSON System (collection/analysis of hyperlink 
networks), VOSON-sns (collection/analysis of social network service 
data) and NodeXL (Microsoft Excel 2007 template for social network 
analysis).

By taking this course, students will acquire important skills 
necessary for conducting empirical social science Internet research 
both in academic and industry settings.

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Dr Robert Ackland
Fellow and Masters Coordinator, Australian Demographic and Social 
Research Institute, The Australian National University

e-mail:   robert.ackland at anu.edu.au
homepage: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/robert.php
project:  http://voson.anu.edu.au

Information about the Master of Social Research
(Social Science of the Internet specialisation):
http://adsri.anu.edu.au/study/msr.php
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