[Air-L] Social Media Analysis course, Brisbane 7-11 July

[Robert Ackland]

Dear List,

I am running a 5-day course on Social Media Analysis at the ACSPRI 
Winter Program, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 7-11 July.

More details are available here: https://acspri.org.au/node/1240

Please note that the cut-off for Early Bird discounts is *Wednesday 7th 
May* (i.e. in 5 days time).

This course will provide students with an introduction to social media 
analysis in the context of social research.  The course is designed for 
social researchers interested in social media, and covers methods of 
accessing and analysing digital trace data from websites, blogsites, 
Twitter and Facebook.  While there is emphasis on social networks (e.g. 
WWW hyperlink networks, follower networks in Twitter, friendship 
networks in Facebook), analysing text content from social media is also 
covered.  There will also be an introduction to using Virtual Worlds 
(e.g. Second Life and Massively Multiplayer Online Games) and online 
experiments for social research.  Analytic approaches include social 
network analysis and text content analysis.  The course also provides 
practical training in software tools that can be used for social 
research using social media data: VOSON (for hyperlink network 
construction and analysis), NodeXL (Excel 2007/2010 template for social 
media network analysis), Gephi (network visualisation tool).  Notes will 
include excerpts from my book Web Social Science (SAGE).

Please contact me if you would like more details on the course.

Regards,
Rob

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Assoc. Prof. Robert Ackland
Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute
Australian National University

New book:
Web Social Science: Concepts, Data and Tools for Social Scientists in 
the Digital Age 
<http://www.amazon.com/Web-Social-Science-Concepts-Scientists/dp/1849204810> 
(SAGE Publications)

e-mail: robert.ackland at anu.edu.au <mailto:robert.ackland at anu.edu.au>
homepage: https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/ackland-rj
project: http://voson.anu.edu.au <http://voson.anu.edu.au/>