Book launch: Web Social Science: Concepts, Data and Tools for Social Scientists in the Digital Age

Time: 5:30-6:30pm, Tuesday 3 December
Location:Coombs Building Tea Room, Fellows Road, Australian National University

Professor Peter Grabosky from the College of Asia and the Pacific is lauching a book by Associate Professor Robert Ackland, the Deputy Director (Education) of the Australian Demographic & Social Research Institute.

Web Social Science: Concepts, Data and Tools for Social Scientist in the in the Digital Age, provides readers with a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of Web Social Science. It demonstrates how the Web is being used to collect social research data, such as online surveys and interviews, as well as digital trace data from social media environments, such as Facebook and Twitter. It also illuminates how the advent of the Web has led to traditional social science concepts and approaches being combined with those from other scientific disciplines, leading to new insights into social, political and economic behaviour.

Original and timely, this book will be of immense value for students and researchers throughout the social sciences as well as those from other disciplines who want to learn about how social scientists are thinking about and researching the Web.

Light refreshments will be served.

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About the author

Robert Ackland, an economist by training, has worked in the fields of network science, computational social science and web science since 2002. His particular focus is on quantitative analysis of online social and organisational networks. Robert leads the Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks project and teaches on the social science of the Internet, statistics, and online research methods.