Outputs
Archive: 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003
Journal articles
Ackland, R., Gibson, R., Lusoli, W. and S. Ward (2010), "Engaging with the public? Assessing the online presence and communication practices of the nanotechnology industry," forthcoming in Social Science Computer Review, accepted 19 June 2009.
Ackland, R. (2010), "'Superstar' Concentrations of Scientific Output and Recognition," forthcoming in W. H. Dutton and P. W. Jeffreys (eds), World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. (download pre-print)
Lusher, D. and R. Ackland (2010), "A Relational Hyperlink Analysis of an Online Social Movement," forthcoming in Journal of Social Structure, accepted 13th October 2009.
den Besten, M., Ackland, R., Fry, J. and R. Schroeder (2010), "Collaboration Among e-Research Projects in the UK: An Analysis Using Online Research Methods," forthcoming in Anandarajan & Anandarajan eds. E-Research Collaboration: Frameworks, Tools and Techniques, Springer. Accepted 8th October 2009.
Ackland, R. and J. Shorish (2009), "Network Formation in the Political Blogosphere: An Application of Agent Based Simulation and e-Research Tools," forthcoming in Computational Economics, accepted 28 February 2009. (download earlier version of paper)
Ackland, R. (2009), "Social Network Services as Data Sources and Platforms for e-Researching Social Networks," forthcoming in Social Science Computer Review Special Issue on e-Social Science, 27(4), Winter 2009. (download pre-print)
Grants
Australian Research Council Linkage Grant LP0990974 "The role of online social networks in successful ageing: benefitting from 'who you know' at older ages" (H. Booth, R. Ackland and T. Windsor; $270,000; 2009-2012)
Seminar/workshop presentations
R. Ackland - "Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks," Presentation (via Skype) to Politics and Web 2.0 Research Methods Workshop, jointly hosted by Infoscape and the National Centre for e-Social Science, Manchester, 20 February 2009.
R. Ackland - "An Agent-Based Network Formation Model of the Political Blogosphere," Presentation at School of Economics seminar, The Australian National University, 30 April 2009.
Student theses/projects
Lin Chen - "A Drupal social network service as a data source for researching social networks," COMP8790 - Software Engineering Project, The Australian National University, semester 1 2009.
XianTong Chen - "Optimizing the VOSON e-Research tool," COMP8790 - Software Engineering Project, The Australian National University, semester 1 2009.