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