Dr Timothy Graham
PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics
Areas of expertise
- Sociology And Social Studies Of Science And Technology 160808
- Social Theory 160806
- Sociological Methodology And Research Methods 160807
- Data Structures 080403
- Open Software 080306
- Pattern Recognition And Data Mining 080109
Research interests
Computational sociology, social theory, choice and decision-making, social network analysis, data mining, applied machine learning
Biography
Tim Graham is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian National University, Australia, with a joint appointment in sociology and computer science. His research combines social theory and computationally-intensive approaches to analysing, understanding, and predicting social phenomena.
He has recently studied the shape and nature of government on the web through analysis of large-scale hyperlink networks. His recent research examines: how socialbots influence public discourse on Twitter; the structure and dynamics of the anti-vaccination movement online; machine learning for predicting violent crime; and developing new theoretically-attuned methods for social network analysis.
Publications
- Graham, T 2018, 'Platforms and hyper-choice on the World Wide Web', Big Data & Society, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1-14.
- Graham, T & Henman, P 2018, 'Affording choice: how website designs create and constrain 'choice'', Information Communication and Society.
- Fraussen, B, Graham, T & Halpin, D 2018, 'Assessing the prominence of interest groups in parliament: a supervised machine learning approach', The Journal of Legislative Studies, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 450-474.
- Manning, M, Wong, G, Graham, T et al. 2018, 'Towards a 'smart' cost-benefit tool: using machine learning to predict the costs of criminal justice policy interventions', Crime Science, vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 1-13.
- Rizoiu, M-A, Graham, T, Zhang, R, Zhang, Y, Ackland, R, Xie, L 2018, 'DEBATENIGHT: The role and influence of socialbots on twitter during the first 2016 U.S. presidential debate', 12th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2018, AAAI Press, California, USA, pp. 300-309.
- Wijenayake, S, Graham, T & Christen, P 2018, 'A Decision Tree Approach to Predicting Recidivism in Domestic Violence', 2018 Big Data Analytics for Social Computing (BDASC).
- Philip, G & Graham, T 2017, 'Big Data in Social Welfare: The Development of a Critical Perspective on Social Work's Latest "Electronic Turn"', Australian Social Work, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 135-147pp.
- Smith, N & Graham, T 2017, 'Mapping the anti-vaccination movement on Facebook', Information Communication and Society, pp. 1-19.
- Graham, T & Ackland, R 2017, 'Do Socialbots Dream of Popping the Filter Bubble? The role of socialbots in promoting participatory democracy in social media', in Gehl, Robert; Bakardjieva, Maria. (ed.), Socialbots and Their Friends: Digital Media and the Automation of Sociality, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York and Abingdon, pp. 187-206pp.
- Fitzgerald, R & Graham, T 2016, 'Assessing the risk of domestic violence recidivism', Crime and Justice Bulletin, vol. 189.
- Gillingham, P & Graham, T 2016, 'Designing electronic information systems for the future: Social workers and the challenge of new public management', Critical Social Policy, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 187-204.
- Henman, P, Ackland, R & Graham, T 2014, 'Networks of Communities and Communities of Networks in Online Government', Electronic Journal of e-Government, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 117-131.
- Graham, T 2014, 'Technologies of Choice: the structural shaping of ′choice′ on the World Wide Web', The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference TASA 2014, ed. Brad West, The Australian Sociological Association, Canberra, pp. 13pp.
- Henman, P, Ackland, R & Graham, T 2014, 'Community Structure in e-Government Hyperlink Networks', European Conference on eGovernment (ECEG 2014), ed. Alexandru Ionas, Academic Conferences and Publishing International and Academic Books ACPI_AB, Reading, UK, pp. 135-143.
- Graham, T & Sauter, T 2013, 'Google Glass as a technique of self and the revitalisation of the monad', The Australian Sociological Conference, The Australian Sociological Association, Australia, pp. 13pp.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Unbiased Bots That Build Bridges (U3B): Technical Systems that Support Deliberation and Diversity as a Chance for Political Discourse (Secondary Investigator)
- Modelling influence and identity in online social networks (Secondary Investigator)
- Socialbots as political actors? Autonomous communication technologies as tools and objects for digital sociology. (Secondary Investigator)
- (Ext led by UQ) Government Web Portals as New Government Actors (Secondary Investigator)
