Week 13: Network analysis
Reading
- Catherine Medici, “Using Network Analysis to Understand Early Modern Women,” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 13 no. 1 (2018): 153–62, https://doi.org/10.1353/emw.2018.0058.
- Matthew Lincoln, “Social Network Centralization Dynamics in Print Production in the Low Countries, 1550–1750,” International Journal for Digital Art History 2 (2016): 134–157, https://doi.org/10.11588/dah.2016.2.25337.
Assignment
- Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian E. Ahnert, Catherine Nicole Coleman, and Scott B. Weingart, The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities, (Cambridge University Press, 2020), https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108866804. Read Introduction and choose a chapter to read and discuss in class.
- Watch Martin Grandjean, Introduction to Social Network Analysis Series.
- Browse the Tudor Newtorks project.
- Browse the Six Degrees of Francis Bacon project.
Activities
- Discussion of The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities and the use of network analysis in History.
- Workshop: Network analysis
Resources
- Mark Granovetter, “The Strength of Weak Ties,” American Journal of Sociology 78, no. 6 (1973): 1360–80, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2776392.
- Journal of Historical Network Research
Network analysis with R
- Awesome Network Analysis
- Katherine Ognyanova, Static and dynamic network visualization with R.
- Jesse Sadler, Introduction to Network Analysis with R: Creating static and interactive network graphs.
- Hadley Wickham, Danielle Navarro, and Thomas Lin Pedersen, ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis (3rd Edition), Chapter 7: Networks.