Introducing DH Networks
Seminar and Workshop Framing
What are networks in DH and why are they so popular? What does it mean to do network analysis with humanities materials?
Contextual Materials
- Part II Cultural Networks: Chapter 3 Culture Is Data and Chapter 4 Visual Networks in Ahnert, Ruth, Sebastian E. Ahnert, Catherine Nicole Coleman, and Scott B. Weingart. The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities. Elements in Publishing and Book Culture, December 2020. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108866804.
- Klein, Lauren F., and Sandeep Soni. “How Words Lead to Justice.” Public Books (blog), August 17, 2021. https://www.publicbooks.org/how-words-lead-to-justice/.
Applied Materials
- Skim Earhart, Amy E, Roopika Risam, and Matthew Bruno. “Citational Politics: Quantifying the Influence of Gender on Citation in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 36, no. 3 (September 1, 2021): 581–94. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaa011.
Curated Additional Materials (optional but recommended if familiar with assigned materials)
- Grandjean, Martin. “A Social Network Analysis of Twitter: Mapping the Digital Humanities Community.” Edited by Aaron Mauro. Cogent Arts & Humanities 3, no. 1 (December 31, 2016): 1171458. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2016.1171458.
Workshop Assignments (to be completed prior to class)
- Complete one or both of the text analysis assignments(s) available here