Introduction to Digital Humanities: A-State

Week 10

Visualization: Network Analysis and Cultural Analytics

This week we will examine some of the promises and pitfalls of communicating humanities research in the visual mode, as well as some of the ways that  visual communication (like selfies) can be converted into data for humanities research.

1. Johanna Drucker, “Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 5, no. 1 (2011). Hypothes.is link.

2. David Easley and Jon Kleinberg, “Chapter 1: Overview,” in Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 1–20. Hypothes.is link.

3. Scott B. Weingart, “Demystifying Networks, Parts I & II,” Journal of Digital Humanities 1, no. 1 (2012). Hypothes.is link.

4. Lev Manovich, "Cultural Analytics: Visualizing Cultural Patterns in the Era of 'More Media'," http://manovich.net/index.php/projects/cultural-analytics-visualizing-cultural-patterns, 2009. Hypothes.is link.

5. Mapping the Republic of Letters; Phototrails (Hypothes.is link); Selficity (Hypothes.is link). 

Tools: Palladio

Assignment

Drawing on this week's readings and examples, use data from our group Zotero library or shared Evernote notebook to make network visualizations using Palladio. If you would like to use new data related to our research, add the source(s) to one or both of our shared collections.  Embed your visualizations in a new page of our workbook titled "Student's Name + Visualization." Follow the instructions on the "Assignment" page of our workbook to make sure that it  1) shows up in the contents of your "Portfolio" page and 2) is tagged on the "Visualization" page.

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