On Friday 16 June 2017 (from 10:30 - 16:30), as part of the Doctoral School "Loading: Methods and approaches in Digital Humanities", a toolbox session on Network Analysis in Digital Humanities will take place. In this course we will discuss both theoretical, practical and technical aspects to using a network approach in DH research. You will learn what network analysis is and how you can possibly integrate into your research. In addition there will be a tutorial on the tool- UCINET, where you will learn some basics of visualizing and analysis of networks.
The session will be taught by Dr. Julie M. Birkholz
If you would like to join this session, please send an email to: joke.daems@ugent.be and julie.birkholz@ugent.be
Please download in advance UCINET- https://sites.google.com/site/ucinetsoftware/downloads. The trail version is the full version free for 60 days.
Proposed schedule:
Start time 10am - Lecture 1. Network analysis
Short break 11.15
11.30 – Lecture 2. The pipeline – data, projection, networks
12.30 Lunch
13.45 – Lab 1. Case study
15.00 Short Break
15.15 - Lab 2. Analyzing network data
16.00 - Lecture 3. Networks in DH
Suggested readings:
Borgatti, S.P., A. Mehra, D. Brass, and G. Labianca. “Network Analysis in the Social Sciences.” Science 323, no. 5916 (2009): 892–895.
Leydesdorff, L., & Welbers, K. (2011). The semantic mapping of words and co-words in contexts. Journal of Informetrics, 5(3), 469-475.