Social Network Analysis [ Social interaction ]
… an explosion of digital resources and tools for historians, including several with particular value for historians of sociability. The process of digitizing records which is taking place across countless archives allows researchers to … little guidance on how to sort and categorize it. 3 Scholars of eighteenth-century sociability, particularly in its epistolary forms, may struggle with the volume of evidence that digital databases deliver to our screens. We are … critique of network analysis is that it encourages reliance on metadata at the expense of data. For example, scholars of epistolary sociability may fixate on the names of senders and recipients, the locations of addresses, etc. and may elide …
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