Social Network Analysis [ Social interaction ]
… the developing internet in the mid-1990s, Hotson describes it as not only an updated venue for the kinds of learned exchange that he himself studies but also a solution to the greatest problem facing scholars of early modern social … with such vast amounts of evidence pointing to social connection, ranging from formal letters of introduction to gossipy exchanges between longtime friends, that it can be difficult to identify key themes, central players, and significant … ( Hotson and Wallnig 31) . Network analysis tools are not archival search engines; they cannot show us relationships or exchanges that we did not previously know about. What network analysis can do is provide new insight into known …
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