Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: his article will explore the role of network analysis research tools as/in scholarly infrastructure, and also detail our attempt to intervene in these practices by building Network Navigator, a browser tool for network analysis.In making Network Navigator, we intentionally contributed to an existing ecosystem of network analysis tools, namely Gephi and Palladio, but we were also motivated to combine the principles of minimal computing with new developments in web architecture and DH.We believe our perspective helps complicate our understanding of "tool"-building, making visible the obscured interpretive work of DH infrastructure.Given the centrality of GUI tools in introductory DH pedagogy, we believe that the making and maintaining of DH tools remains one of the profoundly in uential, and yet consistently under-theorized, areas of DH scholarship and teaching.Even as tools seem to be so foundational to DH, at the same time they remain rarely debated or even Journal of Digital History de ned as a category.Rather than treating 'tools' as simply technical objects, we want to critically examine how their design and materiality directly shapes this conceptual amorphousness, but also more profoundly how this de nitional problem makes it dif cult to discern the ways DH tools are determining larger DH systems and infrastructure.Cover image for article generated using Canva's AI Tool https://www.canva.com/ai-image- generator/ with the terms network analysis, digital humanities, and tools.
Source: Journal of Digital History
Authors: John Ladd, Zoe LeBlanc
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
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OpenAlex ID: W4406269890