A Social Network Analysis of Twitter: Mapping the Digital Humanities Community

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Title
A Social Network Analysis of Twitter: Mapping the Digital Humanities Community
Journal
Cogent Arts and Humanities
Author(s)
Grandjean Martin
ISSN
2331-1983
Publication state
Published
Issued date
04/2016
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
3
Pages
NA
Language
english
Abstract
Defining digital humanities might be an endless debate if we stick to the discussion about the boundaries of this concept as an academic "discipline". In an attempt to concretely identify this field and its actors, this paper shows that it is possible to analyse them through Twitter, a social media widely used by this "community of practice". Based on a network analysis of 2,500 users identified as members of this movement, the visualisation of the "who's following who?" graph allows us to highlight the structure of the network's relationships, and identify users whose position is particular. Specifically, we show that linguistic groups are key factors to explain clustering within a network whose characteristics look similar to a small world.
Keywords
Digital humanities, Social network analysis, Data visualisation, Social media, Twitter, Humanités numériques
Open Access
Yes
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17/03/2016 13:42
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20/08/2019 15:42
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