Reassembling and generating cultural networks

A digital humanities research agenda

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https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.15.27784

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cultural networks, digital humanities, cultural analytics, metaphysics of process, phenomena

Abstract

This paper proposes a research agenda to study cultural networks that assumes their role both in making meaning and as adaptative tools for humans and their communities. First, the agenda grounds the study of cultural networks in Whitehead’s (1861–1947) metaphysics of process, posing that cultural networks emerge during human’s production of relations with the world of phenomena. Then, the paper identifies two approaches to studying cultural networks, reassembling them or generating them. Thirdly, it contextualizes the importance of understanding cultural networks vis a vis the consolidation of the digital humanities in the academic domain, and the productivity of networks as tools to explore the cultural in networked domains of human experience. The final remarks locate the proposed research agenda within the context of multidisciplinary research on cultural analytics.

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Juan-Luis Suárez, Western University

Full Professor of Digital Humanities and Director of the CulturePlex Lab at Western University (Canada). His research focuses on digital humanities, cultural analytics, and the humanities of the Anthropocene.

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2024-09-30

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Suárez, J.-L. (2024). Reassembling and generating cultural networks: A digital humanities research agenda. Metode Science Studies Journal, (15). https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.15.27784
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