Full Description
This book uses literature as a wrench to pry open social networks and to ask different questions than have been asked about social networks previously. The book emphasizes the story-telling aspect of social networks, as well as the connection between narrative and social networks by incorporating narrative, dynamic networks, and time. Thus, it constructs a bridge between literature, digital humanities, and social networks. This book is a pioneering work that attempts to express social and philosophic constructs in mathematical terms.
The material used to test the algorithms is texts intended for performance, such as plays, film scripts, and radio plays; mathematical representations of the texts, or "literature networks", are then used to analyze the social networks found in the respective texts. By using literature networks and their accompanying narratives, along with their supporting analyses, this book allows for a novel approach to socialnetwork analysis.
Contents
Chapter 1. Overview of the Book.- Part 1: Static Literature Networks.- Chapter 2. Graphs in Dramas.- Chapter 3. Partition in Social Network.- Chapter 4. Taking the Road Less Traveled: Decision Matrices.- Chapter 5. Social Rationality and Networks.- Chapter 6. Sun Tzu Says: Direct Attack.- Chapter 7. Indirect Attack.- Chapter 8. 1812: Social Networks Capture Napoleon.- Chapter 9. The Search for Conflict.- Chapter 10. Ego Networks in Dramas.- Part 2: Evolution and Time in Literature Networks.- Chapter 11. Introduction to Evolving Social Networks.- Chapter 12. Clocks.- Chapter 13. M-Diagrams.- Chapter 14. The Tale of Two Clocks.- Chapter 15. Real Functions.- Chapter 16. Evolving Social Network High Dimensions and Time Frames.
