After reading about projects like Republic of Letters , Linked Jazz, Robots Reading Vogue, and Viral Texts, I now realize how important visual depictions can be in conveying networking. For instance, the Republic of Letters Project uses letters from correspondence between scholars in North America and Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth century to show how networking occurred in the past.
I found the Robots Reading Vogue project to be quite interesting. This project combined the front covers of Vogue magazines from one decade, into one. Thus, all of the vogue front covers from 1900-1910 were combined into one, all Vogue front covers from 19190-1920 were combined into once, and so on until the year 2000. What this project revealed was that, Vogue front covers were uniquely designed and that each issue differed from others at least until the 1980s. In the 80s, the Vogue front covers began becoming less distinct and rather mirrored each other.
The Linked Jazz project also effectively uses visuals to convey networking. The project provides insight and information about famous jazz artists via interviews with other jazz musicians. For instance, if you search the project for information about John Coltrane, you would probably find interviews of differing jazz artists talking about John Coltrane. By providing information on musicians this way, the project depicts the large networking of jazz artists.
Lastly the Viral Texts project, uses visualization to show how new stories during the nineteenth century spread throughout the country. In short, it shows how newspapers copied stories from other newspapers, thus spreading the same stories throughout the country. The visuals in this project as well as the ones already discussed, depict networking in various forms and thus convey it to readers.
Sources
Ryan Cordell and David Smith, Viral Texts: Mapping Networks of Reprinting in 19th-Century Newspapers and Magazines (2017), http://viraltexts.org.
Weingart, Scott, “Demystifying Networks”. December 14, 2011.
Lange, Lea and Patteulli, Cristina, “Linked Jazz: Building with Linked Open Data”, Educause Review, June 30, 2014.
“Linked Jazz Revealing the Relationships of the Jazz Community”, n.d.
Dan Edelstein, Paula Findlen, Giovanna Ceserani, Caroline Winterer, Nicole Coleman, Historical Research in a Digital Age: Reflections from the Mapping the Republic of Letters Project, The American Historical Review, Volume 122, Issue 2, April 2017, Pages 400–424, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/122.2.400
Visualization: Robots Reading Vogue, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYYdMVqS9Jw&feature=emb_logo
Visualization: Mapping the Republic of Letters, https://mycourses.siu.edu/d2l/le/enhancedSequenceViewer/440552?url=https%3A%2F%2F3491bd3f-f173-4aee-951e-dcd7adef86a6.sequences.api.brightspace.com%2F440552%2Factivity%2F2957685%3FfilterOnDatesAndDepth%3D1
