Week Nine Reflection
This week, I finally managed to get Gephi's dynamic visualization to function! Seeing as I was at the eleventh hour with this directed fieldwork, I focused primarily on creating a final video which showcases the dynamic as well as static Field Network Visualizations. Details for inclusive design elements incorporated into the final iteration can be read here.
While I did enjoy creating the haptic feedback tones to signify the appearance of nodes within a certain field, I felt that a sound bed might be effective. To achieve greater context in the social network, I dove into the biographical fields again and was able to find a few recorded examples of composer Henry Belfour Gardiner, brother of social network member Alan Gardiner.
I usually enjoy creating sound beds for my video, but I feel that the addition of this recording helps provide the user context for what type of material the figures occupying the Art section created. It may also lend a sense of gravity and importance to what has been an incredibly formative and enlightening directed fieldwork experience!
Reading:
20th century violin concertante - Diemer, Michael Zeno. https://www.tobias-broeker.de/rare-manuscripts/a-f/diemer-michael-zeno/. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021.
ArchivesofSound. Evening Hymn (Henry Balfour Gardiner) - Guildford Cathedral Choir (Barry Rose). YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aNOccm8i-U. Accessed 20 Aug. 2021.
Erikson, Emily. “Formalist and Relationalist Theory in Social Network Analysis.” Sociological Theory, vol. 31, no. 3, Sept. 2013, pp. 219–42. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1177/0735275113501998.
Fenske, Michaela. “Micro, Macro, Agency: Historical Ethnography as Cultural Anthropology Practice.” Journal of Folklore Research: An International Journal of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, translated by John Bendix, vol. 44, no. 1, Jan. 2007, pp. 67–99. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.2979/JFR.2007.44.1.67.
Haggerty, John, and Sheryllynne Haggerty. “Visual Analytics of an Eighteenth-Century Business Network.” Enterprise and Society, vol. 11, no. 1, Mar. 2010, pp. 1–25. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1093/es/khp051.
Manaugh, Geoff, and Nicola Twilley. Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine. 2021.