The website Six Degrees of Francis Bacon shows the description of the social network of Francis Bacon, which is a digital reconstruction of the early social connections between scholars and students.
This particular network works by creating a bubble/point for each person to keep track of the social network, and the connection in which people are represented by having met, or are associated with each other. The site gives the option to search for and highlight another bubble ( a different person) within the network to see the possible overlaps of social connections, and the way they are connected (how to get from person A to person B). I think this would be an interesting site to incorporate into sociology or even anthropology to simply see the breakdown in individual societies about their social connections with one another. It is definitely a rabbit hole to go explore by seeing who else knows other people. I am curious as to what this were to look like if we were to do one with say Dean Livingston, here at Carleton?
