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Humans organize time through narrative [156]. If we wish to understand time, one way to do so is through narrative. In Part II of this book, we move from static social networks to dynamic and evolving networks. These evolving networks incorporate time through narrative. Akin to Barthes’ assertion that a rigid timeline in narrative restricts the analytical freedom of the reader [28, 29], Part II offers freedom for more dynamic analysis in social networks through the integration of time.
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The complex object describes the relationship between a pair of a characters, and not a group of characters. Therefore, we use a network in order to describe that relationship.
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See Chap. 16 for more on time frames.
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Lotker, Z. (2021). Introduction to Evolving Social Networks. In: Analyzing Narratives in Social Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68299-6_11
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