Community as a Vague Operator: Epistemological Questions for a Critical Heuristics of Community Detection Algorithms
1. Introduction Network science emerges as a term in the late nineteen-nineties and consists of a series of ‘content agnostic’ ways to analyse structures of various kinds as networks or graphs 1. It can be understood as a revival of the much older social network analysis through the influence of physics. 2 The kind of …