Assistant Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences
Assistant Professor, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Recent Publications

Hu, Y., Diesner, J., Underwood, T., LeBlanc, Z., Layne-Worthey, G., & Downie, J. S. (2025). Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly research. Big Data and Society, 12(3), Article 20539517251359229. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517251359229

Hu, Y., LeBlanc, Z. G., Diesner, J., Underwood, W. E., Layne-Worthey, G., & Downie, J. S. (2024). Complexities of leveraging user-generated book reviews for scholarly research: transiency, power dynamics, and cultural dependency. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 25(2), 317-340. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00376-z

Koeser, R. S., & Leblanc, Z. (2024). Missing Data, Speculative Reading. Journal of Cultural Analytics, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.116926

LeBlanc, Z. (2024). More Than Keywords Histories of Decolonization and Digitized Newspapers. American Historical Review, 129(1), 164-168. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad499

Hu, Y., LeBlanc, Z., Diesner, J., Underwood, T., Layne-Worthey, G., & Stephen Downie, J. (2022). Complexities associated with user-generated book reviews in digital libraries: Temporal, cultural, and political case studies. In JCDL 2022 - Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2022 Article 30 (Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1145/3529372.3530930

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