Zoe Leblanc
Biographic Data
| ID | 291075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zoe Leblanc |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zoe |
| FAMILY NAME | Leblanc |
| SIGNATURE | LEBLANC Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2012-8805 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly research
Attracted by the promise of a broader and more egalitarian sample of readers than published book reviews provide, researchers are increasingly scraping social reviewing platforms like Goodreads for data about readers’ behavior. Yet, treating online book reviews as direct proxies for readers and books can be problematic, as they are socially and technically constructed artifacts shaped by platform dynamics, whether between developers and users, or…
Edge Cases
article will explore the role of network analysis research tools as/in scholarly infrastructure, and also detail our attempt to intervene in these practices by building Network Navigator, a browser tool for network analysis.In making Network Navigator, we intentionally contributed to an existing ecosystem of network analysis tools, namely Gephi and Palladio, but we were also motivated to combine the principles of minimal computing with new develo…
Missing Data, Speculative Reading
In this article we use an approach we term “speculative reading” to explore gaps in Sylvia Beach’s lending library records and the *Shakespeare and Company Project* datasets. We recast the problem of missing data as an opportunity and use a combination of time series forecasting, evolutionary models, and recommendation systems to estimate the extent of missing information and speculatively fill in some gaps. We conclude that the datasets include …
More Than Keywords
Journal Article More Than Keywords: Histories of Decolonization and Digitized Newspapers Get access Zoe LeBlanc Zoe LeBlanc Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 1, March 2024, Pages 164–168, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad499 Published: 13 March 2024
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Edge Cases
article will explore the role of network analysis research tools as/in scholarly infrastructure, and also detail our attempt to intervene in these practices by building Network Navigator, a browser tool for network analysis.In making Network Navigator, we intentionally contributed to an existing ecosystem of network analysis tools, namely Gephi and Palladio, but we were also motivated to combine the principles of minimal computing with new develo…
Missing Data, Speculative Reading
In this article we use an approach we term “speculative reading” to explore gaps in Sylvia Beach’s lending library records and the *Shakespeare and Company Project* datasets. We recast the problem of missing data as an opportunity and use a combination of time series forecasting, evolutionary models, and recommendation systems to estimate the extent of missing information and speculatively fill in some gaps. We conclude that the datasets include …
More Than Keywords
Journal Article More Than Keywords: Histories of Decolonization and Digitized Newspapers Get access Zoe LeBlanc Zoe LeBlanc Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 1, March 2024, Pages 164–168, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad499 Published: 13 March 2024
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Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly research
Attracted by the promise of a broader and more egalitarian sample of readers than published book reviews provide, researchers are increasingly scraping social reviewing platforms like Goodreads for data about readers’ behavior. Yet, treating online book reviews as direct proxies for readers and books can be problematic, as they are socially and technically constructed artifacts shaped by platform dynamics, whether between developers and users, or…
Computer Science (5 works) · American History and Culture (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies (1 work) · Data science (1 work) · Digital Games and Media (1 work) · Digital Marketing and Social Media (1 work)