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

LeBlanc, Z. (2025). DECOLONISATION AND INFORMATION IN POSTCOLONIAL EGYPT, 1952–1967. In The Routledge Handbook of Information History (pp. 552-565). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003310532-39

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

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