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