Synthesizing digital libraries and digital humanities perspectives for illuminating under-investigated complexities associated with user-generated book reviews

Abstract

The abundance of user-generated book reviews has opened up unprecedented research opportunities for digital humanities (DH) research. However, there remains a dearth of attention to the complexities and scholarly usabilities of such web data. Given digital libraries (DL) expertise in web archives and scholarly datasets, my thesis explores how to synthesize DL and DH to illuminate the under-examined complexities (namely temporal changes, cultural divergence, and user power dynamics) associated with usergenerated book reviews and improve the scholarly usability of such emergent data provisions.