Hu, Yuerong, Underwood, Ted, Layne-Worthey, Glen, Downie, J. Stephen, Scholger, Walter, Vogeler, Georg, Tasovac, Toma, Baillot, Anne, Raunig, Elisabeth, Scholger, Martina, Steiner, Elisabeth, Centre for Information Modelling, and Helling, Patrick
Subjects
Paper, Library & information science, cross-cultural comparison, book reviews, Goodreads, Cultural studies, cultural analytics, Short Presentation, Literary studies, social media analysis and methods, Douban, user-generated content, Asian studies
Abstract
This presentation introduces our preliminary findings based on comparing the "classics" curated on Goodreads based in the U.S. and Douban based in China. The presented research is a case study for investigating the Anglophone vs. non-Anglophone online book reviewers' understandings of the classics.