The use and impact of Goodreads rating and reviews, for readers of Arabic Books

Alghamdi, Ahmad Mohammad; Ihshaish, Hisham

doi:10.1504/ijbis.2020.10023153

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“…Kousha et al [13] investigate the feasibility of using Goodreads' book metrics and reviews as a means to assess the impact of books. Alghamdi and Ihshaish [14] address related questions of potential influence, looking only at Arabic book reviews. Maity et al [15] study how much user behavior on Goodreads could be indicative of sales on other book retail platforms, such as Amazon.…”

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A Global Book Reading Dataset

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2021

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The choice of what to read is both influenced by and indicative of such factors as a person’s beliefs, culture, gender, and socioeconomic status. However, obtaining data including such personal attributes, as well as detailed reading habits and activities of individuals is difficult and would usually require either (i) data from e-readers, such as the Amazon Kindle, or from library checkouts, both of which are hard to obtain, or (ii) distributing questionnaires and conducting interviews, which can be expensive and suffers from recall bias. In this study, we present a dataset of over 40 million reading instances of 1,872,677 unique individuals collected from Goodreads. Goodreads is a book-cataloging social media platform with millions of users, where users share comments on the books they have read, while creating and maintaining social connections. We enrich the dataset with gender and location information. The dataset presented in this study can be used to perform cross-national and cross-gender analyses of reading behavior among book enthusiasts.

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A Global Book Reading Dataset

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2021

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“…Studies on Goodreads, an application of Amazon, which is the global equivalent of the 1000K application in the literature (e.g., Blackwell & Springer, 2013;Thelwall & Kousha, 2016Asadi et al, 2017Thelwall 2017García-Roca, 2020Alghamdi & Ihshaish, 2021). Kostial (2021) on LovelyBooks and Özemir and Nacar (2020) on Neokur paltaform can be mentioned as some other social reading networks.…”

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Literature and Media: A Closer Look at Literature through a Social Networking Application

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2024

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Today, traditional literacy habits are changing with various technological tools in digital environments. Social reading platforms are one of these innovations and changes. These networks are widely used in the world and in Turkey. The application 1000Kitap, the largest book reader network in Turkey, is one of these social networks. In this study, the opinions of pre-service teachers who review the books they read on this application, their attitudes towards reading and writing, and the contributions of this application to pre-service teachers were examined. The study was conducted with fifty-five Turkish pre-service teachers within the scope of the world literature course in the spring semester of the 2022-2023 academic year. In the study, it was aimed to examine in detail the views of pre-service Turkish teachers on the 1000Kitap application by using mixed method. The quantitative dimension of the research is a survey model that tries to describe the existing situation as it is. In the quantitative dimension of the study, survey technique, one of the data collection techniques of this model, was used. In the qualitative dimension of the study, a case study, one of the qualitative research methods, was conducted. The qualitative data used in the study were obtained from a semi-structured interview form. It was found that the attitudes of the pre-service teachers who examined the work they read in the 1000Kitap application, made quotations, and shared their opinions were at a high level; their opinions about the application were very motivating and useful in terms of interaction and sharing; the application increased their reading motivation and contributed to the opportunity to see different perspectives.

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The use and impact of Goodreads rating and reviews, for readers of Arabic Books

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A Global Book Reading Dataset

A Global Book Reading Dataset

Literature and Media: A Closer Look at Literature through a Social Networking Application

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