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Overview

Deen Freelon is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and works primarily within the social sciences. Their academic focus spans several interconnected fields and subfields, including sociology and political science, communication, artificial intelligence, statistical and nonlinear physics, and gender studies.

Their research covers a variety of main topics related to social media and politics, misinformation and its impacts, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, media influence and politics, media studies and communication, complex network analysis techniques, and opinion dynamics and social influence.

They have published extensively in multiple venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • UNC Libraries
  • Science
  • Nature
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Deen Freelon's recent scholarly articles include:

  • "Disinformation as Political Communication," 2020, Political Communication
  • "False equivalencies: Online activism from left to right," 2020, Science

Additional recent papers relevant to their research but with other lead authors include:

  • "Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities," 2020, Science
  • "Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook," 2023, Science
  • "How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?" 2023, Science

Deen Freelon collaborates regularly with several scholars including Sandra González-Bailón, David Lazer, Hunt Allcott, Adriana Crespo-Tenorio, and Matthew Gentzkow.

Best Publications

  • Opening Closed Regimes: What was the Role of Social Media during the Arab Spring?

    Philip Howard;Aiden Duffy;Deen Freelon;Muzammil M. Hussain

  • Communicating Civic Engagement: Contrasting Models of Citizenship in the Youth Web Sphere

    W. Lance Bennett;Chris Wells;Deen Freelon

  • Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities.

    David M. J. Lazer;David M. J. Lazer;Alex Pentland;Duncan J. Watts;Sinan Aral

  • Disinformation as Political Communication

    Deen Freelon;Chris Wells

  • Quantifying the power and consequences of social media protest

    Deen Freelon;Charlton McIlwain;Meredith Clark

  • Analyzing online political discussion using three models of democratic communication

    Deen G. Freelon

  • Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook

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  • Supporting reflective public thought with considerit

    Travis Kriplean;Jonathan Morgan;Deen Freelon;Alan Borning

  • How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?

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  • Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing

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  • Beyond the Hashtags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the Online Struggle for Offline Justice

    Deen Freelon;Charlton D. McIlwain;Meredith D Clark

  • Computational Research in the Post-API Age

    Deen Freelon

  • False equivalencies: Online activism from left to right.

    Deen Freelon;Alice Marwick;Daniel Kreiss

  • Discourse architecture, ideology, and democratic norms in online political discussion

    Deen Freelon

  • Of big birds and bayonets: hybrid Twitter interactivity in the 2012 Presidential debates

    Deen Freelon;David Karpf

  • Assessing the Russian Internet Research Agency's impact on the political attitudes and behaviors of American Twitter users in late 2017.

    Christopher A. Bail;Brian Guay;Emily Maloney;Aidan Combs

  • Syria’s socially mediated civil war

    Marc Lynch;Deen Freelon;Sean Aday

  • On the Interpretation of Digital Trace Data in Communication and Social Computing Research

    Deen Freelon

  • Changing Citizen Identity and the Rise of a Participatory Media Culture

    W. Lance Bennett;Deen Freelon;Chris Wells

  • Watching From Afar : Media Consumption Patterns Around the Arab Spring

    Sean Aday;Henry Farrell;Deen Freelon;Marc Lynch

  • Black Trolls Matter: Racial and Ideological Asymmetries in Social Media Disinformation:

    Deen Freelon;Michael Bossetta;Chris Wells;Josephine Lukito

  • The Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: How Russia’s Internet Research Agency Tweets Appeared in U.S. News as Vox Populi:

    Josephine Lukito;Jiyoun Suk;Yini Zhang;Larissa Doroshenko

  • Introduction to the Special Issue on New Media and Social Unrest

    Zeynep Tufekci;Deen Freelon

  • The Evolving Journalistic Roles on Social Media: Exploring “Engagement” as Relationship-Building between Journalists and Citizens

    Yiping Xia;Sue Robinson;Megan Zahay;Deen Freelon

  • Beyond the hashtags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the online struggle for offline justice (Research Report)

    Deen Freelon;Charlton McIlwain;Meredith Clark

Frequent Co-Authors

W. Lance Bennett
W. Lance Bennett University of Washington
Alan Borning
Alan Borning University of Washington
David Lazer
David Lazer Northeastern University
Daniel Kreiss
Daniel Kreiss University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Helen Margetts
Helen Margetts University of Oxford
Alice E. Marwick
Alice E. Marwick University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pamela E. Davis-Kean
Pamela E. Davis-Kean University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Frederick G. Conrad
Frederick G. Conrad University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Stephan Lewandowsky
Stephan Lewandowsky University of Bristol
David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University

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