This is a complete list of all publications I’ve authored that have at least one citation. The data come from Google Scholar and should update automatically, assuming my code works. I’m working on updating my CV and I’ll get that up ASAP. If you’re viewing this page on a mobile device, please hold it horizontally.
| Year | Title | Author(s) | Journal or publisher | Fulltext |
| 2020 | False equivalencies: Online activism from left to right | Deen Freelon, Alice Marwick, Daniel Kreiss | Science | fulltext |
| 2020 | The Evolving Journalistic Roles on Social Media: Exploring “Engagement” as Relationship-Building between Journalists and Citizens | Yiping Xia, Sue Robinson, Megan Zahay, Deen Freelon | Journalism Practice | fulltext |
| 2020 | The wolves in sheep’s clothing: How Russia’s internet research agency tweets appeared in US News as Vox Populi | Josephine Lukito, Jiyoun Suk, Yini Zhang, Larissa Doroshenko, Sang Jung Kim, Min-Hsin Su, Yiping Xia, Deen Freelon, Chris Wells | The International Journal of Press/Politics | fulltext |
| 2020 | Disinformation as political communication | Deen Freelon, Chris Wells | Political Communication | fulltext |
| 2020 | Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities | David MJ Lazer, Alex Pentland, Duncan J Watts, Sinan Aral, Susan Athey, Noshir Contractor, Deen Freelon, Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, Gary King, Helen Margetts, Alondra Nelson, Matthew J Salganik, Markus Strohmaier, Alessandro Vespignani, Claudia Wagner | Science | fulltext |
| 2020 | Black Trolls Matter: Racial and Ideological Asymmetries in Social Media Disinformation | Deen Freelon, Michael Bossetta, Chris Wells, Josephine Lukito, Yiping Xia, Kirsten Adams | Social Science Computer Review | fulltext |
| 2020 | Russian disinformation campaigns on Twitter target political communities across the spectrum. Collaboration between opposed political groups might be the most effective way to … | Deen Freelon, Tetyana Lokot | Misinformation Review | fulltext |
| 2020 | Partition-Specific Network Analysis of Digital Trace Data | Deen Freelon | Oxford University Press | fulltext |
| 2020 | 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, D Sunshine Hillygus, Friedolin Merhout, Deen Freelon, Alexander Volfovsky | Proceedings of the national academy of sciences | fulltext |
| 2020 | On Writing in Communication and Media Studies| Two Brief Points on Publication Impact | Deen Freelon | International Journal of Communication | fulltext |
| 2019 | Tweeting left, right, & center: How users and attention are distributed across Twitter | Deen Freelon | Knight Foundation | fulltext |
| 2018 | Inferring individual-level characteristics from digital trace data: Issues and recommendations | Deen Freelon | Routledge | fulltext |
| 2018 | The Filter Map: Media and the Pursuit of Truth and Legitimacy | Deen Freelon | Knight Foundation | fulltext |
| 2018 | Quantifying the power and consequences of social media protest | Deen Freelon, Charlton McIlwain, Meredith Clark | New Media & Society | fulltext |
| 2018 | How Black Twitter and other social media communities interact with mainstream news | Deen Freelon, Lori Lopez, Meredith D Clark, Sarah J Jackson | Knight Foundation | fulltext |
| 2018 | Computational research in the post-API age | Deen Freelon | Political Communication | fulltext |
| 2018 | The Twitter exploit: How Russian propaganda infiltrated US news | Josephine Lukito, Chris Wells, Yini Zhang, Larisa Doroshenko, Sang Jung Kim, Min-Hsin Su, Deen Freelon | URL: https://uwmadison. app. box. com/v/TwitterExploit (20.03. 2018) | fulltext |
| 2017 | Online clustering, fear and uncertainty in Egypt’s transition | Marc Lynch, Deen Freelon, Sean Aday | Democratization | fulltext |
| 2017 | Personalized information environments and their potential consequences for disinformation | Deen Freelon | Understanding and addressing the disinformation ecosystem. Annenberg School for Communication | fulltext |
| 2017 | Campaigns in control: Analyzing controlled interactivity and message discipline on Facebook | Deen Freelon | Journal of Information Technology & Politics | fulltext |
| 2016 | How social media undermined Egypt’s democratic transition | S Aday, Deen Freelon, M Lynch | fulltext | |
| 2016 | Net Neutrality| Narrowing the Gap: Gender and Mobilization in Net Neutrality Advocacy | Deen Freelon, Amy B Becker, Bob Lannon, Andrew Pendleton | International Journal of Communication | fulltext |
| 2016 | The measure of a movement: Quantifying Black lives matter’s social media power | Deen Freelon | fulltext | |
| 2016 | How social media undermines transitions to democracy | Marc Lynch, Deen Freelon, Sean Aday | Blogs and Bullets IV: Peace Tech Lab | fulltext |
| 2016 | Beyond the hashtags:# Ferguson,# Blacklivesmatter, and the online struggle for offline justice | Deen Freelon, Charlton D McIlwain, Meredith Clark | Center for Media & Social Impact, American University, Forthcoming | fulltext |
| 2015 | On the cutting edge of big data: Digital politics research in the social computing literature | Deen Freelon | Edward Elgar Publishing | fulltext |
| 2015 | Introduction: conceptualizing digital politics | Stephen Coleman, Deen Freelon | Edward Elgar Publishing | fulltext |
| 2015 | Agenda-setting in the one-step flow: Evidence from Facebook in the 2012 election | Deen Freelon | Workshop on Social Media and the Prospects for Expanded Democratic | fulltext not available |
| 2015 | Focus on the tech: Internet centrism in global protest coverage | Deen Freelon, Sarah Merritt, Taylor Jaymes | Digital Journalism | fulltext |
| 2015 | Handbook of Digital Politics | S Coleman, Deen Freelon | Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing | fulltext |
| 2015 | Big Data Analysis | Deen Freelon | John Wiley & Sons, Ltd | fulltext |
| 2015 | Of big birds and bayonets: Hybrid Twitter interactivity in the 2012 presidential debates | Deen Freelon, David Karpf | Information, Communication & Society | fulltext |
| 2015 | Discourse architecture, ideology, and democratic norms in online political discussion | Deen Freelon | New media & society | fulltext |
| 2015 | Online fragmentation in wartime: A longitudinal analysis of tweets about Syria, 2011-2013 | Deen Freelon, Marc Lynch, Sean Aday | The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | fulltext |
| 2014 | Syria in the Arab Spring: The integration of Syria’s conflict with the Arab uprisings, 2011-2013 | Marc Lynch, Deen Freelon, Sean Aday | Research & Politics | fulltext |
| 2014 | Social media data collection tools | Deen Freelon | fulltext not available | |
| 2014 | Tweeting to Power: The Social Media Revolution in American Politics, by Jason Gainous and Kevin M. Wagner | Deen Freelon | Routledge | fulltext |
| 2014 | Syria's socially mediated civil war | Marc Lynch, Deen Freelon, Sean Aday | Universitäts-und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt | fulltext |
| 2014 | On the interpretation of digital trace data in communication and social computing research | Deen Freelon | Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media | fulltext |
| 2014 | Twitter Subgraph Manipulator (Version 3) | Deen Freelon | Python. Available from https://github. com/dfreelon/TSM | fulltext not available |
| 2014 | Online civic activism: Where does it fit? | Deen Freelon | Policy & Internet | fulltext |
| 2014 | The effect of the Internet on civic engagement under authoritarianism: The case of Azerbaijan | Katy E Pearce, Deen Freelon, Sarah Kendzior | First Monday | fulltext |
| 2013 | Introduction to the Special Issue on New Media and Social Unrest | Zeynep Tufekci, Deen Freelon | American Behavioral Scientist | fulltext |
| 2013 | Watching from afar: Media consumption patterns around the Arab Spring | Sean Aday, Henry Farrell, Deen Freelon, Marc Lynch, John Sides, Michael Dewar | American Behavioral Scientist | fulltext |
| 2013 | Twitter geolocation and its limitations | Deen Freelon | Retrieved from | fulltext |
| 2013 | Co-citation map of 9 comm journals, 2003-2013 | Deen Freelon | fulltext | |
| 2013 | YouTube interventions: The Syria conflict from YouTube to the mainstream media | Sean Aday, Deen Freelon, Marc Lynch | annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Hilton Metropole Hotel, London, England | fulltext not available |
| 2013 | ReCal OIR: Ordinal, Interval, and Ratio Intercoder Reliability as a Web Service. | Deen Freelon | International Journal of Internet Science | fulltext |
| 2013 | T2G: Convert (all) Twitter mentions to Gephi format | Deen Freelon | Retrieved on October | fulltext |
| 2013 | Participation in the youth civic web: Assessing user activity levels in web sites presenting two civic styles | Deen Freelon, Chris Wells, W Lance Bennett | Journal of Information Technology & Politics | fulltext |
| 2012 | Digital Media and Youth | W. Lance Bennett, Deen Freelon, M Hussain, Chris Wells | The SAGE Handbook of Political Communication | fulltext |
| 2012 | Arab Spring Twitter data now available (sort of) | Deen Freelon | URL: http://dfreelon. org/2012/02/11/arab-spring-twitter-data-now-availablesort-of | fulltext |
| 2012 | Facilitating diverse political engagement with the living voters guide | Deen Freelon, Travis Kriplean, Jonathan Morgan, W Lance Bennett, Alan Borning | Journal of Information Technology & Politics | fulltext |
| 2012 | Blogs and Bullets II: New Media and Conflict after the Arab Spring | Sean Aday, Henry Farrell, Marc Lynch, John Sides, Deen Freelon | Technical report, United States Institute of Peace | fulltext |
| 2012 | What Resonated with Obama’s and Romney’s Facebook Followers?” dfreelon. org | Deen Freelon | November | fulltext |
| 2012 | Supporting reflective public thought with considerit | Travis Kriplean, Jonathan Morgan, Deen Freelon, Alan Borning, Lance Bennett | fulltext | |
| 2011 | Sorting through claims about the Internet and revolutions | Deen Freelon | Retrieved May | fulltext |
| 2011 | Opening closed regimes: what was the role of social media during the Arab Spring? | Philip N Howard, Aiden Duffy, Deen Freelon, Muzammil M Hussain, Will Mari, Marwa Maziad | Available at SSRN 2595096 | fulltext |
| 2011 | The MENA protests on Twitter: some empirical data | Deen Freelon | DFreelon.org | fulltext |
| 2011 | ConsiderIt: improving structured public deliberation | Travis Kriplean, Jonathan T Morgan, Deen Freelon, Alan Borning, Lance Bennett | fulltext | |
| 2011 | Talking among themselves: online youth civic communication in managed and autonomous environments | Deen Freelon | Information, Communication & Society | fulltext |
| 2011 | Communicating civic engagement: Contrasting models of citizenship in the youth web sphere | W Lance Bennett, Chris Wells, Deen Freelon | Journal of communication | fulltext |
| 2011 | Democracies of design: How discourse architecture shapes online political talk | Deen Freelon | fulltext | |
| 2010 | ReCal: Intercoder reliability calculation as a web service | Deen Freelon | International Journal of Internet Science | fulltext |
| 2010 | Changing citizen identity and the rise of a participatory media culture | W Lance Bennett, Deen Freelon, Chris Wells | Handbook of research on civic engagement in youth | fulltext |
| 2010 | Analyzing online political discussion using three models of democratic communication | Deen Freelon | New Media & Society | fulltext |
| 2009 | Worked examples for nominal intercoder reliability | Deen Freelon | fulltext not available | |
| 2009 | Communicating citizenship online: Models of civic learning in the youth web sphere | W Lance Bennett, Chris Wells, Deen Freelon | A Report from the Civic Learning Online Project | fulltext |
| 2008 | Town halls of the digital age: Controversy and ideology in online deliberation (and beyond) | Deen Freelon, Mitsuharu Watanabe, Laura Busch, Akira Kawabata | Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Copenhagen, Denmark | fulltext not available |
| 2008 | Managed Apprentices Or Autonomous Agents?: Assessing Online Civic Designs for Digital Natives | Deen Freelon | fulltext not available |