cv/pubs

A PDF version of my CV is available here (updated 02/17/12). What follows is a professional bio and publication list.

My name is Deen Freelon, and I am an assistant professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, DC. My primary research interests lie in the changing relationships between technology and politics, and encompass the study of weblogs, online forums, social media, and other forms of political interactive media. Collecting and analyzing large amounts of such data (i.e. millions of tweets, wall posts, etc.) require methods drawn from the fields of computer science and information science, which I am helping to adapt to the long-standing interests of political communication research. Beyond that, I also have a secondary interest in quantitative research methods generally and intercoder reliability specifically, one manifestation of which is the online intercoder reliability calculator ReCal which is housed on this site.

Here are some papers I’ve written or co-written. I will provide PDF links whenever copyright allows. New papers will be added as they are accepted.

Publications

  • Bennett, W. L., Freelon, D. G., Hussain, M. M., & Wells, C. (forthcoming). Digital media and youth engagement. In H. Semetko (Ed.), Handbook of Political Communication. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Bennett, W. L., Wells, C. & Freelon, D. G. (forthcoming). Communicating citizenship online: Models of civic learning in the youth web sphere. Journal of Communication.
  • Freelon, D. G. (2011). Talking among themselves: Online youth civic communication in managed and autonomous environments. Information, Communication & Society, 14(2), 198-218. [pdf]
  • Bennett, W. L., Freelon, D. G., & Wells, C. (2010). Changing citizen identity and the rise of a participatory media culture. In L. Sherrod, J. Torney-Purta & C. Flanagan (Eds.), Handbook of Research and Policy on Civic Engagement in Youth (pp. 393-424). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
  • Freelon, D. G. (2010). Analyzing online political discussion using three models of democratic communication. New Media & Society, 12(7), 1172-1190. [pdf]
  • Freelon, D. G. (2010). ReCal: Intercoder reliability calculation as a web service. International Journal of Internet Science, 5(1), 20-33. [link]

Conference presentations

  • Aday, S., Farrell, H., Freelon, D. G., Lynch, M., & Sides, J. (2011). What roles have social media played in political protest during the Arab Spring? Presented at Sifting fact from fiction: The role of social media in conflict, Washington, DC, 16 September.
  • Freelon, D. G. (2011). Theorizing the MENA revolutions: Some preliminary data. Presented at the Theorizing the Web conference, College Park, MD, 9 April.
  • Freelon, D. G., Kriplean, T., Morgan, J. T., Bennett, W. L., & Borning, A. (2011). Facilitating Encounters with Political Difference: Engaging Voters with the Living Voters Guide. Presented at the third annual Journal of Information Technology & Politics Conference, Seattle, WA, 17-18 May.
  • Freelon, D. G., Wells, C. Bennett, W. L., & Hussain, M. M. (2011). Participatory Activity in the Youth Civic Web: A Quantitative Analysis. Presented at the International Communication Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, 26-30 May.
  • Kriplean, T., Morgan, J. T., Freelon, D. G., Borning, A., & Bennett, W. L. (2011). ConsiderIt: Improving Structured Public Deliberation. Presented at CHI 2011, Vancouver, BC, 7-12 May.
  • Wells, C., Freelon, D. G., & Bennett, W. L. (2009). Civic learning online: A framework for the study of civic engagement websites for youth. Presented at the International Communication Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, 21-25 May.
  • Watanabe, M. M., Freelon, D. G., Nakaizumi, T., & Sonehara, N. (2008). “Distribution of Social Resources in a Community of Dialogue and Editing.” Presented at the Association of Internet Researchers 9th Annual Conference, Copenhagen, DK, 16-18 October.
  • Freelon, D. G., Watanabe, M., Busch, L., & Kawabata, A. (2008). Town halls of the digital age: Controversy and ideology in online deliberation (and beyond). Paper presented at the annual convention of the Association of Internet Researchers, Copenhagen, DK, 16 October.
  • Freelon, D. G. (2008). Citizens in disguise? Assessing digital natives and the new civic engagement. Presented at the Politics: Web 2.0 Conference, Egham, Surrey, UK, 17-18 April.
  • Foot, K. A., & Freelon, D. G. (2007). Technology Transfer Offices as Intersections in Knowledge Production. Presented at the Society for Social Studies of Science annual meeting, Montreal, Canada, 11 October.

Other

  • Freelon, D. G. (2008). Managed apprentices or autonomous agents? Assessing online civic designs for digital natives. Unpublished master’s thesis, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
  • Freelon, D. G. (2008). Evaluating Online Tools for Youth Civic Learning. Civic Learning Online report #5.

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