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My CV is currently being revised and will appear here when it’s finished. Until then, I hope a brief bio will suffice: my name is Deen Freelon, and as of February 2010 I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington, Seattle. My primary research interest concerns the changing relationships between technology and politics, and encompasses the analysis of such content as weblogs, web forums, civic engagement web sites, and other forms of political mass media. I am also developing a secondary interest in quantitative research methods, one manifestation of which is the online intercoder reliability calculator ReCal which is housed on this site. I spend much of my time collaborating with various research teams under my adviser, W. Lance Bennett, in the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement.

Here are some papers I’ve written or co-written:

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., Freelon, D. G., & Wells, C. (forthcoming). 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. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
• 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. (forthcoming). Analyzing online political discussion using three models of democratic communication. New Media & Society.

Conference papers

• 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, October 16, 2008.
• 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.