A PDF version of my CV is available here (updated 05/14/18). What follows is a professional bio and publication list.

My name is Deen Freelon, and I am an associate professor in the School of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My primary research interests lie in the changing relationships between technology and politics, and encompass the study of social media and other digital communications with political applications. I have extensive experience in computational methods for social science research, including text preprocessing, computational description, network analysis, machine learning, and open-source research software development. Beyond that, I also have an 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, in reverse chronological order by year. I will provide PDF links to preprints whenever copyright allows.  Like many academics, I’m often too busy to update this list regularly, so if you’re interested in my most recent work I suggest you visit my automatically-updated Google Scholar profile page.