Tar Heel Talks: Political expression through digital media with Associate Professor Deen Freelon
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Deen Freelon is an associate professor in the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media whose research covers two major areas of scholarship: 1) political expression through digital media and 2) data science and computational methods for analyzing large digital datasets. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 journal articles, book chapters and public reports, in addition to co-editing one scholarly book.
He has served as principal investigator on grants from the Knight Foundation, the Spencer Foundation and the U.S. Institute of Peace. He has written research-grade software to calculate intercoder reliability for content analysis (ReCal), analyze large-scale network data from social media (TSM) and collect data from Facebook (fb_scrape_public).
Prior the Hussman School, Freelon taught at American University in Washington, D.C.
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