Deen Freelon
Impact in
- Communication top 0.1%
- Social Media and Politics
- Media Studies and Communication
- Sociology and Political Science top 0.5%
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Media Influence and Politics
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
Papers in
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- Social Media and Politics 36
- Media Studies and Communication 13
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- Misinformation and Its Impacts 11
- Media Influence and Politics 6
- Co-authors
- Chris Wells (6 shared papers)Meredith D. Clark (3 shared papers)Charlton D. McIlwain (3 shared papers)W. Lance Bennett (5 shared papers)Will Mari (2 shared papers)Aiden Duffy (2 shared papers)Philip N. Howard (1 shared paper)David Karpf (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- Political Communication (4 papers)New Media & Society (3 papers)Journal of Information Technology & Politics (3 papers)Journal of Communication (2 papers)Information Communication & Society (2 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesUnited KingdomIreland
In The Last Decade
Deen Freelon
55 papers receiving 3.5k citations
Deen Freelon's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 114
- Communication 2.3k
- Sociology and Political Science 2.2k
- General Social Sciences 125
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 456
- Gender Studies 255
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Co-authors
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All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Opening Closed Regimes: What Was the Role of Social Media During the Arab Spring? Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 444 |
| 2 | Disinformation as Political Communication Hit paper breakdown → | 2020 | 358 |
| 3 | Beyond the Hashtags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the Online Struggle for Offline Justice Hit paper breakdown → | 2016 | 327 |
| 4 | 2011 | 279 | |
| 5 | Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities Hit paper breakdown → | 2020 | 268 |
| 6 | Quantifying the power and consequences of social media protest Hit paper breakdown → | 2016 | 235 |
| 7 | 2018 | 182 | |
| 8 | 2012 | 175 | |
| 9 | 2020 | 149 | |
| 10 | Assessing the Russian Internet Research Agency’s impact on the political attitudes and behaviors of American Twitter users in late 2017 Hit paper breakdown → | 2019 | 146 |
| 11 | 2013 | 136 | |
| 12 | 2010 | 135 | |
| 13 | 2014 | 130 | |
| 14 | 2020 | 124 | |
| 15 | 2014 | 96 | |
| 16 | 2021 | 78 | |
| 17 | Digital Trace Data Collection for Social Media Effects Research: APIs, Data Donation, and (Screen) Tracking Hit paper breakdown → | 2023 | 73 |
| 18 | 2019 | 64 | |
| 19 | 2013 | 42 | |
| 20 | Syria’s socially mediated civil war | 2013 | 41 |
About Deen Freelon
Deen Freelon is a scholar working on Communication, Sociology and Political Science, Artificial Intelligence, Political Science and International Relations and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, having authored 56 papers that have together received 3.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Social Media and Politics (36 papers), Media Studies and Communication (13 papers), Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (11 papers), Misinformation and Its Impacts (11 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (8 papers), Media Influence and Politics (6 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (5 papers) and E-Government and Public Services (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Communication (2.3k citations), Sociology and Political Science (2.2k citations), General Social Sciences (125 citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (456 citations) and Gender Studies (255 citations). Deen Freelon has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Ireland. Frequent co-authors include Chris Wells, Meredith D. Clark, Charlton D. McIlwain, W. Lance Bennett, Will Mari, Aiden Duffy, Philip N. Howard, David Karpf, Alice Marwick and Daniel Kreiss. Their work appears in journals such as Political Communication, New Media & Society, Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Journal of Communication and Information Communication & Society.
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