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Deen Freelon’s bio:
Deen Freelon is an associate professor in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who studies political uses of social media and other digital technologies. He is also a principal researcher for UNC’s interdisciplinary Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP). He has authored or co-authored more than 50 journal articles, book chapters and public reports, in addition to co-editing one scholarly book. An expert in multiple programming languages including R, Python, and PHP, Freelon has written research-grade software applications for a range of computational research purposes. He formerly taught at American University in Washington, D.C.
Some of Deen’s Articles:
False equivalencies: Online activism from left to right
Disinformation as political communication
Black Trolls Matter: Racial and Ideological Asymmetries in Social Media Disinformation
Computational research in the post-API age