Rate My Professor Seth Frey

In the Department of Communication, Frey leads the Computational Communication Research Lab, utilizing digital trace data, computer simulations, and computational social science methods to investigate institutional analysis, strategic behavior, online governance, and commons management. His funded research includes principal investigator roles on significant grants such as the NSF Growing Convergence Research award of $3,400,000 in 2020 for "Jumpstarting Successful Open-Source Software Projects With Evidence-Based Rules and Structures," NSF Designing Accountable Software Systems collaborative research grant of $749,927 in 2022, Ford Foundation Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund ($50,000, 2023), and Mozilla Foundation Grant for the Web ($80,680, 2020). Frey has received honors including the Indiana University Cognitive Science Program Outstanding Dissertation Award (2014), IEEE ACSOS Outstanding Service Award (2022), ICA Computational Methods Top Paper (2020), and ACM CSCW Honorable Mention Best Paper (2019). Select publications encompass "Institutional similarity drives cultural similarity among online communities" with Qiankun Zhong (Scientific Reports, 2022), "A dynamic over games drives selfish agents to win-win outcomes" with Christopher Atkisson (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2020), "Decentralizing Platform Power: A Design Space of Multi-Level Governance in Online Social Platforms" (Social Media + Society, 2023), and "Modular politics: Toward a governance layer for online communities" (2021).