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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Main research interests are i) methods of political engagement; ii) uses of digital media in representative democracies; iii) intersections between popular culture and formal politics; iv) political efficacy; v) political aesthetics, performance and rhetoric; vii) literary and dramatic representations of politics; and viii) forms of deliberation and decision-making.
Research Centre: Co-Directs (with Professor Ann Macintosh) the Centre for Digital Citizenship, an interdisciplinary research centre which conducts research into the changing nature of citizenship and governance in a networked society; questions the broad range of theoretical and rhetorical claims made by proponents of e-governance and e-citizenship; contributes to the design and development of social technologies that have the potential to support public communication; engages with policy-makers in the UK, Europe and globally to understand and respond to the challenges and opportunities of citizenship in the digital era; and works with communities and social movements to explore the democratic potential of digital media.
Currently Director of Research at the ICS and Co-Director, Centre for Digital Citizenship
Current research projects include:
(with Professor Vanalyne Green, Leeds) AHRC project on 'The Road to Voting', exploring how people experience the process of voting in contemporary society; the kind of issues, from local to global, that people would citizens like to vote on if they were given a chance to do so; ways of mediating the voting experience that could emphasise its quality as a live event; new ways of enabling citizens to reflect and deliberate upon the intensity of their collective preferences; designs for voting that emphasise reflexive and imaginative dimensions of choice-making; and ways of making the consequences of voting be made more visible.
Co-chair (with Professor Peter Shane) of the International Working Group on Online Consultation and Public Policy Making, funded for three years by the US National Science Foundation.
(with Professor David Morrison) conducting a longitudinal study of political efficacy and its relationship to old and new media uses.
AUTHORED BOOKS
Coleman, S. and Ross, K. (2010) The Media and the Public: Them and Us in Media Discourse, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Coleman, S. and Blumler, J.G. (2009) The Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice and Policy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Coleman, S. (2001) What Happens in Parliament, London: Francis Watts.
OTHER RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Edited Books
Coleman, S. (ed.) (2003) The E-Connected World: Opportunities and Risks, Montreal: McGill University Press.
Coleman, S. and Taylor, J. (eds.) (2000) Parliament in the Age of the Internet, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Coleman, S. (ed.) (2000) Televised Election Debates International Perspectives, Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Refereed Journal Articles
Gurevitch, M., Coleman, S. and Blumler, J.G. (2009) 'Political Communication - Old and New Media Relationships', The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 625(1): 164-181
Coleman, S. and Kaposi, I. (2009) 'A study of e-participation projects in third-wave democracies', International Journal of Electronic Governance, 2(4):302-327
Coleman,S., Kuik, A. and van Zoonen, E. (2009) 'Laughter and Liability: The Politics of British and Dutch Television Satire', British Journal of politics and International Relations, 11(4):652-65
Coleman, S., Morrison, D.E. and Svennevig, M. (2008) 'New Media and Political Efficacy', International Journal of Communication, 771-791
Coleman, S. (2008) 'Why is the Eurovision Song Contest Ridiculous? Exploring a Spectacle of Embarrassment, Irony and Identity', Popular Communication, 6(3):127-40
Coleman, S. (2007) 'Mediated Politics and Everyday Life', International Journal of Communication, Feature: 49-60.
Coleman, S. (2006) 'How The Other Half Votes: Big Brother Viewers and the 2005 British General Election Campaign', International Journal of Cultural Studies 9(4): 457-80.
Coleman, S. (2006) 'Parliamentary communication in an age of digital interactivity', Aslib Proceedings 58(5): 371-388.
Coleman, S. (2005) 'Just How Risky is Online Voting?', Information Polity 10: 95-104.
Coleman, S. (2005) 'The Lonely Citizen: indirect representation in an age of networks', Political Communication 22(2): 197-214.
Coleman, S. and Spiller, J. (2005) 'Exploring New Media Effects on Representative Democracy', Journal of Legislative Studies 9(3): 1-16.
Coleman, S. (2005) 'New Mediation and Direct Representation: reconceptualising representation in the digital age', New Media & Society 7(2): 177-198.
Coleman, S. (2004) 'Connecting Parliament to the Public via the Internet: Two Case Studies of Online Consultations', Information, Communication and Society 7(1): 1-22.
Coleman, S. (2004) 'Blogs and the new politics of listening', Political Quarterly 76(2): 272-80.
Coleman, S. (2004) 'Whose Conversation? Engaging the Public in Authentic Polylogue', Political Quarterly 75(2): 112-120.
Coleman, S. (2003) 'A Tale of Two Houses: the House of Commons, the Big Brother house and the people at home', Parliamentary Affairs 56: 733-758.
Coleman, S. (2002) 'Election Call 2001: How Politicians and the Public Interacted', Parliamentary Affairs 55(4): 731-742.
Book Chapters and Working Papers
Coleman,S., Anthony, S. and Morrison, D.E. (2009) Public Trust in the News. A constructivist study of the social life of the news, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford
Coleman, S. (2007) 'How Democracies Have Disengaged From Young People', in Loader, B. (ed.) Young Citizens in the Digital Age: Young People, Citizenship, and ICTs, London: Routledge.
Coleman, S. (2007) 'From Big Brother to Big Brother: two faces of interactive engagement', in Dahlgren, P. (ed.) Young Citizens and New Media: Learning Democratic Engagement, London: Routledge.
Coleman, S. (2007) 'Doing It For Themselves: Management versus Autonomy in Youth E-Citizenship', in Bennett, W.L. (ed.) Digital Media and Youth Civic Engagement, Boston: MIT Press.
Coleman, S. (2007) 'E-Democracy: the History and Future of an Idea', in Quah, D., Silverstone, R., Mansell, R. and Avgerou, C. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Coleman, S. (2006) New Media, New Democracies: What's New? E-Governance Academy, Tallin.
Coleman, S. (2006) Guide to the UK Media, London: British Council.
Coleman, S. (2005) 'New Media and Parliamentary Democracy', in Giddings, P. (ed.) The Future of Parliament: Issues for a New Century, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Coleman, S. (2005) Direct Representation: towards a conversational democracy, IPPR, London.
Coleman, S. (2005) Remixing Citizenship: Democracy, Young People and the Internet, Carnegie Trust Youth Initiative.
Coleman, S. (2005) Learning to live with the internet: European MPs and ICT, EPRI, Brussels.
Coleman, S., Frazer, E. and Hardman, H. (2004) 'Democratic Culture and the Internet: Constructing an agenda for critical research', in Piech, K. (ed.) The Knowledge Based Economy in Transition Countries: selected issues, London:SSEESS, pp. 141-174.
Coleman, S. (2004) 'Internet Voting and Democratic Politics in an age of Crisis and Risk' in Trechsel, A.H. and Fernandez, F. (eds.) The European Union and e-Voting: addressing the European Parliament's internet voting challenge, London: Routledge.
Coleman, S. (2004) 'From service to commons: re-inventing a space for public communication', in Tambini, D. & Cowling, J. (eds.) Public Service Communications, London: IPPR.
Coleman, S. (2003) 'e-Coverage of Europe', in Bond, M. (ed.) Europe, Parliament and the Media, London: Federal Trust.
Coleman, S. (2002) 'The European Union in the age of interactive policy-making', in Zerdick, A., Picot, A., Silverstone, R. and Burgelmann, J-C (eds.) E-merging Media, digitalisation of the media economics, European Communication Council report, Berlin: Springer.
Coleman, S. (2002) 'Towards an e-connected Europe', in Rüb, U. (ed.) European Governance - Views from the UK on democracy, participation and policy-making in the EU, The Federal Trust for Education Research.
Coleman, S. (2002) 'Rewiring Democracy', in Hart, T. and Schmidt, O. (eds.) Balanced E-Government. Connecting Efficient Administration and Responsive Democracy, Bertelsmann Foundation.
Coleman, S. (2002) 'BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback Phone-in: Public Feedback in a Divided Public Space', in Jankowski, N. (ed.) Community Media in the Information Age, Hampton Press.
Coleman, S. (2002) Elections in the 21st Century: from paper ballot to e-voting, Report of the Independent Commission on Alternative Voting Methods, London: Electoral Reform Society, 2002.
Coleman, S. (2001) 'The People's Voice?', in Bartle, J., Mortimore, R. and Atkinson, S. (eds.) Political Communication: the General Election of 2001, Frank Cass.
Coleman, S. (2001) 'The Online Campaign', in Norris, P. (ed.) Britain Votes, 2001, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Coleman, S. (2001) 'The Transformation of Citizenship?', in Axford, B. and Huggins, R. (eds.) New Media and Politics, Sage.
Coleman, S. and Gotze, J. (2001) Bowling Together: online public engagement in policy deliberation, London: Hansard Society, 2001.
Coleman, S. and Blumler, J.G. (2001) Realising Democracy Online: A Civic Commons in Cyberspace, London: IPPR, 2001.
TEACHING
MA module: 'New Media and Citizenship' (semester 1, 2007-08).
CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENTS
Yuri Misnikov
Fabro Steibel
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