Stephen Coleman (professor)

Stephen Coleman is a British born author on politics and communication, and an advocate of direct representation via the Internet.^[1] He has been described as a "leading commentator" on online demoocracy.^[2]

Coleman is Professor of Political Communication at the University of Leeds.

iRights research

Professor Coleman has been conducting research into how young people form opinions about their online experiences. Supported by a group of actors, Coleman worked with the iRights juries drawn from Nottingham, Leeds and London, with whom different scenarios were acted out. These juries each consisted of about 12 young people aged 12-17 from mixed socio-economic backgrounds.^[3]

Books

• Coleman S (2013) How Voters Feel. New York; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [In preparation]
• Coleman S (2010) Leaders in the Living Room - the Prime Ministerial Debates of 2010: Evidence, Evaluation and Some Recommendations. Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
• Coleman S; Ross K (2010) The Media and the Public: Them and Us in Media Discourse. Oxford: Blackwell-Wiley.
• Coleman S; Coleman S; Morrison DE (2009) Public Trust in the News. Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
• Coleman S; Coleman S; Blumler JG (2009) The Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice and Policy. NY: Cambridge University Press.
• Coleman S (2003) The E-Connected World: Opportunities and Risks. McGill University Press.

Journal articles

• Blumler JG; Coleman S (2013) “Paradigms of civic communication”, International Journal of Communication. 7.1: 173-187.
• Coleman S (2013) “Debate on television: The spectacle of deliberation”, Television and New Media. 14.1: 20-30.
• Moss GS; Coleman S (2013) “Deliberative Manoeuvres in the Digital Darkness: E-Democracy Policy in the UK”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations.
• Coleman S (2012) “Believing the news: From sinking trust to atrophied efficacy”, European Journal of Communication. 27.1: 35-45.
• Coleman S; Morrison DE; Anthony S (2012) “A CONSTRUCTIVIST STUDY OF TRUST IN THE NEWS”, Journalism Studies. 13.1: 37-53.
• Coleman S (2012) “It's Time for the Public to Reclaim to the Public Interest”, TELEVISION & NEW MEDIA. 13.1: 7-11.
• Coleman S; Moss GS (2012) “Under Construction: the Field of Online Deliberation Research”, Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 9.1: 1-15.
• Coleman S; Blumler JG (2011) “The Wisdom of Which Crowd? On the Pathology of a Listening Government”, POLIT QUART. 82.3: 355-364.
• Coleman S (2011) “Kids and Credibility: An Empirical Examination of Youth, Digital Media Use and Information Credibility”, BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES. 59.2: 201-202.
• Blumler JG; Coleman S (2010) “Political Communication in Freefall: The British Case-and Others?”, INT J PRESS/POLIT. 15.2: 139-154.
• Coleman S (2010) “Driving Democracy: Do Power-Sharing Institutions Work?”, INT J PRESS/POLIT. 15.2: 246-247.
• Coleman S (2010) “Acting powerfully Performances of power in Big Brother”, INT J CULTURAL STUD. 13.2: 127-146.
• Coleman S; Kuik A; van Zoonen L (2009) “Laughter and Liability: The Politics of British and Dutch Television Satire”, BRIT J POLIT INT REL. 11.4: 652-665.
• Gurevitch M; Coleman S; Blumler JG (2009) “Political Communication-Old and New Media Relationships”, ANN AM ACAD POLIT SS. 625: 164-181.
• Coleman S (2008) “The Depiction of Politicians and Politics in British Soaps”, TELEV NEW MEDIA. 9.3: 197-219.
• Shifman L; Ward S; Coleman S (2007) “Only joking? Online humour in the 2005 UK general election”, Information Communication and Society. 10.4: 465-487.
• Coleman S (2007) “Political marketing: A comparative perspective”, PARLIAMENT AFF. 60.1: 180-186.
• Coleman S (2006) “Digital voices and analogue citizenship: Bridging the gap between young people and the democratic process”, Public Policy Research. 13.4: 257-261.
• Coleman S (2006) “How the other half votes: Big Brother viewers and the 2005 general election”, International Journal of Cultural Studies. 9.4: 457-479.
• 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: 457-479.
• Coleman S (2006) “Parliamentary communication in an age of digital interactivity”, ASLIB PROC. 58.5: 371-388.
• Coleman S (2005) “New mediation and direct representation: reconceptualizing representation in the digital age”, New Media & Society. 7.2: 177-198.
• Coleman S (2005) “The Lonely Citizen: Indirect Representation in an Age of Networks”, Political Communication. 22.2: 197-214.
• Coleman S (2005) “Just How Risky is Online Voting?”, None. 10
• Coleman S (2005) “Blogs and the new politics of listening”, The Political Quarterly. 76.2: 272-280.
• 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) “Whose Conversation? Engaging the Public in Authentic Polylogue”, The 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. 56.4: 733-758.
• Coleman S (2003) “Exploring New Media Effects on Representative Democracy”, None. 9.3: 1-16.
• Coleman S (2002) “Election Call 2001”, Parliamentary Affairs. 55.4: 731-742.
• Coleman S “Acting Powerfully: Performances of Power in Big Brother’,”, International Journal of Cultural Studies. 13.2: 127-146.
• Coleman S “Political Communication in Freefall: the British Case – and Others?”, The International Journal of Press/Politics. 15.2: 139-154.

Chapters

• Coleman S (2012) “The Internet as a Space for Policy Deliberation”, In: The Argumentative Turn Revisited: Public Policy as Communicative Practice. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• Coleman S; Blumler JG; Steibel F (2011) “Media Coverage of the Prime Ministerial Debates”, In: Wring, D., Mortimore, R. and Atkinson, S (eds.) Political Communication in Britain : The Leader's Debates, the Campaign and the Media in the 2010 General Election. Palgrave.
• Coleman S (2011) Connecting Democracy: Online Consultation and the Flow of Political Communication. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Coleman S (2010) “‘Making Citizens Online: From Virtual Boy Scouts to Activist Networks’”, In: Young People, ICTs and Democracy.
• Coleman S (2010) “'Representation and Mediated Politics: Representing Representation in an age of Irony'”, In: Brants K; Voltmer K (eds.) Political Communication in Postmodern DEmocracy: Challenging the Primacy of Politics. Palgrave.
• Coleman S; Morrison DE; Yates S (2010) “'The Mediation of Political Disconnection'”, In: Brants K; Voltmer K (eds.) Political Communication in Postmodern DEmocracy: Challenging the Primacy of Politics. Palgrave.
• Coleman S (2007) “‘From Big Brother to Big Brother: two faces of interactive engagement’”, In: Dahlgren P (eds.) Young Citizens and New Media: Learning Democratic Engagement. Routledge.
• Coleman S (2007) “‘From Big Brother to Big Brother: two faces of interactive engagement’”, In: Dahlgren P (eds.) Young Citizens and New Media: Learning Democratic Participation. Routledge. 21-40 [Submitted]
• Coleman S (2007) “Doing it for themselves: Management versus autonomy in youth e-citizenship'”, In: Bennett WL (eds.) Civic Life Online: learning how digital media can engage youth. MIT Press. [Submitted]
• Coleman S (2007) “'E-Democracy: the History and Future of an Idea'”, In: Quah; D; Silverstone; R; Mansell; R; Avgerou; C (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies. Oxford University Press.
• Coleman S (2007) “‘From Big Brother to Big Brother: two faces of interactive engagement’”, In: Dahlgren P (eds.) Young Citizens and New Media: Learning Democratic Engagement. Routledge.
• Coleman S (2005) “New Media and Parliamentary Democracy”, In: Giddings P (eds.) The Future of Parliament: Issues for a New Century. Palgrave Macmillan. 242-253
• Coleman S (2004) “Internet Voting and Democratic Politics in an age of crisis and risk”, In: Trechsel AH; Mendez F (eds.) The European Union and e-voting: addressing the European Parliament's internet voting challenge. Routledge. 223-236
• Coleman S (2003) “E-coverage of Europe”, In: Bond M (eds.) Europe, Parliament and the Media. Federal Trust.
• Coleman S (2002) “The Peoples' Voice?”, In: Atkinson S; Bartle J; Mortimore R (eds.) Political Communication: the General Election of 2001. Frank Cass. 246-258
• Coleman S (2002) “BBC Radio Ulter's Talkback phone-in: public feedback in a divided public space”, In: Jankowski N; Prehn O (eds.) Community Media in the Information Age Perspectives and Prospects. Hampton Press. 125-150
• Coleman S (2001) “The Online Campaign”, In: Norris P (eds.) Britain Votes, 2001. Oxford University Press.
• Coleman S (2001) “The Transformation of Citizenship?”, In: Axford B; Huggins R (eds.) New Media and Politics. Sage.
• Conferences Macintosh A; Coleman S; Schneeberger A (2009) eParticipation: The Research Gaps. Proceedings: ELECTRONIC PARTICIPATION, PROCEEDINGS 5694: 1-11.

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References

1. Christian J. Emden; David Midgley (15 November 2012). Beyond Habermas: Democracy, Knowledge, and the Public Sphere. Berghahn Books. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-85745-722-6.
2. Sandford F. Borins (2007). Digital State at the Leading Edge. University of Toronto Press. p. 339. ISBN 978-0-8020-9490-2.
3. De Matteis, Giulia. "Prof. Stephen Coleman explains his Youth Jury Research". Nominet Trust. Nominet Trust. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
4. "Professor Stephen Coleman » Institute of Communications Studies". ics.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-04-16.
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6. "Stephen Coleman | The Guardian". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2014-04-16.
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