Stephen Coleman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3650559 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephen Coleman |
| NOMBRES | Stephen |
| APELLIDO | Coleman |
| FIRMA | COLEMAN S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6230-8463 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 95 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 588 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Matt Goodwin
Public Communication in Freefall
Micropolarization
This article theorizes how political divisions permeate social interaction, transforming the political into the personal in everyday life. Drawing on affective polarization research, we highlight the central role of identification and emotions in shaping political in-groups and out-groups. Moving beyond conventional measures of cross-group resentment, we conceptualize polarization as the lived experience of political antagonism. We argue that pol…
How Trump Gets on Our Nerves
Public opinion polling has found that responses to the second presidency of Donald Trump range from the exuberant enthusiasm of his followers to anxiety, stress and anger, not only amongst many US citizens, but also a large section of the world's population who did not vote for him but are affected by his policies and governing style. This article is based upon interviews conducted with British citizens who say that their mental well‐being has be…
Performing What Is Absent
Amid a crisis of political representation, Chile ran an institutional experiment. After a month of riots, lootings and human rights violations, in November 2019, the Chilean Parliament proposed the creation of a fully elected convention with the one objective of writing a new Constitution. The 155 members were elected in October 2020 and 62% of them were non-professional politicians but environmental activists, members of indigenous communities o…
When something is happening but you don’t know what it is
The street protests in Belarus following an allegedly stolen election provide a context for an examination of the expression of public mood. We argue that political moods involve pre-agentic intuition rather than cognitively formed agency; and that they constitute a vital, too often overlooked stage of democratic action. Focusing upon such moments entails an understanding of the ways in which early impressions of situations often rely upon periph…
The is and the ought of democracy
From ‘I Think’ to ‘I Feel’
This article explores what pollsters, journalists and politicians mean when they refer to the ‘mood’ of a nation, population or community. To what extent does the concept of mood resemble and differ from the notion of ‘public opinion’? It is argued that the ubiquity of mood‐talk reflects a move away from the myth that political action is motivated by rational instrumentalism. Attention to mood takes seriously the force of pre‐cognitive affectivit…
Politicians Don’t Understand People Like Me
Tropological Thought and Action
From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of ethnographic essays offering in-depth studies of the human imagination at work and play around the world.
Feeling It/Not Feeling It
What does it mean to speak of a society being nervous, a demos angry, a polity depressed or a population exhausted? Are these merely frothy terms of journalistic description or can such moods be captured in meaningful ways? This article responds to two tendencies: the dismissal of mood as affective blur and claims to represent mood through scales of empirical measurement. The argument presented here is that mood is a definable phenomenon, relatin…
Look at me, I’m on TV
It has been over 20 years since the reality television genre attracted the attention of fans, critics and scholars. Reality programmes produced high viewing figures, suggesting a strong appetite for the form; critics dismissed the programmes as mindless and the participants as desperate for fame; and scholars assessed the formats, audiences and meanings of reality television, offering a complex, if rarely celebratory, account. While some commenta…
After the Crisis, A “New Normal” for Democratic Citizenship
The global pandemic and consequent economic tumult have strained conventional theoretical accounts of what it means to be a citizen. The notion of a “new normal” has been widely adopted to describe the potential historical reframing that the pandemic has engendered. Drawing on previous theoretical accounts of crises and their ramifications, this article explores how the communicative features of democratic citizenship might be imagined and practi…
Jay G. Blumler – An intellectual legacy
The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts
How can digitised assets of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums be reused to unlock new value? What are the implications of viewing large-scale cultural heritage data as an economic resource, to build new products and services upon? Drawing upon valuation studies, we reflect on both the theory and practicalities of using mass-digitised heritage content as an economic driver, stressing the need to consider the complexity of commercial-based…
How People Talk about Politics
During the Brexit referendum campaign it became clear how easily national conversations around politics could become raucous and bitter. This book explores the nature of talking about politically contentious issues and how our society can begin to develop a more constructive culture of political talk. Uniquely, this study focuses on citizens own experiences and reflections on developing, practising and evaluating their own political voices. Based…
Capturing the Mood of Democracy
Dramatizing Deliberation
Nine ‘youth juries’ were established across three major British cities – London, Leeds and Nottingham -, each comprising twelve 12-to-17 year-olds who were invited to act as ‘jurors’ with a view to ‘putting the Internet on trial’. This article outlines the method that was designed for conducting these juries, focusing upon two innovative features: the organisation of deliberative juries, based upon a four-step process for arriving at policy recom…
The elusiveness of political truth
Political truth is never neutral, objective or absolute – that’s why it’s political. The normative realisation of democratic politics depends upon the communicability of intersubjective perspectives rather than the quest for capital-T Truth. Three key principles of political communication are set out that might strengthen the quality of intersubjective political judgment: the principle of social curiosity; the principle of collective interpretati…
Voting and conformity
Sustaining a democratic innovation
This article explores the transition from democratic innovation to institutionalised political process of e-participatory budgeting in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Applying a multimethod approach (content analysis, interviews and social media monitoring) regarding the last three editions (2008, 2011 and 2013), it considers how the proponents and organisers of ePB conceive its function in relation to the representative mechanisms that surround it; how …
The Digital Difference
This book contributes impressively to our understanding of the digital reconfiguration of the communication ecology. Neuman offers us a thoughtful, sophisticated, empirically rich analysis of the ways in which the mediation of human relationships can no longer be explained in terms of the long-established media effects paradigm. It falls into three main parts. The first (comprising the first two chapters) offers an insightful account of the devel…
The Mediated City
How does news circulate in a major post-industrial city? And how in turn are identities and differences formed and mediated through this circulation? This seminal work is the first to offer an empirical examination, and trace a city’s pattern of, news circulation. Encompassing a comprehensive range of practices involved in producing, circulating and consuming ‘news’ and recognizing the various ways in which individuals and groups may find out, fo…
Juries
A quick journey through prevention science (e.g., substance misuse prevention) and a comparison between online and offline risks, harm, and vulnerability in children suggests that new approaches and interventions are needed to promote Internet safety and minimise the new sources of risk associated with accessing the Internet. In this paper we present a new methodological approach to promote digital literacy and positively influence the way in whi…
The Mediated City
How does news circulate in a major post-industrial city? And how in turn are identities and differences formed and mediated through this circulation? This seminal work is the first to offer an empirical examination into, and trace a city's pattern of, news circulation. Encompassing a comprehensive range of practices involved in producing, circulating and consuming 'news' and recognizing the various ways in which individuals and groups may find ou…
The Media and the Public
New mediation and direct representation
This article explores three responses to the emergence of digitally mediated political representation. The first regards disintermediation as a basis for direct democracy, transcending the traditional arrangements and institutions of political representation. The second model institutionalizes digital information and communication technology (ICT) within the rational-bureacratic framework of existing governance. The third model is based upon a re…
A Tale of Two Houses
Journal Article A Tale of Two Houses: The House of Commons, the Big Brother House and the People at Home Get access Stephen Coleman Stephen Coleman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 4, 1 October 2003, Pages 733–758, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsg113 Published: 01 October 2003
Political Communication —Old and New Media Relationships
This article reflects upon the ways television changed the political landscape and considers how far new media, such as the Internet, are displacing television or reconfiguring the political communications ecology. The analysis explores opportunities and challenges facing media producers, politicians, and citizens. The authors conclude by suggesting that the television-politics relationship that emerged in the 1960s still prevails to some extent …
Parliament in the age of the Internet
Journal Article Parliament in the age of the Internet Get access S Coleman, S Coleman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JA Taylor, JA Taylor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W Van de Donk W Van de Donk Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 3, July 1999, Pages 365–370, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/…
The Lonely Citizen
This article explores what it means to be represented and how the nature of representation might change in an age of networks. Citizens' perceptions of political connection and disconnection are examined on the basis of quantitative and qualitative surveys. A typology of political connection is presented and then expanded on the basis of the discussion of four potentially democratizing characteristics of digital information and communication tech…
Blogs and the New Politics of Listening
Televised Election Debates
"This book examines the present and future of televised election debates, from the Nixon-Kennedy presidential debate of 1960 to the age of digital interactive multimedia."--BOOK JACKET
Political Marketing
AS conventional political participation and strong party loyalties decline, parties and politicians are trying harder than ever before to woo the electorate. Some scholars regard new techniques of persuasion as heralding the rise of post-ideological, market-oriented parties. That thesis is tested in ten international case studies in Lilleker and Lees-Marshment's new volume. This review raises some critical questions about both the thesis and the …
Under Construction
How might we describe the development of online deliberation as a field of research and practice? How should we interpret its significance? In this introductory essay to the Special Issue, we argue
How the other half votes
This article explores the ways in which British Big Brother viewers experienced and responded to the 2005 UK general election. On the basis of 10 surveys, which included open-ended questions, the research aimed to discover how, if at all, Big Brother viewers translated sensitive and nuanced techniques for judging game-show contestants into the context of a political election campaign
Exploring new media effects on representative democracy
This article explores the effects of new media upon representative democracy. It begins by considering the lessons from studies of the effects of previous communication media, such as television. A survey of British MPs' use of and attitudes towards new media is reported, as is another survey of British citizens' attitudes towards new media and political institutions. The article concludes by suggesting that systemic changes to democratic represe…
Governing at a distance – politicians in the blogosphere
This paper examines blogs by three senior politicians as examples of governing at a distance. It considers how the translation of policy messages might be supported by what Scannell has called the 'for-everyone-as-someone' structure of communication
The Effect of Social Conformity on Collective Voting Behavior
This article investigates the effect of social conformity on voting behavior. Past research shows that many people vote to conform with the social norm that voting is a civic duty. The hypothesis here is that when conformity motivates people to vote, it also stimulates conformist behavior among some voters when they decide which party to vote for. This produces a distinctive relationship between voter turnout and the distribution of votes among p…
Debate on Television
This article considers the potential of television as a public space in which democratic debate might be instigated, stimulated, or promoted. It asks whether television could do a better job at opening up intelligent public debate—and how opportunities to do so have been constrained historically by policies of political timidity. It considers three types of pseudo-debate commonly organized by television producers and concludes by arguing that tel…
The Changing Role of the Local News Media in Enabling Citizens to Engage in Local Democracies
Using Leeds City Council in the United Kingdom as a case study, we analyse comparatively the changing role of local journalism in the public communications and engagement strategies of local government. Drawing on over 20 semi-structured interviews with elected politicians, Council strategists, mainstream journalists, and citizen journalists, the article explores perceptions of the mainstream news media's role versus new modes of communication in…
Deliberative Manoeuvres in the Digital Darkness
Research Highlights and Abstract This article Critically reviews e-democracy policy thinking in the UK. Surveys and evaluates e-democracy activity in key areas, including online forums, open government and data, e-petitioning, and more recent ‘crowdsourcing’ initiatives. Defends the on-going importance of a more deliberative approach to e-democracy policy and practice. This paper evaluates the UK Government's e-democracy policy and considers what…
The Depiction of Politicians and Politics in British Soaps
This paper explores ways in which politicians and political themes are depicted in British soap operas. A three-dimensional definition of “the political” is employed, and the distinction between the personalized communities depicted in soaps and the impersonal world of politics is investigated. The study draws upon interviews with producers and scriptwriters from the major British soaps; a representative survey of the British population, 59 perce…
Westminster in the information age
Journal Article Westminster in the information age Get access S Coleman S Coleman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 3, July 1999, Pages 371–387, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/52.3.371 Published: 01 July 1999
Political blogs and representative democracy
Representative democracy faces profound problems.Electoral turnout has declined to such an extent that the legitimacy of the mandate to govern is drawn into question [19, p. 33].This problem is exacerbated and reinforced by a feeling of disconnection and distrust between the governed and the governors and a perception that voting and other forms of participation do not influence electoral outcomes or policymaking.At the heart of this 'crisis', as…
Dynamics in the fragmentation of political party systems
Can the New Media Invigorate Democracy
Politicians Don’t Understand People Like Me
A Constructivist Study of Trust in the News
How the news is produced, circulated and consumed weighs heavily on the form and force of citizenship. And yet much of the existing literature tends to reduce the tricky issue of trust to the appreciably more straightforward issue of accuracy. The research reported here asked the public what they expected from the news and journalists expected of the public. The findings suggest that trust in the news is more complex and nuanced than mere questio…
Why is the Eurovision Song Contest Ridiculous? Exploring a Spectacle of Embarrassment, Irony and Identity
This article considers how the Eurovision Song Contest in the UK has come to be seen as a moment of cultural embarrassment. As a showcase for national identities, Eurovision gives rise to contemporary unease about cultural disembeddedness, the state-centric nature of national identity and the gap between globalized/American popular culture and European/ethnic cultural forms. The paper explores Terry Wogan's use of ironic commentary to both embrac…
Measurement and Analysis of Political Systems
The human brain, social conformity, and presidential elections
This paper investigates aggregate voting behavior in American presidential elections from 1904 to 1980; the state is unit of analysis. We abandon the traditional assumption that voting is a rational process and instead construct a model to test the power of social conformity over voting decisions. The model, which uses the entropy measure of statistical information theory, allows specific numerical tests of its validity and, additionally, reveals…
Contributions to the History of Psychology
Designations of major figures (max. = 3) were obtained in each of 1767 history-of-psychology publications (mostly journal articles) from 1975 to 1986. The distribution of these major-figure designations of psychologists was compared with the distribution of a measure of eminence that was developed by Zusne in 1985 and is based on the amount of textbook-page-space given to an individual. The two measures correlate significantly but are not equival…
On Recognition paid to eminent figures and to the others
Contributions to the History of Psychology
In the twelve-year period following the publication of Principles of Behavior in 1943, Clark L. Hull was regarded as a leading proponent of systematic behavior theory. By the end of the 1950s, his visibility in the psychological literature had greatly diminished and his contributions to psychological theory were judged by many to have been misguided. Drawing from reviews and assessments of Hull's theorizing which appeared in the period 1943–1960,…
Contributions to Psychohistory
Literature in the history of psychology that had been published from 1975 through 1986 was identified in Psychological Abstracts (1975–1988). From each of the 1478 publications information was obtained on the historical setting of the narrative and the geographical location of the (first) author. Austria, Germany, and the United States were the most often chosen settings, and these three accounted for 43% of the settings chosen. Scholars in Mexic…
William Morris and 'News from Nowhere
Introduction - Utopia today, S.Coleman biographical essay - who was William Morris?, P.O'Sullivan a synopsis of News from Nowhere, C.Slapper the feast's beginning - Nowhere and the Utopian tradition, C.Hampton how the change came - revolution in Nowhere, J.Crump how things are managed - human nature in Nowhere, S.Coleman concerning love - News from Nowhere & Gender, J.Marsh the obstinate refusers - work in News from Nowhere, R.Watkinson an old ho…
Cycles and chaos in political party voting—a research note
Several studies have shown cycles in the vote for political parties in American presidential elections, raising the question of whether cycles are unique to two‐party systems. This study extends the investigation of cycles to parliamentary elections in several countries that have multiple political parties: Japan, Germany, Norway, and Canada. Phase‐space analysis, a graphical method, is used to show that these countries have a variety of cyclic v…
Contributions to the History of Psychology
Psychological Abstracts was used to identify history-of-psychology literature published from 1975 through 1986. Perusal of these 1478 publications provided information on the principal topics of each. Disciplines, theories, and methodology were the most popular subjects of historical treatment; psychological apparatus was the least popular. Although psychoanalytic and behavioral topics were well-represented in the literature, topical diversity wa…
Dynamics in the fragmentation of political party systems
Interactive media and the 1997 UK general election
Psychology of the Scientist
An analysis of citations shows that the “visibility” of a productive experimental psychologist (Isidore Gormezano of the University of Iowa) differed substantially across four different “audiences.” These audiences were literature-users whose citations to his work were identified in the following sources: classical-conditioning chapters in psychology-of-learning textbooks; instrumental/operant-conditioning chapters in the same; publications scann…
The New Media and Democratic Politics
Can the New Media Invigorate Democracy
Televised Election Debates
Preface Foreword D.Butler Meaningful Political Debate in the Age of the Soundbite S.Coleman What Can Voters Learn from Election Debates? K.H.Jamieson & C.Adasiewicz Leaders Debates and Presidential Politics in Australia I.Ward & M.Walsh Peres Versus Netanyahu: Television Wins the Debate, Israel 1996 S.Blum-Kulka & T.Liebes Third Parties and TV Debates R.Holme The Great British Exception A.Mitchell The Worm that Turned: New Zealand's 1996 General …
Westminster in the information age
Journal Article Westminster in the information age Get access S Coleman S Coleman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 3, July 1999, Pages 371–387, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/52.3.371 Published: 01 July 1999
Parliament in the age of the Internet
Journal Article Parliament in the age of the Internet Get access S Coleman, S Coleman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JA Taylor, JA Taylor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W Van de Donk W Van de Donk Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 3, July 1999, Pages 365–370, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/…
Meaningful Political Debate in the Age of the Soundbite
Debate lies at the heart of democracy. Indeed, it would be reasonable to state that the two definitive prerequisites of democracy are the fair and inclusive right to vote and the opportunity to conduct informed, uncensored public discussion of ideas. Debate without voting would be insufficient for the realisation of democracy, as would be voting without any public deliberation.
Psychology of the Scientist
Objective information was obtained from 89 textbooks in the psychology of learning published from 1952 through 1995 to answer questions about their coverage of classical conditioning. We found (a) that classical conditioning consistently received less coverage than instrumental and operant conditioning, (b) that the distinction of classical and instrumental conditioning has become established as a textbook-construction device, (c) that use of the…
Psychology of the Scientist
Objective information was obtained from 89 textbooks in the psychology of learning published from 1952 through 1995 to answer questions about their coverage of classical conditioning. We found (a) that classical conditioning consistently received less coverage than instrumental and operant conditioning, (b) that the distinction of classical and instrumental conditioning has become established as a textbook-construction device, (c) that use of the…
Televised Election Debates
"This book examines the present and future of televised election debates, from the Nixon-Kennedy presidential debate of 1960 to the age of digital interactive multimedia."--BOOK JACKET
The Transformation of Citizenship?
Wrestling Sprawl to the Ground
The literature on urban sprawl confuses causes, consequences, and conditions. This article presents a conceptual definition of sprawl based on eight distinct dimensions of land use patterns: density, continuity, concentration, clustering, centrality, nuclearity mixed uses, and proximity. Sprawl is defined as a condition of land use that is represented by low values on one or more of these dimensions. Each dimension is operationally defined and te…
Sources of Increasing Agedness of References in Psychology-of-Learning Textbooks, 1952–1995
This article identifies sources of a significant increase in the agedness of references in 89 learning textbooks published from 1952 through 1995
A Test for the Effect of Conformity on Crime Rates Using Voter Turnout
Using voter turnout to measure conformity, this article examines whether conformity with social norms moderates the crime rate in the United States at the state and county levels. If people are fairly consistent in their response to the perceived local degree of conformity with norms about voting and against crime, analysis predicts a unique quadratic relationship between reported crime rates and voter turnout. A pooled multivariate regression an…
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