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2023

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Political Science

D-Index
42
Citations
8838
World Ranking
432
National Ranking
68

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Stephen Coleman is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom and has established a notable profile within the social sciences. Their work primarily spans sociology and political science, with significant contributions also in communication, political science and international relations, visual arts and performing arts, as well as health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

Their research topics include social media and politics, social and cultural dynamics, populism and right-wing movements, media studies and communication, art history and market analysis, museums and cultural heritage, and cultural industries and urban development.

Coleman has published research in several frequent venues, including:

  • American Journal of Cultural Sociology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Political Quarterly
  • European Journal of Communication
  • Big Data & Society

Representative recent papers authored by Coleman include:

  • 'Politicians Don't Understand People Like Me': A Qualitative Analysis of a Lament, 2022, Representation
  • Feeling It/Not Feeling It: Mood Stories as Accounts of Political Intuition, 2022, International Journal of Politics Culture and Society

Other notable papers from the broader dataset include works by collaborators or contemporaries such as:

  • The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts, 2021, Big Data & Society
  • After the Crisis, A "New Normal" for Democratic Citizenship?, 2021, Javnost - The Public
  • Spherulitic Lead Calcium Apatite Minerals in Lead Water Pipes Exposed to Phosphate-Dosed Tap Water, 2023, Environmental Science & Technology

The scientist's frequent co-authors consist of Jim Brogden, Yuri Misnikov, Melissa Terras, Steven Drost, and Chris Elsden.

Coleman has also contributed to published books, with titles including Capturing the Mood of Democracy: The British General Election 2019 (2020, White Rose University Consortium) and How People Talk About Politics (2020, I.B.Tauris eBooks).

Best Publications

  • Wrestling sprawl to the ground - Defining and measuring an elusive concept

    George Galster;Royce Hanson;Michael R. Ratcliffe;Harold Wolman

  • Bowling Together: Online Public Engagement in Policy Deliberation

    Stephen Coleman;John Gøtze

  • The Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice and Policy

    Stephen Coleman;Jay G. Blumler

  • The Media and The Public: "Them" and "Us" in Media Discourse

    Stephen Coleman;Karen Ross

  • Connecting Parliament to the Public via the Internet

    Stephen Coleman

  • New mediation and direct representation: reconceptualizing representation in the digital age

    Stephen Coleman

  • Political Communication —Old and New Media Relationships:

    Michael Gurevitch;Stephen Coleman;Jay G. Blumler

  • eParticipation: The Research Gaps

    Ann Macintosh;Stephen Coleman;Agnes Schneeberger

  • Blogs and the New Politics of Listening

    Stephen Coleman

  • The role of social media in reducing stigma and discrimination

    Victoria Betton;Rohan Borschmann;Mary Docherty;Stephen Coleman

  • Under Construction: The Field of Online Deliberation Research

    Stephen Coleman;Giles Moss

  • The Lonely Citizen: Indirect Representation in an Age of Networks

    Stephen Coleman

  • The Media and the Public

    Stephen Coleman;Karen Ross

  • A Tale of Two Houses: The House of Commons, the Big Brother House and the People at Home

    Stephen Coleman

  • Connecting Democracy: Online Consultation and the Flow of Political Communication

    Stephen Coleman;Peter M. Shane

  • Parliament in the Age of the Internet

    S. Coleman;J. Taylor;W.B.H.J. van de Donk

  • Televised Election Debates

    Stephen Coleman

  • Believing the news: From sinking trust to atrophied efficacy

    Stephen Coleman

  • How Voters Feel

    Stephen Coleman

  • Only joking? Online humour in the 2005 UK general election

    Limor Shifman;Stephen Coleman;Stephen Ward

  • The Effect of Social Conformity on Collective Voting Behavior

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  • Democracy and the Media—Revisited

    Jay G. Blumler;Stephen Coleman

  • A New Agenda for e-Democracy

    Stephen Coleman;Donald F. Norris

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay G. Blumler
Jay G. Blumler University of Leeds
Liesbet van Zoonen
Liesbet van Zoonen Erasmus University Rotterdam
Stephen Ward
Stephen Ward University of Salford
Rohan Borschmann
Rohan Borschmann University of Melbourne
Claire O'Malley
Claire O'Malley Teesside University
Tom Rodden
Tom Rodden University of Nottingham
Rachel Gibson
Rachel Gibson University of Manchester
Deen Freelon
Deen Freelon University of Pennsylvania

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