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34
Citations
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860
National Ranking
137

Overview

Stephen Ward is affiliated with the University of Salford in the United Kingdom and works primarily within the Social Sciences, with a focus on areas such as Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, and Communication. Their research encompasses a range of topics including Intelligence, Security, War Strategy, Social Media and Politics, Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies, Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection, Gender, Feminism, and Media, Privacy, Security, and Data Protection, as well as E-Government and Public Services.

Among their recent scholarly contributions are several papers published between 2020 and 2024. These include:

  • "Turds, traitors and tossers: the abuse of UK MPs via Twitter", 2020, Journal of Legislative Studies
  • "'Hello, world': GCHQ, Twitter and social media engagement", 2020, Intelligence & National Security
  • "From Bad to Worse? The Media and the 2019 Election Campaign", 2020, Parliamentary Affairs
  • "Public Perceptions of UK Intelligence", 2022, The RUSI Journal
  • "Fact or Fiction? UK Intelligence Agencies' Representation in the Press", 2024, International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence

Stephen Ward has published books including Objectively Engaged Journalism, released in 2020 by McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks and MQUP eBooks.

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Daniel W. B. Lomas (collaborated on 4 occasions)
  • Liam McLoughlin (2 collaborative works)
  • Dominic Wring (1)
  • Ged Hiscoke (1)

Their research has appeared repeatedly in key academic venues such as Intelligence & National Security (2 publications), Cambridge University Press eBooks (2), Journal of Legislative Studies, Parliamentary Affairs, and The RUSI Journal.

Best Publications

  • Online participation in the UK: Testing a 'contextualised' model of internet effects

    Rachel K Gibson;Wainer Lusoli;Stephen J Ward

  • Online Participation and Mobilisation in Britain: Hype, Hope and Reality

    Stephen Ward;Rachel Gibson;Wainer Lusoli

  • A proposed methodology for studying the function and effectiveness of party and candidate web sites

    Rachel Gibson;Stephen Ward

  • Election Campaigning on the WWW in the USA and UK: A Comparative Analysis

    Rachel K. Gibson;Michael Margolis;David Resnick;Stephen J. Ward

  • Introduction: The Potential of the Internet Revisited

    Stephen Ward;Thierry Vedel

  • On-Line and on Message? Candidate Websites in the 2001 General Election

    Stephen J Ward;Rachel K Gibson

  • U.K. Political Parties and the Internet

    Rachel K. Gibson;Stephen J. Ward

  • ‘From weird to wired’: MPs, the internet and representative politics in the UK

    Stephen Ward;Wainer Lusoli

  • Political Parties and the Internet: Net Gain?

    Rachel Kay Gibson;Stephen Ward;P. G. Nixon

  • (Re)connecting Politics? Parliament, the Public and the Internet

    Wainer Lusoli;Stephen J Ward;Rachel K Gibson

  • Virtual Campaigning: Australian Parties and the Impact of the Internet

    Rachel K Gibson;Stephen J Ward

  • PARTIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE—A REVIEW ARTICLE

    Rachel Gibson;Stephen Ward

  • Nationalizing and Normalizing the Local? A Comparative Analysis of Online Candidate Campaigning in Australia and Britain

    Rachel K. Gibson;Wainer Lusoli;Stephen Ward

  • Towards an Open Ethics: Implications of New Media Platforms for Global Ethics Discourse

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  • German parties and internet campaigning in the 2002 federal election

    Rachel K Gibson;Andrea Rommele;Stephen J Ward

  • Digital Rank-And-File: Party Activists' Perceptions and Use of the Internet:

    Wainer Lusoli;Stephen Ward

  • The Australian public and politics on-line: Reinforcing or reinventing representation?

    Rachel Gibson;Wainer Lusoli;Stephen Ward

  • The Media and the 2010 Campaign: the Television Election?

    Dominic Wring;Stephen Ward

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

    Limor Shifman;Stephen Coleman;Stephen Ward

  • The Internet and Political Campaigning: the new medium comes of Age?

    Rachel K Gibson;Stephen J Ward;Wainer Lusoli

  • Dinosaurs in Cyberspace? British Trade Unions and the Internet

    Stephen Ward;Wainer Lusoli

  • Introduction: representative democracy and the Internet

    Rachel K Gibson;Andrea Rommele;Stephen J Ward

  • Party organizational change and ICTs: The growth of a virtual grassroots?

    Rachel K. Gibson;Kevin Gillan;Fabienne Greffet;Benjamin J. Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Rachel Gibson
Rachel Gibson University of Manchester
Philip Lowe
Philip Lowe Newcastle University
Stephen Coleman
Stephen Coleman University of Leeds

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