Professor Stephen Coleman
- Position: Professor of Political Communication
- Areas of expertise: Political communication; citizenship; political performance; intersections between political and popular culture; political voice; democratic deliberation; digital politics; qualitative methods
- Email: S.Coleman@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 5872
- Location: 2.15 Clothworkers' Building North
Profile
I am a Professor of Political Communication at the University of Leeds and Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
Research interests
My main research interests are:
- methods of political engagement;
- uses of digital media in representative democracies;
- intersections between popular culture and formal politics;
- political efficacy;
- citizenship education;
- political aesthetics, performance and rhetoric;
- literary and dramatic representations of politics;
- forms of deliberation and decision-making.
Current research projects include:
- Study of real-time audience responses to political media messages
- Study of political events - listening to the public in surges of political excitement
- Study of online deliberation, its meaning, practices and consequences
- Study of interpersonal talk about politics
- Study of democratic 'capabilities' linked to theories of recognition
- Study of young people's understanding of their digital rights
- Collaborative project of political aesthetics with arts practitioners
Student education
I teach undergraduate and postgraduate modules.
COMM2560- Communication Skills
COMM3420 - The Ethnography of Speaking
COMM5601M - Innovations in Political Communication