Issue 3. Between Big Brother and the Digital Utopia: e-Governance in Post-Totalitarian Space
Vlad Strukov & Stephen Coleman
Stephen Coleman is Professor of Political Communication at the Institute of Communication Studies of the University of Leeds. His main research interests are methods of political engagement; uses of digital media in representative democracies; intersections between popular culture and formal politics; political efficacy; political aesthetics, performance and rhetoric; literary and dramatic representations of politics; and forms of deliberation and decision-making. Together with Professor Ann Macintosh, he co-directs the Centre for Digital Citizenship, an interdisciplinary research centre which conducts research into the changing nature of citizenship and governance in a networked society. He is the author of The Media and the Public: Them and Us in Media Discourse with K. Ross (Oxford, 2010), The Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice and Policy with J.G. Blumler, J.G. (Cambridge, 2009), What Happens in Parliament (2001, London), and many other publications.
Vlad Strukov is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Russian, and the Centre for World Cinemas, at the University of Leeds, UK. His research on film, animation, new media and national identity has appeared in a number of publications.
3.4 Digital Citizenship: E-Deliberation, Democracy and the Future of the Discipline (Interview with Professor Stephen Coleman)
In an exclusive interview with the editor of Digital Icons, Professor Stephen Coleman discusses evolving forms of citizen participation. He examines e-deliberation as an emerging body of research, technological tools, social practice and policy-making related to encouraging and facilitating democratizing processes on the Internet and other post-broadcasting media. He examines e-deliberation environments and discusses the philosophical underpinnings of web interfaces and software enabling social online interactions between citizens and public officers. He views participatory processes from the point of view of governmental structures, commercial use and reflection pertinent to contemporary western academia.
Language of contribution: English