Professor Stephen Coleman

Professor Stephen Coleman is the Cisco Visiting Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute

Professor Coleman is the Cisco Visiting Professor in e-Democracy at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). He received a BA Hons and PhD from London University. He was formerly Director of the Hansard e-democracy programme, which pioneered online consultations for the UK Parliament, and lecturer in Media & Communication at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Stephen also chaired the Independent Commission on Alternative Voting Methods. Recent publications include: Bowling Together (with John Gotze), Hansard Society, 2001; Realising Democracy Online: A Civic Commons in Cyberspace (with Jay G. Blumler), IPPR, 2001; 2001: A Cyber Space Odyssey: the Internet in the UK Election, Hansard Society, 2001. At the OII, Professor Coleman is working on the adaptation of representative institutions in the digital age; the development of spaces for public democratic deliberation; and a global evaluation of a range of e-democracy exercises.