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This is a book about voting - what people think they are doing when they cast a vote.
List of contents
1. What voting means; 2. Narratives of voting; 3. Memories of the ballot box; 4. Acquiring the habit; 5. The burden of being represented; 6. Spaces of disappearance; 7. Becoming us; 8. Who feels what, when, and how.
About the author
Stephen Coleman is Professor of Political Communication and Co-Director of the Centre for Digital Citizenship at the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds. He is also Honorary Professor in Political Science at the University of Copenhagen and Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. Coleman's most recent publications include Connecting Democracy: Online Consultation and the Flow of Political Communication (with Peter M. Shane, 2011), The Media and the Public: 'Them' and 'Us' in Media Discourse (with Karen Ross, 2009) and The Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice and Policy (with Jay G. Blumler, 2009) - winner of the American Political Science Association award for best book of the year on politics and information technology. He has served as specialist adviser to the House of Commons Information Select Committee inquiry on ICT and public participation in Parliament, as a member of the Puttnam Commission on parliamentary communication with the public and as chair of the Electoral Reform Society's Independent Commission on Alternative Voting Methods.
Summary
What does it mean to think of oneself as a voter? What memories and anxieties are evoked by the phrase, 'It's time to vote'? This book explores what voters think they are doing when they vote, providing a unique insight into how it feels to be a democratic citizen.
