Research
My research to date has explored the internet and new media as they relate to three broad areas: political communication, governance, and public policy. My latest book is the Handbook of Internet Politics, co-edited with Philip N. Howard (Routledge, 2009). The book before that was Internet Politics: States, Citizens, and New Communication Technologies (Oxford University Press), which won the American Sociological Association Best Book Award (Communication and Information Technologies Section), 2007. I have recently completed editing a double special issue of the Journal of Information Technology and Politics entitled “Politics: Web 2.0”, published in August 2009. I am currently working on my next book, which is under contract with Oxford University Press. This book seeks to define and explore the hybrid media system and politics—how the interactions between old, new, and renewed media now decisively shape political life.
My work has appeared in a wide range of academic journals, including Political Studies, Governance (including a 2003 piece that has become one of the most frequently cited academic articles in its field), Political Communication, The International Journal of Press/Politics, Parliamentary Affairs, The Journal of Political Ideologies, Information, Communication and Society, the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, and Social Science Computer Review. You can download some of these at my Publications page.
I was the founding Director of the New Political Communication Unit in April 2007 and was the organiser of its major international conference Politics: Web 2.0. In March 2009, Dr Ben O’Loughlin moved from being the Unit’s Associate Director to join me as its Co-Director.
I am the series editor for Oxford Studies in Digital Politics - a new Oxford University Press USA book series. The first set of books has now been commissioned and the first book in the series has been published. See here for details.
I have presented numerous papers, for example, at the UK Political Studies Association Annual Conference, the European Consortium for Political Research, the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, and to the US Congressional Research Service. You can read a list of the most recent of these and download some at my Presentations page.
I add to my tumblelog at http://www.andrewchadwick.com and contribute to the New Political Communication Unit’s group blog.
Other notable recent research activity:
- One of the founders of the NSF-funded International Working Group on Online Consultation and Public Policymaking.
- Founding Associate Editor (2006-09) and Senior Editorial Board member (ongoing) of the Journal of Information Technology and Politics , the journal of the organized section on Information Technology & Politics (ITP) of the American Political Science Association (APSA). JITP is published by Routledge/Taylor and Francis.
- Executive Committee member, APSA Information Technology and Politics Section; Prize Committee member for 2008-2010.
- Founding member, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on the Internet and Politics.
- Programme Committee member, Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation (OD2010), Institute for Communications Studies, University of Leeds, June 2010.
- Programme Committee member, YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States, a two-day conference at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, April 2009.
- Research has been supported by the European Commission, the Parliament of Canada, and the Leverhulme Trust.
