Professor Ariadne Vromen
BSocSc (UNSW), MA (Syd) PhD (UNSW)
H04 - Merewether Building
The University of Sydney
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Biographical details
Ariadne Vromen is Professor of Political Sociology, and her research interests include: political participation, social movements, advocacy organisations, digital politics, and young people and politics. Ariadne has completed extensive research on young people’s political engagement, including a comparative project on social media use in Australia, the UK and USA; and co-authoring a policy report for the Australian National Youth Affairs Research Scheme. She is currently completing a book on digital citizenship and new advocacy organisations. In 2016 she starts a new project Crowdsourcing Political Engagement that looks at the growth of online petitioning and donations sites.
She has also co-authored several texts on Australian politics, including Powerscape: Contemporary Australian Politics.
Ariadne is a founding member of the Worldwide Universities Network group, Networking Young Citizens; and co-directs the Australian Political Studies Association Research Group, Political Organisations and Participation, see the blog: https://poppoliticsaus.wordpress.com/.
Ariadne is an enthusiastic political science teacher, and has won a Vice Chancellor’s award for Outstanding Teaching; and, after nomination by her colleagues, a Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Research Mentoring award.¿
Ariadne was an academic staff elected Fellow of the University of Sydney Senate (2011-2013); and an NTEU National Councillor (2006-2011). She is currently the FASS Director of Research Development for Social Sciences.
She has successfully supervised Higher Degree Research students with varied topics, and particularly welcomes enquiries from future students interested in digital politics, and any area of citizen engagement.¿
Research interests
Research Fields
- Australian Politics
- Comparative Politics
Research Interests
- Political sociology
- Political participation
- Comparative Government & Politics
- Australian politics
- Social movements
- Young people and politics
Teaching and supervision
Current Courses
- GOVT2991 Political Analysis (Honours stream)
- GOVT6156 Governance and Civil Society
Past Courses
- GOVT6139 Research Design
- GOVT2331 Social Change and Politics
Current research students
| Project title | Research student |
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| The citizen-user and the crowd-mediated politics of the Five Star Movement | Francesco BAILO |
| Online feminist organising | Jenna PRICE |
| Mobilisation around international tax justice in Australia and the United Kingdom after the Global Financial Crisis | Michael VAUGHAN |
Online Commentaries
- (2016) 'Is Facebook a site of political engagement for young people?' LSE Politics and Policy Blog. October 14, Available here.
- (2016) 'What's in a ranking? Considering the implications of the APSA draft journal rankings' POPpolitics blog. September 12, Available here.
- (2016) 'New style lobbying: How GetUp channels Australians' voices into politics' The Conversation June 14, Available here.
- (2016) ‘Comparing young people’s political agendas and views on inequality’ POPpolitics blog. April 4, Available here.
- (2015) ‘Logging off? Why young people love to hate Facebook’ The Conversation, (with Brady Robards) The Conversation February 6, Available here.
- (2014) ‘Politics as usual? ailing parties fail to get to grips with social media’ The Conversation, October 13, Available here.
- (2014) ‘March in March: the old ways of doing politics are under challenge’ The Conversation, March 20, Available here.
- (2013) ‘Presenting the moral imperative: effective storytelling strategies by online campaigning organisations’ Policy and Internet blog, Available here.
- (2013) ‘Understanding young people and politics in a digital context’ Australian Review of Public Affairs August, Available here.
- (2013) ‘Social media, youth participation and Australian elections’ (with Peter Chen), Australian Electoral Commission, Available here.
Recent Internal Grants
- 2015 ‘Social media and Digital citizenship’ SSSHARC grant (with Gerard Goggin and Fiona Martin, MECO, Sydney), $15,000
- 2015 ‘Crowdsourcing political engagement: Change.org’ FASS Digital Humanities grant, $15,000.
- 2014-2015 ‘Everyday Social Media’ Faculty of Arts Collaborative Research network grant (with Gerard Goggin and Fiona Martin, MECO, Sydney), $22,000.
Selected grants
2017
- Digital Rights and Governance in Australia and Asia; Goggin G, Vromen A, Weatherall K, Ford M, Martin F; DVC Research/Sydney Research Excellence Initiative 2020 (SREI).
- Australian Women�s Work Futures (AWWF); Baird M, Cooper R, Vromen A, Probyn E, Hill E; DVC Research/Sydney Research Excellence Initiative 2020 (SREI).
- Digital Media Method Workshop; Sinpeng A, Vromen A; School of Social & Political Sciences/SSPS Collaborative Research Support Scheme.
2016
- Crowdsourcing political engagement; Vromen A, Halpin D; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2015
- Social Media and Digital Citizenship; Vromen A, Martin F, Goggin G, Hutchinson J, Sinpeng A; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/SSSHARC Collaborative Projects Support Scheme.
- Everyday Social Media Network; Goggin G, Vromen A, Martin F, Bednarek M, Bollmer G, Brevini B, Calvo R, Chen P, Chesher C, Driscoll C, Dwyer T, Elliot A, Hutchinson J, Mann A, Martin G, Michael M, Navarria G, Race K, Rolph D, Tormey S, Weatherall K; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme.
2013
- Women and Work Research Network; Baird M, Chen M, Cooper R, Cutcher L, Foley M, Ford M, Hardy C, Hill E, McGrath-Champ S, Piper N, Probyn E, Riley J, Seymour R, Smith B, Vromen A, Williamson S; DVC Research/Research Network Scheme (SyReNS).
2012
- Innovative Democracy Changing Approaches to Citizen Engagement in Australia, the UK and Denmark.; Marsh D, Vromen A, Fawcett P, Bang H; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
- The Civic Network: A Comparative study of the use of social media for enhancing young peoples political engagement; Vromen A, Loader B, Xenos M; Spencer Foundation/Research Support.
- Civic networking in comparative perspective: young people, civic engagement and social media in Australia and the USA; Vromen A, Xenos M; United States Studies Centre/Research Support.
2006
- Young people, community-building and the internet; Vromen A; University of Sydney/Early Career Researcher.
2001
- Participatory citizenship of Australian young people; Vromen A; DVC Research/Research and Development Scheme: Newly Appointed Staff (NAS).
Selected publications & creative works
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Digital Citizenship and Political Engagement: The Challenge from Online Campaigning and Advocacy Organisations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
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The Networked Young Citizen: Social Media, Political Participation and Civic Engagement (Routledge, 2014)
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Contemporary Politics in Australia: Theories, Practices and Issues (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
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Powerscape: Contemporary Australian politics - 2nd Edition (Allen and Unwin, 2009)
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Keywords In Australian Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
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