Stephen D. Cooper, Ph.D.
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Professor
Doctorate earned at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey--January 2001.
Joined Marshall faculty in August, 2001.
 
 
Scholarly Interests
Computer-mediated communication, weblogs, news media, culture and agency, institutions and policy.
 
Administrative Duties
Webmaster for the Communication Studies Department.
Member of the University Writing Across the Curriculum Committee.
Chair of the Marshall University Institutional Review Board #2.
 
Courses
HON 150, Critical Issues: Media & Society syllabus
CMM 207, Business and Professional Communication syllabus
CMM 255, Introduction to Computer-Mediated Communication syllabus
CMM 315, Group Communication syllabus
CMM 401/501, Organizational Communication syllabus
CMM 411/511, Communication Study and Research syllabus
CMM 456/556, Computer-Mediated Communication syllabus
CMM 480/580, Special Topic: Scholarly Literacy syllabus
 
Publications
Organizations and Unusual Routines: A Systems Analysis of Dysfunctional Feedback Processes 
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (in press).  Coauthor.
 
The President and the press: The framing of George W. Bush’s speech to the United Nations on November 10, 2001
The American Communication Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Fall 2008).  Coauthor.
 
A concise history of the fauxtography blogstorm in the 2006 Lebanon War
The American Communication Journal, Vol. 9 Issue 2 (Summer 2007).  Sole author.
 
Watching the Watchdog: Bloggers as the Fifth Estate    publisher's page
Marquette Books (2006).  Sole author. 
 
Journalistic Ethics
Social Issues in America (J. Ciment, Ed.), M. E. Sharpe (2006).  Sole author.
 
Media Bias
Social Issues in America (J. Ciment, Ed.), M. E. Sharpe (2006).  Sole author.
 
A Comparative Framing Analysis of Embedded and Behind-the-Lines Reporting on the 2003 Iraq War
Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2005).  Coauthor.
 
Bringing Some Clarity to the Media Bias Debate
Review of Communication, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2005).  Sole author.
 
Connecting the Dots: Implicit Commonalities Among Cultural Morphogenesis, Structuration, and Market Economics
The Kentucky Journal of Communication, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Fall 2004).  Sole author.
 
Embedded Versus Behind-the-Lines Reporting on the 2003 Iraq War
Global Media Go to War (R. Berenger, Ed.), Marquette Books (2004).  Primary author.
 
Section editor of the Meet Your Footnotes feature.
The American Communication Journal, Vol. 6, Issue 4 (Summer 2003).
 
Press Controls in Wartime: The Legal, Historical, and Institutional Context.
The American Communication Journal, Vol. 6, Issue 4 (Summer 2003).  Sole author.
 
Collaborative Musical Expression and Creativity Among Academics: When Intellectualism Meets Twelve Bar Blues.
The American Communication Journal, Vol. 6, Issue 1 (Fall 2002).  Coauthor.
 
An Effect of the Medium in News Stories: “The Pictures in Our Heads.”
The New Jersey Journal of Communication, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Fall 2000).  Sole author.
 
Common Law, and Privacy in Computer-Mediated Environments.
The New Jersey Journal of Communication, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Fall 1997).  Sole author.
 
Military Control Over War News: The Implications of the Persian Gulf.
The New Jersey Journal of Communication, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 1996).  Sole author.
 
Privacy and the News Media.
The New Jersey Journal of Communication, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Fall 1995).  Sole author.
 
News Media Objectivity: How Do We Ask the Questions?
The New Jersey Journal of Communication, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Fall 1994).  Sole author.
 
Conference Presentations
A Concise History of the Fauxtography Blogstorm in the 2006 Lebanon War
Presented at the American Communication Association conference, October 2007.
 
Biased Battle Reports in Gulf War II: A Comparative Framing Analysis
Coauthored with Jim A. Kuypers.  Presented by Kuypers at the National Communication Association conference, November 2005.
 
A Comparative Framing Analysis of Embedded and Behind-the-Lines Reporting on the 2003 Iraq War
Coauthored with Jim A. Kuypers.  Presented at the Southern States Communication Association conference, April 2005.
 
Watching the Watchdog: Weblogs as the Fifth Estate
Presented at the National Communication Association conference, November 2003.
 
Political Correctness, and the Spaciousness of Old Rhetoric.
Presented at the American Communication Association conference, September 2003.
 
Connecting the Dots: Implicit Commonalities Among Structuration, Cultural Morphogenesis, and Market Economics.
Presented at the Rhetoric Society of America conference, May 2002.
 
Press Controls in War Time: The Legal, Historical, and Institutional Context.
Presented at the Central States Communication Association conference, April 2002.  Selected as top faculty paper by the Mass Communication Interest Group.
 
Unusual Routines, Part I: Development of Model and Application to Computer Mediated Communication Systems.
Coauthored with Ronald E. Rice.  Presented by Rice at the International Communication Association conference, May 2001.
 
Unusual Routines and Computer Mediated Communication Systems.
Presented at the National Communication Association conference, November 1999.  Selected as top student paper by the Applied Communication Division.
 
Television News: “The Pictures in Our Heads.”
Presented at the New Jersey Communication Association Conference, April 1999.
 
Privacy, and Computer-Mediated Environments.
Presented at the New Jersey Communication Association Conference, April 1997.  Selected as best graduate student paper.
 
Television News: “The Pictures in Our Heads”
Presented at the Mid-Atlantic Graduate Communication Conference, March 1997.
 
 
Education
Ph.D., January 2001
The School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dissertation Title: Unusual Routines and Computer Mediated Communication Systems
Chair: Ronald E. Rice
 
M.C.I.S. (Master of Communication and Information Studies), October 1994
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Thesis Title: Visuals in Television News: “The Pictures in Our Heads”
Advisor: Robert W. Kubey
 
A.A.S., Digital Electronics, 1986
Brookdale Community College; Lincroft, NJ
 
A.B. cum laude, Music Composition, 1972
Princeton University; Princeton, NJ
 
 

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