Dr. Cooper holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and is a former Yale University and Fulbright Fellow. He is Director of Research at the Consumer Federation of America, a Fellow at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society and a Fellow at The Donald McGannon Communications Center of Fordham University. He has provided expert testimony in over 250 cases for public interest clients including Attorneys General, People’s Counsels, and citizen interveners before state and federal agencies, courts and legislators in almost four dozen jurisdictions in the U.S. and Canada.

Books – The Case Against Media Consolidation (Donald McGannon Center for Communications Research 2006), Open Architecture as Communications Policy (Center for Internet and Society, 2004), Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age: Promoting Diversity with First Amendment Principles and Market Structure Analysis (Center for Internet and Society, 2003), Cable Mergers and Monopolies: Market Power in Digital Media and Communications Networks (Economic Policy Institute, 2002)

Chapters - “When Law and Social Science Go Hand in Glove: Usage and Importance of Local and National News Sources, Critical Questions and Answers for Media Market Analysis,” forthcoming in Media Diversity and Localism: Meaning and Metrics, (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007) ;“The Importance of Open Networks in Sustaining the Digital Revolution,” in Net Neutrality or Net Neutering (Springer, 2006); “Hyper-Commercialism In The Media: The Threat To Journalism And Democratic Discourse,” in Converging Media, Diverging Politics: A Political Economy Of News In The United States And Canada (Lexington Books, 2006) “Reclaiming The First Amendment: Legal, Factual And Analytic Support For Limits On Media Ownership,” forthcoming in The Future of Media (Seven Stories Press:2005); “Building A Progressive Media And Communications Sector,” In News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership And Its Threat To Democracy, (Prometheus Books, 2005); “The Digital Divide Confronts the Telecommunications Act of 1996: Economic Reality versus Public Policy,” in B.M. Compaine (Ed.). The Digital Divide (Cambridge: MIT, 2001)

 Articles/Papers - “The Negative Effect of Concentration and Vertical Integration on Diversity and Quality in Video Entertainment,” Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, September 2007; “A Case Study of Why Local Reporting Matters: Photojournalism Framing of the Response to Hurricane Katrina in Local and National Newspapers,” and “Will the FCC Let Local Media Rise from the Ashes of Conglomerate Failure,” International Communications Association, May 2007; “Accessing the Knowledge Commons in the Digital Information Age,” Consumer Policy Review, May/June 2006; “Governing the Knowledge Commons,” Access To Knowledge, Yale University, April 21-23, 2006; “Intellectual Monopoly Privileges: Appropriation Rights In The Intellectual Commons Of The Digital Age Rebalancing The Role Of Private Incentives and Public Circulation,” Legal Battles Over Fair Use, Copyright, and Intellectual Property, The National Lawyers Guild, 2006 Mid-Atlantic Regional Convention, Georgetown University Law Center, March 25, 2006; “The Political Economy of Regime Change in Technology,” Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue The Politics And Ideology of Intellectual Property, Brussels, March 20-21, 2006. “The Economics of Collaborative Production: A Framework for Analyzing the Emerging Mode of Digital Production,” The Economics of Open Content: A Commercial-Non Commercial Forum, MIT, January 23, 2006; “Information is a Public Good,” Extending the Information Society to All: Enabling Environments, Investment and Innovation, World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis, November 2005; “The Importance of Collateral Communications and Deliberative Discourse in Building Internet-Based Media Reform Movements,” Online Deliberation: Design, Research and Practice/DIAC, November, 2005; “Collaborative Production in Group-Forming Networks: The 21st Century Mode of Information Production and the Telecommunications Policies Necessary to Promote It,” The State of Telecom: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead, Columbia Institute on Tele-Information, October 2005; “The Economics of Collaborative Production in the Spectrum Commons,” IEEE Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, November 2005; “Independent Noncommercial Television: Technological, Economic and Social Bases of A New Model of Video Production,” Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, October 2005; “Spectrum as Speech in the 21st Century,” The Public Airwaves as a Common Asset and a Public Good: Implications for the Future of Broadcasting and Community Development in the U.S., Ford foundation, March 11, 2005; “Limits on Media Ownership are Essential,” Television Quarterly, Spring Summer 2004; “Open Communications Platforms: Cornerstone Of Innovation And Democratic Discourse In The Internet Age, The Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law, 2003; “Inequality in Digital Society,” Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal, 2002; “Open Access to the Broadband Internet,” University of Colorado Law Review, Fall 2000.