Dr Simon Cooper - Researcher Profile

Biography

Simon works in the Office of the PVC & President Gippsland at Monash University as a Senior Lecturer.

Qualifications

LLB (HONS): BACHELOR OF LAWS (HONS

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2006

PHD IN MASS COMMUNICATION

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2006

BACHELOR OF ARTS (COMMUNICATIONS & WRITING)

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1998

Publications

Books

Cooper, S., 2002, Technoculture and Critical Theory: In the Service of the Machine?, Routledge, London UK.

Book Chapters

Cooper, S.K., Atkinson, P., 2008, Graphic implosion: politics, time and value in post 9/11 comics, in Literature After 9/11, eds Ann Keniston and Jeanne Follansbee Quinn, Routledge, New York USA, pp. 60-81.

Cooper, S.K., 2006, The posthuman challenge to Andrew Feenberg, in Democratizing Technology: Andrew Feenberg's Critical Theory of Technology, eds Tyler J Veak, SUNY Press, Albany USA, pp. 19-36.

Rossiter, N., Cooper, S.K., 2005, Processual media theory and the study of new media: towards a new research approach, in Topical Issues in Communications and Media Research, eds Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo, Nova Science Publishers, New York USA, pp. 95-115.

Cooper, S.K., 2002, Post-Intellectuality? Universities and the knowledge industry, in Scholars and Entrepreneurs, eds Simon Cooper, John Hinkson and Geoff Sharp, Arena Publications Association, North Carlton Vic Australia, pp. 207-232.

Cooper, S., 1997, Plenitude and Alienation: The Subject of Virtual Reality, in Virtual Politics: Identity and Community in Cyberspace, Sage, London UK, pp. 93-106.

Journal Articles

Poletti, A.L., Cooper, S.K., 2012, Intermittent transparency: findings from a freedom of information request into the Excellence in Research for Australia journal ranking process, Australian Humanities Review [E], vol 53, issue November, Australian National University, School of Humanities, http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/, pp. 1-10.

Buykx, P., Cooper, S.K., Kinsman, L., Scholes, J., McConnell-Henry, T.E., Cant, R.P., 2012, Patient deterioration simulation experiences: impact on teaching and learning, Collegian: Journal of the Royal College of Nursing Australia [P], vol 19, issue 3, Elsevier BV, Netherlands, pp. 125-129.

Atkinson, P., Cooper, S.K., 2012, Untimely animations: Waltz with Bashir and the incorporation of historical difference, Screening the Past [P], vol 34, La Trobe University, Vic Australia, pp. 1-13.

Cooper, S., Poletti, A., 2011, The new ERA of journal ranking: The consequences of Australia's fraught encounter with 'quality', Australian Universities Review [P], vol 53, issue 1, National Tertiary Education Union, South Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 57-65.

Robinson, A., Chesters, J.E., Cooper, S.K., 2010, Beyond a generic complementary and alternative medicine: The holistic health care - conventional medicine continuum, Complementary Health Practice Review [P], vol 14, issue 3, sage publications, inc, Thousand Oaks, Ca 91320 United States, pp. 153-163.

Cooper, S.K., 2008, Regulating hybrid monsters?: the limits of Latour and actor network theory, Arena Journal, vol 29/30, issue -, Arena Printing and Publications Pty Ltd, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 305-330.

Cooper, S.K., 2007, Academic Darwinism, Arena Journal, vol 0, issue 28, Arena Printing and Publishing Pty Ltd, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 107-117.

Atkinson, P., Cooper, S.K., Yell, S.M., 2007, Editorial: 'question time' - modalities of knowledge in an information culture, Southern Review, vol 40, issue 2, RMIT Press, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-4.

Robinson, A., Chesters, J.E., Cooper, S.K., 2007, People's choice: complementary and alternative medicine modalities, Complementary Health Practice Review, vol 12, issue 2, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks CA USA, pp. 99-119.

Robinson, A., Chesters, J.E., Cooper, S.K., McGrail, M.R., 2007, The PUC-CAM-Q: A new questionnaire for delving into the use of complementary and alternative medicines, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, vol 13, issue 2, May Ann Liebert Inc, New Rochelle NY USA, pp. 207-216.

Robinson, A., Cooper, S.K., 2007, Trusted information sources: the preferred option for complementary and alternative medicine users, Complementary Health Practice Review, vol 12, issue 2, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks CA USA, pp. 120-138.

Cooper, S.K., 2005, High-tech war and the securing of consent, Southern Review, vol 37, issue 3, School of Applied Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 73-86.

Cooper, S.K., 2004, War and the future: Iraq one year on, Arena Journal, vol 0, issue 22, Arena Printing and Publishing, Fitzroy Vic Australia, pp. 21-28.

Cooper, S.K., 2003, Perpetual War within the State of Exception, Arena Journal, vol 0, issue 21, Arena Printing & Publishing, Fitzroy Vic Australia, pp. 99-125.

Cooper, S., 2002, Terror on the beach, Arena, vol 19, issue 19, Arena Printing and Publishing, Fitzroy Vic Australia, pp. 27-32.

Griffiths, O.M., Cooper, S., 2001, Networks of Hype and Hope, Southern Review, vol 34, issue 3, RMIT, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-7.

Griffiths, O.M., Cooper, S., 2001, Virtual Democracy in the Latrobe Region, Southern Review, vol 34, issue 1, RMIT, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 45-59.

Cooper, S., 2000, The Fate of the University, Arena Journal, vol issue 15, Arena Printing and Publishing, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 11-17.

Cooper, S., 2000, The Limits of Openness, Arena Journal, vol issue 14, Arena Printing and Publishing, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 127-137.

Cooper, S., 1997, Beyond Enframing: Heidegger and a Further Question Concerning Technology, Arena Journal (new series), vol not applicable, Arena Printing and Publishing, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 23-56.

Cooper, S., 1997, Only a Comet Can Save Us Now?, Arena Journal (new series), vol not applicable, Arena Printing and Publishing, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-5.

Other

Cooper, S., 1998, Reconstituting Technology: Critical Theory and the Philosophy of Technology.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

'An Analysis of Representation in Post-9/11 Hollywood Combat Film'.

Supervisors:

Cooper, S (Main), Jones, G (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Supervisors:

Cooper, S (Joint), Duffy, M (Joint-co).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Constructing a communicative community through the language of popular fiction.

Supervisors:

Yell, S (Main), Cooper, S (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Baker, A.

Program of Study:

Youths and net-radio, exploring subcultural models of audiences. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Cooper, S (Main), Yell, S (Associate).

Student:

Dearman, P.

Program of Study:

COMPUTERISED INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY: THE RECORD OF SOCIAL WORK. (PHD) 2005.

Supervisors:

Edmondson, E (Main), Cooper, S (Associate).

Student:

Gabriel, F.

Program of Study:

Ambivalence and excess: a deconstructive reading of the discursive limits of youth. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Yell, S (Main), Cooper, S (Associate).

Student:

Kitto, S.

Program of Study:

Pedagogical machines and the governing of an Australian university. (PHD) 2005.

Supervisors:

Ballis, P (Main), Cooper, S (Associate), Higgins, V (Associate).

Student:

Robinson, A.

Program of Study:

The PUC-CAM study: Persepctives on the use in communities of CAM. (PHD) 2006.

Supervisors:

Chesters, J (Main), Cooper, S (Associate).