Mark Cooper
- mcooper@consumerfed.org
- Telephone
- 3013842204
- Personal website
- http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blogs/cooper/
- Role(s)
- Activist/Advocate
Current Institutional Affiliation(s)
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Consumer Federation of America
Washington, DC, United States
Biography
Mark 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 where he has responsibility for analysis and advocacy in the areas of telecommunications, media, digital rights, economic and energy policy. 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. His books include: Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age (Center for Internet & Society, Stanford University, 2003), Cable Mergers and Monopolies (Economic Policy institute), The Transformation of Egypt (Johns Hopkins, 1982), and Equity and Energy (Westview, 1983).
Publications and Resources
Books
- Mark Cooper. Cable Mergers and Monopolies.
Journal Articles
- Mark Cooper. The Economics of Collaborative Production. Stanford Law School, Center for Internet and Society. 2006.
- Mark Cooper. Independent, Noncommercial Television. Stanford Law School, Center for Internet and Society. 2003. http://web.si.umich.edu/tprc/papers/2005/490/independent%20tv.pdf
Working Papers
Reports
- Mark Cooper, Katharine Heintz, Christy Glaubke. Big Media, Little Kids 2. 2007.
- Mark Cooper, Derek Turner. Out of the Picture: Minority & Female TV Station Ownership in the United States. 2006.
- Mark Cooper, Gene Kimmelman, Chanelle Hardy. Constitutional Attacks on Public Interest Communications Policy: Creating A Legal Defense Fund To Uphold Citizens’ Free Speech Rights. 2005.
- Mark Cooper. Biased Questions Yield Biased Answers. 2001.