Professor Tom Cooper, Ph. D, received his B.A. in 1973 from Harvard where he later served on the faculty of Visual and Environmental Studies. A tenured professor at Emerson College for the past twenty years, Cooper received his M.A. and Ph. D. at the University of Toronto where he was an assistant to Marshall McLuhan. He was an assistant speechwriter in the White House, a producer of space bridge teleconferences between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. in the 1980s and is the author of over 80 published articles and six books, primarily about media ethics and criticism. As the co-publisher of MEDIA ETHICS magazine (which he founded and originally edited), he has raised over $200,000 in funding and is the winner of many grants, fellowships and prizes. Tom is also a playwright and musician who lives with his family (all are blackbelts and musicians) near Boston.

email: twcooper@attbi.com