Anthony Cooper
PhD CITP MBCS
anthony.p.cooper@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9032-4049 |
Dr Anthony-Paul Cooper is a visiting researcher in the Department of Computing's Future Tech Lab. Anthony-Paul has a background in computer science and social research, with previous research topics including new church use of ‘secular’ and ‘sacred’ space and the use of social media data to better understand church attendance and church growth.
Anthony-Paul has edited, with David Goodhew, 'The Desecularisation of the City: London’s Churches, 1980 to the Present' (published by Routledge, 2018).
More recently, Anthony-Paul has written a new book, with Erkki Sutinen, 'Digital Theology: A Computer Science Perspective' (published by Emerald Publishing, 2021).
Anthony-Paul’s current research is focussed on exploring the role of technology in Christian prayer and is intended to take forward the emerging field of digital theology by providing new insight into the perceptions of technology users around the role which technology and the online environment plays in their prayer lives while generating new evidence to better understand the ways in which people pray online, with a particular focus on textual content and the inclusion of images, videos and emojis in online prayer content.
Anthony-Paul has teaching expertise in the field of digital theology.
Current PhD students
- Alfred Patterson, Exploring the motivating factors and impact of social media prayer sessions on Christian religious practices from the perspective of a developing country.
Accepting enquiries from prospective PhD students?
Yes.
- Digital Theology: A Computer Science Perspective (2021) Sutinen Erkki, Cooper Anthony-Paul
(C1 Refereed scientific book) - Exploring the use of Twitter data to better understand church attendance (2021) Cooper Anthony-Paul
(G5 Article dissertation ) - Faith communities online: Christian churches' reactions to the COVID-19 outbreak (2021)
- International Journal of Web Based Communities
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The reconfiguration of social, digital and physical presence: from online church to church online (2021)
- Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Understanding London’s church tweeters: A content analysis of church-related tweets posted from a global city (2021)
- First Monday
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Exploring the use of machine learning to automate the qualitative coding of church-related tweets (2020)
- Fieldwork in Religion
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Interactive Technologies, Missio Dei and Grassroots Activism (2020) Missio Dei in a Digital Age Sutinen Erkki, Cooper Anthony-Paul
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - London’s Churches, 1980 to the Present (2019) The Desecularisation of the City: London’s Churches, 1980 to the Present Goodhew David, Cooper Anthony-Paul
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - The Desecularisation of the City: London’s Churches, 1980 to the Present (2019) Goodhew David, Cooper Anthony-Paul
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Using geotagged Twitter data to uncover hidden church populations (2019) The Desecularisation of the City: London’s Churches, 1980 to the Present Cooper Anthony-Paul
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Assessing the Possible Relationship between the Sentiment of Church-related Tweets and Church Growth (2017)
- Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - ‘Resacralising’ secular space: new churches in a northern city, 1980–2012 (2017)
- Journal of Contemporary Religion
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)