Anthony-Paul Cooper

Biographic Data

ID328423
NAMEAnthony-Paul Cooper
GIVEN NAMESAnthony-Paul
FAMILY NAMECooper
SIGNATURECOOPER A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Turku
ORCID0000-0001-9032-4049
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • The reconfiguration of social, digital and physical presence

    Open AccessAnthony-Paul Cooper, Samuli Laato et al.ARTICLEHTS Teologiese Studies /…2021

    Digital presence refers to technologies that provide communities a shared experience and a sense of togetherness, despite geographical distance. Emerging technologies for digital presence provide the church with both theological questions (e.g. related to the validity of sacraments when administered online) and practical opportunities. Think of the pros and cons for online communion in some churches: is digital presence real presence? The digital…

  • Understanding London’s church tweeters

    Open AccessAnthony-Paul Cooper, Joshua Mann et al.ARTICLEFirst Monday2021

    This study builds on the findings of previous research into church-related tweets by considering and analysing the content of 1,004 tweets containing the word “church” which were posted from within Greater London during a 10-week period. The qualitative analysis of the resultant Twitter dataset enabled the research team to validate a previously proposed coding framework for church-related tweets, subject to a minor change, and provide new evidenc…

  • Exploring the use of machine learning to automate the qualitative coding of church-related tweets

    Anthony-Paul Cooper, Emmanuel Awuni Kolog et al.ARTICLEFieldwork in Religion2020

  • Exploring the Use of Machine Learning to Automate the Qualitative Coding of Church-related Tweets

    Anthony-Paul Cooper, Emmanuel Awuni Kolog et al.ARTICLEFieldwork in Religion2020Cited by: 1

    This article builds on previous research around the exploration of the content of church-related tweets. It does so by exploring whether the qualitative thematic coding of such tweets can, in part, be automated by the use of machine learning. It compares three supervised machine learning algorithms to understand how useful each algorithm is at a classification task, based on a dataset of human-coded church-related tweets. The study finds that one…

  • The Desecularisation of the City

    David Goodhew, Anthony-Paul CooperEDITORBOOKDesecularisation of the City2018

  • Desecularisation of the City

    Anthony-Paul Cooper, David GoodhewBOOKDesecularisation of the City2018

  • Resacralising’ secular space

    Anthony-Paul Cooper, David GoodhewARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Religion2017Cited by: 3References: 9

    This article explores the way new church congregations in a city in northern England, the city of York, are using religious and non-religious spaces in which to meet. These new congregations show a diverse approach to the material realm and especially to sacred space. Some use existing church buildings, some build their own structures. But many use a range of buildings: schools, community centres, a pub or the garage of a private house. An examin…

  • Assessing the Possible Relationship between the Sentiment of Church-related Tweets and Church Growth

    Open AccessAnthony-Paul CooperARTICLEStudies in Religion/Sciences…2017References: 13

    This article examines the possible relationship between the sentiment of church-related tweets and church growth. It finds that within the sample of tweets analysed, there is a statistically significant relationship between the sentiment of a church-related tweet and the presence of church growth in the geographical area from which the tweet was posted. This work builds on the body of knowledge surrounding church growth and decline in the United …