Skye Cooley

Co-Author of "Global Media and Strategic Narratives of Contested Democracy: Chinese, Russian, and Arabic Media Narratives of the US Presidential Election"

December 12, 2019

Dr. Skye Cooley has served as principle investigator and co-principle investigator on numerous projects funded by the Department of Homeland Security. His research specialty is in narrative analysis of foreign media coverage, with numerous published works examining Russian, Chinese, North Korean, Iranian and Arabic media. Dr. Cooley’s approach to narrative analysis is informed by his experiences as an academic historical scholar, as well as his background in quantitative content analysis and statistics. His work extends strategic narrative theory in an attempt to identify critical elements of perspective within narratives towards the creation of system decision-making tools that can account for local interdependencies. He is a co-founder of the Media Ecology and Strategic Analysis (MESA) Group, an interdisciplinary group with a broad mission to address the rising need for strategic narrative assessment as a tool for promoting cooperative assistance and creating community power.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2020-honorees/skye-cooley

Last Updated: 15 January 2021