Douglas Thomas
- Associate Professor of Communication
- USC Iovine and Young Academy
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Expertise Summary
Expert in social impact of new communications technologies, both in education and culture
Expertise
- educational innovation
- educational technology
- learning environments
- relationships between robotics, entertainment, learning and culture
- new communication technologies -- their origins, history, and social, political, cultural and economic impacts
- cultural studies of technology
- virtual culture and cyberculture
- virtual identities
- culture of gaming and video games
- online virtual environments and the technological transformation of human notions of identity
- contemporary continental philosophy
- Michel Foucault
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- critical theory
- rhetorical theory
Additional Information
- Author of Reading Nietzsche Rhetorically (1998), Hacking Culture (1999) and A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change (2011)
- Co-editor of Cybercrime: Law Enforcement, Security and Surveillance in the Information Age (2000) and Reinventing Technology: Cultural Narratives of Technological Change (forthcoming)