Douglas Thomas

  • Associate Professor of Communication
  • USC Iovine and Young Academy
Office: (213) 743-1939

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)