Douglas Thomas
Expert in social impact of new communications technologies, computer security and surveillance, computer viruses and cybercrime
Associate Professor of Communication
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Affiliate, Southern California Studies Center
Contact at: (213) 743-1939, (310) 264-0908 or douglast@usc.edu
Expertise:
- cultural studies of technology
- virtual culture cyberculture
- relationships between robotics, entertainment, learning and culture
- new communication technologies -- their origins, history, and social, political, cultural and economic impacts
- cybercrime -- its social, economic and
technological implications
- questions of law, surveillance and privacy raised by new communication technologies
- computer security
- computer viruses
- virtual identities
- hackers and hacking culture
- the computer underground
- online virtual environments and the technological transformation of human notions of identity
- contemporary continental philosophy
- Michel Foucault
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- critical theory
- rhetorical theory
- Author of Reading Nietzsche Rhetorically (1998) and Hacking Culture (1999)
- Co-editor of Cybercrime: Law Enforcement, Security and Surveillance in the Information Age (2000) and Reinventing Technology: Cultural Narratives of Technological Change (forthcoming)
More:
For more information go to:
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~douglast/
http://annenberg.usc.edu/Faculty/Communication%20and%20Journalism/ThomasD.aspx
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