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Douglas Thomas is Associate Professor in the Annenberg School for
Communication at the University of Southern California. He received his
Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Communication in 1992 and
specializes in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies of Technology. He is
author of Reading Nietzsche Rhetorically (Guilford Press, 1998), an
examination of the role of representation in the philosophy of Friedrich
Nietzsche and Hacker Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2002), a
study of the cultural, social, and political dimensions of computer
hacking. Currently, he is working on Technology and New Media: An
Introduction (New York University Press), a survey of recent approaches to
technology and new media and their impacts of society and Viral Style:
Information, Subculture, and the Politics of Infection, a book which
examines the underground production of computer viruses as well as
cultural representations of and responses to them. He is co-editor of
Cybercrime: Law Enforcement, Security and Surveillance in the Information
Age (with Brian D. Loader, Routledge, 2000) and Technological Visions: The
Hopes and Fears That Shape New Technologies (with Marita Sturken and
Sandra Ball-Rokeach, Temple University Press, 2004). He has written
extensively for The Online
Journalism Review and for Wired News covering issues of hackers, online
culture, privacy and security. An expert on cyberculture, his commentary
has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, New Scientist,
and The Chronicle of
Higher Education, as well as on local and national radio programs, Los
Angeles news programs, and CNN.He is director of the Thinking Through Technology project, which examines the redefinition of entertainment in the digital age, the relationship between technology and learning, and the user cultures surrounding emergent new media and technologies. He is also co-investigator (with Sandra Ball-Rokeach, PI, and Marita Sturken) on the Metamorphosis Project, a $700,000, three year study that examines the impact of technology on Los Angeles and studies the historical and predictive implications of dystopian and utopian narratives about technology. Professor Thomas is a founding member of the Critical and Cultural Studies division of the National Communication Association and has served as Chair of the division in 1998, is a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Information, Communication & Society, Womens Studies in Communication, The Quarterly Journal of Speech and Critical Studies in Media Communication, and serves on the advisory board for the Research Center for Cyberculture Studies at the University of Washington. In 1999, he received the New Investigator Award from the National Communication Associations Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division.
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