Douglas Thomas Biography

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.

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