Douglas Thomas (born 1966) is an American

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, and

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. He is Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the

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where he studies technology, communication, and culture. He is author or editor of numerous books including ''Reading Nietzsche Rhetorically'' (Guilford, 1998), ''Cybercrime: Security and Surveillance in the Information Age'' (with Brian Loader, Routledge, 2000), ''

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'' (

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, 2002), and ''Technological Visions: The Hopes and Fears that Shape New Technologies'' (with Marita Sturken and Sandra Ball-Rokeach). He has published numerous articles in academic journals and is the founding editor of '' Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media''. In 1998 and 1999, he covered the case of

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for ''

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''. On July 24, 2002, he testified before Congress on the topic of Cyber Terrorism and Critical Infrastructure Protection. His research has been funded by the

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, the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, and the

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and has focused on the relationship between

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and

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and digital media and learning. His 2008 article co-authored with John Seely Brown, "The Gamer Disposition", was named a ''Harvard Business Review'' Breakthrough Idea of 2008, and also featured it on its Conversation Starter blog. Thomas co-authored ''A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change'' which was translated into Turkish.Thomas, D., & Brown, J. S. (2016). ''Yeni nesil öğrenme kültürü: Sürekli değişen bir dünya için hayal gücü yetiştirmek'' new culture of learning: Cultivating the imagination for a world of constant change(H. Uysal, Ed. & Trans.; A. Sığın, İ. Çelik, H. Çakmakcı, M. Özdemir, S. Bilgin, & A. Güven, Trans.). Ankara, Turkey: Pegem Akademi. (Original work published 2011)

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