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Steven John Thompson PhD 619.829.6499 principal@w8r.com Current Affiliations: Johns Hopkins University University of Maryland University College |
This site chronicles my academic, business, personal, and experimental pursuits.
I spent a decade as a newsman in broadcast and print. I teach media, new media, professional writing and technical communication courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, usually online. I pioneered quantitative and qualitative research on Internet addiction, and am an internationally recognized scholar on topics of digital media literacy, terrorism rhetorics, and freedom of expression. I focus on the psychosocial, political, and policy effects of global digital media on societies, and am an expert on the symbiotic relationship between mass media and organized terror. See my Speaker Engagement Calendar for more information.
Academically, I am what I call an iconicologist engaged in the analysis of iconics. Since 1994, my expertise is in study and analysis of Internet technologies, more recently as existential phenomena. My engineering concentration in the sciences for technologies that affect societies (STS) is the primary lens through which I conduct my new media research, while leveraging ethics, philosophies, and policies for new AI at the cybernetic, cybersemiotic, and cyberwarfare levels, as these constructs are informed by digital media, journalism, and terrorism studies.
In 2012, I am scheduled to teach Mass Media Law with University of Maryland University College online and Introduction to the Digital Age with Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. Please view the Media Iconics site for a schedule of conference acceptances and presentations. For availability on keynote speaking engagements, please contact me.
