Douglas Thomas is an associate professor at the University of
Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and
Journalism. His research focuses on the intersections of technology
and culture. It has been funded by the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation, the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, and the
Annenberg Center for Communication.
Doug is also the author of the book Hacker Culture and a coauthor
or coeditor of several other books, including Technological
Visions: The Hopes and Fears that Shape New Technologies and
Cybercrime: Law Enforcement, Security and Surveillance in the
Information Age. He is the founding editor of Games and Culture: A
Journal of Interactive Media, an international, interdisciplinary
journal focused on games research.
John Seely Brown is a visiting scholar and an adviser to the
provost at the University of Southern California and an independent
cochairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge. He is an author or
a coauthor of several books, including The Power of Pull: How Small
Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion; The Only
Sustainable Edge; and The Social Life of Information, which has
been translated into nine languages. He has also authored or
coauthored more than 100 papers in scientific journals.
Prior to his current position, John was the chief scientist of
Xerox and, for nearly two decades, the director of the company's
Palo Alto Research Center. He was also a cofounder of the Institute
for Research on Learning. He is a member of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Education.
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