Steven John ThompsonSteven John Thompson is a theorist-practitioner in digital literacy, ethics, media studies, new media, rhetorics, and professional, science and technical communication, often teaching courses online. Dr. Thompson has taught at Johns Hopkins Universit, Dartmouth College, Clemson University, Georgia Southern University, Towson University, and University of Maryland Global Campus. He was Editor of Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots in Contemporary Culture and Society, published by IGI-Global in 2018, and Global Issues and Ethical Considerations in Human Enhancement Technologies, published by IGI Global in 2014. Dr. Thompson published pioneering quantitative research on Internet addiction and dependency in 1996, and presented his iconics theory on agency of terrorism images as virtual subscripts of artificial intelligence at University of Basel in 2009. He was plenary closing academic panel discussant at UNESCO's First International Forum on Media and Information Literacy in Fez, Morocco in 2011. His research has been presented in over a dozen countries across four continents. Visit steve.ws. Read More Read Less