Steven John ThompsonSteven John Thompson , PhD, is on faculty at The Johns Hopkins University to teach Introduction to the Digital Age, and at University of Maryland University College to teach Media and Society and Mass Media Law. Steve’s expertise is in study and analsis of Internet technologies as existential phenomena. In 1996, he published pioneering quantitative and qualitative research on Internet addiction. Dr. Thompson’s research focuses on psychosocial, political, and policy effects of global digital media on societies, and he is active internationally as a scholar on topics of digital media literacy, rhetorics, cyber-age freedom of expression and civil liberties, and media iconics, as those dynamics express themselves through cybersemiotics. Read More Read Less