Tony Kashani, PhD is an author, educator, cultural critic, and philosopher of technology. His work is anchored in Critical Theory and Critical Pedagogy. He is the author of five books in Humanities; including Movies Change Lives: Toward a Pedagogy of Humanistic Transformation (Peter Lang Press, 2016). Kashani is a subject matter expert and faculty, for several universities in the United States, focusing his interdisciplinary scholarship and pedagogy on humanities in the digital age and social justice.