• DocumentCode
    22584
  • Title

    Starr Roxanne Hiltz: Pioneer Digital Sociologist

  • Author

    Subramanian, Ramesh

  • Author_Institution
    Quinnipiac University
  • Volume
    35
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    Jan.-March 2013
  • Firstpage
    78
  • Lastpage
    85
  • Abstract
    Starr Roxanne Hiltz, coauthor of the acclaimed 1978 book The Network Nation, was one of the earliest sociologists to study online and virtual communities. Her groundbreaking work with Murray Turoff forecast the future development of virtual communities and their effects on society, politics, and law as well as helped to set a precedence for online learning and group decision-making research.
  • Keywords
    EIES; Electronic Information Exchange System; Murray Turoff; Starr Roxanne Hiltz; The Network Nation; history of computing; human-computer interaction; networked communities; online learning; social computing; virtual communities;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.2013.11
  • Filename
    6502623