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and Institutional Change (Brookings Institution Press, 2001), which was
awarded an Outstanding Academic Title 2002 by Choice, and Women in
the Information Age (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
James Katz is professor of communication at Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey. Currently he is investigating how personal
communication technologies, such as mobile phones and the Internet,
affect social relationships and how cultural values influence usage patterns
of these technologies. Prof. Katz has had a distinguished career
researching the relationship among the domains of science and technology,
knowledge and information, and social processes and public
policy. His award-winning books include Perpetual Contact: Mobile
Communication, Private Talk and Public Performance (co-edited with
Mark Aakhus), Connections: Social and Cultural Studies of the Telephone in
American Life, and Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access,
Involvement, Expression (co-authored with Ronald E. Rice).
Ronald E. Rice is the Arthur N. Rupe Professor in the Social Effects
of Mass Communication at the University of California, Santa
Barbara, USA. He is the author of widely cited books and articles in
communication and information sciences. Dr. Rice received his Ph.D.
from Stanford University. Before coming to UCSB, he was the chair
of the Department of Communication at Rutgers University.
Sophia K. Acord is pursuing her doctorate in the sociology of art at
the University of Exeter in Britain. Her current work focuses on cultural
aspects of the distribution of power. She has previously coauthored
articles with Profs. Katz and Rice in the area of social
consequences of communication technology.
Betty Collis is head of the research team “Technology for Strategy,
Learning and Change” in the Faculty of Behavioural Sciences at the
University of Twente in The Netherlands. As leader of a five-year collaborative
research project with the Learning and Leadership
Development organization of Shell International Exploration and
Production (Shell EP-LLD), she is also head of the research team for
Shell EP-LLD. In both roles she studies changes in organizations
related to their use (or non-use) of technologies.
Geoff Mulgan is the director of the Institute of Community Studies
in east London, which had been the main vehicle through which Lord
Michael Young created over 60 organizations including the Open