| Domesticating the Internet, Commercializing the Family: A Comparative Look at Families, the Internet, and Issues of Privacy |
| Elihu Katz Elihu Katz received his Ph.D. in Sociology (1956) from Columbia University. He began teaching at the University of Chicago until his aliya in 1963. For the next thirty years, Katz taught in the Department of Sociology and Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1966 he founded the Communication Institute, which later became the Department of Communication at the Hebrew University. Between 1995-98, Katz was the Scientific Director of the Guttman Institute for Applied Social Research. Katz was a Visiting Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California (1978-92) and headed the Scholars Program at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania (1993-97). Since his formal retirement in 1993, Katz has served as Trustee Professor of Communication at the latter; as a Fellow of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (since 1998); and as a Research Fellow at the Guttman Center, Israel Democracy Institute (since 1999). Professor Katz helped lay the foundation for the sociological study of communication and is the father of communication research in Israel. Katz has published 16 books and more than one hundred scholarly articles on the subjects of media audiences, diffusion of innovations, leisure-time culture in Israel, media events, social impact of television series, public opinion, and others. His reputation as a researcher is worldwide, and he is a member of national and international scientific societies; he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999). Elihu Katz has been widely honored for his achievements: with the Israel Prize for Social Sciences (1989) and the McLuhan-Teleglobe Canada Prize (1987) and by the International Association for Public Opinion Research (1993) and the American Political Science Association (1993). He has been conferred with three honorary doctorates: from the University of Ghent, (Belgium), the University of Montreal, and in 2000 the University of Haifa. Elihu Katz will present the opening paper on: Disintermediating the Family? What Else is New? http://www.asc.upenn.edu/general/faculty/fek.html http://sociology.huji.ac.il/Katzelihu.html |