Biography:Starr Roxanne Hiltz

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Short description: American academic
Starr Roxanne Hiltz
NationalityUnited States
Alma materColumbia University, Vassar College
Known forComputer-mediated communication, E-learning
AwardsEFF Pioneer Award
Scientific career
FieldsInformation Systems, Sociology
InstitutionsNew Jersey Institute of Technology,
Rutgers–Newark

Starr Roxanne Hiltz is a retired Distinguished Professor of Information Science/Information Systems at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). She, along with Murray Turoff (her husband), are the authors of The Network Nation, a book that is described as "the seminal book that helped define the electronic frontier".[1]

Awards and honors

  • Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award (1994)
  • Sloan-C Award for "Most Outstanding Achievement in Online Teaching and Learning by an Individual” (2004)[2]
  • Named as Fulbright-University of Salzburg Distinguished Chair in Communications and Media (2008)[3]

References

Further reading

  • Subramanian, R. (2013). "Starr Roxanne Hiltz: Pioneer Digital Sociologist". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 35: 78–85. doi:10.1109/MAHC.2013.11. 

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