Professor Katz is an internationally recognized scholar of communication technology. His work on social aspects of technologies includes the edited collection Machines that Become Us: The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology (Transaction, 2002); Connections: Social & Cultural Studies of the Telephone in American Life (Transaction, 1999), Perpetual Contact (Cambridge, 2002, co-edited with Mark Aakhus) and Social Consequences of Internet Use (MIT Press, 2003, co-authored with Ron Rice). Professor Katz frequently grants interviews to the media, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, ABC’s 20/20, and All Things Considered. Prior to Rutgers University, Professor Katz headed the social science research unit at Bell Communications Research, a spin-off of Bell Labs. Professor Katz is the founding director of Center for Mobile Communication Studies at Rutgers, which is the world’s first academic unit to focus solely on social aspects of mobile communication.