Articles, Proceedings, Letters and Book Chapters (in books edited by others)

  • Katz, James E. & Rice, Ronald E. Rice. (pending). Falling into the net: Main Street America playing games and making friends online. Communications of the ACM.
  • Katz, James E. (2008). Perceptions of future mobile applications: Cultural values and usage patterns. In Martha Ladly and Philip Beesley (eds.), Mobile nation (pp. 9-15). Toronto: Riverside Architectural Press.
  • Rice, Ronald E. & James E. Katz. (2008). Assessing new cell phone text and video services. Telecommunications Policy, 32(7), 455-67.
  • Katie M. Lever and Katz, James E. (2007). "Cell phones in campus libraries: An analysis of policy responses to an invasive mobile technology." Information Processing and Management, 43, pp 1133-1139.
  • Katz, James E. (pending). "Telephone and Cell Phone." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. [word]
  • Katz, James E. (2006). "Magic in the Air: Spiritual and Transcendental Aspects of Mobiles." Pp. 201-223 in K. Nyíri, K. (ed.). Mobile understanding: The epistemology of ubiquitous communication. Vienna: Passagen Verlag.
  • Katz, James E. and Satomi Sugiyama (2006). "Mobile phones as fashion statements: evidence from student surveys in the US and Japan." New Media Society,8(2), pp 321-337. [PDF]
  • Ronald E. Rice and Katz, James E. (2006). “Internet Use in Physician Practice and Patient Interaction.” Pp 149-176 In Murero, M. & Rice, R.E. (eds.), Internet and Health Care: Theory, Research and Practice, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Katz, James E. (2005). “Individual rights advocacy in tobacco control policies: An assessment and recommendation.” Tobacco Control, 14(suppl_2), pp31-37.
  • Rice, Ronald E., Shepherd Adrian, James E. Katz and William Dutton. (pending) “The Internet and Social Interaction: Comparative Results from the U.S. 1995 & 2000 and Britain 2003.” In Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Katz, James E. and Satomi Sugiyama (2005). "Mobile Phones as Fashion Statements: The Co-creation of Mobile Communication’s Public Meaning.” Pp. 63-81 in Rich Ling and Per Pedersen (eds.) Mobile Communications: Re-negotiation of the Social Sphere. Surrey, UK: Springer.
  • Katz, James E. (pending). “Information.” Mega-Entry in the Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, (plus other shorter entries). New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Katz, James E. (pending). “Telephone.” Entry in the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. New York: Gale/Macmillan.
  • Katz, James E. (pending). Imagining the mobile phone: Co-construction of a consuming technology. Korean Journal of Information & Communication Technology Studies.
    • Earlier version appears in: Pp. 2-9 in S. D. Kim (ed.) Mobile communication and social change, Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Mobile Communication, Korean Association of Broadcasting Studies, Seoul, October 18-19. Seoul: KABS.
  • Katz, James E. (2005). “Mobile communication and the transformation of daily life: The next phase of research on mobiles.” pp. 171-184 In Peter Glotz & Stefan Bertschi (eds.) Thumb culture: The meaning of mobile phones for society. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
  • Katz, James E. (2005). Mobile phones in educational settings. Pp. 305-19 in Kristof Nyiri (ed.) A Sense of Place. Vienna: Passagen Verlag. [PDF]
  • Katz, James E., Ronald E. Rice & S. Acord. (2004). E-health networks and social transformations: Expectations of centralization, experiences of decentralization. Pp. 293-318 in M. Castells, The network society: A cross-cultural perspective. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
    • Article to be translated and republished in Spanish ( pending) as part of e ntire edited volume. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, S.A
  • Katz, James E., Ronald E. Rice, S. Acord, K. Dasgupta, K. David. (2004). Personal mediated communication and the concept of community in theory and practice. Pp. 315-72 in P. Kalbfleisch (ed.), Communication and community: Communication yearbook 28. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: Mahwah, NJ.
  • Katz, James E. and Ronald E. Rice. (2004). The telephone as a medium of faith, hope, terror and redemption: America, September 11.” Pp. 83-98 in A. M. Noll (ed.), Crisis communications: Lessons from September 11. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Katz, James E. (2004). A nation of ghosts? Choreography of mobile communication in public spaces. Pp. 21-32 in K. Nyiri (ed.), Mobile Democracy: Essays on Society, Self and Politics . Vienna: Passagen Verlag. [PDF]
  • Sugiyama, S. and James E. Katz (2003). Social conduct, social capital and the mobile phone in the US and Japan: A preliminary exploration via student surveys. Pp. 375-385 in K. Nyiri (ed.), Mobile Democracy: Essays on Society, Self and Politics. Vienna: Passagen Verlag.
  • Rice, Ronald E. & James E. Katz. (2003). Mobile discourtesy: National survey results on episodes of convergent public and private spheres. Pp. 53-64 in K. Nyiri (ed.), Mobile Democracy: Essays on Society, Self and Politics. Vienna: Passagen Verlag.
  • Rice, Ronald E. & James E. Katz. (2003). The Internet and political involvement. In P. Howar d and G. Jones (eds.) Society online: The Internet in context. (pp. 102-120) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Rice, Ronald E. & James E. Katz, (2003). Comparing internet and mobile phone usage: Digital divides of usage, adoption and dropouts Telecommunications Policy, 27 (8-9), 597-623. [PDF]
    • Earlier version published in: Rice, Ronald E. & Katz, James E. (2002). Comparing Internet and mobile phone digital divides. In Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science & Technology conference. Medford, NJ: Learned Information.
  • Katz, James E. & Rice, Ronald E. (2002). The telephone as a medium of faith, hope, terror, and redemption: America, September 11th. Prometheus, 20 (3): 247-53.
  • Katz, James E. & Rice, R.E. (2002). Project Syntopia: Social consequences of Internet use. it&society, 1(1), 166-179. (Online publication based at the University of Maryland )
  • Katz, James E., Rice, Ronald E. & Aspden, P. (2001). The Internet, 1995-2000: Access, civic involvement, and social interaction. American Behavioral Scientist, 45 (no. 3) 405-19.
    • Also appears in E. Avensa & C. Manley (eds.) (2001). Proceedings of the 64th ASIST (American Society for Information Science and Technology) Annual Meeting (pp. 391-98). Medford, NJ: Information Today.
    • Revised version appears as a book chapter in Wellman, B. and Haythornthwaite, C. (eds.) The Internet in Everyday Life. London: Blackwell's.
  • Katz, James E., Mark Aakhus, Hyo Dong Kim and Martha Turner. In L. Fortunati, J. E. Katz, and R. Riccini (2002) “Cross-cultural comparisons of ICTs: A semantic differential study of style and function dimensions of mobile telephones” Il corpo umano tra tecnologie, communicazione e moda. Milan: Franco Angeli.
    • Also appears in revised version L. Fortunati, James E. Katz, and R. Riccini (2003) Mediating the human body: Technology, communication and fashion. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.
    • With additional revisions, appears in “Le comportement des jeune face aux TIC: Une é tude comparative sur le t é l é phone mobile par la technnique du diff éren ciateur s é mantique/Young user's attitudes toward ICTs: A comparative semantic differential study of the mobile telephone.” Annales des t é l é communications, vol. 57, 3& 4: 225-37 (2003).
  • Katz, James E. (2001). “The Telephone.” In Neil J. Smelser & Paul B. Baltes (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Social & Behavioral Sciences Pergamon, Oxford. Vol. 23, pages 15558-65.
  • Wynn, Eleanor and James E. Katz. (2001). “Teens on the telephone.” Info, vol. 2 (4): August 2000, 401-419.
  • Fisher, Robert J. and James E. Katz. (2000). “Social desirability bias of the validity of self-reported values.” Psychology and Marketing, 17 (2), 105-120.
  • Katz, James E. (1999). “Communication in the year 2075.” Science and the Future. Year 2000 . Annual Supplement of the Encyclopedia Britannica . Chicago and London: Encyclopedia Britannica, Pp. 176-200.
  • Aspden, Philip and Katz, James E. (1999) “Internet Friendships” Letter, Science, vol. 282, p. 1267.
  • Katz, James E. and Philip Aspden. (1998). “Internet Dropouts: The Invisible Group,” Telecommunications Policy, vol. 22, no. 4/5, June, 327-339.
  • Katz, James E. (1998). “Struggle in Cyberspace: Fact and friction on the World Wide Web.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Number 556, 194-200.
  • Batt, Carl E. and Katz, James E. (1998). “Consumer Spending Behavior and Telecommunication Services: A Multi-method Inquiry.” Telecommunications Policy, Volume 22, Issue 1, 23-46.
  • Katz, James E. and Philip Aspden. (1998) “Theories, Data, and Potential Impacts of Mobile Communications,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 57, 133-156.
    • Reprinted in edited version in John W. Heeren, Marylee H. Requa, Robert H. Lauer, and Jeanette C. Lauer, Sociology--Windows On Society: An Anthology . Fifth Edition. Los Angeles: Roxbury Press, 2000: 365-74.
    • Translated version “Les communications mobiles: Une analyse transversale des enquetes menees aux Etats-Unis, in Reseaux, the French journal of telecommunications studies, mp/ 90. 11-35, 1998.
    • Earlier version of paper published as “Consequences of Mobile Telecommunications Ownership: Results of National Surveys of Users and Non-users,” in D. Goodman (ed.) Advances in Wireless Communications, Kluwer, Amsterdam & New York, 1998.
  • Wynn, Eleanor and James E. Katz. “Hyperbole Over Cyberspace: Self-Presentation in Internet Home Pages and Discourse.” The Information Society 13, no. 4, 297-329, December 1997.
  • Batt, Carl and James E. Katz. “Conjoint Analysis in Demand Modeling of Enhanced Voice Mail Services: Implications for Policy and Service Deployment Analysis and Forecasting.” Telecommunications Policy, October 1997 21 (8): 743-760.
  • Katz, James E. and Philip Aspden. “A Nation of Strangers? Friendship Patterns and Community Involvement of Internet Users.” Communications of the ACM. 40, no. 12, 81-86, December 1997.
    • Reprinted in Brent Slife (ed.) Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Psychological Issues. New York: McGraw-Hill.
    • Reprinted in Robert M. Baird, Reagan Mays Ramsower and Stuart E. Rosenbaum (eds.) Cyberethics: Social & Moral Issues in the Computer Age. New York . Prometheus.
  • Katz, James E. and Philip Aspden. “Barriers to and Motivations for Using the Internet: Results of a National Opinion Survey,” in Gregory L. Rosston and David Waterman (eds.) Selected Papers from the 24th Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC). Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1997.
    • Revised and updated version reprinted in Internet Research Journal: Technology, Policy & Applications, volume 7 (3), Fall, 1997: 170-188.
  • Katz, James E. and Philip Aspden. “Motives, Hurdles, and Dropouts: Who is on and off the Internet, and why,” Communications of the ACM, volume 40, (4), April, 1997: 97-102.
  • Katz, James E., Philip Aspden and Warren Reich. “Public Attitudes Toward Voice-Based Electronic Messaging Technologies,” Behaviour & Information Technology, volume 16, (2), Spring, 1997: 17-39.
  • Katz, James E. “The Social Side of Information Networking,” Society, 34 (3) (March-April), 1997: 9-12.
    • Reprinted in 35 th anniversary issue reprising best articles of Society, 35 (2) (January-February), 1998: 402-406.
  • Katz, James E. “Understanding Communication Privacy: Unlisted Telephone Subscribers in the United States,” The Information Society, 12 (4), 1996: 407-423.
  • Katz, James E. “Higher-Order Social Consequences of Widespread Mobile Personal Communications,” Pp. 91-120 in C. M. Firestone, The Emerging World of Wireless Communications, (Queenstown, MD: The Aspen Institute and Institute for Information Studies, 1996).
    • Revised and expanded version reprinted as “Social Consequences of Wireless Communications: A Selective Analysis of Residential and Business Sectors in the United States,” Telematics and Informatics, volume 14, 1997.
    • Revised and expanded version reprinted in Nihon Jurnaru no Shisaku Kenkyu (Japan), 1997, 3: 1-18.
  • Katz, James E. “Transforming Corporate Culture in the US Telecommunications Industry: Notes on Social Engineering,” Human Systems Management, 14, (Spring 1995): 21-38.
    • Reprinted in Eli Noam and Alex Wolfson (eds.) Globalism and Localism in Telecommunications, New York: Elsevier Science Publishers, 1997.
  • Katz, James E. “Empirical and Theoretical Dimensions of Obscene Phone Calls to Women in the United States,” Human Communication Research, December 1994 155-80.
  • Griffeth, Nancy D. and James E. Katz. “An Anonymity Service for Targeted Advertising,” in W. Schertler, et al., (eds.) Information- und Kommunikationstechnologien im Tourismus: Die soziologischen Veränderungen, (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1995): 180-91.
  • Katz, James E. and Merton Hyman. “Dimensions of Concern Over Telecommunications Privacy in the United States,” The Information Society, 9, 1993: 251-75.
  • Katz, James E. “Science, Technology and Congress,” Society 30 (4) (May/June, 1993): 41-50.
    • Reprinted in Ray C. Rist (ed.) International Library of Comparative Public Policy. (London: Elgar Publishing, 1994).
  • Katz, James E. “Zoveel Staten, Zoveel Zinnen: Nummeridenticatie in de Verenigde Staten,” in Pieter van Hoogstraten (ed.), ISDN en Privacy (Amsterdam: Otto Cramwinckel, 1992).
  • Katz, James E. “Privacy in der Telekommunikation: Trends und Probleme,” in Detlef Garbe and Klaus Lange (eds.), Technikfolgenabschätzung in der Telekommunikation (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1991).
  • Horowitz, Irving L. and James E. Katz. “Brown vs. Board of Education,” Pp. 237-45 in Don Anderson and Bruce Biddle (eds.) Knowledge for Policy: Improving Education Through Research (London: Falmer Press, 1991).
    • Book chapter reprinted from I. L. Horowitz and J. E. Katz, Social Science and Public Policy in the United States. New York: Praeger, 1975.
  • Katz, James E. “Public Concern Over Privacy: The Phone is the Focus,” Telecommunications Policy, April, 1991: 166-9.
  • Katz, James E. and Richard F. Graveman. “Privacy Issues in a National Research and Education Network,” Telematics and Informatics, 8 (1) 1991: 71-120.
  • Katz, James E. “Caller–ID, Privacy, and Social Processes,” Telecommunications Policy, October, 1990: 372-411.
    • Translated and reprinted as “Hasshin-sha Bango Hyoji, Puraibashi to Shakai-teki Katei,” Kaigai Denki Tsushin, 4 (1991): 5-48 (Japan).
    • Translated and reprinted as “Rufnummernidentifizierung und sozial Prozesse,” Datenschutz und Datensicherung, 15 (1991): 345-51 (Germany).
  • Katz, James E. “Social Aspects of Telecommunications Security Policy,” IEEE Technology and Society, 9 (2) (Summer) 1990: 16-24.
  • Katz, James E. and Annette Tassone. “Public Opinion on Computer and Telecommunications Privacy,” Public Opinion Quarterly, 40 (Spring) 1990: 125-43.
  • Katz, James E. “Regulating Communication: Pivotal Issues,” Society 26 (5), 1989: 5-10.
  • Katz, James E. “Telecommunications Privacy Policy in the U.S.A.: Socio-Political Responses to Technological Advances,” Telecommunications Policy, 12 (4), 1988: 353-68.
    • Translated and reprinted as “Beikoku ni Okeru Tsushin Jigyo no Puraibashi Seisaku: Gijyutsu Kakusin ni Taisuru Shakaiteki Seijiteki Hannou,” Kaigai Denki Tsushin, 2 (1989): 24-57 (Japan).
  • Katz, James E. “Public Policy Origins of Privacy and the Emerging Issues,” Information Age, 10 (3), 1988: 47-63.
  • Katz, James E. “Congress Needs Informal Science Advisors: A Proposal for A New Advisory Mechanism,” pp. 425-31 in W. T. Golden (ed.), Science Advice to the Highest Levels of Government (Pergamon Press: Elmsford, NY, 1987). (Volume subsequently reprinted by American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC: AAAS Press, 1994)
  • Katz, James E. “Telecommunications and Computers: Whither Privacy Policy?” Society, 24 (6) (November-December), 1987: 81-86.
    • Reprinted in L. Lederman, D. Gibson and M. Taylor (eds.), Communication Theory: A Casebook Approach, Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 2 nd revised edition, 2005.
    • Reprinted in D. Gibson and L. Lederman (eds.), Communication Theory: A Reader, Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 2 nd revised edition, 2000.
    • Reprinted in L. Lederman (ed.), Communication Theory: A Reader, Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 1998.
    • Reprinted in Jay E. Gillette (ed.), Contributions in Information Networking: Toward a Field Definition . Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University, Information Networking Institute, 1991.
  • Katz, James E. “New Directions Needed in U.S. Space Policy,” pp. 47-64 in D. Papp and J. McIntyre (eds.) International Space Policy, (Greenwood Press: Westport, CN, 1987).
  • Schmandt, Jürgen and James E. Katz. “The Scientific State: A Theory with Hypotheses,” Science, Technology, & Human Values, 11 (Winter), 1986: 40-52.
  • Katz, James E. “ U.S. Energy Policy: The Impact of the Reagan Administration,” Energy Policy, 121 (2), 1984: 135-45.
    • Translated and reprinted as “La politique energetique des Etats-Unis. L'impact de l'Administration Reagan,” Revue de L'energie, 372 (March 1985): 156-66 (France).
  • Katz, James E. “ U.S. Arms Technology Transfer Policy,” in J. Katz (ed.), Sowing the Serpents' Teeth: The Implications of Third World Military Industrialization, Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1986. (See books above.)
  • Katz, James E. “Factors Affecting Military Scientific Research in the Third World.” in J. Katz (ed.), Sowing the Serpents' Teeth: The Implications of Third World Military Industrialization, Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1986. (See books above.)
  • Katz, James E. “American Space Policy at the Crossroads,” in J. Katz (ed.) People In Space: Policy Perspectives for a Star Wars Century, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publications, 1985. (See books above.)
  • Katz, James E. “Social Forces Behind Technological Change and Space Policymaking.” in J. Katz (ed.) People In Space: Policy Perspectives for a Star Wars Century, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publications, 1985. (See books above.)
  • Katz, James E. “Understanding Arms Production in Developing Countries.” in J. Katz (ed.) Arms Production in Developing Countries, Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1984.
    • Reprinted in Disam Journal of International Security Assistance Management, 7(3), 1984: 66-75.
  • Katz, James E. “Scientists, Government and Nuclear Power,” in J. Katz & O. Marwah (eds.) Nuclear Power in Developing Countries, Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1982.
    • Translated and reprinted as “La Communidad Cientifica y Definicion de Politicas en Paises en Vias de Desarrollo: El Case de la Energia Nuclear,” Interciencia, 7 (3) 1980: 141-47.
  • Katz, James E. “Survey of Nuclear Energy Programs.” in J. Katz & O. Marwah (eds.) Nuclear Power in Developing Countries, Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1982.
  • Katz, James E. “The Uses of Scientific Evidence in Congressional Policymaking: The Clinch River Breeder Reactor,” Science, Technology, & Human Values, 9 (1), 1983: 51-62.
  • Katz, James E. “Congress and the International Energy Agency: Some Structural Aspects of Energy Policy Conflicts,” Energy Communications, 7, 1982: 403-446.
  • Katz, James E. “Planning and Legislating Technical Services: The American Experience,” Technology In Society, 4 (1) 1982: 183-199.
  • Katz, James E. “National Space Policy: The Forgotten Frontier,” Policy Studies Journal, 17 (March), 1982: 19-35.
  • Katz, James E. “The International Energy Agency: Energy Cooperation or Illusion?” World Affairs, 144 (Summer), 1981: 55-82.
  • Katz, James E. “The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: Technology and Policy Implementation,” Energy: The International Journal, 6 (9), 1981: 927-32.
  • Katz, James E. “The International Energy Agency: Processes and Prospects in an Age of Energy Interdependence,” Studies in Comparative International Development, 16 (2), 1981: 67-85.
  • Katz, James E. “Organizational Structure and Advisory Effectiveness: The Office of Science and Technology Policy,” Technology In Society, 2 (2), 1981: 229-44.