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44
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15925
World Ranking
3996
National Ranking
1900

Overview

James E. Katz is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including sociology and political science, safety research, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction.

The research topics covered by Katz include:

  • Ethics and social impacts of AI
  • Psychology of moral and emotional judgment
  • Impact of technology on adolescents
  • AI in service interactions
  • Neuroethics, human enhancement, biomedical innovations
  • Technology adoption and user behaviour
  • Impact of AI and big data on business and society

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Katz are:

  • "AI as a boss? A national US survey of predispositions governing comfort with expanded AI roles in society" (2021), published in AI & Society
  • "Looking towards an automated future: U.S. attitudes towards future artificial intelligence instantiations and their effect" (2024), published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • "More Capable, Less Benevolent: Trust Perceptions of AI Systems across Societal Contexts" (2024), published in Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction
  • "Invasive Yet Inevitable? Privacy Normalization Trends in Biometric Technology" (2022), published in Social Media + Society
  • "The Robot Rights and Responsibilities Scale: Development and Validation of a Metric for Understanding Perceptions of Robots' Rights and Responsibilities" (2024), published in International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

Katz frequently collaborates with colleagues including Kate K. Mays, Sejin Paik, Ekaterina Novozhilova, Xiaolan Fu, and Patricia M. Greenfield.

Katz's publications have appeared often in venues such as AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and AI & Society.

Best Publications

  • Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance

    James Everett Katz;Mark Aakhus

  • Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement, and Interaction

    James E. Katz;Ronald E. Rice

  • Social-Desirability Bias and the Validity of Self-Reported Values

    Robert J. Fisher;James E. Katz

  • Comparing internet and mobile phone usage: digital divides of usage, adoption, and dropouts

    Ronald E Rice;James E Katz

  • Perpetual Contact: Notes on the contributors

    James E. Katz;Mark Aakhus

  • The Internet, 1995-2000 Access, Civic Involvement, and Social Interaction

    James E. Katz;Ronald E. Rice;Philip Aspden

  • Motivations for and barriers to Internet usage: results of a national public opinion survey

    James E. Katz;Philip Aspden

  • Hyperbole over Cyberspace: Self-Presentation and Social Boundaries in Internet Home Pages and Discourse

    Eleanor Wynn;James Katz

  • Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies

    James E. Katz

  • Mobile phones as fashion statements: evidence from student surveys in the US and Japan:

    James E. Katz;Satomi Sugiyama

  • Magic in the Air: Mobile Communication and the Transformation of Social Life

    James Katz

  • A nation of strangers

    James E. Katz;Philip Aspden

  • Machines that Become Us: The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology

    James E. Katz

  • Extending family to school life: College students' use of the mobile phone

    Yi-Fan Chen;James E. Katz

  • The Paradox of Participation Versus Misinformation: Social Media, Political Engagement, and the Spread of Misinformation

    Sebastián Valenzuela;Daniel Halpern;James E. Katz;Juan Pablo Miranda

  • Mobile Phones as Fashion Statements: The Co-creation of Mobile Communication’s Public Meaning

    James E. Katz;Satomi Sugiyama

  • We Face, I Tweet: How Different Social Media Influence Political Participation through Collective and Internal Efficacy

    Daniel Halpern;Sebastián Valenzuela;James E. Katz

  • Perpetual Contact

    James Everett Katz;Mark Aakhus

  • Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion

    Leopoldina Fortunati;James Everett Katz;Raimonda Riccini

  • Connections: Social and Cultural Studies of the Telephone in American Life

    James Everett Katz

  • The internet and health communication : experience and expectations

    Ronald E. Rice;James Everett Katz

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald E. Rice
Ronald E. Rice University of California, Santa Barbara
Rob Kling
Rob Kling Indiana University

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