Roberta R. Katz is a cultural anthropologist and lawyer who has worked as a senior executive in the internet and cellular telephony industries and as a strategic advisor to the current and immediate past presidents of Stanford University. She is a senior research scholar at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She is the author (with Sarah Ogilvie, Jane Shaw, and Linda Woodhead) of Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in the Digital Age (2021).
Roberta R. Katz
Advertisement
Writing on Public Books
The 21st-Century Social Scientist
“If we want technologies that will not undermine our humanity, social analysts must join with other researchers.”
Ask the Kids
Professors, K–12 teachers, and parents are worried. College students listen to lectures online and feel no need to open a textbook. High school students seem emotionally fragile, worrying about their image on social media. Children spend hours playing computer games or watching online porn, seemingly beyond the reach of their mothers and fathers. Jean Twenge’s […]
