Personal information

 

Ronda  Hauben rh120@columbia.edu Columbia University in the City of New York Lehman Library 244 West 72nd Street, Apt 15D 10023 New York USA phone: +1 212 787 9361

Biographical Sketch

Ronda Hauben studies at Columbia University and pursues her research there. She has her BA from Queens College in NY and her MA from Tufts University. She has been online for the past 16 years, studying, writing and participating in BBSs, Usenet and the Internet. She has taught at Stillman College, Wheelock College and in a worker education program at the Ford Rouge Plant in Michigan. More recently she taught introductory classes about the Internet, Usenet and Unix at Columbia University. She and Michael Hauben are co-author of "Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet", published by the IEEE Computer Society in 1997, and online since 1994. Ronda has given invited talks for example at the 2000 NGO EU Forum in Tempere, Finland, at the "Semaine Europeene" 2002 Conference in Strasbourg, France, at the Technical University in Vienna, Austria and at the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. She writes for Telepolis in Germany. She also writes for other online publications like OhmyNews in South Korea. She has contributed a number of articles to the Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History. Her current research interests include studying the organizational forms for the successful support of basic research, researching the collaborative processes involved in the early development of the Internet, and exploring the origins and evolution of netizenship, and new forms of online participatory journalism.