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Hiltz & Turoff Describe Social Networking Online

1978
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In 1978 Starr Roxanne Hiltz, a sociologist at Upsala College, East Orange, New Jersey, and her husband, Murray Turoff, a professor of computer science, showed how "computer-mediated communication" could develop social networking in their book The Network Nation: Human Communication via Computer.

Timeline Themes

Telecommunications
Communication
Computers & Society
Internet & Networking
Social Media / Social Networks / Wikis