Perhaps the appointment of Julia Hobsbawm as a "visiting professor of networking" at the Cass Business School in London can do something to rescue the practice's tattered reputation.
A lot of the opportunities that I had as a graduate student and as a professor were a result of networking.
She was named Honorary Visiting Professor in Networking at City University London's Cass Business School in 2011, making her the world's first professor of networking, she said.
In a notable study of networking events, Columbia Business School professors Paul Ingram and Michael Morris organized a networking mixer as part of the school's executive MBA program.
Joseph M. Kahn, a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California at Berkeley, said the first users of new networking equipment have been companies and schools, and "they don't want to put an access point in each room".
Indeed, today's social networking and dating sites are "like impression management on steroids" said Joseph B. Walther, a professor of communication and telecommunication at Michigan State University.
"There is strong evidence that social networking is a valid way of assessing someone's personality," says Donald Kluemper, a professor of management at the Northern Illinois University College of Business and a co-author of the study.
Why was he a professor of literature?
In two earlier books, Ms. Turkle — a professor of the social studies of science and technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a clinical psychologist — put considerable emphasis on the plethora of opportunities for exploring identity that computers and networking offer people.
His father is a professor of English.
One further interview was conducted with a professor of sociology.
