ESZTER HARGITTAI Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Northwestern University contact06 @ eszter.com CV Research Teaching Eszter's List Eszter's Blog Photos How To's In the Media More... Welcome! Follow me on Twitter here, read my blog here. Whereabouts: In the first couple of months of 2010, I will be giving talks at Smith College, the Oxford Internet Institute and the Digital Media and Learning Conference in San Diego. In the Spring, I will be visiting at Microsoft Research New England. Click image for details. Brief background Eszter Hargittai is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Faculty Associate of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University where she heads the Web Use Project. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University where she was a Wilson Scholar. Before joining the faculty at Northwestern, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. In 2006/07 she was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. In 2008/09 she was a Fellow in residence at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society where she continues her Fellow affiliation from a distance. Hargittai's research focuses on the social and policy implications of information technologies with a particular interest in how IT may contribute to or alleviate social inequalities. Her research projects have looked at differences in people's Web-use skills, the evolution of search engines and the organization and presentation of online content, political uses of information technologies, and how IT are influencing the types of cultural products people consume. In addition to her academic articles, her work has also been featured in numerous popular media outlets including the New York Times, BBC, CNNfn, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post and many others. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Markle Foundation, the Dan David Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, Nokia and Google among others. Hargittai is editor of Research Confidential, which presents a rare behind-the-scenes look at doing empirical social science research. She writes an academic career advice column at Inside Higher Ed called Ph.Do. How To's Academic Professionalization    Journal Submissions Slide Presentation Tips and Tricks Page Tips for Efficient Web Searching Stata Goodies Page Recipes How to win the Nobel Prize More... My Photos | My Artwork | My Erdõs Number | Geek Specs | Lights from the Sky | Remembering 9/11