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... Whereabouts: This year I'm a Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Last Fall, I gave talks at the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference in DC, at the University of California - Irvine, the University of Athens (Greece), the University of Zürich, the University of Chicago and Princeton University in addition to several workshops at various Harvard centers and programs. Recent papers: The Digital Reproduction of Inequality The Participation Divide: Content Creation and Sharing in the Digital Age (with Gina Walejko) Cross-Ideological Discussions among Conservative and Liberal Bloggers (with Jason Gallo and Matthew Kane) Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites The Role of Expertise in Navigating Links of Influence More ... Recent entries on my blog Click image for details. Twitter Updates (recent thoughts in 140 characters or less) follow me on Twitter 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 is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. Her 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 on CNNfn, the BBC's Web site and several national dailies. 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 and the Russell Sage Foundation, among others. How To's Academic Professionalization    Journal Submissions Slide Presentation Tips and Tricks Page Tips for Efficient Web Searching Stata Goodies Page Getting Low Hotel Rates Recipes How to win the Nobel Prize More... My Artwork | My Erdõs Number | Geek Specs | Lights from the Sky | Remembering 9/11