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... What's new? I recently found out that I'm being awarded promotion and tenure. Whereabouts: Link up with me on Dopplr for details on where I'll be in the future. Some of my recent talks include: TTI/Vanguard Rome, Supernova 2008, University of Minnesota, Wheaton College and the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Last Fall, among others, I spoke at the University of Michigan, at the Central European University and Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. A video of the talk at Berkman is available here. A copy of a live interview on Chicago Tonight from last Fall is here. Recent papers: Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites The Role of Expertise in Navigating Links of Influence A Framework for Studying Differences in People's Digital Media Uses The Social, Political, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions of Search Engines: An Introduction Cognitive Ability and Internet Use Among Older Adults (with Jeremy Freese and Sal Rivas) Differences in Actual and Perceived Online Skills: The Role of Gender (with Steven Shafer) [see media coverage] 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. 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 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