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.
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