ESZTER HARGITTAI Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Northwestern University contact06 @ eszter.com CV Research Teaching Photos How To's In the Media More... Welcome! Follow me on Twitter here, read my blog here. News: I'm honored to have received the Young Scholar Award from the International Communication Association in June. A paper I co-authored with my advisee Yu-li Patrick Hsieh on the link between social network site usage and academic performance is out in the journal Information, Communication and Society. I have joined the Editorial Board of the journal Information, Communication and Society. Whereabouts: So far in 2010, I have given talks at Smith College, the Oxford Internet Institute, the Digital Media and Learning Conference in San Diego, Princeton University's Technology Advisor Council, Microsoft Research New England and participated in a methodology workshop in Switzerland organized by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. In the Fall, I have talks coming up at Princeton, in Milton Keynes (UK), in the colloquium series of Columbia University's Sociology Department and at a couple of places and events in the Netherlands. 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