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 Google Plus here. Follow me on Twitter here. News: I'm honored to have received the Outstanding Young Scholar Award from the International Communication Association in 2010. Several new papers have come out in the past few months, see them here: webuse.org/pubs I joined the Editorial Boards of the following four journals in the past year: Communication Research; Information, Communication and Society; International Journal of Communication; Internet & Policy. Whereabouts: In the coming months, I will be giving talks at Harvard, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, Stanford, the Sorbonne in Paris, Queensland University in Australia, the International Communication Association and the American Sociological Association annual meetings and elsewhere. In the past year, I've keynoted conferences at Oxford University, the Copenhagen Business School and Northwestern, and have also given talks at Harvard, Stanford, UIUC, Vanderbilt, the University of St. Gallen, and at workshops at the Central European University in Budapest as well as the Social Webshop at the University of Maryland. I also spoke at Google. 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 is also Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society where she spent the 2008-09 academic year in residence. In 2006-07, she was a Fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University where she was a Wilson Scholar. Hargittai's research focuses on the social and policy implications of digital media with a particular interest in how differences in people's Web-use skills influence what they do online. Her work has received awards from the American Sociological Association, the Eastern Sociological Society, the International Communication Association, the National Communication Association and the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. In 2010, the International Communication Association selected her to receive its Outstanding Young Scholar Award. 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: Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend They Never Have" (University of Michigan Press 2009), 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. For more background information, see this feature article in the Princeton Alumni Wekkly. 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