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Eszter Hargittai
- contact06@eszter.com
- Personal website
- http://www.eszter.com/
- Interests
- Internet, Search engines
- Role(s)
- Researcher
Current Institutional Affiliation(s)
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Department of Communication Studies
School of CommunicationNorthwestern UniversityEvanston, IL, United StatesProfessor
Discipline(s)
- Sociology
Biography
Eszter Hargittai is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology, and Faculty Fellow 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.
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 Markle Foundation, the Dan David Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation, among others. In 2006/07 she will be a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
Publications and Resources
Journal Articles
- Eszter Hargittai. Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 2007. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/hargittai.html
- Eszter Hargittai, Miguel A. Centeno. Introduction to 'Mapping Globalization' (A Special Issue of the American Behavioral Scientist). American Behavioral Scientist. 2001.
- Eszter Hargittai, W. Russell (Russ) Neuman, Paul DiMaggio, John P. Robinson. The Internet's Implications for Society. Annual Review of Sociology. 2001.
Book Chapters
- Eszter Hargittai. "The Changing Online Landscape: From Free-for-All to Commercial Gatekeeping." Routledge, 2004.
Also participates in
- The Digital Cultural Institutions Project, 2004-2004
- Linked from lists:
- SSRC Digital Cultural Institutions Fellows -- 2004