News

Paper on social network site users published in special issue of JCMC

Eszter Hargittai's recent paper exploring the predictors of social network site usage appears in the special issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication edited by danah boyd and Nicole Ellison.

Eszter Hargittai Receives Hiatt Fund Grant

Eszter Hargittai was awarded a $59,000 grant by the Hiatt Fund at Northwestern University to study online information dissemination and content creation assessing the feasibility of a program that draws on user-generated content to communicate material about Internet user skills to the wider public.

Hargittai & Miller Receive MacArthur Grant

Eszter Hargittai and Peter Miller were awarded a one-year $300,000 grant by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to assess the feasibility of a longitudinal survey on digital media use by youth.

TPRC Program Committee Membership

At the 2007 TPRC meeting, Eszter Hargittai was appointed a member of the TPRC Program Committee for the 2008 and 2009 conferences.

WUP Alum News

Former affiliates have recently taken jobs at Google (Kathrina Manalac), Leonie Industries (Waleeta Canon), and the Toji Trading Group (Viktor Domazet).

Upcoming Talks & Presentations

Previous Talks & Presentations

Campus-wide talk at University of Minnesota

Talk at the Central European University

Seminar presentation: University of Trier

Presentation at NCA: Differences in Internet User Expertise and Experiences

Eszter Hargittai presented on "Differences in Internet User Expertise and Experiences" at the annual meetings of the National Communication Association in Chicago.

Presentation at the Berkman Center: Digital Na(t)ives: Skill and Internet Use

Eszter Hargittai delivered a presentation to Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society about young adults' online uses and skills on October 30, 2007.

Talk at Univ. of Michigan: Digital Reproduction of Inequality

Eszter Hargittai spoke about the Digital Reproduction of Inequality in the Colloquium series of the Communication Studies Department at the University of Michigan on Thursday, October 25, 2007.

Presentation at SHOT: The National Science Foundation and the Creation of a Standing Army for Science

Jason Gallo presented on the role of discourse at the NSF and the funding of large-scale ICT and new media programs at the Society for the History of Technology conference in Washington, DC on October 19.

Presentation at AoIR: Splogs and Abandoned Blogs: The Perils of Sampling Bloggers

Dan Li and Gina Walejko presented their paper at the AoIR conference in Vancouver on Oct. 18, 2007.

Presentation at AoIR: Creating Popular Culture: The Difference Gender Makes

Eszter Hargittai and Gina Walejko presented their paper at the AoIR conference in Vancouver on Oct. 18, 2007.

Presentation at AoIR: Why Academics Blog and What this Means for Scholarly Communication

Gina Walejko presented her paper at the AoIR conference in Vancouver on Oct. 18, 2007.

Presentation at Culture & Society: Private and Public Expressions of Creativity in a Digital Age

Eszter Hargittai and Gina Walejko presented a talk at the Culture & Society workshop, on Oct. 11, 2007.

Presentation at the e-Social Science Doctoral Colloquium: Leadership and Diffusion in Online Communities: Features of Language Use, Identity and Social Structure

Dave Huffaker presented his paper at 3rd International Conference on e-Social Science Doctoral Colloquium in Ann Arbor, MI on October 7.