July 19, 2010
Temple University professor Renee Hobbs quoted Eszter Hargittai in an article about computers in the home & kids' learning.
Updates
July 16, 2010
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Ars Technica, and Gawker have covered our work about our latest paper on social network site usage outcomes.
February 24, 2010
Eszter Hargittai and the Web Use Project were featured in the Northwestern University Annual Research Report for 2009. Read more…
Link to the pdf (345 KB)
February 19, 2010
Video of the plenary panel at the Digital Media & Learning conference, including participation by Eszter Hargittai.
February 16, 2010
The New Republic mentioned Web Use Project research on teenagers’ Twitter use.
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February 3, 2010
Web Use Project research was cited in a Washington Post article about Twitter use among teenagers.
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Forbes.com quoted Eszter Hargittai in a piece entitled “Is blogging a slog? Some young people think so.”
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January 18, 2010
Eszter Hargittai spoke on “Skill Matters: Explaining Different Levels of Online Engagement” at the Oxford Internet Institute.
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December 25, 2009
Eszter Hargittai was quoted in a piece called “Cyber begging becomes popular” from The Chicago Tribune.
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October 30, 2009
Inside Higher Ed interviewed Eszter Hargittai about her new edited book, “Research Confidential: Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend They Never Have.”
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October 15, 2009
Marketing Magazine online covered Web Use Project research on Facebook, MySpace, and social division.
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October 5, 2009
The Chronicle of Higher Education covered Eszter Hargittai’s and Chris Karr’s text-messaging study in a piece titled “Text Messaging Shows Promise as a Survey Tool.”
September 18, 2009
Eszter Hargittai received a Google Research Award for a study of how users search for information about complex health matters online.
July 10, 2009
Piece covering Web Use Project research was among top 10 most emailed technology articles on NYTimes site: http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/does-social-networking-breed-social-division/.
July 8, 2009
A grant from the Hiatt Fund at Northwestern will support a project on how different types of people search for jobs in our digital age.
Some recent findings about Facebook vs MySpace use among a group of diverse first-year college students: http://crookedtimber.org/2009/07/08/popularity-of-facebook-and-myspace-changes-but-ses-differences-in-use-persist/.
June 23, 2009
Eszter Hargittai presented on Internet Skill Matters:The Role of User Savvy in Different Levels of Online Engagement at the Luncheon Speaker Series of Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society on June 23, 2009.
May 28, 2009
Eszter Hargittai presented three talks at the International Communication Association meetings. One of these was presented jointly with graduate student co-authors Lindsay Fullerton, Ericka Menchen-Trevino and Kristin Thomas. This co-authored paper on “Trust on the Web” received the TOP 2 Faculty Paper Prize from ICA’s Communication and Technology Division.
May 20, 2009
Eszter Hargittai spoke on "A Typology of Social Network Site Usage" at The Networked Self Conference held at the University of Illinois, Chicago on May 20, 2009
Eszter Hargittai talked to Northwestern colleagues and some invited guests about work in the lab in a talk entitled "The Web Use Project, Exploring the Relationship between User Characteristics and Online Behavior". This meeting was held at the Northwestern Law School in Chicago on May 20, 2009.
May 18, 2009
Eszter Hargittai gave a guest lecture on "Data Challenges of Studying New Millennium Learners" at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris on May 18, 2009.
May 11, 2009
Eszter Hargittai gave a talk on "Beyond Gigs of Log Data: How the Study of New Media Can Benefit from Old Methods" at the Cambridge Colloquium on Complexity and Social Networks Seminar. The seminar took place at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government on May 11, 2009.
April 30, 2009
Eszter Hargittai was one of three panelists speaking at the President's Symposium at Bates College on “The Teaching and Learning Shift” in Lewiston, Maine on April 30, 2009.
April 24, 2009
Eszter Hargittai gave a talk entitled "New Opportunities, Old Patterns? Participation in the Public Sphere in the Age of Digital Media" at Harvard’s Frontiers of Cultural Sociology Mini-Conference on April 24, 2009.
April 18, 2009
Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society hosted a Gender and Technology Conference where Eszter Hargittai spoke about "Gender and IT Research" on April 18, 2009.
April 17, 2009
Eszter Hargittai gave a presentation on "The Skill Divide in Internet Use” at the meeting on “User-Generated Content 3.0: From Thread to Opportunity" hosted by the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information of the Columbia Business School in New York City on April 17, 2009.
April 4, 2009
Eszter Hargittai presented "Why Digital Inequality Matters" at the Connections: Media Studies and the New Interdisciplinarity meeting at the University of Virginia on April 4, 2009.
March 23, 2009
Eszter Hargittai gave a talk on "Connected Lives? Limits to the Internet Meeting Its Potential" as part of the Opening Ceremonies for Northwestern University, Qatar. The talk took place in Doha, Qatar on March 23, 2009.
March 17, 2009
A new project is to be conducted in collaboration with Russell Neuman of the University of Michigan.
Eszter Hargittai received a grant from Northwestern's School of Communication Innovations Fund for a project on how Americans learn about current events in digital age
February 11, 2009
Eszter Hargittai presented "Digital Na(t)ives? The Role of Skill in Internet Use" at the Harvard/MIT Economic Sociology Workshop in Cambridge, Massachusetts on February 11, 2009.
December 10, 2008
The Internet and Politics Conference at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society featured the following session: Examining the Networked Public Sphere in Recent Elections, A Conversation with Yochai Benkler and Eszter Hargittai.
December 9, 2008
Eszter Hargittai presented "Digital Promise or Digital Peril? Differences in Young Adults' Internet Use" at the speaker series of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University on December 9, 2008.
November 20, 2008
Eszter Hargittai gave a talk on "Refined Approaches to the Digital Divide" at a meeting organized by the Harris School of Public Policy of the University of Chicago on November 20, 2008 in Chicago.
November 12, 2008
Eszter Hargittai gave a presentation on "The Role of Social Context and Skill in Internet Use” at the University of Zurich in Switzerland on Nov 12, 2008.
October 31, 2008
As part of a small meeting of communication scholars organized at the University of Athens, Eszter Hargittai spoke about “Digital Inequality” in Athens, Greece, on November 12, 2008.
October 29, 2008
Eszter Hargittai spoke about her collaboration with Nicole Joseph on "New Media, Same Old Story? Young People's News Consumption in a Digital Age" at the Internet and Democracy Workshop at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society on October 29, 2008.
October 23, 2008
Eszter Hargittai participated in a panel on Blogging & the Academy at UC Irvine during the Public Spheres, Blogospheres meeting on October 23, 2008.
October 8, 2008
Eszter Hargittai presented a paper on credibility research to the Project Zero team at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education on October 8, 2008.
September 22, 2008
We’re hiring undergraduate research assistants. Students enrolled at Northwestern and Harvard are eligible. http://eszter.com/wupjob/
September 17, 2008
Our work is mentioned in the engaging piece “Generational Myth” by Siva Vaidhyanathan in the Chronicle of Higher Ed.
September 3, 2008
Thanks to a recent gift from Nokia Research the Web Use Project will be able to do more work on the social implications & applications of mobile technologies, September 3, 2008.
August 4, 2008
Eszter Hargittai, and Yu-li Patrick Hsieh presented their paper at the American Sociological Association conference in Boston, MA on August 4, 2008.
July 30, 2008
Eszter Hargittai is presenting a paper on Social Network Site Typologies at the American Sociological Association meetings (co-author:Patrick Hsieh).
The Web Use Project research group now has a Twitter account to keep people posted of updates.
March 13, 2008
Eszter Hargittai gave a campus-wide guest lecture at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities on March 13, 2008.
December 5, 2007
Eszter Hargittai gave a guest lecture at the Central European University in Budapest on December 5, 2007.
November 28, 2007
Eszter Hargittai gave a guest talk in Nicole Zillien’s class at the University of Trier on November 28, 2007.
November 17, 2007
Eszter Hargittai presented on “Differences in Internet User Expertise and Experiences” at the annual meetings of the National Communication Association in Chicago on November 17, 2007.
November 4, 2007
Eszter Hargittai’s 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, November 2007.
October 30, 2007
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.
October 25, 2007
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.
October 23, 2007
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.
October 19, 2007
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.
Dan Li and Gina Walejko presented their paper at the AoIR conference in Vancouver on Oct. 18, 2007.
Eszter Hargittai and Gina Walejko presented their paper at the AoIR conference in Vancouver on Oct. 18, 2007.
Gina Walejko presented her paper at the AoIR conference in Vancouver on Oct. 18, 2007.
October 12, 2007
At the 2007 TPRC meeting, Eszter Hargittai was appointed a member of the TPRC Program Committee for the 2008 and 2009 conferences.
Former affiliates have recently taken jobs at Google (Kathrina Manalac), Leonie Industries (Waleeta Canon), and the Toji Trading Group (Viktor Domazet).
October 11, 2007
Eszter Hargittai and Gina Walejko presented a talk at the Culture & Society workshop, on Oct. 11, 2007.
October 7, 2007
Dave Huffaker presented his paper at 3rd International Conference on e-Social Science Doctoral Colloquium in Ann Arbor, MI on October 7.
