The Web Use Project was featured in the Northwestern University Annual Research Report for 2009.

Understanding Digital Diversity
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009-more commonly referred to as the stimulus package-includes billions of dollars for wiring the nation with broadband infrastructure to ensure that all Americans have access to the Internet. But does such a solely technical solution resolve the potential inequalities that may result from inequitable access to the Internet? Eszter Hargittai, communication studies and faculty associate in Institute for Policy Research, has been addressing questions such as this one in her research for the past decade. With funding from agencies like the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the NSF, she has been collecting data to look at how people's digital media uses differ across population segments.

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