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.
