Eszter Hargittai (born 1973 in

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) is a

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scholar and Professor at the

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Biography

She holds a BA in

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from

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and a PhD in Sociology from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

where she was a Wilson Scholar. Before moving to Zurich, she was Delaney Family Professor of Communication Studies and Faculty Associate of the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) at Northwestern University where she is still affiliated as Adjunct Professor and Fellow at IPR. She was a fellow at the

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) is an interdisciplinary research lab at Stanford University that offers a residential postdoctoral fellowship program for scientists and scholars studying "the five core social a ...

at Stanford (2006–2007), a fellow at the Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin (2007), and a fellow at

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(2008–09) where she was on the Faculty Advisory Board until 2020. She has been a member of the group blog

Crooked Timber Crooked Timber is a left-of-centre political blog run by a group of (mostly) academics from and working in several different nations, including the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Australia and Singapore. The na ...

since 2003. 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. She has studied the 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, how IT are influencing the types of cultural products people consume, and geocaching. Her work is regularly featured in the media. She was interviewed about the Internet and its social implications on

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's ''The Flip Side'' on . Her work on the international spread of the Internet was referenced by ''

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'' and cited in a

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hearing. Other coverage includes

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as well as the ''

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'' ''

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'', ''

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'' and several other publications.

Notable publications

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List of publications that have printed Eszter Hargittai

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Works by Eszter Hargittai
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