ESZTER HARGITTAI

Communication Studies Department, Northwestern University, 2240 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208 847-467-4681 * 847-467-1036 (fax) * eszter-.at.-northwestern.edu http://www.eszter.com * http://www.webuse.org PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Northwestern University, 2003-present Delaney Family Professor, 2012-present Van Zelst Research Professor, 2008-09 Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, 2008- present Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, 2003-08 Faculty Associate (Fellow 2004-06), Institute for Policy Research, 2003-04, 2006-present Faculty Associate, Science in Human Culture, 2012-present Courtesy appointment, Sociology Department, 2003-present Harvard University, 2008-present Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society (in residence 2008-09) University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2011 (Fall) Visiting Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 2006-07 Fellow in residence Princeton University, 2003 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs EDUCATION Princeton University, Ph.D. Sociology, 2003 (M.A. 2000) Dissertation: How Wide a Web? Inequalities in Accessing Information Online Winner, National Communication Associations G.R. Miller Outstanding Dissertation Award 2004 Smith College, B.A. Sociology, 1996 Honors Thesis: The Internet and International Stratification High departmental honors, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa University of Geneva (Switzerland), junior year study abroad, 1994-95 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, 2011 Certificate Program on Management Skills for Innovative University Leaders PUBLICATIONS

EDITED VOLUMES
4. Hargittai, E. & Sandvig, C. (Eds.) (Under Contract, Forthcoming). Digital Research Confidential: The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online [tentative title] Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 3. Hargittai, E. (Ed.) (2009). Research Confidential: Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend They Never Have. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 2 Review in scholarly publication: Journal of Communication 2. Hargittai, E. (2007). The Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Dimensions of Search Engines. Special Section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. April. 1. Hargittai, E. & Centeno, M.A. (2001). Mapping Globalization. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist dedicated to the analysis of international networks

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

(* indicates alphabetical listing of authors contributing equally to the manuscript) ( indicates graduate student co-author, indicates undergraduate student co-author at the time of writing) 47. Litt, E. & Hargittai, E. (Forthcoming.) Smile, Snap and Share? A Nuanced Approach to Privacy and Online Photosharing. Poetics. 42(1) 46. *boyd, d. & Hargittai, E. (Forthcoming.) Connected and Concerned: How Parental Concerns about Online Safety Issues Vary. Internet & Policy. 45. Hargittai, E. & Litt, E. (2013). New Strategies for Employment? Internet Skills and Online Privacy Practices during Peoples Job Search. IEEE Security & Privacy. 11(3):38-45. 44. Hargittai, E. & Shaw, A. (2013). Digitally Savvy Citizenship: The Role of Internet Skills and Engagement in Young Adults Political Participation around the 2008 Presidential Elections. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. 57(4):115-134. 43. Hoecker, R. & Hargittai, E. (2012). Snap Judgments: How Students Search the Web for their Rights to Photograph in Public. Communication Review. 15(4):253-273. 42. Hargittai, E. & Litt, E. (2012). Becoming a Tweep: How Prior Online Experiences Influence Twitter Use. Information, Communication and Society.15(5):680-702. 41. Hargittai, E. & Young, H. (2012). Searching for a Plan B: Young Adults Strategies for Finding Information about Emergency Contraception Online. Policy & Internet. 4(2) Article 4. June. 40. Hargittai, E., Neuman, W.R. & Curry, O. (2012). Taming the Information Tide: Perceptions of Information Overload in the American Home. The Information Society. 28(3):161-173. 39. *Dobransky, K. & Hargittai, E. (2012). Inquiring Minds Acquiring Wellness: Uses of Online and Offline Sources for Health Information. Health Communication. 27(4):331-343. 38. Puckett, C. & Hargittai, E. (2012). From Dot-Edu to Dot-Com: Predictors of College Students Job and Career Information Seeking. Sociological Focus. 45(1):85-102. 37. Hargittai, E. & Hsieh, Y.P. (2012). Succinct Measures of Web-Use Skills. Social Science Computer Review.30(1):95-107. 36. Boyd, D., Hargittai, E., Schultz, J. & Palfrey, J. (2011). Why Parents Help Their Children Lie to Facebook About Age: Unintended Consequences of the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act. First Monday. November. 35. Hargittai, E. & Litt, E. (2011). The Tweet Smell of Celebrity Success: Explaining Twitter Adoption among a Diverse Group of Young Adults. New Media & Society. 13(5):824-842. 34. Percheski, C. & Hargittai, E. (2011). Health Information Seeking in the Digital Age. Journal of American College Health. 59(5):379-386. 33. Menchen-Trevino, E. & Hargittai, E. (2011). Young Adults Credibility Assessment of Wikipedia. Information, Communication and Society. 14(1):24-51. 32. *Boyd, D. & Hargittai, E. (2010) Facebook Privacy Settings. Who Cares? First Monday. 15(8)

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 3 31. Hargittai, E & Hsieh, Y. P. (2010). Predictors and Consequences of Differentiated Social Network Site Uses. Information, Communication and Society.13(4):515-536. 30. Hargittai, E, Fullerton, F, Menchen-Trevino, E & K. Y. Thomas. (2010). Trust Online: Young Adults Evaluation of Web Content. International Journal of Communication. 29. Hargittai, E. (2010). Digital Na(t)ives? Variation in Internet Skills and Uses among Members of the Net Generation. Sociological Inquiry. 80(1):92-113. 28. Tepper, S. & Hargittai, E. (2009). Pathways to Music Exploration in a Digital Age. Poetics. 37(3):227249. 27. Pasek, J, More, E., & Hargittai, E. (2009). Facebook and Academic Performance: Reconciling a Media Sensation with Data. First Monday. 14(5) 26. Zillien, N. & Hargittai, E. (2009). Digital Distinction: Status-Specific Internet Uses. Social Science Quarterly. 90(2):274-291. 25. Hargittai, E. (2009). An Update on Survey Measures of Web-Oriented Digital Literacy. Social Science Computer Review. 27(1):130-137. 24. Hargittai, E. & Hinnant, A. (2008). Digital Inequality: Differences in Young Adults Use of the Internet. Communication Research. 35(5):602-621. 23. Hargittai, E. & Walejko, G. (2008). The Participation Divide: Content Creation and Sharing in the Digital Age. Information, Communication and Society.11(2):239-256. 22. Hargittai, E., Gallo, J. & Kane, M.Y. (2008). Cross-Ideological Discussions among Conservative and Liberal Bloggers. Public Choice. 134(1-2):67-86. Winner of the Paper Prize of the American Sociological Associations Communication and Information Technology section for 2009 21. Hargittai, E. (2007). Whose Space? Differences among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 13(1).276-297. 20. Hargittai, E. (2007). The Social, Political, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions of Search Engines: An Introduction. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 12(3) 769-777. Reprinted in Romanian (translation: Laura Malita): Hargittai, E. (2007). Dimensiuni sociale, politice, economice i culturale ale motoarelor de cutare: O introducere. Revista de Informatica Sociala. 7. 19. Freese, J., Rivas, S. & Hargittai, E. ( 2006). Cognitive Ability and Internet Use Among Older Adults. Poetics. (Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts) 34(4), 236-249. 18. *Dobransky, K. & Hargittai, E. (2006). The Disability Divide in Internet Access and Use. Information, Communication and Society. 9(3), 313-334. 17. Hargittai, E. & Shafer, S. (2006). Differences in Actual and Perceived Online Skills: The Role of Gender. Social Science Quarterly. 87(2), 432-448. 16. Hargittai, E. (2006.) Hurdles to Information Seeking: Explaining Spelling and Typographical Mistakes in Users Online Search Behavior. Journal of the Association of Information Systems. 7(1). January. 15. Hargittai, E. (2005). Survey Measures of Web-Oriented Digital Literacy. Social Science Computer Review. 23(3), 371-379. 14. Hargittai, E. (2004). Classifying and Coding Online Actions. Social Science Computer Review. 22(2), 210227.

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 4 13. Hargittai, E. (2004). Do you google? Understanding Search Engine Use Beyond the Hype. First Monday. 9(3) 12. Hargittai, E. (2004). Internet Access and Use in Context. New Media & Society. 6(1), 137-143. 11. Robinson, J., DiMaggio, P.J. & Hargittai, E. (2003). New Social Survey Perspectives on the Digital Divide. IT & Society. 1(5), 1-22. Summer. 10. Hargittai, E. (2003). Serving Citizens Needs: Minimizing Hurdles to Accessing Government Information Online. IT & Society. 1(3), 27-41. 9. Hargittai, E. (2002). Beyond Logs and Surveys: In-Depth Measures of Peoples Online Skills. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 53(14), 1239-1244. 8. Hargittai, E. (2002). Second-Level Digital Divide: Differences in Peoples Online Skills. First Monday. 7(4) 7. DiMaggio, P.J., Hargittai, E., Neuman, W.R. & Robinson, J. 2001. Social Implications of the Internet. Annual Review of Sociology. 27, 307-336. Reprinted in Price, M. & Nissenbaum, H. (2004). The Academy and the Internet. New York: Peter Lang. 6. Hargittai, E. & Centeno, M.A. (2001). Introduction: Defining a Global Geography. American Behavioral Scientist. 10(44), 1545-1560. Abridged version reprinted in Online Opinion, Australias e-journal on social and political debate, September 15, 2001 http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=1338 5. Hargittai, E. (2000). Open Portals or Closed Gates? Channeling Content on the World Wide Web. Poetics (Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts). 27(4), 233-254. 4. Hargittai, E. (2000). Standing Before the Portals: Non-Profit Content in the Age of Commercial Gatekeepers. Info (The Journal of Policy, Regulation and Strategy for Telecommunication, Information and Media). 2(6), 543-550. 3. Hargittai, E. (2000). Radios Lessons for the Internet. Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). 43(1), 50-56. 2. Hargittai, E. (1999). Weaving the Western Web: Explaining Differences in Internet Connectivity Among OECD Countries. Telecommunications Policy. 23(10/11), 701-718. Most highly cited paper in the history of Telecommunications Policy (as of 2009) Winner of Candace Rogers Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper, Eastern Sociological Society, 2001 Winner of Best Graduate Student Paper Prize, American Sociological Association Section on Sociology and Computers, 2001 Winner of 2nd Place Award, Graduate Student Paper Competition, Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, 2000 1. Louch, H., Hargittai, E. & Centeno, M.A. (1999). Phone Calls and Fax Machines: The Limits to Globalization. The Washington Quarterly. 22(2), 83-100.

BOOK CHAPTERS
18. Hargittai, E. (2013). The Potential and Potential Pitfalls of Survey Research. In The Practice of Research. Edited by Dana Fisher and Shamus Khan. Oxford University Press. 17. Hargittai, E. & Hsieh, Y.P. (2013). Digital Inequality. In Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies. Edited by William H. Dutton. Oxford University Press. 129-150.

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 5 16. Hargittai, E. (2011). Open Doors, Closed Spaces? Differentiated Adoption of Social Network Sites by User Background. In Race After the Internet. Edited by Peter Chow-White and Lisa Nakamura. Routledge. 223-245. 15. Hargittai, E. (2011). Minding the Digital Gap: Why Understanding Digital Inequality Matters. In Media Perspectives for the 21st Century. Edited by Stylianos Papathanassopoulos. Routledge. 231-240. 14. Hargittai, E & Hsieh, Y-L. (2010). From Dabblers to Omnivores: A Typology of Social Network Site Usage. In The Networked Self. Edited by Zizi Papacharissi. Routledge. 146-168. 13. Hargittai, E. (2009). Introduction: Doing Empirical Social Science Research. In Research Confidential. Edited by E. Hargittai. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. 1-7. 12. Hargittai, E. & Karr, C. (2009). WAT R U DOIN? Studying the Thumb Generation Using Text Messaging. In Research Confidential. Edited by E. Hargittai. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. 192-216. 11. Hargittai, E. (2008). The Role of Expertise in Navigating Links of Influence. In The Hyperlinked Society. Edited by Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press. 85-103. 10. Hargittai, E. (2008). The Digital Reproduction of Inequality. In Social Stratification. Edited by David Grusky. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 936-944. 9. Tepper, S.J., Hargittai, E. & Touve, D. (2008). Music, Mavens and Technology. In Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation in Americas Cultural Life. Edited by Bill Ivey and Steven Tepper. Routledge. 199-220. 8. Hargittai, E. (2007). A Framework for Studying Differences in Peoples Digital Media Uses. In Cyberworld Unlimited. Edited by Nadia Kutscher and Hans-Uwe Otto. VS Verlag fr Sozialwissenschaften/GWV Fachverlage GmbH. 121-137. 7. Hargittai, E. (2007). Content Diversity Online: Myth or Reality? In Media Diversity and Localism: Meaning and Metrics. Edited by Philip Napoli. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 349-362. 6. Hargittai, E. & Hinnant, A. (2005). Toward a Social Framework for Information Seeking. In New Directions in Human Information Behavior. Edited by Amanda Spink and Charles Cole. New York: Springer. 55-70. 5. DiMaggio, P., Hargittai, E., Celeste, C. & Shafer, S. (2004). Digital Inequality: From Unequal Access to Differentiated Use. In Social Inequality. Edited by Kathryn Neckerman. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 355-400. 4. Hargittai, E. (2004). The Changing Online Landscape: From Free-for-All to Commercial Gatekeeping. Community Practice in the Network Society: Local Actions/Global Interaction. Edited by P. Day and D. Schuler. Routledge. 66-76. 3. Hargittai, E. (2003). Informed Web Surfing: The Social Context of User Sophistication. In Society Online I. Edited by P. Howard and S. Jones. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 257-274. 2. Hargittai, E. (2003). The Digital Divide and What to Do About It. New Economy Handbook , Edited by D.C. Jones, San Diego, CA: Academic Press. 822-841. 1. Hargittai, E. (2002). Untangling the Tangled Net: Symmetry and the Internet. In Symmetry 2000. Edited by I. Hargittai, and T. Laurent. London: Portland Press Ltd.

OTHER
Hargittai, E. (2013). Finding E-Mail Equilibrium. Inside Higher Ed. October 16. Hargittai, E. (2013). How I Spent Summer Vacation. Inside Higher Ed. October 2.

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 6 Hargittai, E. (2013). Finding the Right Context. Inside Higher Ed. February 25. Hargittai, E. (2013). The Ever-Evolving CV. Inside Higher Ed. January 23. Hargittai, E. (2012). Learning from Others CVs. Inside Higher Ed. December 14. Hargittai, E. (2011). From Review to Publication. Inside Higher Ed. September 26. Hargittai, E. (2011). Preparing Journal Submissions. Inside Higher Ed. September 2. Freese, J & Hargittai, E. (2010). Cache me if you can. Contexts. November. Hargittai, E. (2010). Propelling Joint Projects Forward. Inside Higher Ed. September 15. Hargittai, E. (2010). The Case for Collaboration. Inside Higher Ed. August 27. Hargittai, E. (2009). The Academic Traveler. Inside Higher Ed. December 21. Hargittai, E. (2009). Conference Dos and Donts. Inside Higher Ed. October 19. Hargittai, E. (2009). The Conference Scene. Inside Higher Ed. September 14. Hargittai, E. (2009). More than Merit. Inside Higher Ed. July 30. Hargittai, E. (2006). A Primer on Electronic Communication. Inside Higher Ed. November 28. Reprinted in several graduate school publications across the U.S. and on several Web sites. Hargittai, E. (2006). Public Speaking Dos and Donts. Lifehacker. March 20. Hargittai, E. (2005). Found. QED. 1. December. Hargittai, E. (2004). Digital Inequality. Comment 3 on An Evolving Gender Digital Divide? Oxford Internet Institute Internet Issue Brief. No.2.3 August. Hargittai, E. (2004). Life Beyond Google. BBC News Online. April 7. Hargittai, E. (2003). Surviving the Job Market. Network News. (Sociologists for Women in Society) Spring. Hargittai, E. (2001). Letter to the Editor. Technology Review. 104(7), 15. September. ORourke, J, Feigenbaum, J. &Hargittai, E. (1994). Expanding the Pipeline, CRAW Database Aids Academic Recruiters. Computing Research News. September FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS (SEE RESEARCH GRANTS SEPARATELY BELOW) SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE, Institute for Social Science Research, University of Queensland, Australia, 2012 OUTSTANDING YOUNG SCHOLAR AWARD, International Communication Association, 2010 PAPER PRIZE, American Sociological Associations Communication and Information Technology section, 2009 TOP 2 FACULTY PAPER, (ranked 2nd out of 228 submissions in blind peer-review process) Communication and Technology Division, International Communication Association Meetings, Chicago, IL 2009 FELLOW, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2008-2009 VISITING FELLOW, Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 2007 FELLOW, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California 2006-2007 WORLD SCIENCE FORUM DELEGATE, National Science Foundation, Budapest, Hungary, 2005 (member of U.S. delegation of twelve scientists) G.R.MILLER OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD, National Communication Association, 2004

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 7 SSRC SUMMER FELLOW, Digital Cultural Institutions Project, Social Science Research Council, 2002 DAN DAVID PRIZE SCHOLARSHIP FOR RESEARCH ON INFORMATION, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY, Dan David Foundation and Tel Aviv University, 2002, $15,000 SSRC SUMMER FELLOW, Program on Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security, Social Science Research Council, 2002, $5,500 PEW INTERNET & AMERICAN LIFE PROJECT WRITING FELLOWSHIP, Pew Internet Project, 2002, $2,000 WILSON FELLOW, Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars, Princeton University, 2000-02, $17,500/yr CANDACE ROGERS AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER, Eastern Sociological Society, 2001, $250 BEST GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZE, American Sociological Association Section on Sociology and Computers, 2001, $150 GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION SECOND PLACE, Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, The 28th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy, 2000, $1,000 UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP, Princeton University, 1997-2000, $11,000/year SUMMER FELLOWSHIP GRANT. The Graduate School, Princeton University. 2001. $4,500 SMITH ALUMNAE SCHOLARSHIP FOR GRADUATE STUDY, The Jean Fine Spahr Fellowship Fund of Smith College, 1996, $2,500 SAMUEL BOWLES PRIZE FOR BEST SENIOR PAPER IN SOCIOLOGY, Smith College, 1996, $250 JULIET EVANS NELSON AWARD FOR GENERAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE SMITH COMMUNITY AND DEMONSTRATED COMMITMENT TO CAMPUS LIFE (nominated by peers), Smith College, 1996, $250 RESEARCH GRANTS

EXTERNAL
FACEBOOK RESEARCH GIFT, 2013, $25,000 DEVELOPING BEST PRACTICES FOR USING DIGITAL TOOLS TO STUDY HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS, THE ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION, $77,947 DIGITAL MEDIA AND LEARNING HUB GRANT FOR OBSERVATIONAL/LOG DATA METHODS WORKING GROUP, DIGITAL MEDIA AND LEARNING INITIATIVE, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE, 2010, $50,000 GOOGLE RESEARCH AWARD, 2009, $70,000 NOKIA RESEARCH GIFT, 2008, $50,000 JOHN D. AND CATHERINE T. MACARTHUR FOUNDATION GRANT (with Peter Miller), 2007-08, $300,000 NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION GRANT, 2007-08, $25,368 JOHN D. AND CATHERINE T. MACARTHUR FOUNDATION GRANT, 2006-08, $309,000 WISCONSIN LONGITUDINAL STUDY PILOT GRANT PROGRAM, Center for Demography of Health and Aging, University of Wisconsin Madison, 2006, $10,000 MARKLE FOUNDATION GRANT, 2000-02, $40,000 AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION TEACHING ENHANCEMENT FUND GRANT (with Wendy Cadge and Nina Bandelj), 2001-02, $1,000

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INTERNAL
RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE FELLOW ASSISTANT RESEARCHER AWARD, Northwestern University, 2013-14, $1,750 RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE FELLOW ASSISTANT RESEARCHER AWARD, Northwestern University, 2012-13, $1,750 ROBERT AND KAYE HIATT FUND GRANT, Northwestern University, 2011-12, $57,403 RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE FELLOW ASSISTANT RESEARCHER AWARD, Northwestern University, 2011-12, $1,750 ROBERT AND KAYE HIATT FUND GRANT, Northwestern University, 2010-12, $57,310 RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE FELLOW ASSISTANT RESEARCHER AWARD, Northwestern University, 2010-11, $1,500 ROBERT AND KAYE HIATT FUND GRANT, Northwestern University, 2009-10, $55,184 SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION INNOVATIONS FUND, Northwestern University, 2009, $5,000 RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE FELLOW ASSISTANT RESEARCHER AWARD, Northwestern University, 2009-10, $1,500 SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION INNOVATIONS FUND, Northwestern University, 2008, $5,000 RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE FELLOW ASSISTANT RESEARCHER AWARD, Northwestern University, 2008-09, $2,250 ROBERT AND KAYE HIATT FUND GRANT, Northwestern University, 2007-09, $59,694 RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE FELLOW ASSISTANT RESEARCHER AWARD, Northwestern University, 2007-08, $2,250 RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE FELLOW ASSISTANT RESEARCHER AWARD, Northwestern University, 2006-07, $2,250 SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION INNOVATIONS FUND, Northwestern University, 2006, $5,000 UNIVERSITY RESEARCH GRANT, Northwestern University, 2006-07, $4,889 RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE FELLOW ASSISTANT RESEARCHER AWARD Northwestern University, 2005-06, $2,250 SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION INNOVATIONS FUND, Northwestern University, 2004, $5,250 NORTHWESTERN INSTITUTE FOR COMPLEX SYSTEMS PROJECT SEED GRANT, 2004, $3,000 RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE FELLOW ASSISTANT RESEARCHER AWARD, Northwestern University, 2004-05, $2,250 CENTER FOR ARTS AND CULTURAL POLICY STUDIES PROJECT GRANT, 2000-01, $3,700 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY WOODROW WILSON FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM RESEARCH GRANT, 2000, $4,000 SPENCER FOUNDATION MENTOR GRANT (PI: Professor Jennifer Hochschild, Politics, Princeton University), 1999, $300 SUMMER FELLOWSHIP GRANT, The Graduate School, Princeton University, 1999, $1,000 CENTER FOR ARTS AND CULTURAL POLICY STUDIES PROJECT GRANT, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 1998-99, $2,700

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 9 COUNCIL ON REGIONAL STUDIES PRE-DISSERTATION RESEARCH GRANT, Princeton University, 1998, $1,200 TRAVEL GRANTS: Deans Fund for Scholarly Travel, The Graduate School, Princeton University, 2000; Computer, Freedom, and Privacy 2000 Conference in Toronto, USENIX Association, 2000; First Comparativist Graduate Student Training Retreat at UCLA, 1999; Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni, 1998; The Internet Society, 1998; The Graduate School, New York University, 1997; Smith College Senior Thesis Grant, 1995 SELECTED INVITED TALKS Colloquium Speaker, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, 2013 Inaugural Speaker, Future Present Speaker Series. Digital Natives or Digital Naives: How Internet Skills Influence What People Do Online. Merck, White House, NJ, 2013 Keynote Speaker, RMeS Summer School, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2013 Voices of Many or a Few? Explaining Differential Rates of Online Participation, Human Development and Social Policy Speaker Series, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2013 Keynote Speaker on Digital Natives or Digital Naives: Internet Skills among Members of the Net Generation, ICT for Education, La Sorbonne, Paris, France, 2012 The Implications of Digital Inequality for Internet Research, Social Media Webshop, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2012 The Internet, Young Adults and Political Engagement around the 2008 US Presidential Elections, University of Sydney, Australia, 2012 Digital Inequality and Its Implications for Internet Research, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 2012 Online Behavior and Social Status: Why Much of What You Hear about Peoples Online Behavior is False, First Annual Behavioral Science Summit, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2012 New Opportunities, Old Barriers? Variation in Online Creative Expression, Cultural Policy Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2012 Digital Inequality and Its Implication for Internet Research, Science, Technology and Society Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2012 Confusion over URLs: Evidence from the Net Generation, Truthiness in Digital Media, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University and Center for Civic Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2012 Gullibles Travels: Evaluating Online Credibility, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2012 Digital Inequality and Its Implications for Internet Research, Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2011 The Implications of Digital Inequality for Internet Research, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2011 Keynote Speaker on Whose Social Media, Whose Social Purposes? Unequal Participation in the Digital Public Sphere, Social Media for Social Purposes Conference, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2011

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 10 Digital Inequality and Its Implications for Research on Internet Use, Institute for Media and Communications Management, Univ. St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2011 Keynote Speaker on A Decade of Opportunities and Challenges, A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, UK, 2011 Persisting Digital Inequality, Social Media Webshop, University of Maryland, 2011 Keynote Speaker on Tweeting their Way to Success? Young Adults Engagement with Participatory Media, Consumer Culture Theory Conference 6, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2011 Conducting Internet Research, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 2011 Digital Natives or Digital Naives?, The Year of Social Media, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, 2011 Whose Voices, Whose Space? Patterns of Participation in the Digital Public Sphere, American Cultures in a Digital Age Symposium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2011 They Search, They Find, and Then What?, Library Symposium, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 2011 The Web Use Project, YouthLAB, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2011 The Internet, Young Adults and Political Participation around the 2008 Presidential Elections, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2011 Whose Voices, Whose Space? Explaining Variation in Online Engagement, Google, Mountain View, CA, 2011 Patterns of Health Information Seeking in the Digital Age, Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2011 The Digital Reproduction of Inequality, Sociology Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2011 Internet Skills and Digital Inequality, Workshop on Digital Skills, Digital Inequality, Internet Skills: The State of the Art in Research and Policy, University of Twente, Netherlands, 2010 The Digital Reproduction of Inequality, Columbia University Sociology Department Colloquium, New York, NY, 2010 Your Online Reputation, Northwestern Alumni Association, Evanston, IL, 2010 Future Work 2015, ITExpo 2010, Gartner Symposium, Orlando, FL, 2010 Keynote Speaker on College Students Digital Literacy: A Reality Check, Literacy in the Digital University Seminar Series, Open University, Milton Keynes, England, 2010 Students and Web Use, Presidents Cabinet Retreat, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2010 Open Doors, Closed Spaces? Differential Online Participation by User Background, Diversity Council, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2010 College Students Social Media Uses, Campus Life Senior Leadership, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2010 How College Students Use the Internet: A Reality Check, Writing Program, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2010 Skill Matters: How Web Savvy and Other Factors Influence Online Behavior, Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA, 2010 Evolving Internet Uses: A Reality Check, Princeton Technology Advisory Council, Princeton, NJ, 2010

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 11 Skill Matters: Explaining Different Levels of Online Engagement, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, England, 2010 Managing Ones Online Presence, Lewis Leadership Program, Smith College, 2010 Expert Comment, Broadband Data Transparency Workshop, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Washington, DC, 2009 Ensuring Equitable Access to Knowledge: The Role of Libraries in the 21st Century, The Centennial of Neilson Library, Smith College, Northampton, MA, 2009 Gender, Skill and Internet Use, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2009 UIC Students Digital Media Uses: A Reality Check, First-Year Writing Program, University of Illinois, Chicago, 2009 Invited Speaker, Netroots Nation, Pittsburgh, PA, 2009 Keynote Panelist, BlogHer, Chicago, IL, 2009 Internet Skill Matters, Luncheon Speaker Series, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2009 A Typology of Social Network Site Usage, The Networked Self, University of Illinois, Chicago, 2009 The Web Use Project, Exploring the Relationship between User Characteristics and Online Behavior, Northwestern Law School, Chicago, 2009 Data Challenges of Studying New Millennium Learners, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, 2009 Beyond Gigs of Log Data: How the Study of New Media Can Benefit from Old Methods, Cambridge Colloquium on Complexity and Social Networks Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2009 Diverse Opportunities, Diverse Voices? The Participation Gap in Internet Use, Presidents Symposium, Bates College, Lewiston, ME, 2009 New Opportunities, Old Patterns? Participation in the Public Sphere in the Age of Digital Media, Frontiers of Cultural Sociology Mini-Conference, Culture and Social Analysis Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2009 The Skill Divide in Internet Use, User-Generated Content 3.0: From Thread to Opportunity, The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia Business School, New York, NY, 2009 Why Digital Inequality Matters, Connections: Media Studies and the New Interdisciplinarity, University of Virginia, 2009 Connected Lives? Limits to the Internet Meeting Its Potential, Northwestern University in Qatar Opening Ceremonies, Doha, Qatar, 2009 Gender and IT Research, Gender and Technology Conference, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2009 Digital Na(t)ives? The Role of Skill in Internet Use, Harvard/MIT Economic Sociology Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2009 Strategies for Negotiations, Lewis Leadership Program, Smith College, 2009 Examining the Networked Public Sphere in Recent Elections, A Conversation with Yochai Benkler and Eszter Hargittai, Internet Politics Conference, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, 2008

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 12 Digital Promise or Digital Peril? Differences in Young Adults Internet Use, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton Univ., 2008 Refined Approaches to the Digital Divide, Harris School of Public Policy, Univ. Chicago, 2008 The Role of Social Context and Skill in Internet Use, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 2008 Digital Inequality, University of Athens, Greece, 2008 New Media, Same Old Story? Young Peoples News Consumption in a Digital Age, Internet and Democracy Workshop, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, 2008 Public Spheres, Blogospheres, Humanities Center and HumaniTech, Univ. California, Irvine, 2008 Trust Online, Project Zero Seminar, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2008 UIC Students Use of Digital Media, First-Year Writing Program, Univ. Illinois, Chicago, 2008 Digital Na(t)ives? The Role of Skill in Internet Use, TTI/Vanguard, Rome, Italy, 2008 Users A Reality Check, Supernova 2008, San Francisco, CA, 2008 NU Students Digital Literacy, Northwestern Students Survey Group, Northwestern University, 2008 Digital Na(t)ives? The Role of Skill in Internet Use, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, 2008 Next Generation Information Users, Information Management Leadership Council, Chicago, IL, 2008 The Digital Reproduction of Inequality, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2008 The Role of Skill in Internet Use, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 2007 The Digital Reproduction of Inequality, University of Trier, Germany, 2007 Digital Na(t)ives? Skill and Internet Use, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, 2007 The Digital Reproduction of Inequality, Communication Studies Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2007 Social Media Use by Youth, Wiki Wednesday, Palo Alto, CA, 2007 The Digital Reproduction of Inequality, Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 2007 Whose Access to What Knowledge?, Information Society Project, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, 2007 The World is Bumpy: Information Technology and Social Inequality, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2007 The Second-Level Digital Divide: The Role of Skill in Peoples Internet Uses, Informal Learning Seminar, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, 2007 Beyond Gigs of Log Data: The Social Aspects of Internet Use, Google Tech Talks, Mountain View, CA, 2007 A Sociological Approach to the Study of Information Seeking, Google PMetrics Group Seminar, Mountain View, CA, 2007 A Framework for Studying Differences in Peoples Digital Media Uses, INDIRE Expert Meeting on New Millennium Learners, Florence, Italy, 2007 The Role of Skill in Internet Use, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, 2006

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 13 Convocation Speaker, Entering the Blogosphere: Weblogs and University Life, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN, 2006 Understanding the Wired Generation: The Internet in UIC Students Everyday Lives, University Library Lectures and Forums, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, 2006 The Wired Generation: UIC Students Use of Information Technologies, First-Year Writing Program Workshop, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, 2006 Understanding the Wired Generation: College Students Visits to News and Other Web Sites, The Information Society in Comparative Perspective: The Americas and Europe, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2006 Studying Peoples Internet Uses and Skills. The Guttmacher Institute, New York, NY, 2006 Invited Panelist, Navigating Nodes of Influence, Hyperlinked Society Conference, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2006 Just a Pretty Face(book)? What College Students Actually Do Online, Beyond Broadcast Conference, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, 2006 The Role of Skill in Internet Use, IT & Policy Speaker Series, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2006 Digital Literacy: A Reality Check, The Future of Digital Literacy in Schools and Community Settings, DePaul University Center, Chicago, IL, 2006 More than Just a Pretty Face(book): What College Students Actually Do Online and How It Relates to Social Inequality, Brown Bag Lunch Series, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2006 The Role of Skill in Peoples Web Use, Information Science Colloquium Series, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2006 The Web Use Project. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL, 2006 Invited Panelist, Self-Governance in Online Communities, Santa Barbara Forum on Digital Transitions, Santa Barbara, CA, 2006 Whose Wide Web? The Challenges and Opportunities of Connecting with Constituents Online, Networked Labor Conference, Labor & Worklife Program, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, 2006 Characteristics of Differences in Internet Use and Their Implications for Dealing with Digital Inequality, Cyberworld Unlimited? Digital Inequality and New Spaces for Informal Education for Young People, Bielefeld, Germany, 2006 The Role of Skill in How Audiences Find News and Information, Meeting on Participatory Media, The MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL, 2005 Blogging and Political Polarization, Conference on The Power and Political Science of Blogs, Chicago, IL, 2005 Digitally Together Yet Worlds Apart, Conference on Cyber-Disciplinarity, Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2005 Mapping the Political Blogosphere, MeshForum, Chicago, IL, 2005 Refined Measures of Digital Inequality, Quello Center for Telecommunication Management & Law, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 2005 To Google or Not to Google: The Role of Skill in Peoples Web Use, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2005

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 14 Online Inequalities: Explaining Differences in Peoples Online Skills, Workshop on the Sociology and Cultures of Globalization, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2004 Media, Technology and Society, Computer Science Department, Smith College, Northampton, MA, 2004 Content Diversity Online: A Plurality of Voices or Concentrated Attention? Social Science Research Council Digital Cultural Institutions Project, Santa Clara, CA, 2004 Traits of the Expert Searcher: Evidence from User Studies, Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, CA, 2004 To Google or Not to Google: The Role of Skill in Peoples Web Use, Center for Excellence in Cancer Communication Research, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2004 Differences in Peoples Online Skills: Evidence from user studies. France Telecom, Paris, France, 2004 How do people search for jobs online? Evidence from user studies, Conference on Online Recruitment, London School of Economics, London, England, 2004 Internet Gatekeepers in Online Content Consumption, Media Concentration and the Internet, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia Business School, New York, NY, 2004 Free Speech and the Internet, Weinstein-Schneiderman Social Action Weekend, K.A.M. Isaiah Israel Congregation, Chicago, IL, 2004 Keynote Speech: Digitally Together Yet Worlds Apart, Center for Internet Studies Inaugural Conference, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2003 Content Diversity Online, Fordham/Ford Foundation meeting on Media Diversity, New York, NY, 2003 Web of Opportunity or Web of Confusion? Differences in Peoples Online Skills, St. Francis University, Loretto, PA, 2003 Search and You Shall Find? How People Locate Content Online, Webshop, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2003 Navigation Studies, Webshop, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2002 Internet Inequalities: The Second-Level Digital Divide in Peoples Ability to Use the Web, Workshop on Infrastructure: Technological, Human, and Intersection Between the Two, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2002 Guess You Cant Get There From Here: How Users Succeed and Fail in Finding Content Online, HumanComputer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2001 The International Digital Divide, Webshop, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2001 Users Web Navigation Skills, Webshop, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2001 How Wide a Web? Differences in People's Ability to Locate Content Online, Guest Speaker, HumanComputer Interaction Research Group, AT&T Research, Florham Park, NJ, 2001 When Old Media Were New - Historical Lessons for the Study of the Internet, Cultural Dynamics Conference, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2001 Second-Level Digital Divide in Internet Use, Center for Democracy and Technology, Washington, DC, 2000 Cities and Communication Networks, Workshop on Cities in the Information Age, Urban Research Initiative, Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, New York University, New York, NY, 1999 SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 15 Visual Learning through Games: The Case of GPS-Based Treasure-Hunting, Visual Learning Conference: Communication, Cognition, Curriculum, Budapest, Hungary 2012 Job Search 2.0: Explaining Differences in Young Adults Online Job-Seeking Practices (with Cassidy Puckett), American Sociological Association, Denver, CO 2012 Becoming a Tweep: How Prior Online Experiences Influence Twitter Use (with Eden Litt), American Sociological Association, Denver, CO 2012 Biases that Result from Site Activity as Data Source, Methodological Challenges of Researching Social Media, Phoenix, AZ 2012 The Internet, Young Adults, and Political Engagement around the 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections (with Aaron Shaw), Phoenix, AZ 2012 Tweets for All? The Relationship between Prior News Interest and Social Media Adoption (with Eden Litt), International Communication Association, Boston, MA 2011 Text Messaging as a Method of Data Collection (with Chris Karr), International Communication Association, Boston, MA 2011 Searching for Plan B: Using the Internet to Find Information about Emergency Contraception (with Heather Young), International Communication Association, Boston, MA 2011 Taming the Information Tide: Americans Thoughts on Information Overload, Polarization and Social Media (with W.Russell Neuman & Olivia Curry), International Communication Association, Boston, MA 2011 Communication Multiplexity: An Alternative Theoretical Approach to the Relationship Between Social Capital and Internet Use (with Yuli Patrick Hsieh), International Communication Association, Boston, MA 2011 An Obama Effect? The Internet, Young Adults and Political Engagement (with Aaron Shaw), Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 2011 Taming the Information Tide: Americans Thoughts on Information Overload, Polarization and Social Media (with W. Russell Neuman, Olivia Curry), Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 2011 Sociological Implications of Communication Multiplexity (with Yuli Patrick Hsieh), American Sociological Association, Atlanta, 2010 Mechanisms of Stratification in Job Market Entry: Predictors of College Students Job and Career Information-Seeking Behavior (with Cassidy Puckett), Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, 2010 Five Years Out. Human Communication Technology Division, National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 2009 Online Credibility Assessment: The Case of Wikipedia (with Ericka Menchen-Trevino), Association of Internet Researchers, Milwaukee, WI, 2009 Young Adults News Consumption in the Age of Blogs (with Nicole Joseph), Association of Internet Researchers, Milwaukee, WI, 2009 Voices of Many or a Few? Predicting Active Engagement with Participatory Web Sites, Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Arlington, VA, 2009 The Role of Skill in Internet Use, Beyond Broadband Access: Data-Based Information Policy for a New Administration, The New America Foundation, Washington, DC, 2009 From Bowling to Poking: Building Social Capital On and Offline, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, 2009

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 16 Trust on the Web: How Young Adults Judge The Credibility of Online Content (with Lindsay Fullerton, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Kristin Thomas), International Communication Assn, Chicago, IL, 2009 Top 2 Faculty Paper (out of 228 submissions), Communication and Technology Division The Skill Divide in Internet Use, International Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 2009 A Typology of Social Network Site Users, International Communication Assn, Chicago, IL, 2009 Trust Online, Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Arlington, VA, 2008 A Typology of Social Networking Site Users: From Samplers to Connoisseurs (with Patrick Hsieh), American Sociological Association, Boston, MA, 2008 Eleven Dimensions of Digital Media Uses: A Conceptual and Empirical Investigation, National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 2007 Expressions of Creativity in a Digital Age (with Gina Walejko), Association of Internet Researchers, Vancouver, Canada, 2007 Pathways to Music Exploration in a Digital Age (with Steven Tepper), American Sociological Association, New York City, NY, 2007 Wikis and Widgets: Differences in Young Adults Internet Uses, International Communication Association, San Francisco, CA, 2007 Young Adults News Consumption Online, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 2007 Creating Popular Culture: The Difference Gender Makes (with Gina Walejko), Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, IL, 2007 Differences in Young Adults Internet Uses, American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada, 2006 Cross-Ideological Discussions among top Conservative and Liberal Bloggers, American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada, 2006 Why Use the Internet? Explaining Reasons for Non-Adoption and Adoption Among Older Adults (with Jeremy Freese), Wisconsin Longitudinal Study Meeting, Madison, WI, 2006 Differences in Young Adults Internet Uses, National Communication Association, Boston, MA, 2005 21st Century Digital Inequality: Differences in Young Adults Online Behavior, Association of Internet Researchers, Chicago, IL, 2005 Mapping the Political Blogosphere, Association of Internet Researchers, Chicago, IL, 2005 Invited Discussant on Digital Inequality Panel, American Sociological Association annual meetings, Philadelphia, PA, 2005 Music, Mavens and Technology (with Steven Tepper), American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA, 2005 New Dimensions of the Digital Inequality: Differences in Young Adults Use of the Internet (with Amanda Hinnant), Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Budapest, Hungary, 2005 Gender Differences in Actual and Perceived Online Skills, International Communication Association, New York, NY, 2005 The Online Skill Divide: How Search Engine Use Influences What Material People Access On the Web, International Communication Association, New York, NY, 2005 New Dimensions of the Digital Divide: Differences in Young Adults Use of the Internet (with Amanda Hinnant)

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 17 International Communication Association, New York City, NY, 2005 Analyzing Large-Scale Political Conversations (with Jason Gallo and Sean Zehnder), Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 2005 New Dimensions of the Digital Divide: Differences in Young Adults Use of the Internet (with Amanda Hinnant), General Online Research, Zurich, Switzerland, 2005 New Dimensions of the Digital Divide: Differences in Young Adults Use of the Internet (with Amanda Hinnant), Eastern Sociological Society, Washington, DC, 2005 Have You Tried This Yet? How College Students Sample New Music and Books (with Steven Tepper), Eastern Sociological Society, Washington, DC, 2005 Panelist, Can Blogs Influence Public Policy?, Eastern Sociological Society, Washington, DC, 2005 Panelist, Moving Forward/Looking Back: New Perspectives on the Digital Divide, National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 2004 Explaining Differences in Peoples Web-Use Skills, National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, 2004 How Users Navigate Online Content: Implications for Making the Web Accessible to People with Disabilities Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, Atlanta, GA, 2004 Explaining Differences in Peoples Web-Use Skills, MISRC/CRITO Symposium on the Digital Divide, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2004 What Makes An Expert Searcher? Evidence From User Studies, World Wide Web Conference, New York, NY, 2004 Online Job Searching: New Information on Methods and Skill, Eastern Sociological Society, New York, NY, 2004 Alternative Sociological Careers: Interdisciplinary Departments, Eastern Sociological Society, New York, NY, 2004 Search and You Shall Find? The Effects of Online Commercial Interests on Peoples Ability to Find Content on the Web, Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Alexandria, VA, 2003 Web of Opportunity or Web of Confusion? Differences in Peoples Online Skills, Invited Speaker. St. Francis University, Loretto, PA, 2003 The Second-Level Digital Divide in People's Ability to Use the Web, Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, PA, 2003 Online Gatekeepers: Myth or Reality?, Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Arlington, VA, 2002 Second-Level Digital Divide: Differences in Peoples Ability to Find Information Online, American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL, 2002 The New Digital Inequality: Social Stratification Among Internet Users (with Paul DiMaggio), American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL, 2002 Internet Inequalities: Differences in Peoples Online Skills, Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, MA, 2002 Sociology, The Web And Higher Education: Healthy Synergy Or Three Is A Crowd?, Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, 2002

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 18 Beyond Logs and Surveys: In-Depth Measures of People's Web Use Skills ASIST SIG USE Research Symposium 2001: Effective Methods for Studying Information Seeking and Use Washington, DC, 2001 Second-Level Digital Divide in Internet Use: Mapping Differences in People's Online Skills, Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Arlington, VA, 2001 Social Support Networks and Peoples Level of Web Use, International Network of Social Network Analysis, Budapest, 2001 Web of Opportunity or Web of Confusion? Differences in How People Use the World Wide Web, Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, PA, 2001 How People Locate Content on the World Wide Web, Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC), The 28th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy, Alexandria, VA, 2000 Best Student Papers: Explaining the Differences in Internet Connectivity Among OECD Countries, TPRC, Alexandria, VA, 2000 Untangling the Tangled Net: Symmetry and the Internet, Wenner-Gren Symposium on Symmetry 2000, Stockholm, 2000 Portal Power: Channeling User Attention on the World Wide Web, American Sociological Association, Washington, DC, 2000 Inequality in Access to Information on the Internet, American Sociological Association, Washington, DC, 2000 Open Portals or Closed Gates? Channeling Content on the World Wide Web, International Communications Association, Acapulco, Mexico, 2000 Open Portals or Closed Gates? The Implications of Online Commercial Gatekeepers for a Diverse Cultural Sphere in Cyberspace, Shaping the Network Society: The Future of the Public Sphere in Cyberspace, Seattle, WA, 2000 Access and Inequality on The Internet, American Association of Public Opinion Research, Portland, OR, 2000 Open Portals or Closed Gates? Channeling Content on the World Wide Web, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1999 Weaving the Western Web Explaining Differences in Internet Connectivity Among OECD Countries, First International Graduate Student Retreat for Comparative Research, Los Angeles, CA, 1999 Network Measures of Communication, XIX International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Charleston, SC, 1999 The Pros and Cons of Implementing the Internet in College Teaching, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, 1998 Who Calls Whom? Globalization in International Telecommunication Networks, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, 1998 Reinventing Universal Broadcasting? Parallels Between the Radios and the Internets Early Years, Internet Society, Geneva, Switzerland, 1998 Holes in the Net: The Internet and International Stratification Internet Society, Geneva, Switzerland, 1998

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 19 The Pros and Cons of Implementing the Internet in the Classroom, Making Sense of the Hype, Internet Society, Geneva, Switzerland, 1998 The Internet and International Stratification, American Sociological Association, Toronto, 1997 TEACHING EXPERIENCE

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
Adolescents Digital Media Uses (junior writing seminar) Content Creation and Sharing in a Digital Age (residential college tutorial) Digital Boom or Doom? The Internets Social Implications (first-year seminar) Internet and Society Managing Your Online Reputation Search in a Digital Age (residential college tutorial) Several independent studies projects

SENIOR THESIS SUPERVISED

Mobile Social Network Site Users and Online Privacy, 2013-14 (Jenn Suh) Gender Differences in Web Search Behavior, 2008-09 (Jason Bornstein)

GRADUATE COURSES
Intellectual Issues in Media, Technology and Society Social Implications of Communication and Information Technologies Internet Skills: Theory, Methods and Measures Research Methods on Internet and Society The Practice of Scholarship Introduction to Methods in Mass Communication Research Internet and Society (at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland) Capturing Digital Inequality (at the University of Queensland, Australia) Over a dozen independent studies projects

DISSERTATION COMMITTEE CHAIR

Erin Klawitter, Media, Technology and Society, current Eden Litt, Media, Technology and Society, current Amanda Hinnant, Media, Technology and Society (defended in 2006, Assistant Prof, Univ. Missouri)

DISSERTATION COMMITTEES
Courtney Blackwell, Media, Technology and Society, current Yuli Patrick Hsieh, Media, Technology and Society, current Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Media, Technology and Society (defended in 2012, Assistant Professor, ITU, Denmark) Su Jung Kim, Media, Technology and Society (defended in 2011, Post-doctoral fellow, Medill School, Northwestern University) Gina Walejko, Media, Technology and Society (defended in 2010, Researcher, Science and Technology Policy Institute) David Huffaker, Media, Technology and Society (defended in 2009, Researcher, Google) Elaine Yuan, Media, Technology and Society (defended in 2007, Assistant Prof. Univ. Illinois, Chicago) Gibb Pritchard, Sociology (defended in 2004)

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EXTERNAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEES

Giulia Ranzini, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Alexander van Deursen, University of Twente, Netherlands (defended in 2010, Asst Prof, U. Twente)

GENERAL EXAMS SUPERVISED

Technology and Student Achievement (Courtney Blackwell) Internet Skills (Eden Litt) Blog Research (Kristin Thomas) Digital Inequality (Dan Li, Yu-li Patrick Hsieh) Online Credibility Assessment (Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Erin Klawitter) Mixed Methods (Gina Walejko) Online Communities (David Huffaker) Information and Communication Technologies in Historical Comparative Perspective (Elaine Yuan) Health Information Seeking and Exposure (Amanda Hinnant)

SEMINARS IN THE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN COMMUNICATION PROGRAM

Identity Management Online Digital Media and the Workplace How to Find Information Online

OTHER
MENTOR, Digital Media and Learning Hub Summer Institute, Cambridge, MA, 2012 PARTICIPANT, Workshop on Contemplative Practice in Teaching, Smith College, 2005 WORKSHOP LEADER, Social Science Cluster, Assistants in Instructions Orientation Program, Princeton University, Fall, 2002 and Spring, 2003 PARTICIPANT, Master Class in Lecturing, Princeton University, 2001 INSTRUCTOR, Senior Thesis Writers Group, Sociology Department, Princeton University, 2000-01 TEACHING ASSISTANT, New Technologies in Teaching and Research, Summer Graduate Seminar, Princeton University, 1999 PRECEPTOR (TA) for Communications, Culture, and Society (Sociology), Princeton University (Prof. Paul Starr), 1998 TEACHING ASSISTANT, Computer Literacy (Computer Science), Smith College (Prof. Joseph ORourke), 1993-04 LABORATORY ASSISTANT, Evaluating Information (Sociology), Smith College (Prof. Nancy Whittier), 1993-04 Co-organizer of TIPS (Teaching Initiative for Princeton Sociology Graduate Students), 2000-2002, Awarded the American Sociological Association Teaching Enhancement Grant (with Wendy Cadge and Nina Bandelj)

GUEST LECTURER
Youth and Digital Literacy, Childrens Culture (Communication Studies), Northwestern University (Justine Cassell), 2010 The Internet and Social Inequality, The Internet: Issues at the Frontier, Harvard Law School (Jonathan Zittrain and William Fisher), 2009 The Social Context of Digital Media Uses, Theories of Mass Communication (Communication Studies), Northwestern University (Jim Ettema), 2007

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 21 Blogs, Theories of Mass Communication (Communication Studies), Northwestern University (Jim Ettema), 2006 Digital Inequality, Theories of Mass Communication (Communication Studies), Northwestern University (Jim Ettema), 2005 The Digital Divide: Differences in Web use skills, Information Technology and Society (Center for Human Values Freshmen Seminar), Princeton University (Paul DiMaggio, Sociology & David Dobkin, Computer Science), 2002 The Digital Divide, Communication, Culture and Society (Sociology), Princeton University (Paul Starr), 2002 Efficient Web Searching, Scholars in Schools Program, Princeton University (invited talks to high school students), Spring, 2002 The Social Aspects of Information Technologies, Computers and Computing (Computer Science) Princeton University (Perry Cook), 2002 The Social Aspects of Information Technologies, The Wireless Revolution: Telecommunications for the 21st Century (Electrical Engineering) Princeton University (Vincent Poor), 2001 The Social Aspects of Information Technologies, Computers In Our World (Computer Science) Princeton University (Brian Kernighan), 2000 The Diffusion of Communication Technologies, The Wireless Revolution: Telecommunications for the 21st Century (Electrical Engineering) Princeton University (Vincent Poor), 2000 Personal Identity in Computer-Mediated Environments, The Social Basis of Individual Behavior (Sociology) Princeton University (Abigail Saguy), 2000 Free Speech and the Internet, The Internet (Computer Science) Smith College (Joseph ORourke), 1998

ADVISORY BOARD AND ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP MEMBER, Board of Directors, TPRC, 2013-2015 MEMBER, Advisory Committee, Why News Matters, The McCormick Foundation, 2013-2015 MEMBER, The Institute for Transformative Learning, University of Texas, 2012-present MEMBER, Web Foundation Web Index Science Council, 2011-present MEMBER, Advisory Board, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University, 2010-present MEMBER, Princeton Technology Advisory Council, 2008-present PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIP

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 2013-present Social Science Computer Review, 2013-present International Journal of Communication, 2010-present Communication Research, 2010-present Policy & Internet, 2010-present Information, Communication and Society, 2010-present Science, Technology, Culture Series, UMass Press, 2008-present Poetics, 2008-present New Media & Society, 2006-present

REVIEWING & REFEREEING

(Many of these multiple times): American Journal of Sociology American Sociological Review

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 22 Communication Methods and Measures Communication Research Computers and Education First Monday Gender and Society Imprints Information, Communication and Society International Journal of Communication International Journal of Internet Science Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Journal of Medical Internet Research Journal of the Association of Information Science and Technology Journal of the Association of Information Systems New Media & Society Organization Science Poetics Public Opinion Quarterly Research Policy Social Problems Sociological Focus Sociological Forum Sociological Perspectives Sociological Methods and Research Social Science Computer Review Social Science Quarterly Telecommunications Policy The Information Society The Internet and Higher Education The Sociological Quarterly MIT Press Oxford University Press Princeton University Press University of Michigan Press Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Dutch Social Science Research Council Hewlett Foundation John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Spencer Foundation National Science Foundation Tenure and promotion cases at various universities

SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

CHAIR, OUTSTANDING YOUNG SCHOLAR AWARD COMMITTEE, International Communication Association, 2012 MEMBER, OUTSTANDING YOUNG SCHOLAR AWARD COMMITTEE, International Communication Association, 2011 MEMBER, LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD COMMITTEE, Communication and Information Technology Section of the American Sociological Association, 2011

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 23 MEMBER, Ad Hoc Committee on Fair Use and Academic Freedom, International Communication Association, 2009-10 AWARD COMMITTEE CHAIR, Student Paper Award, ASA Section on Comm & Info Tech, 2010 LIAISON COMMITTEE, International Communication Association, 2008-09 LIAISON COMMITTEE, International Communication Association, 2007-08 AWARD COMMITTEE, Lifetime Achievement Award, ASA Section on Comm & Info Tech, 2005 TASK FORCE TO REVISE ASA AREAS OF INTEREST, American Sociological Association, 2002-present WEB SITE USER GROUP, American Sociological Association, 2002-05 CHAIR, GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZE COMMITTEE, Sociology and Computers Section of the American Sociological Association, 2002 COUNCIL MEMBER, Sociology and Computers Section, American Sociological Association, 2000-02 COMPUTER COMMITTEE, Eastern Sociological Society, 2002-03 AD HOC COMMITTEE TO RENAME AND REDEFINE, Sociology and Computers Section, American Sociological Association, 2001

CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEES

ORGANIZER, Privacy in the Digital Age Session, American Sociological Assn annual meetings, 2011 PROGRAM COMMITTEE, Telecommunication Policy Research Conference, 2008-09 LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, International Communication Association Annual Meeting, 2008-09 PROGRAM COMMITTEE, Telecommunication Policy Research Conference, 2007-08 PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER, 3rd International Conference on Communities & Technologies, 2007 ORGANIZER, Internet & Society Regular Sessions, American Sociological Assn annual meetings, 2006 ORGANIZER, Internet & Society Mini-Conference, Eastern Sociological Society annual meetings, 2005 PROGRAM COMMITTEE, American Sociological Association Section on Comm & Info Tech, 2004 PROGRAM COMMITTEE, Telecommunication Policy Research Conference, 2002-03 UNIVERSITY SERVICE

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY LEVEL MEMBER, Faculty Advisory Committee, Web Site Redesign, Institute for Policy Research, 2012 MEMBER, University Library Committee, 2010-2013 FACULTY AMBASSADOR, Residential Colleges, 2010-11 MEMBER, Screening Committee, Dean of The Graduate School, 2010 MEMBER, Strategic Planning Group on Teaching, Learning and Assessment, 2010 FACULTY FELLOW, Communication Residential College, 2003-present FIRESIDE CHAT, 2007 FIRESIDE CHAT, 2004 MODERATOR & CO-ORGANIZER, The Good Society Symposium, Kaplan Humanities Scholars Program, 2008 DOMAIN DINNER PANELIST, What (and Where) is Truth in the Digital Age?, 2004 SCHOOL AND DEPARTMENTAL LEVEL CHAIRS ADVISORY COMMITTEE, Communication Studies Department, 2012-13 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, Media, Technology and Society Ph.D. Program, 2011-13 SEARCH COMMITTEE, Technology and Social Behavior Program, 2011-12 AD HOC COMMITTEE ON THE FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE, 2010-11 DEPARTMENTAL REPRESENTATIVE, Wildcat Days (Undergraduate recruitment), 2011 FACULTY MENTOR to Junior Faculty Member, 2009-present

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 24 SEARCH COMMITTEE, 2010 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS COMMITTEE, 2010 PLANNING GROUP FOR NEW SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION MASTERS PROGRAM, 2009-10 UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM COMMITTEE, 2009-10 PANELIST, Preview NU (Undergraduate recruitment), 2010 SPEAKER, Century Scholars Program, 2007 PANELIST, Preview NU (Undergraduate recruitment), 2006 PANELIST, Preview NU (Undergraduate recruitment), 2005 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS COMMITTEE, 2008 ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE , Media, Technology and Society PhD Program, 2007-08 SEARCH COMMITTEE, 2007-08 ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE , Media, Technology and Society PhD Program, 2006-07 SEARCH COMMITTEE, 2005-06 ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE , Media, Technology and Society PhD Program, 2005-06 UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM REVIEW COMMITTEE, 2004-05 SPEAKER, Lambda Pi Eta (Communication Honor Society) Welcome Lunch, 2005 ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE , Media, Technology and Society PhD Program, 2004-05 COMMITTEE ON FRESHMEN SEMINARS, 2003-04 ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE , Media, Technology and Society PhD Program, 2003-04

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY LEVEL MEMBER, Executive Committee, Alumni Council, Princeton University, 2000-2001 CHAIR, Princeton University Graduate Student Government, 1999-2000 MEMBER, Board of Governors, Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni, 1999-2000 MEMBER, Executive Committee, Council of the Princeton University Community, 1999-2000 PRESS SECRETARY, Graduate Student Union (what has since become the GSG), 1997-1999 MEMBER, Committee on Rights and Rules of the Council of the Princeton University Community, 1998-1999, 2000-2001 MEMBER, Review Committee for the Princeton University Information Technology Resources and Internet Access Guidelines, 2000-2001 GRADUATE FELLOW, Forbes College, Princeton University, 2001-2003 GRADUATE FELLOW, Center for Jewish Life, Princeton University, 2000-2002 GRADUATE FELLOW, Wilson College, Princeton University, 1997-2000 DEPARTMENTAL LEVEL ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE MEMBER, Graduate Program, Sociology Department, 1999, 2001 SENIOR COHORT REPRESENTATIVE, Graduate Student Advisory Committee, Sociology, 2001 DEPARTMENTAL REPRESENTATIVE, Graduate Student Union, 1997-1999 LANGUAGE SKILLS ENGLISH, HUNGARIAN Bilingual FRENCH Advanced GERMAN Intermediate Previous study of ITALIAN, JAPANESE, RUSSIAN, SPANISH PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Sociological Association

ESZTER HARGITTAI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY :: 25 Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility International Communication Association Midwest Political Science Association PRESS COVERAGE Live appearances include CNNfn, WTTW Chicago Tonight, WGN radio, various radio stations (e.g., Jeff Farias show, Canadian radio stations such as CBC); print media coverage includes The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, L.A. Times, San Jose Mercury News, The Washington Post, USA Today, Seattle Times, TimeOut Chicago, Womens Health magazine, Cosmopolitan magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed and many others including international publications. See links to coverage here: http://webuse.org/press