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Eszter Hargittai

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Eszter Hargittai is a sociologist at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University where she was a Wilson Scholar. She is now 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.

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 is a member of the group blog Crooked Timber.

Her Erdos number is 3.

Notable blog contributions

Hargittai blogs extensively on IT and search services

and on a wide range of other topics

Selected bibliography

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