Eszter Hargittai

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Eszter Hargittai is affiliated with the following schools: University of Zurich, University of Pennsylvania, University of Maryland, College Park, Northwestern University , Smith College, Northwestern University, Princeton University

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#1060

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#378

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PhD Sociology Princeton University
Masters Sociology Princeton University

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According to Wikipedia, Eszter Hargittai is a communication studies scholar and Professor at the University of Zurich. Biography She holds a BA in Sociology from Smith College and a PhD in Sociology from Princeton University where she was a Wilson Scholar.

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Social Implications of the Internet (2001) (1774)
Second-Level Digital Divide: Differences in People's Online Skills (2002) (1471)
Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites (2007) (1320)
Digital Na(t)ives? Variation in Internet Skills and Uses among Members of the “Net Generation”* (2010) (1235)
From the 'Digital Divide' to 'Digital Inequality': Studying Internet Use as Penetration Increases (2001) (811)
Excerpts from “Digital Inequality: From Unequal Access to Differentiated Use” (2004) (721)
THE PARTICIPATION DIVIDE: Content creation and sharing in the digital age1 (2008) (712)
Differences in Actual and Perceived Online Skills: The Role of Gender* (2006) (684)
Digital Inequality (2008) (672)
Facebook privacy settings: Who cares? (2010) (557)
Digital Distinction: Status-Specific Types of Internet Usage (2009) (547)
Differences in Young Adults' Use of the Internet (2008) (540)
Weaving the Western Web: explaining differences in Internet connectivity among OECD countries (1999) (484)
Survey Measures of Web-Oriented Digital Literacy (2005) (411)
The disability divide in internet access and use (2006) (396)
A review of Internet use among older adults (2018) (350)
Trust Online: Young Adults' Evaluation of Web Content (2010) (321)
The Digital Divide and What to Do About It (2003) (294)
Facebook and Academic Performance: Reconciling a Media Sensation with Data (2009) (284)
Cross-ideological discussions among conservative and liberal bloggers (2007) (280)
The Digital Reproduction of Inequality (2008) (255)
Succinct Survey Measures of Web-Use Skills (2012) (236)
From internet access to internet skills: digital inequality among older adults (2019) (228)
Is Bigger Always Better? Potential Biases of Big Data Derived from Social Network Sites (2015) (223)
The tweet smell of celebrity success: Explaining variation in Twitter adoption among a diverse group of young adults (2011) (222)
The Imagined Audience on Social Network Sites (2016) (204)
An Update on Survey Measures of Web-Oriented Digital Literacy (2009) (203)
“What Can I Really Do?” Explaining the Privacy Paradox with Online Apathy (2016) (193)
NEW SOCIAL SURVEY PERSPECTIVES ON THE DIGITAL DIVIDE (2003) (193)
Beyond logs and surveys: In-depth measures of people's web use skills (2002) (190)
Health Information-Seeking in the Digital Age (2011) (189)
PREDICTORS AND CONSEQUENCES OF DIFFERENTIATED PRACTICES ON SOCIAL NETWORK SITES (2010) (155)
Old Dogs, New Clicks: Digital Inequality in Skills and Uses among Older Adults (2017) (147)
Changes in Digital Communication During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic: Implications for Digital Inequality and Future Research (2020) (147)
Mind the skills gap: the role of Internet know-how and gender in differentiated contributions to Wikipedia (2015) (144)
Internet Access and Use in Context (2004) (135)
From the 'digital divide' to 'digital inequality' (2001) (134)
An Evolving Gender Digital Divide? (2004) (127)
Potential Biases in Big Data: Omitted Voices on Social Media (2018) (126)
Inquiring Minds Acquiring Wellness: Uses of Online and Offline Sources for Health Information (2012) (122)
Unrealized potential: Exploring the digital disability divide (2016) (121)
Cognitive ability and Internet use among older adults (2006) (120)
Digitally Savvy Citizenship: The Role of Internet Skills and Engagement in Young Adults' Political Participation around the 2008 Presidential Election (2013) (118)
Open portals or closed gates? Channeling Content on the World Wide Web (2000) (114)
Second-Level Digital Divide: Mapping Differences in People's Online Skills (2001) (105)
Why parents help their children lie to Facebook about age: Unintended consequences of the 'Children's Online Privacy Protection Act' (2011) (99)
Second-level digital divide (2002) (99)
The Social, Political, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions of Search Engines: An Introduction (2007) (79)
YOUNG ADULTS' CREDIBILITY ASSESSMENT OF WIKIPEDIA (2011) (78)
Pathways to Music Exploration in a Digital Age (2009) (77)
Connected and concerned: Variation in parents' online safety concerns (2013) (76)
How good is good enough for COVID19 apps? The influence of benefits, accuracy, and privacy on willingness to adopt (2020) (71)
Informed Web Surfing: The Social Context of User Sophistication (2003) (71)
A framework for studying differences in people’s digital media uses (2007) (67)
New Strategies for Employment? Internet Skills and Online Privacy Practices during People's Job Search (2013) (66)
Classifying and Coding Online Actions (2004) (66)
Smile, snap, and share? A nuanced approach to privacy and online photo-sharing (2014) (66)
Taming the Information Tide: Perceptions of Information Overload in the American Home (2012) (62)
Digital inequality in communication during a time of physical distancing: The case of COVID-19 (2021) (62)
How Do Young Adults Engage With Science and Research on Social Media? Some Preliminary Findings and an Agenda for Future Research (2018) (58)
The Pipeline of Online Participation Inequalities: The Case of Wikipedia Editing (2018) (58)
Who Doesn’t Trust Fauci? The Public’s Belief in the Expertise and Shared Values of Scientists in the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020) (57)
Hurdles to Information Seeking: Spelling and Typographical Mistakes During Users' Online Behavior (2006) (55)
Americans' willingness to adopt a COVID-19 tracking app The role of app distributor (2020) (50)
Toward a Social Framework for Information Seeking (2006) (46)
From Dabblers to Omnivores: A Typology of Social Network Site Usage (2010) (44)
“It’s Like Learning a Whole Other Language": The Role of Algorithmic Skills in the Curation of Creative Goods (2018) (44)
A bumpy ride on the information superhighway: Exploring turbulence online (2014) (42)
Staying connected while physically apart: Digital communication when face-to-face interactions are limited (2021) (40)
Meaningful measures of human society in the twenty-first century (2021) (40)
The Changing Online Landscape: From Free-for-All to Commercial Gatekeeping: Local Actions/Global Interaction (2004) (38)
The Online Participation Divide (2016) (37)
Nothing to hide, nothing to lose? Incentives and disincentives to sharing information with institutions online (2019) (37)
SERVING CITIZENS' NEEDS: MINIMIZING ONLINE HURDLES TO ACCESSING GOVERNMENT INFORMATION (2003) (36)
Internet Skills and Why They Matter (2019) (36)
Radio's lessons for the Internet (2000) (31)
BECOMING A TWEEP (2012) (30)
“He Explained It to Me and I Also Did It Myself”: How Older Adults Get Support with Their Technology Uses (2019) (30)
The role of expertise in navigating links of influence (2008) (30)
Black box measures? How to study people’s algorithm skills (2020) (28)
Older Adults’ Online Information Seeking and Subjective Well-Being: The Moderating Role of Internet Skills (2019) (27)
(Mis)informed During COVID-19: How Education Level and Information Sources Contribute to Knowledge Gaps (2021) (27)
Comparing Internet Experiences and Prosociality in Amazon Mechanical Turk and Population-Based Survey Samples (2020) (27)
Will Americans be willing to install COVID-19 tracking apps? (2020) (24)
Open doors, closed spaces? Differentiated adoption of social network sites by user background (2013) (24)
Old Dogs, New Clicks: Digital Inequality in Internet Skills and Uses among Older Adults (2017) (24)
Introduction: Defining a Global Geography (2001) (24)
“Just Cast the Net, and Hopefully the Right Fish Swim into It”: Audience Management on Social Network Sites (2016) (23)
When Should We Use Real Names in Published Accounts of Internet Research (2016) (23)
Phone calls and fax machines: The limits to globalization (1999) (22)
Do you "google"? Understanding search engine use beyond the hype (2004) (21)
Research Confidential: Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend They Never Have (2009) (19)
Older adults’ online social engagement and social capital: the moderating role of Internet skills (2020) (19)
“Disadvantaged in the American-dominated Internet”: Sex, Work, and Technology (2020) (18)
Shortcuts to Well Being? Evaluating the Credibility of Online Health Information through Multiple Complementary Heuristics (2018) (17)
The Prevalence of Smartphone Use Among a Wired Group of Young Adults (WP-11-01) (2011) (17)
Searching for a “Plan B”: Young Adults' Strategies for Finding Information about Emergency Contraception Online (2012) (15)
Content diversity online: Myth or reality? (2006) (14)
Unsung helpers: older adults as a source of digital media support for their peers (2020) (14)
From Dot-Edu to Dot-Com: Predictors of College Students' Job and Career Information Seeking Online (2012) (14)
The Proliferation of the “News Finds Me” Perception Across Societies (2020) (12)
Standing before the portals: non‐profit Websites in an age of commercial gatekeepers (2000) (12)
Privacy Management on Facebook: Do Device Type and Location of Posting Matter? (2015) (12)
Quantitative Description of Digital Media (2021) (12)
Algorithm Awareness as an Important Internet Skill: The Case of Voice Assistants (2021) (11)
How Good is Good Enough? Quantifying the Impact of Benefits, Accuracy, and Privacy on Willingness to Adopt COVID-19 Decision Aids (2021) (11)
How to Think about Digital Research (2016) (11)
Serving Citizens' Needs: Minimizing Hurdles to Accessing Government Information Online * (2003) (11)
Chapter 1: “I Went Home to Google”: How Users Assess the Credibility of Online Health Information (2018) (11)
Hurdles to Information Seeking: Explaining Spelling and Typographical Mistakes in Users' Online Search Behavior (2006) (11)
A Need for Considering Digital Inequality When Studying Social Media Use and Well-Being (2022) (10)
A methodological pilot for gathering data through text-messaging to study question-asking in everyday life (2018) (9)
Music, mavens, and technology (2012) (9)
Piercing the Pandemic Social Bubble: Disability and Social Media Use About COVID-19 (2021) (8)
Help wanted: young adults’ sources of support for questions about digital media (2019) (8)
Trading spaces: How and why older adults disconnect from and switch between digital media (2021) (8)
People with Disabilities During COVID-19 (2020) (8)
Read/Write the Digital Archive: Strategies for Historical Web Research (2016) (7)
Biases of Online Political Polls: Who Participates? (2018) (6)
The Art of Web Crawling for Social Science Research (2016) (6)
The Ethnographic Study of Visual Culture in the Age of Digitization (2016) (6)
Division of digital labor: Partner support for technology use among older adults (2022) (5)
The relationship between childhood rules about technology use and later-life academic achievement among young adults (2018) (5)
Inequality in online job searching in the age of social media (2021) (5)
Online social engagement, depression, and anxiety among older adults (2021) (5)
WAT R U DOIN? Studying the Thumb Generation Using Text Messaging (2009) (4)
Digital Research Confidential: The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online (2015) (4)
From Zero to a National Data Set in 2 Weeks: Reflections on a COVID-19 Collaborative Survey Project (2020) (4)
Do you google (2004) (4)
New Dimensions of the Digital Divide: Differences in Young Adults Internet Uses (2006) (4)
Trust on the Web: How Young Adults Judge the Credibility of Online Content (TOP 2 Faculty Paper) (2009) (3)
New Phone, Who Dis? Modeling Millennials’ Backup Behavior (2018) (3)
Characterizing the Online Learning Landscape (2021) (3)
Persisting Effects of Internet Skills on Online Participation (2014) (3)
Birds of a Feather Flock Together Online: Digital Inequality in Social Media Repertoires (2021) (2)
Whose data traces, whose voices? Inequality in online participation and why it matters for recommendation systems research (2019) (2)
Relationship Between Internet Use and Change in Health Status: Panel Study of Young Adults (2021) (2)
Age-Related Differences in Home Experiences and Worries During COVID-19 (2020) (2)
How does Internet use relate to change in health status? A panel study of young adults (Preprint) (2020) (2)
Big Data, Big Problems, Big Opportunities: Using Internet Log Data to Conduct Social Network Analysis Research (2016) (2)
The Internet, Young Adults, and Political Engagement Around the 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections (2011) (2)
Some Clarifications on the Facebook-GPA Study and Karpinski's Response (2009) (1)
Flash Mobs and the Social Life of Public Spaces: Analyzing Online Visual Data to Study New Forms of Sociability (2016) (1)
Participation inequality in the gig economy (2022) (1)
The success of contact tracing doesn't just depend on privacy (2020) (1)
Overwhelmed and Underinformed? How Americans Keep Up with Current Events in the Age of Social Media (WP-11-02) (2011) (1)
Generous Attitudes and Online Participation (2021) (1)
Expanding the Pipeline, CRAW Database Aids Academic Recruiters: Computing Research News (1994) (1)
Research Exposed (2021) (1)
Voices of Many or a Few? Predicting Active Engagement with Participatory Web Sites (2009) (1)
'What Can I Really Do?': Explaining Online Apathy and the Privacy Paradox (2015) (1)
The value of face-to-face communication in the digital world: What people miss about in-person interactions when those are limited (2022) (1)
Letter to the Editor: Technology Review (2001) (0)
Gatorade's Twitter Miscue Shouldn't Scare Executives (2014) (0)
Please do NOT distribute or post this document on any Web sites. This is a pre-print copy of the chapter forthcoming in “Media Diversity and Localism: Meanings and Metrics" edited by Philip Napoli. CONTENT DIVERSITY ONLINE: MYTH (2005) (0)
Making Sense of Teen Life: Strategies for Capturing Ethnographic Data in a Networked Era (2016) (0)
Untangling the Tangled Net: Symmetry and the Internet (2002) (0)
Social Capital and Communication Multiplexity in Social Relationship Maintenance: An Alternative Theoretical Approach (2010) (0)
Conference Do's and Don't's: Inside Higher Ed (2009) (0)
Social Software as Social Science (2016) (0)
Life Beyond Google: BBC News Online (2004) (0)
Hired Hands and Dubious Guesses: Adventures in Crowdsourced Data Collection (2016) (0)
The importance of algorithm skills for informed Internet use (2023) (0)
Content Diversity Online: Myth or Reality?: Meaning and Metrics (2007) (0)
Cache me if you can: Contexts (2010) (0)
Channeling Content on the World Wide Web (2003) (0)
Why would anyone distrust Anthony Fauci (2020) (0)
Young Adults’ News Consumption in a Digital Age (2009) (0)
Uses among Members of the ‘ ‘ Net Generation ’ ’ * Digital Na ( t ) ives ? Variation in Internet Skills and (2010) (0)
The Conference Scene: Inside Higher Ed (2009) (0)
“Doesn’t Seem Like a Place to Interact, or Interact Well”: Motivations to Discuss (and Not) Science and Religion on Social Media (2023) (0)
DIGITAL INEQUALITY IN OLDER ADULTS’ ONLINE SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT AND SOCIAL CAPITAL (2019) (0)
Will the government's inevitable regulation reflect the Net's historic egalitarian, democratic, all-welcoming view of information? (2000) (0)
This is the pre-print copy of a chapter in Grusky, David. 2008. Social Stratification. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. Do not distribute on any mailing lists or post on any Web site. The Digital Reproduction of Inequality (2008) (0)
Music, Mavens and Technology: The Next Great Transformation in America's Cultura (2008) (0)
Public Speaking Do's and Don't's: Lifehacker (2006) (0)
Working Paper Series , 10 Open Portals or Closed Gates ? Channeling Content on the World Wide Web (2003) (0)
Eszter Hargittai (Ed.), Research Exposed: How Empirical Social Science Gets Done in the Digital Age (2020) (0)
Introduction (2001) (0)
Digital Inequality and COVID-19 Knowledge (2022) (0)
Technology, Older Adult Users and Assistive Devices (2018) (0)
Misinformation Paradox (2022) (0)
Communication Multiplexity: An Alternative Theoretical Approach to the Relationship Between Social Capital and Internet Use (2011) (0)
Job Search Online: Special Privilege or a Resource for All? (2015) (0)
Searching for “Plan B”: Using the Internet to Find Information About Emergency Contraception (2011) (0)
Becoming a Tweep: The Relationship of Prior Online Experiences and Twitter Adoption (2011) (0)
I Do Help: Older Adults as Digital Media Support Providers for Their Peers (2020) (0)
Search and You Shall Find? The Effects of Online Commercial Interests on People's Ability to Find Content on the Web (2003) (0)
Channeling Content on the World Wide Web s (2003) (0)
Surviving the Job Market: Network News, Sociologists for Women in Society (2003) (0)
More than Merit: Inside Higher Ed (2009) (0)
“HE EXPLAINED IT TO ME AND I ALSO DID IT MYSELF”: HOW OLDER ADULTS GET HELP WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY (2019) (0)
Introduction to American Behavioral Scientist Special Issue on “ Mapping Globalization ” 1 Defining a Global Geography (0)
Cache Me if You Can (2010) (0)
Taming the Information Tide: Americans’ Thoughts on Information Overload, Polarization, and Social Media (2011) (0)
Relationship Between Internet Use and Change in Health Status: Panel Study of Young Adults (Preprint) (2020) (0)
How can the Internet continue to live up to expectations regarding its democratic and egalitarian treatment of information ? (1999) (0)
Social Implications of the Internet (Translated into Spanish, special issue on “Digital Divide and Digital Inequality”) (2017) (0)
Actual versus Perceived Online Abilities: The Difference Gender Makes (WP-05-09) (2005) (0)
The Case for Collaboration: Inside Higher Ed (2010) (0)
Can you see me now? Video gatherings and social connectedness during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021) (0)
How Local Is User-Generated Content? A 9,000+-Word Essay on Answering a Five-Word Research Question (2016) (0)
Search Engine Popularity - Sources of Confusion (2003) (0)
Demographic Background and Privacy Management (2013) (0)
Introduction: Doing Empirical Social Science Research (2009) (0)
Snap Judgments: How Students Search the Web for Their Rights to Photograph in Public (2012) (0)
Please do NOT distribute or post this document on any Web sites. This is a pre-print copy of the chapter forthcoming in “Media Diversity and Localism: Meanings and Metrics" edited by Philip Napoli. CONTENT DIVERSITY ONLINE: MYTH (2005) (0)
The Academic Traveler: Inside Higher Ed (2009) (0)
T. L. Taylor, Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming (2019) (0)
Series WP-05-09 Actual versus Perceived Online Abilities : The Difference Gender Makes (2005) (0)
Social Implications of the Internet (Translated into Turkish) (2015) (0)
From internet access to internet skills: digital inequality among older adults (2018) (0)
Propelling Joint Projects Forward: Inside Higher Ed (2010) (0)
A Primer on Electronic Communication: Inside Higher Ed (2006) (0)
Online Privacy and Self-Monitoring Index (2014) (0)
Job Search 2.0: Explaining Differences in Young Adults’ Online Job-seeking Practices (2012) (0)

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