| Start Date: | 4/21/2014 | Start Time: | 2:00 PM |
| End Date: | 4/21/2014 | End Time: | 3:30 PM |
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Event Description
The Youth Online Research Group at Drexel's College of Computing and Informatics presents:
Copy-Paste Privilege? Systematic Differences in User Background and Internet Skills
A Keynote Lecture by Eszter Hargittai, PhD
Delaney Family Professor, Communication Studies Department
Faculty Associate of the Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University
Monday, April 21, 2014
2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Rush Building, Room 014
30 N. 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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About the Speaker
Eszter Hargittai is Delaney Family Professor in the Communication Studies Department and Faculty Associate of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University where she heads the Web Use Project. She is also Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Hargittai's research looks at how people may benefit from their digital media uses with a particular focus on how differences in people's Web-use skills influence what they do online. She has looked at these questions in the domains of information seeking, health content, political participation, job search, and the sharing of creative content. She has also explored the relationship of people's Internet skills and their online privacy management.
Hargittai's work has received awards from several professional associations including the International Communication Association's Outstanding Young Scholar Award. She has published close to 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and a dozen book chapters. In addition to having presented her work across the US, she has also given invited talks in 15 countries on four continents. Her work has been featured in numerous popular media outlets in the United States and internationally. Her research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Nokia, Google and Facebook, among others. Hargittai is editor of Research Confidential: Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend They Never Have University of Michigan Press 2009),
This talk is sponsored by the Youth Online Research Group at Drexel University's College of Computing & Informatics with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
For more information, visit http://youthonline.ischool.drexel.edu |
Contact Information:
Name: Jennifer Lally
Phone: 2158951077
Email: jl352@drexel.edu |
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Location:
Rush Building, Room 014
30 N. 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104 |
Audience:
Current StudentsFacultyStaffGraduate Students |
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