Eszter Hargittai
Professor of Internet Use & Society, University of Zurich
William Allan Neilson Professor, Smith College (Fall 2024)
Formerly: Northwestern U, Princeton U
eszter.com
- Reposted by Eszter HargittaiThe annual pumpkin display at the entrance of Governor Pritzker’s personal residence on Astor Street. He is the pumpkin king. Illinois produces the most pumpkins, including canned, than any other state in the U.S., twice as many as the next five states combined.
- I'm excited to be part of this panel at Labyrinth Books in Princeton in two weeks
- today I will be discussing Wired Wisdom: How to age better online with Dr. Nina Blachman on SiriusXM channel 110 at 2-3pm US ET @nyudocs.bsky.social
- the book is officially launched :-) had a great time discussing our joint work with @palfrey.org at @bookends.bsky.social last night, wonderful turnout, great questions, fun celebration! bit.ly/wiredwisdom tx @uchicagopress.bsky.social
- Wired Wisdom is now also available in audio format! bit.ly/wiredwisdomaudio
- not sure if this is humblebrag or simply brag, but I just did a 30-minute interview with a journalist from @franceculture.fr in French and was surprised by how well it went (not perfectly, but entirely comprehensibly); I don't know where this comes from given that sadly I never use French these days
- I just love seeing copies of our book out in the world! What a fantastic experience it was to write this with John @palfrey.org. I love the tone that our blended work struck. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
- I have spotted my first few copies of Wired Wisdom out in the wild today!!! Happy Pub day, @eszter.com!!!
- #ica25 the Cultural Complex with the Denver Art Museum & Denver Public Library are super close to the ICA hotels & well worth a visit
- #ica25 grab some yummy food at Civic Center Park, a few blocks from the Hyatt, food trucks there until 2pm Thursday
- I'm hiring for a postdoc! 🌟 pls help spread the word Senior Research and Teaching Associate (PostDoc) with a focus on Internet Use and Society details here: webuse.org/postdoc/
- Reposted by Eszter HargittaiWe are crowd sourcing reductions in graduate admissions and hiring freezes across biomedical research and higher ed in response to pauses in NIH funding and EO’s. If you have information if you could add to this spreadsheet, it would be greatly appreciated!: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
- Reposted by Eszter HargittaiThis is amazing 😍😍 @500womensci.bsky.social has made cards for each state on funding for NSF and NIH avail for download bit.ly/NSF_bystate & bit.ly/NIH_bystate if they are helpful for folks
- I'm so impressed, a school just asked me to do a promotion review due.. not in January.. not in February... but in August! Yes, when you're this on top of it, I can add it to my schedule. (This is not an invitation to send me a bunch of requests, just to clarify. ;-)
- Reposted by Eszter Hargittai🧵Growing outbreaks of vaccine preventable, severe disease in kids: A grim thread “As of Nov 9, which marks the latest data available from the CDC, there were more than 23,500 cases of whooping cough reported so far this year. That’s far and above the roughly 5,000 cases confirmed in all of 2023”
- Reposted by Eszter HargittaiDear #CommSky, please consider submitting your work to this SI and don't hesitate to reach out w questions.
- 🚨We (@alvinyxz.bsky.social, @ewam.bsky.social) are editing a special issue for Computational Communication Research on GenAI! Submissions on GenAI as comm phenomena or research tools are welcome: z.umn.edu/ccrgenai Abstracts due: Dec 31 '24 Full papers: Apr 30 '25 @computationalcommunication.org
- car packed, with fond memories of all those hours playing Tetris in college
- reminder to tell ppl who’ve been a positive force in your life how much you appreciate them: yesterday I had the opportunity to have coffee with my college studio art prof & tell him just how much I appreciated his Design I class (>30 yrs ago), I still think about that class, so inspiring 💙💛
- Reposted by Eszter HargittaiWe strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
- Reposted by Eszter HargittaiWE HAVE LAUNCHED A NEW CLINIC FOR END-OF-LIFE TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT! Led by Dr. Jed Brubaker, our research team at CU Boulder now offers free consultation for anyone doing end-of-life planning for their own data or managing data of their loved ones. Please share! 🎉 www.colorado.edu/today/2024/1...
- Reposted by Eszter HargittaiWe’re hiring at the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab: 6 postdoc fellow positions for 2 yrs in tech & democracy, broadly understood. All disciplines welcome. We sponsor visas, offer research $ and benefits. Join info sessions. Come work with me, apply by Jan 15: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...
- Students working on interview projects? Have them read "Qualitative Sampling and Internet Research" by Lee Humphreys. I just reread it for a reading group yesterday and was reminded of how helpful it is for thinking about sampling with qualitative work. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
- thrilled about the cover of our forthcoming book! ready for pre-order :-) bit.ly/wiredwisdom
- when ppl have way too much money www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/...
- pls help: recruiting Ukrainians in Ukraine ages 60+ to interview Ми шукаємо українців віком 60+, які проживають в Україні, для участі в інтерв'ю-дослідженні про повсякденне користування Інтернетом. Ми проведемо інтерв'ю у відеочаті та заплатимо 300 гривень за участь! Зацікавлені? ✏️ yulia@webuse.org
- PSA: don't submit anything to the Journal of Media & Religion, not clear they are still operational despite their website; journal doesn't use the system, have to email editor who doesn't respond, 4 months wasted, I withdrew the submission (that's a 1st for me)
- I'm looking for studies about whether/to what extent ppl (esp of different ages) are able to detect manipulated videos, any tips?
- I love teaching research methods 😍 - the version where we discuss how research actually gets done using various approaches - I love seeing students' eyes widen as they realize that evaluating how a study is done is crucial to interpreting its results
- we have a great English-language Master's program in Internet & Society in my dept www.ikmz.uzh.ch/en/studies/m... unlike so many MA programs, this is not meant as a money maker, see tuition info attached, pls share & encourage your students to apply www.ikmz.uzh.ch/en/studies/m...
- come join us in one of the highest quality-of-life cities!
- *** Assistant Professorship in Political Communication with Tenure Track *** Our department (IKMZ - University of Zurich) is hiring! More info: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... Thank you for spreading the word and/or applying!
- Reposted by Eszter Hargittai*** Assistant Professorship in Political Communication with Tenure Track *** Our department (IKMZ - University of Zurich) is hiring! More info: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... Thank you for spreading the word and/or applying!
- brilliant
- Reposted by Eszter HargittaiMy hunch is that 2024 will be the year when the AI industry is visited by the Ghost of Napster. AI evangelists keep insisting that old copyright law is going to have to bend to accommodate new technology. They have that backward. (My latest, at Foreign Policy): foreignpolicy.com/2023/12/31/a...
- latest in @journalqd.bsky.social: Community gifting groups on Facebook journalqd.org/article/view...
- serious barf english.elpais.com/science-tech... highly recommend publishing in diamond access journals like @journalqd.bsky.social journalqd.org & supporting such nonprofit initiatives!
- "That was not nearly as much as I knew at 33, which is when we know more than we ever will again." ;-) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
- ✨new paper✨ in JCMC the amazing Hao Nguyen led this work looking at how digital #disconnection links to well-being using experience sampling methods, this takes research on #digitaldetox to a new level academic.oup.com/jcmc/article... #preregistration
- enjoyed this piece in Contexts about color as property journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- Reposted by Eszter Hargittai🏁 3 weeks to go until the submission deadline 🏁 For our conference on "Science Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" 🤖 🧠 in June 2024 in 🇨🇭 Submit your abstract here: conftool.net/aiscicomm24/ Find the CfP here: ikmz.uzh.ch/en/aiscicomm... We look forward to your contributions! 🚀
- Call for Papers SCIENCE COMMUNICATION IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Annual Conference of the SciComm division of German Communication Association June 6/7, 2024 at IKMZ Zurich ikmz.uzh.ch/en/aiscicomm24 Pls apply & distribute! #wisskomm #wissenschaftskommunikation #sciencecommunication
- pls take this survey if you receive an invitation, very important topic
- 🚨 PEER REVIEW STUDY ALERT 🚨 We are about to launch a (very) large-scale survey on peer review in social sciences 150,000+ scholars worldwide will receive an invitation to participate via email. You might be one of them! Wanna know more? peerreviewstudy.com Plz repost!
- Reposted by Eszter Hargittai🚨 PEER REVIEW STUDY ALERT 🚨 We are about to launch a (very) large-scale survey on peer review in social sciences 150,000+ scholars worldwide will receive an invitation to participate via email. You might be one of them! Wanna know more? peerreviewstudy.com Plz repost!
- ✨new paper✨ does political affiliation matter for social media adoption? yes - see details here: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
- protip for researchers creating surveys about academics: add Europe as an option for where person is located; there are too many small countries w/too few profs in certain fields to keep survey anon if you ask for specific country esp after asking for citizenship as well
- only a few days left of the option to get a lifetime subscription to amazingmarvin.com, a genuinely amazing productivity tool
- last leg of a long journey last night, my train ticket put me next to @rginja.bsky.social, it took us about 3 mins to figure out that we are both academics & perhaps another 3 to realize we have a bunch of mutual friends, a lovely way to end a complicated travel itinerary
- CfP for WebSci '24 in Stuttgart, see you there! websci24.org/call-for-pap...
- I’ve received 9 journal referee requests in the past week, most of them from legit journals. I already have four papers in my queue so that’s a no right now. The system is broken.
- Reposted by Eszter HargittaiI'm against anyone threatening journalists and their children, whatever side of the political spectrum they're on. It's a bold position, I know, but I'm comfortable out here on the edge.
- Reposted by Eszter HargittaiTrust & Safety Tycoon trustandsafety.fun (h/t @sachaltay.bsky.social)
- what's a good target journal for a paper that looks at what reasons ppl give for avoiding discussions about science & religion on social media & considers how these vary by science literacy & religiosity (and sociodemographics) @conradhackett.bsky.social any ideas?
- Reposted by Eszter Hargittai"Digital detoxes" are trendy. But who actually does this voluntary disconnection? Minh Hao Nguyen & @eszter.com find that younger, higher educated, more frequent internet users, and those with less dependable access are more likely to voluntarily disconnect doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqad021
- Boney M was singing about how We Kill the World already in 1981 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrFq... .. sad that ppl just don't get it
- Reposted by Eszter HargittaiWe're pleased to announce the @goodauth.bsky.social fellows program for political scientists interested in writing for a public audience. This is a one-year opportunity with a $2500 stipend. Early-career scholars especially encouraged to apply! goodauthority.org/news/good-au...
- Reposted by Eszter HargittaiDani Gilbert explains on @goodauth.bsky.social what we know about hostage crises and why the Gaza situation is different goodauthority.org/news/why-the...
- neat resource if you're trying to figure out a font: www.whatfontis.com
