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  1. Harvard's John Palfrey reviews Eszter Hargittai's methods book Research Confidential http://bit.ly/8lMgFm Thanks @jpalfrey!
  2. coverage of Eszter Hargittai's & Chris Karr's text-messaging study in @chronicle: http://bit.ly/ZRItl
  3. Excited to have received a Google Research Award for a study of how users search for information about complex health matters online.
  4. Piece covering @webuse research is among top 10 most emailed technology articles on NYTimes site: bit.ly/JALO1
  5. Some recent findings about Facebook vs MySpace use among a group of diverse first-year college students: http://bit.ly/IqIbY
  6. Grant from the Hiatt Fund at Northwestern will support project on how different types of people search for jobs in our digital age
  7. New project to be conducted in collaboration with Russell Neuman of the University of Michigan
  8. Grant from Northwestern’s School of Communication Innovations Fund for project on how Americans learn about current events in digital age
  9. Paper "Trust on the Web" received Top 2 Faculty Paper distinction from ICA's CAT division having been rated 2nd from among 228 submissions.
  10. Book cover contest for forthcoming edited volume on Research Confidential has about a day left for submissions: http://is.gd/hOfu
  11. This Fall, Eszter Hargittai gave talks at a workshop at the University of Athens (Greece), the Univ. Zurich and Princeton University
  12. Hargittai & Nicole Joseph received very helpful feedback on their paper about college students' news consumption at Berkman's I&D workshop.
  13. Eszter Hargittai is participating on a panel on Blogging & the Academy at UC Irvine (Public Spheres,Blogospheres meeting:http://is.gd/4D5I )
  14. Eszter Hargittai is presenting a paper on credibility research to the Project Zero team at Harvard's Graduate School of Education today.
  15. We're hiring undergraduate research assistants. Students enrolled at Northwestern and Harvard are eligible. http://eszter.com/wupjob/
  16. Our work is mentioned in the engaging piece "Generational Myth" by Siva Vaidhyanathan in the Chronicle of Higher Ed: http://is.gd/2FWa
  17. Thanks to a recent gift from Nokia Research,we will be able to do more work on the social implications & applications of mobile technologies
  18. Eszter Hargittai is presenting a paper on Social Network Site Typologies @ the Am. Sociological Assn mtngs (co-author:Patrick Hsieh) #asa08
  19. The Web Use Project research group now has a Twitter account to keep people posted of updates.