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  1. New project to be conducted in collaboration with Russell Neuman of the University of Michigan
  2. Grant from Northwestern’s School of Communication Innovations Fund for project on how Americans learn about current events in digital age
  3. Paper "Trust on the Web" received Top 2 Faculty Paper distinction from ICA's CAT division having been rated 2nd from among 228 submissions.
  4. Book cover contest for forthcoming edited volume on Research Confidential has about a day left for submissions: http://is.gd/hOfu
  5. This Fall, Eszter Hargittai gave talks at a workshop at the University of Athens (Greece), the Univ. Zurich and Princeton University
  6. Hargittai & Nicole Joseph received very helpful feedback on their paper about college students' news consumption at Berkman's I&D workshop.
  7. Eszter Hargittai is participating on a panel on Blogging & the Academy at UC Irvine (Public Spheres,Blogospheres meeting:http://is.gd/4D5I )
  8. Eszter Hargittai is presenting a paper on credibility research to the Project Zero team at Harvard's Graduate School of Education today.
  9. We're hiring undergraduate research assistants. Students enrolled at Northwestern and Harvard are eligible. http://eszter.com/wupjob/
  10. Our work is mentioned in the engaging piece "Generational Myth" by Siva Vaidhyanathan in the Chronicle of Higher Ed: http://is.gd/2FWa
  11. Thanks to a recent gift from Nokia Research,we will be able to do more work on the social implications & applications of mobile technologies
  12. Eszter Hargittai is presenting a paper on Social Network Site Typologies @ the Am. Sociological Assn mtngs (co-author:Patrick Hsieh) #asa08
  13. The Web Use Project research group now has a Twitter account to keep people posted of updates.