Lecture on Copy-Paste Privilege

Monday, April 21, 2014

2:00 PM-3:30 PM

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 RSVP for this event at bit.ly/1oEVJxp 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

Jennifer Lally
2158951077
jl352@drexel.edu