Eszter Hargittai

The 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.

Graduate Alumni Authors' Roundtable, Many Minds Many Stripes graduate alum conference at Princeton University, event will take place at Labyrinth Books 1:30-3pm

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

photo collage of book launch event for Wired Wisdom by Eszter Hargittai and John Palfrey; photos are of the event at Bookends & Beginnings in Evanston with Eszter and John discussing the book

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: How to Age Better Online by Eszter Hargittai, John Palfrey - Audiobooks on Google Play Wired Wisdom: How to Age Better Online audiobook written by Eszter Hargittai, John Palfrey. AI-narrated by Mary (from Google). Get instant access to all your favorite books. No monthly commitment. Lis...

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

This could make sense, but not when you've already seen it several times and decided not to interact with the post. Why keep pushing it then? The algo needs more tweaking, me thinks.

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...

#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/

Graduate Reductions Across Biomedical Sciences (2025)

We 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...

This 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. ;-)

Whooping cough cases have quintupled. These states have it worst Pertussis – a disease commonly referred to as whooping cough – is spreading quickly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns. The U.S. has seen five times more cases in 2024 than we di…

🧵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”

Dear #CommSky, please consider submitting your work to this SI and don't hesitate to reach out w questions.

Photo of a car trunk with items organized well

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 💙💛

still with my Aeron from over 20 years ago, whenever I'm visiting somewhere & have to use something else, I notice the difference (not good) immediately

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Are your digital affairs in order? A new pro-bono clinic can help CU’s Digital Legacy Clinic helps people take steps to preserve their own legacy or manage the virtual heirlooms of loved ones who have died.

WE 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...

Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Digital Technology for Democracy in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia Apply for Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Digital Technology for Democracy job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Research at University of Virginia

We’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...

cartoon turtle raising its hand in a sea of social media icons and digital devices

here I am! #digitalinequality

Chapter Four Qualitative Sampling and Internet Research Chapter Four Qualitative Sampling and Internet Research was published in Research Exposed on page 78.

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...

thanks so much! we're very excited about the book in general and thrilled about how the cover turned out

thrilled about the cover of our forthcoming book! ready for pre-order :-) bit.ly/wiredwisdom

Most expensive Swiss number plate auctioned off for CHF299,000 At an online auction on Wednesday evening, a person secured the "ZH 24" number plate for CHF299,000.

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?