Eszter Hargittai

Professor of Internet Use & Society, the University of Zurich

Eszter Hargittai is Professor and holds the Chair of Internet Use and Society at the Department of Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Prior to this appointment, she was the Delaney Family Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where she continues to be affiliated as Adjunct Professor. She has been a fellow in residence at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (2006-07), Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (2008-09), and Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (2022). She has held visiting positions at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), the University of Queensland (Australia), the University of Vienna (Austria), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), and the William Allan Neilson Professorship at Smith College (USA, 2023 and 2024).

Hargittai has published over 140 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters that have been cited over 45,000 times. She is a graduate of The OpEd Project’s Public Voices Fellowship program. She has published opeds in such outlets as The Washington Post, Scientific American, Slate, Wired, The Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, among others.

Hargittai is elected Fellow of the International Communication Association, external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and has received numerous professional awards. In addition to having presented her work across the US, she has also given invited talks in numerous countries on four continents. She has keynoted 24 meetings, given over 180 invited talks, and has presented at countless conferences. 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, Google, Facebook, Nokia, Microsoft Research and Merck, among others.