Ensuring Equitable Access to Knowledge
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“Ensuring Equitable Access to Knowledge: The Role of Academic Libraries in the 21st Century”
by Eszter Hargittai 96
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 4:30 p.m.
Neilson Browsing Room
Smith College
Eszter Hargittai will discuss her research into skill differences and the digital-social divide in Internet use among students. Hargittai is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University where she heads the Web Use Project. She received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University in 2003. Her dissertation, How Wide a Web? Inequalities in Accessing Information Online won the National Communication Associations G.R. Miller Dissertation Award in 2004. Hargittai continues to conduct research on the Internet and the social and policy implications of information technologies. She has also studied the evolution of search engines and the organization and presentation of online content, political uses of information technologies, and how IT are influencing the types of cultural products people consume.
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