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August 2023

From academia to policymaking: Natalie Terčová as Envoy to the ITU, United Nations

Did you know our colleague Natálie Terčová also serves outside academia under the International Telecommunication Union, United Nations? You can read how academia and policymaking go together in this article.

June 2023

Sexual content online: what is the impact on adolescents and what should be the focus of parents? [Czech]

In the context of sexual content on the internet and adolescents, media often talk about drastic pornography and anonymous predators who send sexually explicit messages to adolescents and demand the same material in return. However, research suggests that such cases are relatively rare, and in most cases, adolescents encounter sexual content and so-called sexting in other contexts.

March 2023

What are the characteristics of adolescent mHealth users?

Hayriye Gülec and David Šmahel's latest research focused on adolescents who use so-called mHealth apps, or, in other words, apps that monitor the user's health. Using a representative sample of Czech adolescents, they found that more than half of the respondents use mHealth apps. What are their characteristics? Read today's blog!

February 2023

How effective are parenting strategies when it comes to meeting people online?

In a recently published study, we examined parenting strategies related to adolescents’ online interactions with other people. Some parents tend to be more restrictive, and some try to explain to their children how to stay safe on the internet. But how are those strategies connected to how adolescents behave?

February 2023

Safer Internet Day: Better Internet for Kids? A Closer Look at Adolescents’ Experiences with Cyberhate and Online Disinformation

Today we celebrate the Safer Internet Day! It is an initiative to bring awareness to online safety, supported by the European Comission. As you might know from our research, it is a topic dear to our heart. That’s why we share our latest insights on the issues that adolescents face nowadays.

January 2023

Online Anonymity as a Continually Challenging Concept in Media Psychology

For years, anonymity has been used to both specify the unique character of online interaction and differentiate it from offline conditions. We are living in the age of social media, interact using our profiles, seeing continuing augmentations of online and offline social spaces. In these conditions, what does anonymity actually mean?

December 2022

Eating attitudes and depressive symptoms in a LGBTIQ sample in Turkey

Hayriye Güleç and colleagues examined attitudes towards food and depressive symptoms in a group of LGBTIQ people from Turkey. The results were published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry. In today's blog, you can read what Hayriye and colleagues found!

December 2022

What are the impacts of technology on well-being of adolescents?

We proposed an integrative model synthesizing theories to explain the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on adolescents’ well-being (iMEW) - published in European Journal of Developmental Psychology!