Members
Interdisciplinary Research Team on Internet and Society (IRTIS) is a group of researchers who focus on studying impacts of information and communication technologies (ICT) and media in general on individuals and society. With a background in social sciences, IRTIS members employ various perspectives and disciplines in their research, including psychology, sociology, communication and media studies, or political science.
IRTIS members are researchers at the Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Our members' institutional background covers a wide range of workplaces at Masaryk University, namely:
- Institute for Research on Children, Youth, and Family at Faculty of Social Studies
- Department of Media Studies and Journalism at Faculty of Social Studies
- Department of Psychology at Faculty of Social Studies
- Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing at Faculty of Informatics
IRTIS has a strong focus on several specific research areas:
- ICT and well-being
- Cyber aggression (bullying, online harassment, cyberhate)
- Online relationships, online communication, and interactions
- Children, adolescents, and ICT
- Parental mediation
- Excessive internet use
- eHealth and mHealth
- ICT security
- New media audiences
- New media and civic participation
- Local media
- Human-computer interaction
Professors
Associate professors (docents)
Steriani Elavsky
Jakub Macek
Hana Macháčková
Assistant professors
Postdoc researchers
Lenka Dedkova
Alena Macková
Jaromír Plhák
Jan Šerek
Anna Ševčíková
Lenka Waschková Císařová
Junior researchers
Marie Bedrošová
Jakub Brojáč
Hana Drtilová
Renata Hlavová
Lenka Knapová
Nikol Kvardová
Vojtěch Mýlek
Eliška Nehybková
Ondřej Sotolář
Martina Šmahelová
Natália Valkovičová
Previous members
See the list of our
previous members here.