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22 Jan 2020

New report: Do mobile phone bans in schools work?

New research report shows that mobile phone usage during school breaks is unrelated to adolescents' problems commonly discussed in media and only marginally relates to their activities during breaks.

17 Dec 2019

Sonia Livingstone at Cyberspace

IRTIS co-hosted the Cyberspace 2019 - an international conference focused on legal and social aspects of information and communication technologies. We were especially honored to welcome Sonia Livingstone, one of the world's leading researchers of the risks and opportunities children and adolescents face online.

12 Nov 2019

Jochen Peter visited IRTIS

We were honoured to host Jochen Peter from the University of Amsterdam at Masaryk University, Brno.

29 Oct 2019

The impact of mHealth interventions on physical activity, sedentary behavior and sleep of older adults

As part of the mHealth Active project, Steriani Elavsky, Lenka Knapová, Adam Klocek and David Šmahel reviewed 52 studies examining interventions utilizing mobile technologies to alter physical activity, sedentary behavior and sleep among among adults aged 50 years and older.

2 Oct 2019

New job opening for full-time postdoctoral researcher

We are seeking a highly motivated researcher for a full-time postdoctoral position in media psychology / communication / media studies for IRTIS at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

21 Aug 2019

New research report: Online behavior of adolescents with epilepsy

We published a new research report focusing on adolescents with epilepsy in collaboration with the Clinic of children's neurology.

7 Aug 2019

Online on the phone: Czech children’s internet use

A survey of 2,825 Czech children showed that 84% access the internet daily using their mobile phones and only 45% use a computer. Even the youngest children aged 9 to 10 years use predominantly their phones to go online (64% use it daily), while 29% of all children say that they are online on their mobile ‘almost all the time’. How does this affect their experiences and exposure to risk?

2 Aug 2019

New article about Czech GPs’ perspectives on eHealth use

Our team published an article "GPs’ perspectives on eHealth use in the Czech Republic: a cross-sectional mixed-design survey study" in BJGP Open

12 Jul 2019

Cyberpsychology published new summer issue

Cyberpsychology is happy to present a summer issue with seven new and exciting articles covering a wide range of topics.

23 May 2019

New special issue on digital advertising and consumer empowerment

Cyberpsychology published a new special issue about the timely topic of digital advertising and consumer empowerment.

16 May 2019

Rector's award for our team member

IRTIS’s member Martina Šmahelová received Rector’s award for the best students in doctoral programmes at Masaryk University.

4 Apr 2019

New article about users of nutrition, weight loss, and fitness websites

Our team published an article "Sociodemographic, attitudinal, and behavioral correlates of using nutrition, weight loss, and fitness websites: An online survey" in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

5 Mar 2019

A breakthrough year for Cyberpsychology: More citations, more submissions – and more impact

How was the year 2018 for Cyberpsychology journal? Who were our readers and which articles were the most viewed? You can read this and more in Editorial for the first 2019 issue.

5 Feb 2019

Protecting Children’s Data Online

Preliminary results of the EU Kids Online survey for Safer Internet Day 2019 were released.

4 Feb 2019

New report: Czech children and adolescents on the internet

We published a new quantitative research report on children's and adolescents' online activities and experience with online risks. The report is available in English and Czech language.

29 Dec 2018

Cyberpsychology published a new special issue on bystanders of online aggression

Cyberpsychology published a new issue - a special issue on an extremely timely topic: bystanders in online aggression.