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11 Jun 2020

Children's access to quality health information during COVID-19

IRTIS members David Šmahel and Rostislav Zlámal contributed to a new UNICEF research brief focusing on children's access to health information online and their ability to verify truthfulness of such information in the context of COVID-19 pandemic.

12 May 2020

Interactions between adolescents and unknown people from the internet

IRTIS members Vojtěch Mýlek, Lenka Dědková and Hana Macháčková authored a new study focusing on the predictors of online communication and offline face-to-face meetings between adolescents and unknown people from the internet. The study was published in Children and Youth Services Review.

28 Apr 2020

Children's experiences with cyberhate - new research report

New EU Kids Online report investigates the topic of cyberhate, hateful content on the internet, and the related experiences of children from 10 European countries. Our findings show that encountering cyberhate is becoming a prevalent experience for children, though it varies across the investigated countries.

6 Apr 2020

New report: User testing of mobile banking authentication methods

This report summarizes the results of an applied research project focused on the user-friendliness of selected authentication methods, specifically for verifying a person’s identity in digital communication. The project was funded by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic and conducted in cooperation with AHEAD iTec, s.r.o.

3 Apr 2020

Drive for thinness among women visiting health-oriented websites

Nikol Kvardová, Hana Macháčková, and David Šmahel published a new study The Direct and Indirect Effects of Online Social Support, Neuroticism, and Web Content Internalization on the Drive for Thinness among Women Visiting Health-Oriented Websites in the prestegious International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

10 Feb 2020

EU Kids Online 2020 report is here!

On the occasion of the international Safer Internet Day, we are publishing the EU Kids Online 2020 research report. The report sums up the results of an extensive research that mapped online behaviour of children aged 9-16 years old in 19 countries. Over 25 thousand children took part in this unique research, making it the biggest endeavour of its kind in the world.

23 Jan 2020

ySKILLS/Youth Skills project is taking off

We are very proud to announce the kick-off of ySKILLS or Youth Skills, a H2020 project that will be carried out during the next four years by an interdisciplinary consortium of 15 research teams from 13 countries in Europe.

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.