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.
19 Dec 2018 New position: Data Manager and Analyst for the international project "EU Kids Online IV" We are looking for a new team member for the position of data manager and analyst for the international project EU Kids Online IV.
8 Dec 2018 We are looking for new researchers for junior positions We are looking for two to three new researchers for junior positions for the new project "Modelling the future: Understanding the impact of technology on adolescent's well-being (FUTURE)" .
5 Dec 2018 New project: Modelling the future: Understanding the impact of technology on adolescent’s well-being (FUTURE) We are happy to announce that our team succeeded in the hard grant competition EXPRO (funded by the Czech Grant Agency). We received money for a 5-year long project: “Modelling the future: Understanding the impact of technology on adolescent’s well-being (FUTURE)”.
27 Nov 2018 New report: Digital technology and eating disorders We published a new research report about digital technology and eating disorders. The report is available in Czech language.
27 Sep 2018 New book: Digital Technology, Eating Behaviors, and Eating Disorders We are excited to see the new book "Digital Technology, Eating Behaviors, and Eating Disorders" by David Šmahel, Hana Macháčková, Martina Šmahelová, Michal Čevelíček, Carlos A. Almenara, and Jana Holubčíková published in Springer.
19 Jul 2018 The Emergence of Cyberpsychology Our team member David Šmahel was recently interviewed for an article by a top informatics journal Communications of the ACM about cyberpsychology as a research field.
26 Jun 2018 Cyberpsychology gained Impact Factor: 1.400 Web of Science published their journal citation records for 2017, that for the first time included also Cyberpsychology. With IF of 1.400, the journal belongs to the second quartile in Multidisciplinary Psychology.
24 May 2018 ICA Preconference 2018 on May 23rd We were co-organizing the ICA Preconference 2018 on Trust, control, and privacy: Mediatisation of childhood and adolescence in the digital age.
16 May 2017 Successful academics and promising students receive Rector’s Awards At the beginning of May, Masaryk University Rector Mikuláš Bek gave out awards for outstanding achievements in science and research, sports and the arts to mark the academic holiday Dies Academicus.
