18 Mar 2021 News from the ySKILLS project It has been over a year since the Youth Skills (ySKILLS) project started. Learn about what have we done so far and how the project is progressing in the first ySKILLS newsletter.
25 Jan 2021 New study: Emotional and behavioral consequences of cyberostracism In their new experimental study, Simona Galbavá, Hana Macháčková, and Lenka Dědková examined impacts of osctracism on social networks. Even very subtle signs of ostracism lead to lower satisfaction of people's needs (belonging, self-esteem, meaningful existence, control) and to worsened mood. The study was published in the journal Comunicar.
19 Jan 2021 New study: Advantages and disadvantages of internet use according to women with eating disorders IRTIS members Hana Drtilová, David Šmahel and Martina Šmahelová published a new qualitative study detailing the advantages and disagvantages of internet use from the perspective of women with eating disorder experience. The study was published in the prestegious journal Health Communication.
4 Dec 2020 New study: Digital security in families L. Dědkova and D. Šmahel from IRTIS, together with M. Just from Heriot-Watt University, published a new study examining which sources of information about digital security parents rely on and how these preferences relate to their internet mediation practices and internet skills.
22 Oct 2020 New study: Social relational factors of excessive internet use IRTIS members J. Mikuška, D. Šmahel, and L. Dědková together with E. Staksrud, G. Macheroni, and T. Milosevic from the EU Kids Online network published a new study suggesting that positive family and school relationships protect adolescents from excessive internet use.
TIP 21 Oct 2020 We are looking for new postdoc to join our team! We are seeking a highly motivated researcher for a postdoctoral position in media psychology/communication/media studies for IRTIS at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
1 Sep 2020 How Do Health-oriented Websites Impact Women’s Drive for Thinness? In the blogpost for the ySKILLS project, IRTIS members Nikol Kvardová, Hana Macháčková, and David Šmahel explain how online social support relates to the internalization of body-appearance norms and drive for thinness among young women. They also discuss the potential buffering role of digital skills.
26 Jun 2020 European children’s experiences of cyberhate Marie Bedrošová from IRTIS writes about the cyberhate phenomenon and comments the results of EU Kids Online IV results regarding this issue in a post for the London School of Economics' blog Parenting for a Digital Future.
22 Jun 2020 EUKO 2020 Technical report is now available EU Kids Online 2020: Technical report detailing the methodological aspects of EU Kids Online IV project is now available.
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.
