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MASARYK UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF SOCIAL STUDIES
Czech Republic
Institute for Research on Children, Youth and the Family
New media studies at the Institute
for Research on Children, Youth and the Family
David Šmahel, M.Sc. et Ph.D.
The presented research is supported by the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth
and Sports (VZ 0021622406 and 1P05ME751).
Presentation structure
(1) Workgroup: Cyberpsychology
(2) Cooperation with Children’s Digital Media Center,
UCLA, USA
(3) World Internet Project – the Czech Republic
(4) Course: Psychology and Internet
Workgroup Cyberpsychology: areas of interest
(1) Virtual identities – relation of Cyberspace and
Reality (David Šmahel)
(2) Adolescent’s identity and sexuality in the
Cyberspace (+ cooperation with Children’s Digital
Media Center, UCLA) (David Šmahel, Štěpán
Konečný)
(3) Partner selection and romantic relationships in the
Internet environment (David Šmahel, Štěpán
Konečný)
(4) Virtual communication, multiple communication
(Zbyněk Vybíral, David Šmahel)
(5) Cybersex as the form of the Internet
communication - (Radana Divínová)
Workgroup Cyberpsychology: areas of interest
(6) Virtual Attractivity (Martina Veselá)
(7) Mobil phones and (romantic) relationships
(Zdeňka Vykoukalová, Monika Dušková)
(8) RPG – Role Playing Games
(Lukáš Blinka, David Šmahel)
(9) On-line therapy and on-line counseling
(Zbyněk Vybíral, David Skorunka, Radana
Divínová)
(10) Gender problematic and the Internet (Kateřina
Machovcová)
(11) World Internet Project – the Czech Republic
(David Šmahel, Štěpán Konečný, Lukáš Blinka …)
Cooperation with Children’s Digital Media Center,
UCLA, USA
Prof. Patricia, M., Greenfield
Assoc. Prof. Kaveri Subrahmanyam
(1) Connecting developmental processes to the
Internet: Identity presentation and sexual
exploration in online teen chatrooms
(2) Partner selection in chatrooms
(3) Communication analysis of chatroom
(4) Multiplicity, blogs
Cyberpsychology workgroup contacts
David Šmahel: [email protected]
Zbyněk Vybíral: [email protected]
Štěpán Konečný: [email protected]
Radana Divínová: [email protected]
Zdeňka Vykoukalová: [email protected]
Monika Dušková: [email protected]
Martina Veselá: [email protected]
Lukáš Blinka: [email protected]
Kateřina Machovcová: [email protected]
World Internet Project – Introduction
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organized by “The Center for the Digital Future”
at USC Annenberg School, University of Southern
California
a longitudinal international study of the individual
and social effects of PC/Internet technology
started in October 2000
countries: Singapore, Italy, Sweden, Britain,
Germany, France, Hungary, China, Hong Kong,
Taiwan, Japan, Korea, India, Iran, Chile,
Argentina, Bolivia, USA, Czech Republic
major focus: examining the ways in which
technology and the Internet is affecting current
media use and the ways in which people use media
for information and entertainment.
WIP methodology worldwide
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representative population samples
aged 12 years and older
minimally 1500 respondents
face to face interviews, telephone surveys
‘core’ questions
Methodology and sample – Czech Republic
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representative sample of the population according to
the gender, age, education, region and size of the
place of residence
1832 respondents aged 12 years and older
face to face interviews, collected in September 2000
psychological questions were added
Internet penetration in the Czech Republic
49.6% of the population use the Internet, 53.9% men, 45.7% women
Internet penetration in the Czech Republic
according to the age and sex
100
8988
80
60
84
78
69
59
6163
Men
60
%
40
20
38
3334
Women
15
10
0
12-15 16-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 51-60 61
years years years years years years years
and
more
Internet generation specifics – emotion expression
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“I can better express my emotions (feelings, senses) on the
Internet.”– agree 27.4% of population
women 26.2%, men 28.5% (not stat. sig.)
“I can better express my emotions (feelings,
senses) on the Internet” according to the age
100%
26
22
30
80%
60%
33
44
40
40%
20%
0%
35
5
28
5
26
4
42
49
49
34
30
15
2
19
2
56
31
25
3
27
10
7
12-15 16-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 51-60 61
years years years years years years years
and
more
[χ 2 (1, N = 899) = 59.74, p = .000, phi = 0.258]
I wholly
disagree
I rather
disagree
I rather
agree
I wholly
agree
Internet generation specifics – “self expression”
"I find it easier to express myself on the Internet than
in a normal conversation“ according to the age
100%
18
20
26
80%
33
60%
32
41
42
44
I rather
disagree
36
38
38
40%
40
36
20%
9
0%
7
28
9
42
36
37
15
3
20
2
12
7
26
4
12-15 16-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 51-60 61
years years years years years years years
and
more
[χ 2 (1, N = 899) = 62.34, p = .000, phi = 0.263]
I wholly
disagree
I rather
agree
I wholly
agree
World Internet Project – the Czech Republic
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Series of articles from WIP:
http://www.isdn.cz/archiv.php?tid=44
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Research cooperators are welcome!
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Funds are also welcome ☺
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Contact: David Šmahel [email protected]
Course: Psychology and the Internet
Themes:
• Adolescents and the Internet
• Disinhibited behavior
• Virtual identity, self expression on the Internet
• Online seminar (chat experiment)
• Virtual communication
• Psychotherapy on-line
• Games on-line, MUDs, RPG
• Research methods on the Internet
• Virtual social groups on the Internet
• Love and friendships on the Internet
You can download this presentation from the following link:
http://fss.muni.cz/ivdmr/info/storage/smahel2006-newmedia.pdf
Thank you for your attention.