| Dr. Lucyna Kirwil, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland |
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Selected publications: Does Polish Television Support Socialization of Children and Youth? In: U. Carlsson & C. Von Feilitzen (Eds.), In the Service of Young People. Studies and Reflections on Media in the Digital Age, Göteborg 2006: Göteborg University, p.137-158 Why Observing Violence Increases the Risk of Violent Behavior? In: Daniel J. Flannery, Alexander T. Vazsonyi & Irwin D. Waldman (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression, Cambridge 2007: Cambridge University Press, p.545-570 (with L.R. Huesmann) 29 September, Wednesday, 9.00 - 9.20 Plenary session: EU Kids Online: What Does the Research Say?
EU Kids Online conducts studies to find better understanding social consequences of the Internet use by children. EU Kids Online undertakes advanced analyses of available findings and own cross-national direct survey among 9-16 years old children and their parents conducted in 25 EU countries. The paper will present a hypothetical model of safety and risk in the Internet use by children and a strategy of an empirical validation of the model in the 2nd stage of the project, i.e. what interviews with children and their parents included and how the survey was conducted. The second part of the paper will illustrate what the findings by EU Kids Online will say on the safe and risky use of the Internet by children. The examples of the findings from two recent Polish correlational studies on individual traits that increase a probability of risky experiences online will be shown. The first study looked for ways and motives for experimentation with identity online in 10 year olds and 16 year olds. The second study (over 500 13 year olds and 16 year olds) established relations between youth’s exposure to drastic contents on the Internet, the Internet dependency, and aggressiveness in real social contacts. The findings show that developmental factor, i.e. age and competence growing with age, have a great meaning for safety online. Also, they confirm the hypothesis that risky Internet behavior is related to asocial offline behavior. Implications of the findings for policy and practice will be discussed.
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Lucyna Kirwil (Ph.D. in Psychology) is Assistant Professor at Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Her teaching and research interests are focused on social psychology of aggression and psychology of media. She studies old and new media impact on emotions and social behavior of children and youth with a special attention paid on violent media effects on development of aggression. Her other research is focused on youth’s risky behavior on the Internet and effectiveness of parental mediation youth’s risks experience online. Dr Lucyna Kirwil was expert advisor in relation to the protection of children against negative effects of the Internet for the Ombudsman for Children in Poland. She is co-author of the present system of TV-ratings used in Polish media.
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