Main authors

Veronika Kalmus is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research focuses on socialisation, inter-generational relationships, media and time use, and cultural values in transition society. She has published extensively in international journals and collections, including Childhood, Children & Society, Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, Discourse & Society, Journal of Children & Media, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Journal of Curriculum Studies and Young.

E-mail: veronika.kalmus@ut.ee

Andra Siibak is a Senior Researcher of Media Studies at the Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research focuses on user practices on social media, privacy on the internet, and social mediation of internet use. She has published extensively in international journals and collections, including Social Media + Society, Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Journal of Technology in Human Services, Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy and Young.

E-mail: andra.siibak@ut.ee

Lukas Blinka is a Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. He teaches courses on social and media psychology. His present research interests are related to studying effects of digital media use and overuse (including excessive online gaming and use of the internet for sexual purposes) on well-being.

E-mail: lukasblinka@gmail.com

Signe Opermann is a Senior Research Communication Specialist at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Her doctoral dissertation, defended in 2014 at the Södertörn University, Sweden, focused on news media repertoires across five generational groups in Estonia, born between the 1940s and the 1990s. Her forthcoming postdoctoral research project will focus on generational perceptions of “social acceleration” in the context of the information society.

E-mail: signe.opermann@ut.ee

Kristi Vinter is a researcher and lecturer in the field of early childhood pedagogy. Her research interests focus on media education in early childhood institutions and young children’s (up to 8 years of age) learning from different forms of media and by using digital devices. Currently she works as Director of the School of Educational Sciences at Tallinn University, Estonia.

E-mail: kristi.vinter@tlu.ee

Kristiina Kruuse is a doctoral student of Media and Communication at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research interests involve children’s media consumption, media effects on children, and consumerism. She works as a research consultant in Estonian social and market research company InCase.

E-mail: kristiina@incase.ee

Maria Murumaa-Mengel is a Lecturer of Social Media at the Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia. Her doctoral thesis focuses on online audiences and her research areas of interest are inter-generational relationships in the context of new media, online privacy in the information age and the internet usage practices of the young. In addition to teaching at the university, Maria gives seminars on online risks and opportunities in secondary schools, addressing students, teachers and parents. Recently she has published an article Drawing the Threat: A Study on Perceptions of the Online Pervert among Estonian High-School Students in Young, and a chapter titled “I Have Nothing to Hide”: A Coping Strategy in a Risk Society in the book Journalism, Representation and the Public Sphere.

E-mail: maria.murumaa@ut.ee

Karmen Palts is a doctoral student at the Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia.  She holds MA in Pedagogy and Psychology, and works in the field of parent and teacher counselling.  Her research focuses mainly on teacher-parent communication, communication channels and preferences, and privacy issues in digital communication. She has published in Trames: A Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and International Journal of Education and Development using ICT.

E-mail: karmen@palts.ee

Kairi Talves is a doctoral student of Sociology at the Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia. Her main fields of research are related to gender studies, more specifically to gendered patterns of parental behaviour and their impact on socialisation and inter-generational relationships. She has published a number of research papers in international journals and edited volumes, e.g. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace and Women’s Studies International Forum.

E-mail: kairi.talves@ut.ee

Inga Kald is a Communication Specialist at the Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu. Her Master’s thesis concerned first and second grade children’s online risk experiences and coping strategies. Her Bachelor thesis ‘Parental mediation of 5 to 7 year old children’s media use: the Rahamaa (Moneyville) case’ was based on a case study of positive web content for small children.