Maryja Šupa
Biographic Data
| ID | 331889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maryja Šupa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maryja |
| FAMILY NAME | Šupa |
| SIGNATURE | ŠUPA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4465-0238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Children’s embodied repertoires when engaging with fiction: Mixed-methods insights from Czechia
Considerable attention has been paid to the role of fictional stories in children’s lives. However, children are rarely asked how they as whole embodied persons navigate their unique repertoires of media practices. In this mixed-methods Q methodology study, 28 children (ages 9–12) were invited to numerically sort picture cards depicting different fiction-related practices (e.g. reading, watching, creating) and body positions/situations (e.g. lyin…
Rethinking temporalities through being with children: A dialogic reflection
Children’s everyday lives are shaped by shifting rhythms of movement, suspension, and retrospection through which time becomes lived, imagined, and meaningful. This article brings together interdisciplinary and international perspectives, with members of a collective reflecting on temporality in children’s lives. Across a prologue and nine reflective pieces developed through prolonged dialogue, the article explores time in children’s diverse ever…
Stressing Equality or Embracing Diversity? How Teen Activists Navigate Societal Beliefs About Youth Activism
Civically and politically participating children and teens encounter contrasting societal beliefs about their identities and actions. Some portray them as heroes, others as naive or rebellious; some celebrate their efforts, while others dismiss or diminish them. This study explores how teen activists experience, respond to and challenge these beliefs that shape their participation and everyday lives. A Q methodology study was conducted with twent…
Interesting facts: Holistic interviews on children’s nonfiction engagement
Nonfiction has long been left out of the discourse on literacy and little is known about the affective experiences that children seek when they choose to engage with facts via reading and otherwise.We have conducted an interview study in which children of diverse socioeconomic backgrounds in Czechia (N = 20, age 9-11) reflected on the world of facts as a springboard for affective engagement.Bespoke creative props were developed for the study.Firs…
If I weren’t an activist, I’d buy an old Nokia and I’d be OK”: Youth wellbeing, digital media, and activism
For youth activists, digital media are a central tool for awareness raising and mobilisation. At the same time, the pressure to be constantly connected and the negative responses one can encounter through social media, can be significant stressors on youths’ wellbeing. Drawing upon a year-long critical comparative ethnographic research project with Fridays For Future youth climate justice activists in Czechia and Hungary, this paper analyses the …
Divide, dialogue and dedication: Addressing the contrasting role of media in children and youth’s civic lives
Media literacy education nurturing civic participation of disadvantaged youth, or not
There has been active debate in recent years whether media literacy education can or even should nurture civic participation. Despite a growing number of theoretical and empirical studies, the question remains unanswered. This paper contributes to the debate with participatory action research conducted with vocational school students in the Czech Republic. Seventeen students aged 17–19 took part in the study over the course of three months. They …
Computer-dependent or computer-assisted? The social context of online crime in Lithuanian court judgements
Including the Experiences of Children and Youth in Media Education
This article explores how the concepts of inclusion and experience can be approached and applied in educating children and youth about the media. Using a multiple-case study approach, we present three cases where media education programs were delivered to students in the Czech Republic. The first case is a three-month-long program aimed at nurturing students’ media literacy and encouraging their civic participation. It involved 17 vocational scho…
Deviance and Ethical Considerations in Online Biohacking Communities
While the last decade has seen a rise in research on biohacking from the perspective of social studies of technology, anthropology, sociology, and legal studies, there remains a gap in the criminological understanding of biotechnology in general and biohacking in particular. To contribute toward such a perspective, the research project aims to establish how the construction of social norms, deviance, and ethical concerns are perceived and discuss…
Social Research about Online Crime: Global Range of Topics and a Systematic Analysis of Research in Lithuania
Social research about online crime is a multi-disciplinary field addressing a wide array of topics since its inception in the 1980s. Based on a broad review of state-of-the-art literature and gaps identified in review publications (Holt, Bossler 2014; Stratton, Powell, Cameron 2017; Maimon, Louderback 2019, and others), in this paper I outline 41 key topic in social research about online crime, classified into four broad categories: 1) research f…
Children and the Radio: Who Should Listen to Whom
Understanding the expectations, needs, and wants of young audiences, as well as inviting them to incorporate their experiences and perspectives into media production, are crucial tasks for today’s media producers. Drawing upon qualitative research in which more than seventy children eight to thirteen years old participated, this paper illuminates children’s experiences with radio broadcasts and the suggestions they make for improving them. To exp…
Children as Cosmopolitan Citizens: Reproducing and Challenging Cultural Hegemony
The article argues that, although digital and social media provide space and means for children's cosmopolitan citizenship, the tendency to reproduce cultural and ethnic stereotypes and prejudice prevalent in mainstream media can limit their capability and willingness to act and think as such. Drawing upon qualitative participatory research conducted with more than seventy children living in the Czech Republic, the article explores how children's…
Ethics in criminological research of online communities
The aim of this paper is to outline and critically analyse the ethical dilemmas faced by criminologists tasked with online community research. Online communities and online content serve as a valuable sources of criminological knowledge about online crime and deviance as well as formal and informal norm-making and means of social control. From discussion forum texts and blogs to multimedia posts in open and closed social networking groups, from v…
Trust, control, and privacy in children’s digitalized lives: Introduction to the special symposium
The contribution discusses the interrelated role of privacy, control, and trust in children's experience as they are living and growing up in today's digitalized world. It has a form of guest editorial, acting as an introduction to the symposium of five articles exploring the theme from international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The overall aim of this introduction and the symposium is to offer insight into the multifaceted nature of trust…
Emotional practices of unaccompanied refugee youth on social media
Migration for unaccompanied refugee youth is an emotionally complex process involving mediated experiences and expressions of emotions and affect. This article draws upon social media ethnography conducted with young refugees from African and Middle Eastern countries living in Europe. The participants’ emotional practices were explored through the multimodal analysis of content they shared on Facebook. The findings highlight how the young refugee…
Kultūrinė kritinės kriminologijos transformacija
This article discusses aspects of cultural criminology that are a continuation of the critical tradition on one hand and aspects that constitute qualitatively new insights on the other. Cultural criminology emerged in the 1990s as a branch of criminology building on the heritage of critical criminology and adapting it to changing social and political conditions. In attempting to respond to the analytical and ideological crisis in critical crimino…
Emotional practices of unaccompanied refugee youth on social media
Migration for unaccompanied refugee youth is an emotionally complex process involving mediated experiences and expressions of emotions and affect. This article draws upon social media ethnography conducted with young refugees from African and Middle Eastern countries living in Europe. The participants’ emotional practices were explored through the multimodal analysis of content they shared on Facebook. The findings highlight how the young refugee…
Children as Cosmopolitan Citizens: Reproducing and Challenging Cultural Hegemony
The article argues that, although digital and social media provide space and means for children's cosmopolitan citizenship, the tendency to reproduce cultural and ethnic stereotypes and prejudice prevalent in mainstream media can limit their capability and willingness to act and think as such. Drawing upon qualitative participatory research conducted with more than seventy children living in the Czech Republic, the article explores how children's…
Deviance and Ethical Considerations in Online Biohacking Communities
While the last decade has seen a rise in research on biohacking from the perspective of social studies of technology, anthropology, sociology, and legal studies, there remains a gap in the criminological understanding of biotechnology in general and biohacking in particular. To contribute toward such a perspective, the research project aims to establish how the construction of social norms, deviance, and ethical concerns are perceived and discuss…
Kultūrinė kritinės kriminologijos transformacija
This article discusses aspects of cultural criminology that are a continuation of the critical tradition on one hand and aspects that constitute qualitatively new insights on the other. Cultural criminology emerged in the 1990s as a branch of criminology building on the heritage of critical criminology and adapting it to changing social and political conditions. In attempting to respond to the analytical and ideological crisis in critical crimino…
Ethics in criminological research of online communities
The aim of this paper is to outline and critically analyse the ethical dilemmas faced by criminologists tasked with online community research. Online communities and online content serve as a valuable sources of criminological knowledge about online crime and deviance as well as formal and informal norm-making and means of social control. From discussion forum texts and blogs to multimedia posts in open and closed social networking groups, from v…
Trust, control, and privacy in children’s digitalized lives: Introduction to the special symposium
The contribution discusses the interrelated role of privacy, control, and trust in children's experience as they are living and growing up in today's digitalized world. It has a form of guest editorial, acting as an introduction to the symposium of five articles exploring the theme from international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The overall aim of this introduction and the symposium is to offer insight into the multifaceted nature of trust…
Emotional practices of unaccompanied refugee youth on social media
Migration for unaccompanied refugee youth is an emotionally complex process involving mediated experiences and expressions of emotions and affect. This article draws upon social media ethnography conducted with young refugees from African and Middle Eastern countries living in Europe. The participants’ emotional practices were explored through the multimodal analysis of content they shared on Facebook. The findings highlight how the young refugee…
Social Research about Online Crime: Global Range of Topics and a Systematic Analysis of Research in Lithuania
Social research about online crime is a multi-disciplinary field addressing a wide array of topics since its inception in the 1980s. Based on a broad review of state-of-the-art literature and gaps identified in review publications (Holt, Bossler 2014; Stratton, Powell, Cameron 2017; Maimon, Louderback 2019, and others), in this paper I outline 41 key topic in social research about online crime, classified into four broad categories: 1) research f…
Children and the Radio: Who Should Listen to Whom
Understanding the expectations, needs, and wants of young audiences, as well as inviting them to incorporate their experiences and perspectives into media production, are crucial tasks for today’s media producers. Drawing upon qualitative research in which more than seventy children eight to thirteen years old participated, this paper illuminates children’s experiences with radio broadcasts and the suggestions they make for improving them. To exp…
Children as Cosmopolitan Citizens: Reproducing and Challenging Cultural Hegemony
The article argues that, although digital and social media provide space and means for children's cosmopolitan citizenship, the tendency to reproduce cultural and ethnic stereotypes and prejudice prevalent in mainstream media can limit their capability and willingness to act and think as such. Drawing upon qualitative participatory research conducted with more than seventy children living in the Czech Republic, the article explores how children's…
Including the Experiences of Children and Youth in Media Education
This article explores how the concepts of inclusion and experience can be approached and applied in educating children and youth about the media. Using a multiple-case study approach, we present three cases where media education programs were delivered to students in the Czech Republic. The first case is a three-month-long program aimed at nurturing students’ media literacy and encouraging their civic participation. It involved 17 vocational scho…
Deviance and Ethical Considerations in Online Biohacking Communities
While the last decade has seen a rise in research on biohacking from the perspective of social studies of technology, anthropology, sociology, and legal studies, there remains a gap in the criminological understanding of biotechnology in general and biohacking in particular. To contribute toward such a perspective, the research project aims to establish how the construction of social norms, deviance, and ethical concerns are perceived and discuss…
Media literacy education nurturing civic participation of disadvantaged youth, or not
There has been active debate in recent years whether media literacy education can or even should nurture civic participation. Despite a growing number of theoretical and empirical studies, the question remains unanswered. This paper contributes to the debate with participatory action research conducted with vocational school students in the Czech Republic. Seventeen students aged 17–19 took part in the study over the course of three months. They …
Computer-dependent or computer-assisted? The social context of online crime in Lithuanian court judgements
Interesting facts: Holistic interviews on children’s nonfiction engagement
Nonfiction has long been left out of the discourse on literacy and little is known about the affective experiences that children seek when they choose to engage with facts via reading and otherwise.We have conducted an interview study in which children of diverse socioeconomic backgrounds in Czechia (N = 20, age 9-11) reflected on the world of facts as a springboard for affective engagement.Bespoke creative props were developed for the study.Firs…
If I weren’t an activist, I’d buy an old Nokia and I’d be OK”: Youth wellbeing, digital media, and activism
For youth activists, digital media are a central tool for awareness raising and mobilisation. At the same time, the pressure to be constantly connected and the negative responses one can encounter through social media, can be significant stressors on youths’ wellbeing. Drawing upon a year-long critical comparative ethnographic research project with Fridays For Future youth climate justice activists in Czechia and Hungary, this paper analyses the …
Divide, dialogue and dedication: Addressing the contrasting role of media in children and youth’s civic lives
Children’s embodied repertoires when engaging with fiction: Mixed-methods insights from Czechia
Considerable attention has been paid to the role of fictional stories in children’s lives. However, children are rarely asked how they as whole embodied persons navigate their unique repertoires of media practices. In this mixed-methods Q methodology study, 28 children (ages 9–12) were invited to numerically sort picture cards depicting different fiction-related practices (e.g. reading, watching, creating) and body positions/situations (e.g. lyin…
Rethinking temporalities through being with children: A dialogic reflection
Children’s everyday lives are shaped by shifting rhythms of movement, suspension, and retrospection through which time becomes lived, imagined, and meaningful. This article brings together interdisciplinary and international perspectives, with members of a collective reflecting on temporality in children’s lives. Across a prologue and nine reflective pieces developed through prolonged dialogue, the article explores time in children’s diverse ever…
Stressing Equality or Embracing Diversity? How Teen Activists Navigate Societal Beliefs About Youth Activism
Civically and politically participating children and teens encounter contrasting societal beliefs about their identities and actions. Some portray them as heroes, others as naive or rebellious; some celebrate their efforts, while others dismiss or diminish them. This study explores how teen activists experience, respond to and challenge these beliefs that shape their participation and everyday lives. A Q methodology study was conducted with twent…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (7 works) · Social media (7 works) · Literacy, Media, and Education (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)