Author Info

Lukas Blinka (1980) is working as a researcher in the Institute for Research on Children, Youth and the Family at Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk university, Brno and is also a PhD. student of social psychology ibid. His main research interests deals with adolescents and emerging adults lifes on the Internet – MMORPGs and weblogs (online personas and representations, gender differences, problematic usage).

Articles: The Relationship of Players to Their Avatars in MMORPGs: Differences between Adolescents, Emerging Adults and Adults