Dear colleagues and readers interested in research on Cyberspace,

I am glad to introduce you to the latest issue of “Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace” (2-2009, volume 3). I am happy to be able to report that this issue confirms the interdisciplinary and international character of our journal. This issue’s authors have used different methods in their research, varying from qualitative to quantitative, and experimental, this creates variability in their research results. The first two articles deal with social networking sites, themes of self-disclosure (Sheldon), and privacy (Utz & Krämer), which are interconnected. The third article uses an experimental design, and provides a different view on self-disclosure in computer mediated communication (Schouten, Valkenburg & Peter). The fourth article also looks at communication in the online environment, and attempts to identify who are the most frequent recipients of lies, and what the typical motivations for lying online are (Konečný). The fifth article examines the nature and type of social support exchanged between participants of an online discussion forum connected with eating disorders (McCormack & Coulson). The last article provides an economics perspective; investigating what kind of information contributes to trust formation in online shopping (Hanai & Oguchi). All of these articles are very interesting, and are valuable for readers and researchers interested in the Internet and Cyberspace.

Call for papers: the next issue of this journal (1-2010) will be published in June 2010. Contributions for this issue are now welcome. The deadline for paper submission is 1/31/2010. We encourage researchers from a variety of disciplines to send us their work: political science, social work, anthropology, sociology etc. Please forward your articles to: info@cyberpsychology.eu

David Smahel, editor of Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace