Wired draws our attention to a new Czech-based publication, "Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on the Internet." The journal appears to study social, moral and psychological issues of online interaction -- interesting! Sort of a sociological journal for virtual worlds, it would seem.

The current issue, which appears to be the first, includes studies on internet use by teens in Estonia, a piece on mobile communication, and an article titled "Reflections of RL in the Virtual World." There's also one called "Simulation in cyberspace and touch of the flesh: Kissing, the blush, the hickey and the caress," which while sensationally headlined, addresses a topic we tend to step around -- the fact that many users of virtual worlds, especially ones like Second Life that do little to censor content, use them for a very specific social purpose.

[Via Wired]