“Poles on Social Media Regulations and the Protection of Children Online” - our joint LBM UW and IDMiKS UJ nationwide survey is receiving growing attention in the Polish media.
This demonstrates how socially important the issues of digital safety, online hate, sharenting, minimum age requirements for social media access, and smartphone use in schools have become. The survey results have sparked a broader public debate on the future of the digital environment in Poland.
Laboratory of Media Studies
Most Poles expect clear restrictions on social media – both for adults and for children.
A nationwide CATI survey conducted this April by the Laboratory of Media Studies at the University of Warsaw and the Institute of Journalism, Media and Social Communication at the Jagiellonian University shows that more than three quarters of respondents support fines for public humiliation online, more than half want the minimum age for creating a social media account to be raised to at least 16, and 62% would support a ban on smartphone use in schools at least during lessons. Poles also call for regulation of so-called sharenting – parents publishing images of their children online.
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The Laboratory of Media Studies (University of Warsaw) and IDMiKS UJ have completed the nationwide public opinion study “Poles on social media regulation and child protection online. CATI Survey 2026”
This year’s edition closed with a record result of 4,530 completed interviews!
Warm thanks go to our interviewers and research teams from the University of Warsaw and Jagiellonian University for their dedication, professionalism, and exemplary cooperation, which made this outstanding achievement possible.
Laboratory of Media Studies at University of Warsaw (UBM UW) and the Jagiellonian University's Institute of Journalism, Media and Social Communication (IDMiKS UJ) are launching a nationwide public opinion survey that will run throughout the week (April 20-24, 2026). The project, titled "Poles on the Regulation of Social Media and Child Protection Online. CATI Survey 2026," is being jointly implemented by both centers as part of the agreement on scientific cooperation between the University of Warsaw and the Jagiellonian University in the field of media and social communication research signed on March 5, 2026.
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