Internet addiction and criminal phenomenology: an insight on the Social Networking Sites addiction and the online death games

With the advent of the virtual world as the counterpart of our daily lives, several concerns emerged. The following paper will focus on the iGeneration, a fragile social group grown up between the online and the offline world, and its chances to develop a technology addiction. Secondly, an insight o...

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Published in:Rivista di Psicopatologia Forense, Medicina Legale, Criminologia
Main Authors: Claudia Colombo, Monica Calderaro
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://www.openaccessrepository.it/record/128265
https://doi.org/10.4081/psyco.2021.613
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Summary:With the advent of the virtual world as the counterpart of our daily lives, several concerns emerged. The following paper will focus on the iGeneration, a fragile social group grown up between the online and the offline world, and its chances to develop a technology addiction. Secondly, an insight on the illustrative and extreme scenario of the Blue Whale Challenge, a death challenge emerged on social networking sites, its implications and connection with the real world.