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

• Published in: Rivista di Psicopatologia Forense, Medicina Legale, Criminologia
• Main Authors: Claudia Colombo, Monica Calderaro
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Cell Biology; Developmental Biology; Embryology; Anatomy; Blue whale
• Online Access: https://www.openaccessrepository.it/record/128265; https://doi.org/10.4081/psyco.2021.613

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.