Open AccessInternet addiction and criminal phenomenology: an insight on the Social Networking Sites addiction and the online death games
Author(s) -
Claudia Colombo,
Monica Calderaro
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
rivista di psicopatologia forense, medicina legale, criminologia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2610-9018
DOI - 10.4081/psyco.2021.613
Subject(s) - addiction , virtual world , the internet , internet privacy , phenomenology (philosophy) , psychology , criminology , sociology , computer security , world wide web , computer science , psychiatry , human–computer interaction , epistemology , philosophy
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.