Category Archives: Internet and Social Network

If we are people who are very active on social networks, then maybe we have happened to perceive our rapport with these tools is not entirely balanced. Maybe we have spent time with dear friends and snapped photos more with the idea in mind to post them and let others see (to gain approval, make…

"On the website Musical.ly, sexual videos are hidden in the background, others even focusing on self-harm or, even more seriously, with explicit references to suicide." This is the powerful criticism by a mom, published as a post on Medium, a very popular web magazine in the United States. The mother, before surrendering to the application…

There are more than 7 billion people in the world, of whom almost 4 are using the Internet. This is the metric with which the website Webmarketingmanager.net (available in 12 languages) distinguishes the world population: the first is defined as total population, the second digital population. Do you use an electronic device daily? Do you…

The Familyandmedia research team has recently conducted a study on the effects of the use of new technologies and media content by Italian teenagers. One of the aspects that the researchers focused on most was the relationship of young people with social networks. The study was conducted in 2016 in three different cities (Bari, Perugia,…

The Familyandmedia research team recently conducted a study on the effects of the use of new technologies by Italian teenagers. One of the aspects that the researchers focused on most was the relationship between young people and videogames. The study was conducted in 2016 in three different cities (Bari, Castel Gandolfo, and Rome) on panels…

The statistics tell us: Europe’s prairies for some years are falling more and more often prey to a new type of animal. The grandparent. The grandparent, who was a quivering tripod still at the beginning of the last century, is turning into a "different" vigorous biped, very active even if he is over 65 and…