The World Health Organization (WHO) describes pathological dependence as that mental, and sometimes physical, condition caused by the interaction between a person and a toxic substance. This interaction results in a compulsive need to take the substance continuously or periodically in order to experience its psychic effects and sometimes to avoid the discomfort of its deprivation.

New addictions, or addictions without substance, refer to a wide range of abnormal behaviors: among them we can include pathological gambling, internet addiction, compulsive shopping and affective relationships, and some behavioral deviances such as overtraining in sports (overtraining syndrome).

Computer network abuse disorder, Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD), has received some attention from the scientific community. About 40 percent of the world's population today has an Internet connection. Since 1999, users have increased at least 10-fold; in 2005 the first trillion users were reached, in 2010 two trillion, and in 2014 the third trillion will be reached (Ropelato, 2014).

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Professionals and practitioners in the field, teachers, parents and all people who, in some way, are touched by the proposed topics and interested in learning more about them.

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Speaker

Michele Marangi

He is a Media Educator who designs and conducts training courses on the use of media in pedagogical, didactic, social, cultural, health and business fields. He has been part of Cremit since 2016, and is an adjunct professor of Didactics and Technologies of Learning and Technologies of Instruction and Learning at Scienze della Formazione at the Catholic University of Milan. At Cattolica, he also teaches Media and Interculture at the Master in Intercultural Competence and Community, Networks and Fandom at the Master Comunicare lo Sport.
He is an adjunct lecturer at eCampus, for the course Designing and Evaluating Inclusive Teaching with Digital Technologies, in the Degree Course in Pedagogical Sciences. Between 2003 and 2006 he was an adjunct lecturer in Film Didactics at the DAMS of the University of Turin and between 2008 and 2014 he taught Contemporary Media Formats in the Master's Degree Course for Management of Audiovisual and Cross Media Production and Distribution, sponsored by the Department of Management of the University of Turin. Since 2000 he has been a consultant for ASL CN2 in Alba-Bra (CN), supervisor and trainer of the Steadycam Project, which proposes pedagogical and training interventions on the relationship between media and health promotion. In 2016 he founded with two other partners SteadycamOff, a training company for social marketing and production of digital formats in the pedagogical and socio-cultural fields. Between 2012 and 2015 he was a consultant and lecturer for the International Training Center of the ILO (United Nations International Labor Organization) in training courses on effective communication in the preventive field. In 2023 he published Taming the Screens. The digital at the measure of the 0-6 range (Scholé, Brescia). In 2004 I published Teaching Cinema. The teaching of film in the multimedia era (Utet, Turin).