Children, Teenagers and the Family Core’s Situational Digital Hypervulnerability in the Videogame Fortnite

Abstract

The research problem is to point out how the abusive practices adopted by Fortnite and identified in the judicial proceeding instituted by the FTC relate to the digital vulnerability of children, adolescents and the family core. We established as a general objective to relate the abusive practices identified to the digital vulnerability of these consumers and as specific objectives we propose to outline the hypervulnerability of children and adolescents in the digital environment, identify the situational digital vulnerability by captivity and neuropsychological in the judicial procedure and, finally, characterize the family core’s digital hypervulnerability in this case. The qualitative theoretical research is based on a deductive approach through a case study. As a research technique we opted for indirect documentation through documentary and bibliographic research.