| José Luis Zatarain Valle, PROTEGELES, Spain |
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE  Since the year 2005, José Luis has been working in the PROTEGELES association as the Project Manager (technical coordinator) for the awareness activities and the helplines. PROTEGELES is a Spanish child welfare N.G.O., and a reference in this country whenever the issue of safety use by minors on Internet and other ICTs is addressed. PROTEGELES is the Spanish awareness centre and the hotline, and was pioneer creating and running helplines that provide specialized and personalized assistance (by email, messenger and face-to-face) on behavioural disorders related to harmful Internet content: Eating disorders, cyber-bullying, cyber-addictions… José Luis is also member of the Youth Protection Roundtable, the Spanish Childhood Observatory and the Spanish Audiovisual& TV Content Observatory. Bachelor in Economy from Complutense University of Madrid. 29 September, Wednesday, 14.30 – 16.30 Parallel session: Online overplay Presentation title: PROTEGELES campaigns in Spain addressing cyber-addictions Since the appearance of the so-called WEB2.0, minors and adolescents are interacting with online technologies in a very different way, they have become “brilliant” content producers and they spend much more time meeting, exchanging information and playing online with others. There are a lot of benefits this framework is providing to children, but in many cases they also feel the need to spend even more time online, sometimes these situations could be considered as disorders. PROTEGELES is exploring in this field and has launched several campaigns on this issue. |
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