ASCM is a scientific journal that publishes peer-reviewed research articles on behavioral addictions, behavioral risk on the net, online communication and on social platforms, bringing together research, theories and methods of investigation, involving the psychological and sociological fields.

Its goal is to implement international scientific and clinical communication, following a model of interdisciplinary dialogue and comparison, to strengthen the links between clinical psychology and the new online frontiers of the sociology of communication that are connected to technological social changes, lifestyle and techno-mediated relational dynamics both in developmental and adult age and to stimulate the quality of the international debate in the light of neuroscientific research. The journal accepts original contributions, both theoretical and empirical research.

The field of technological addictions and communicative behaviors on social networks and platforms can be implemented by neuroscientific studies on mental functioning, for this reason, the journal embraces human experimental, epidemiological, clinical and social research, in the light of the new techno-mediated changes, aimed at understanding of cognitive processes and prevention in education, new cognitive learning styles and promotion of mental well-being. In addition, the Journal accepts editorials and book reviews.