Abstract
Based on an exploratory research, we studied popular child YouTube channels in Brazil - Isabel Cerer (8 years), Juliana Baltar (9 years), Manoela Antelo (10 years) and J lia Silva (11 years) -, to analyze their practices of production and dissemination of content, in a context marked by strategies of celebrification and a strong culture of consumption. As theoretical background, we discuss children's digital cultures with a gender focus. As a result, we see a process of bricolage in which youtubers mobilize three strategic lines - playful capital, (micro)celebrification and emergent femininity - In a game of forces in which participation, creativity and spontaneity are juxtaposed to a postfeminist entrepreneurship (Genz, 2015), increasingly professionally managed, and subordinate to the logic of consumer culture.
Translated title of the contribution | Girlhood in YouTube: Participation, celebrification, and consumer culture |
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Original language | Portuguese |
Pages (from-to) | 175-195 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Estudos em Comunicacao |
Volume | 1 |
Issue number | 26 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 May 2018 |
Keywords
- Children
- Gender
- Identity
- Youtube
- Youtubers