Crianças nas mídias digitais: os usos e apropriações de crianças brasileiras no youtube Brasil.

Abstract

Presupposing that children are subjects who have ability to act and are also capable of producing culture, the present work aims to analyze the children protagonism in the online universe and the production of videos for YouTube Brazil. It seeks to understand the uses and appropriations of the platform by children and how they experience the online universe and also how these experiences impact them. The present work is an exploratory research of qualitative nature, that had as a methodology the Netnography and that, through content analysis, where analyzed videos posted in 3 different channels, that performs the analysis of content. It seeks to identify the reproduction of classical representations of what is exposed in the videos, debating about the content produced by the children in the platform. As a result, can understand what childhood images the children are passing on and how they appropriate the online universe, using it to produce a new culture of childhood. Also, it has gained a better understanding of the role of children on the internet and contemporary society, giving a larger emphasis on the study of children and their online production.