Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/51888
Type: Capítulo de Livro
Title: Top Girls on YouTube. Identity, Participation, and Consumption
Authors: Marôpo, Lidia Soraya Barreto
Sampaio, Inês Sílvia Vitorino
Miranda, Nut Pereira de
Keywords: Youtuber;Youtuber - Meninas;Mídias sociais
Issue Date: 2017
Publisher: Nordicom
Citation: MARÔPO, Lidia Soraya Barreto. SAMPAIO, Inês Vitorino; MIRANDA, Nut Pereira de. Top Girls on YouTube. Identity, Participation, and Consumption. In: ELEÁ, Ilana; MIKOS, Lothar (orgs.). Young & Creative. Digital Technologies Empowering Children in Everyday Life. Suécia: Nordicom 2017. p.65-77
Abstract in Brazilian Portuguese: Bel Cerer (8 years old), Juliana Baltar (9 years old), Manoela Antelo (10 years old) and Júlia Silva (11 years old)1 are prominent representatives of a phenomenon that has recently become widespread in the Brazilian context as well as internationally: child YouTube stars. Besides the fact that they author original content, these girls share characteristics that distinguish them from millions of other “video author” children (Yarosh et al., 2016) on YouTube – the second most visited website in the world after Google (Alexa, 2016). The four girls have their own YouTube channels, are very popular among peers, challenge the boundaries between amateurishness and professionalism, and make a profit from the videos they star in.[...]
URI: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/51888
ISBN: 978-91-87957-85-7
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