Children's Cancer Narratives on YouTube: Agency and Entrepreneurship in Brazilian "CarecaTV"

Autor/inn/en	Maropo, Lidia; de Carvalho, Raiana; Jorge, Ana
Titel	Children's Cancer Narratives on YouTube: Agency and Entrepreneurship in Brazilian "CarecaTV"
Quelle	In: Global Studies of Childhood, 11 (2021) 4, S.318-330 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Maropo, Lidia) ORCID (de Carvalho, Raiana) ORCID (Jorge, Ana)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2043-6106
DOI	10.1177/2043610620967018
Schlagwörter	Children; Cancer; Personal Narratives; Cultural Context; Programming (Broadcast); Video Technology; Foreign Countries; Social Media; Brain; Television; Personal Autonomy; Activism; Entrepreneurship; Models; Self Concept; Risk; Diseases; Constructivism (Learning); Brazil + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Carcinoma; Karzinom; Krebs (med); Krebserkrankung; Erlebniserzählung; Programmgestaltung; Ausland; Soziale Medien; Gehirn; Fernsehen; Fernsehtechnik; Individuelle Autonomie; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Unternehmungsgeist; Analogiemodell; Selbstkonzept; Risiko; Disease; Krankheit; Brasilien
Abstract	This article looks at the social and cultural contexts of children's experiences of illness, through a particular focus on the context of the Global South and the role of the social media platform YouTube in children's culture. It takes a socio-constructivist approach to discuss the case of "CarecaTV" (BaldTV), a Brazilian YouTube channel with more than one million followers created by Lorena Reginato at the age of 12 when she was recovering from brain cancer. In CarecaTV, cancer subjectivity co-exists with and is expressed through digital commercialization. On the one hand, through this process, Lorena Reginato gains agency as she offers an inspirational and credible first-person testimony about cancer during childhood and becomes an emerging cancer activist. On the other, she uses entrepreneurship strategies associated with the digital influencer model of YouTube to promote herself as a (cancer) micro-celebrity, taking the lead in a youthful and playful culture. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01