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Children’s cancer narratives on YouTube: agency and entrepreneurship in Brazilian CarecaTV

dc.contributor.authorMarôpo, Lidia
dc.contributor.authorCarvalho, Raiana de
dc.contributor.authorJorge, Ana
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-02T12:15:50Z
dc.date.available2022-12-02T12:15:50Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis 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.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationMarôpo, L., Carvalho, R. de, & Jorge, A. (2021). Children’s cancer narratives on YouTube: Agency and entrepreneurship in Brazilian CarecaTV. Global Studies of Childhood, 11(4), 318-330.pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn2043-6106
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/42508
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherSagept_PT
dc.subjectHealthpt_PT
dc.subjectInfluencerpt_PT
dc.subjectSocial mediapt_PT
dc.subjectYouTuberpt_PT
dc.titleChildren’s cancer narratives on YouTube: agency and entrepreneurship in Brazilian CarecaTVpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.endPage330pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue4pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage318pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleGlobal Studies of Childhoodpt_PT
oaire.citation.volume11pt_PT
person.familyNameBarreto Marôpo
person.givenNameLidia Soraya
person.identifierhttps://scholar.google.pt/citations?hl=en&user=r-JdsO0AAAAJ
person.identifier.ciencia-id801F-2368-4801
person.identifier.orcid0000-0003-4687-7628
person.identifier.scopus-author-id56196180100
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