Growing Up Online Through Divorce

Child Influencers and Family Change in Indonesia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2415014
AutoresAriane Utomo (0000-0003-2314-9513, The University of Melbourne, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Volume11
Fascículo3
Data de publicação2025-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Media + Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2056-3051 • E-ISSN: 2056-3051
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/20563051251356164
OpenAlexW4412969424
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas17

Drawing upon divorce cases of Indonesian celebrities with children, I explore the growing online visibility of childhood during and after parental separation. Using a socio-demographic perspective, I examine how rising divorce rates in Indonesia intersect with the increasing portrayals of diverse family structures on social media like Instagram. On one hand, the online visibility of child influencers from divorced celebrity families challenges hegemonic portrayals of the ideal nuclear family, once propagated by the New Order government before its fall in 1998. By amplifying fragments of complex household structures, these child influencers, along with those who have since grown up, have the potential to shape public attitudes and foster greater acceptance of family diversity. On the other hand, it remains uncertain whether this online visibility reduces or inadvertently reinforces the stigma surrounding divorce and growing up through divorce

Advertising · Business · Geography · Hegemony · Indonesian · Indonesian government · Influencer marketing · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visibility · Asian Studies and History · Gender and Women's Rights · Law · Marriage and Family Dynamics · Psychology · Social Psychology