Children’s cancer narratives on YouTube
Agency and entrepreneurship in Brazilian CarecaTV
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13005382 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lidia Marôpo (0000-0003-4687-7628, Instituto Politecnico de Setubal, corresponding author), Raiana de Carvalho (0000-0001-9201-3121, Syracuse University), A Jorge (0000-0002-4069-6212, Universidade Lusófona) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 318-330 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Studies of Childhood (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2043-6106 • E-ISSN: 2043-6106 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2043610620967018 |
| OpenAlex | W3095248275 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 38 |
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
Agency (philosophy · Art · Cancer · Commercialization · Context (archaeology · Entrepreneurship · Epistemology · International agency · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Digital Storytelling and Education · Empathy and Medical Education · Gender Studies · History · Medicine · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |