Blogging Family-like Relations when Visiting Theme and Amusement Parks: The Use of Children in Displays Online
Dados Bibliográficos
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ANO | Não informado |
TIPO | Artigo |
PERIÓDICO | Culture Unbound Journal of Current Cultural Research |
ISSN | 2000-1525 |
E-ISSN | 2000-1525 |
DOI | 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.146997 |
CITAÇÕES | 2 |
ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
Resumo
This paper combines sociological perspectives on family display, internet studies on family and private photography and a child studies perspective on the display of children. The paper proposes that blogging practices related to visits to theme and amusement parks in Sweden provide a new arena for people to display family-like relationships. In the different displays, adults mainly use pictures of children in the blogs to demonstrate their ability to perform family-like relationships. The paper suggests that this form of child-centred display, a visualized child-centredness, done during the park visit as well as in the blogging, is part of the construction of contemporary childhoods and what it means to be a child today and has not been theorized in earlier research on the display of family-like relations.