The Emergence and Ethics of Child-Created Content as Media Industries

Burroughs, Benjamin; Feller, Gavin

doi:10.4324/9781351004107-20

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“…The legal void concerning child protection policies affecting child stars of the digital era is comparable to that suffered by Reshevsky and other prodigies before him. Existing child labour guidelines do not apply to children who work from domestic spaces, such as YouTube child influencers (Burroughs and Feller 2021), or children who appear in reality television shows (Podlas 2010). Furthermore, the terms of the contracts between these microcelebrities and their agents are obscure (Abidin 2021).…”

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The child prodigy as a global celebrity: the chess wonder Samuel Reshevsky

Graus

2021

Celebrity Studies

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Focusing on the chess prodigy Samuel Reshevsky , this paper examines the international commercial exploitation of child prodigies and their rise to celebrity. In the early 1920s, this boy wonder toured Europe and the United States, where he defeated some of the best players in simultaneous chess exhibitions, met important personalities and became a subject of global fascination. His ascent into stardom just before Hollywood's child star era reveals the public's eagerness to capitalise on gifted children as yet another commodity of the entertainment industry. Parents played a key role in exploiting child prodigies, despite the success of recent campaigns to secure children's rights such as compulsory education and the regulation of child labour. Meanwhile, philanthropists attempted to aid children like Reshevsky and stop their public exhibition. Moreover, psychologists examined their talent and worried about their futures. Overall, Reshevsky's case reconstructs the network of interests (commercial, humanitarian, scientific) surrounding child prodigies and historicises the child star phenomenon beyond the mainstream child performer.

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The child prodigy as a global celebrity: the chess wonder Samuel Reshevsky

Graus

2021

Celebrity Studies

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“…However, Coulter (2020) argued that the ties between childhood, labour and value are perhaps again shifting in digital culture (cf. Burroughs and Feller, 2020). Cook (2012: 55) stated that Zeilzer’s work is often interpreted as a dichotomy between the economic and sacred values of childhood but insisted that ‘it is the relationship between these, not the favouring of one over the other, that enables further inquiry’.…”

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Branded childhood: Infants as digital capital on Instagram

Ågren

2022

Childhood

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The relationships between childhood, labour and value are changing in today’s digital culture. Drawing on a visual discourse analysis of 10 Scandinavian influencers’ Instagram accounts, this paper explores how the connections between the commercialisation and sacralisation of children appear in the digital age. The results show how infants function as digital capital for building relationships between consumers and products and how they are structured into a framework around consumption and used in narratives to strengthen the parents’ brand. The findings suggest an urgent need for a legal framework for child labour in social media.

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