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

Authors

Benjamin Burroughs, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Gavin Feller, Umei University

Document Type

Book Section

Publication Date

10-28-2020

Publication Title

Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children

Publisher

Routledge

Edition

1

First page number:

217

Last page number:

225

Abstract

The profitability of content created for and by children on social media platforms such as YouTube has sparked an entire sector of content catering to young children. The research looks at the cultivation of child ‘influencers’ as a part of the emergent digital media landscape and children’s media industries. Child-created content is also the site for discursively codifying particular articulations of concepts such as family to reinforce purchasing and marketing norms within these sites.

Keywords

Social media platforms; Child-created content; Child influencers; Children's media industries

Disciplines

Communication | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Social Media

Language

English

Repository Citation

Burroughs, B., Feller, G. (2020). The Emergence and Ethics of Child-Created Content as Media Industries. Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children 217-225. Routledge.