@article{ref1,
title="Online challenges among children and adolescents: self-inflicted harm and social media strategies",
journal="Salud colectiva",
year="2020",
author="Deslandes, Suely Ferreira and Coutinho, Tiago and Ferreira, Taiza Ramos de Souza Costa and Flach, Roberta Matassoli Duran",
volume="16",
number="",
pages="e3264-e3264",
abstract="Challenges are in line with the risk-taking practices frequent in child and youth culture. However, online challenges take on new meanings when mediated by digital  sociability. To analyze this phenomenon, 122 challenge videos in Portuguese that had  been made by Brazilian children or adolescents were recovered from the YouTube  platform, of which 35 were selected and transcribed. Twelve types of challenges were  analyzed; all involved potential self-inflicted injuries to participants, with risks  ranging from minor to lethal. The discourse analysis led to an interpretation based  on the theory of self-image and ethos. Online challenges appear as a powerful  communicative resource to reaffirm belonging, recognition, and audience adherence,  and so constitute a media strategy adopted by youth in the construction of an  Internet-mediated identity in which risk and violence are decisive devices in  building a self-image capable of retaining an audience. The enunciator's body  sacrifice assumes a bargaining role in this media adherence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1669-2381",
doi="10.18294/sc.2020.3264",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.18294/sc.2020.3264"
}