TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Online challenges among children and adolescents: self-inflicted harm and social media strategies
JO  - Salud colectiva
A1  - Deslandes, Suely Ferreira
A1  - Coutinho, Tiago
A1  - Ferreira, Taiza Ramos de Souza Costa
A1  - Flach, Roberta Matassoli Duran
SP  - e3264
EP  - e3264
VL  - 16
IS  - 
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1669-2381
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.18294/sc.2020.3264
ID  - ref1
ER  -