The Discourse of Motherhood in Celebrity Mommy Blogs
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https://doi.org/10.21664/2238-8869.2017v6i4.p111-127Abstract
This article seeks to understand how the construction of the discursive ethos of motherhood takes place in celebrity mommy blogs, analyzing the construction of the ethos through lexicon and argumentation. It uses the theoretical frameworks of Celebrity Studies, Media and Childhood, and Discourse Analysis in the French tradition. We used Content Analysis to analyze the themes that occur in these platforms, that were then selected down to three text on the topic of work-family conciliation, on which we applied the main methodology of the article - Discourse Analysis. We analyse the difference in the representation of celebrity blogs and mommy blogs who became celebrities; the ethos that mothers are trying to portray; and how the children assist in construction that.References
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Rojek C 2001. Celebrity. Reaktion Books, Londres.
Santana Neto JA 2005. Processos argumentativos: estudo retórico de textos didáticos. Quarteto, Salvador.
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Marôpo L & Jorge A 2014. At the heart of celebrity: celebrities’ children and their rights in the media. Communication & Society, 27(4):17-34.
Mortensen M & Jerslev A 2014. Taking the extra out of the extraordinary: Paparazzi photography as an online celebrity news genre. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 17(6):619-636.
Borda J 2015. Cultivating Community Within the Commercial Marketplace: Blurred Boundaries in the ‘Mommy’ Blogosphere. In AT Demo, JL Borda, CH Krolokke (Eds.). The Motherhood Business: consumption, communication, and privilege, University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, p. 121-150.
Jerslev A 2016. In The Time of the Microcelebrity: Celebrification and the YouTuber Zoella. International Journal of Communication, 10(19):5233–5251.
Steinberg S 2017. Sharenting: Children's Privacy in the Age of Social Media. Emory Law Journal; University of Florida Levin College of Law Research Paper no. 16-41.
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2017-12-31
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ANDRADE, Marta Cardoso de. The Discourse of Motherhood in Celebrity Mommy Blogs. Fronteiras - Journal of Social, Technological and Environmental Science, [S. l.], v. 6, n. 4, p. 111–127, 2017. DOI: 10.21664/2238-8869.2017v6i4.p111-127. Disponível em: https://periodicos.unievangelica.edu.br/index.php/fronteiras/article/view/2670. Acesso em: 22 nov. 2024.
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