THE KIDS AND TEENS’ DIGITAL INFLUENCE IN BRAZIL: MAPPING KIDFLUENCERS ON INSTAGRAM
Comunication; Childhood; Kidfluencers; Instagram.
This research has the purpose of mapping whom the principal Kidfluencers in Brazil are and identify standards on their digital content. To achieve this goal, a combination of methodologies were needed. The first one was based on a netnography and exploratory research (KOZINETZ, 2014), coordinated by a data survey collected on the list “The 1000 most popular influencers on Instagram”, available on HypeAuditor’s website. The second, based on the sieve of categorical content analysis inferred by Laurence Bardin (2011), guided the data interpretation of the material once collected. The bibliographic references are grounded by the Kidfluencers Studies on the Digital Influencers spectrum (KARHAWI, 2018; MENDES, 2020; PRIMO; MATOS; MONTEIRO, 2021), on the Social Construction of Childhood (QVORTRUP, 2010; CORSARO, 2011; MARCHI; SARMENTO, 2017) and on the relationship between Media and Childhood (BUCKINGHAM, 2007, 2012; TOMAZ, 2019; GUEDES, 2016) connected by traces of Consumer Culture (BUCKINGHAM, 2007, 2012; TOMAZ, 2019; GUEDES, 2016).