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Born to be famous?
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This chapter discusses the media visibility of children of celebrities from a critical perspective, drawing on the fields of celebrity studies, children's rights and journalism. It takes an international point of view, comparing global cases which are mostly of Anglo-Saxon origin. The chapter describes the representation of children of celebrities in global media, trying to understand the cultural factors that lie behind the interest for news and especially images of this group of children. In 2010, Portuguese football player Cristiano Ronaldo announced through his Facebook and Twitter accounts that he had a son by a woman who was to remain anonymous and unknown, which resulted in media buzz. Model Miranda Kerr presented her new-born son to the world through Twitter and Instagram, while breastfeeding at home, in a picture taken by her then-husband, actor Orlando Bloom. Stories like these and others make visible public topics usually seen as being part of the private domain, without a political framing.
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Children of the attentionally wealthy become objects of attention themselves and begin building up calcified attention from the earliest age.
“just as the children of the monetarily wealthy inherit their parents' wealth, the children of the attentionally wealthy becomeobjects of attention themselves and begin building up calcified attention from the earliest age (e.g. Jorge and Marôpo, 2017; Schörgenhuber, 2023).”
From The Second Wave of Attention Economics. Attention as a Universal Symbolic Currency on Social Media and beyond (2025) · cites this paper as Jorge and Marôpo, 2017
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- Authors
- Jorge, A., & Marôpo, L.
- ORCID
- Jorge, Ana
- Venue
- Childhood and Celebrity
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2017-03-16
- Pages
- 28-40
- OpenAlex
- W2905570818
- Cited by
- 6
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 1.35
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Communication › News Media Framing and Political Communication
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Social Sciences › Communication › Journalism and Media Studies
- Keywords
- media visibility, celebrity studies, children's rights, journalism, representation of children, celebrity news, private domain, social media, Cristiano Ronaldo
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