At the heart of celebrity: celebrities’ children and their rights in the media

Lidia Marôpo; Ana Jorge

doi:10.15581/003.27.4.17-32

At the heart of celebrity: celebrities’ children and their rights in the media

Lidia Marôpo^*
, Ana Jorge

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Based on a comparative analysis of celebrity magazines in Portugal and Brazil, this article analyses the representation of children of celebrities. Those magazines privilege an extreme personalisation of the stories and a strong valuation of the photographic image, representing children as a source of happiness and affection within the family. Nonetheless, drawing on celebrity studies and on children’s rights and their implications for journalism, we concluded that this positive representation frequently collides with the children’s rights to privacy, to be protected from public embarrassment and to be heard in the issues that affect them.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	17-32
Number of pages	16
Journal	Comunicacion y Sociedad
Volume	27
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15581/003.27.4.17-32
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2014
Externally published	Yes

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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Celebrities
Children’s rights
Journalism
Magazines

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At the heart of celebrity: celebrities’ children and their rights in the media

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