Unboxing Care: Constructions of Happiness and Gratitude in a Brazilian Transnational Family's Video Production in the United States

Autor/in	Becker, Mariana Lima
Titel	Unboxing Care: Constructions of Happiness and Gratitude in a Brazilian Transnational Family's Video Production in the United States
Quelle	In: Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 23 (2023) 4, S.725-750 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Becker, Mariana Lima)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-7984
DOI	10.1177/14687984211030668
Schlagwörter	Family Relationship; Video Technology; Immigrants; Mothers; Daughters; Parent Child Relationship; Mobility; Digital Literacy; Social Systems; Foreign Countries; Caring; Portuguese; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Computer Mediated Communication; Brazil + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Mother; Mutter; Daughter; Tochter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Mobilität; Mobilitätsförderung; Social system; Soziales System; Ausland; Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung; Portugiesischunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Computerkonferenz; Brasilien
Abstract	This case study examines the co-authoring of unboxing videos by one six-year-old, second-generation Brazilian immigrant child and her mother in the United States. These videos were created in response to boxes filled with gifts they received yearly from relatives in Brazil. To understand this mother-daughter dyad and their video production, this study draws on metaphors of mobility, the logics of reciprocity and obligation in gift-exchange, and the concept of care constellations. The analysis of interviews, field notes, and unboxing videos identified specific routes, rhythms, and frictions that fueled this family digital literacy practice. It also suggested that participants were implicated in a pattern of caregiving through a transnational cycle of gift-exchange. These findings disrupt typical framings of the unboxing genre as a manifestation of U.S. capitalist ethos and foreground the material and discursive production of care in a transnational family's digital literacy practice. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01