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"My Little Influencer": A Toy Ringlight as Proxy to Media Practices and Technopanics
M/C journal, Vol.26(2)
25/04/2023
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Abstract
Wooden toys have been a staple in many family homes. Even LEGO's iconic plastic building blocks had humble beginnings as wooden toys (Lauwaert). Arguably, the materiality of wooden toys evokes normative feelings of nostalgia for a simpler past, where the uncomplicated nature of the wooden product provided the space for all sorts of imaginative play. It is through this lens that we find the adaptation of wooden toys into playsets that emulate particular vocations, like a doctor's kit and a carpenter's toolbox, an interesting entry point to consider the boundary of what is an acceptable toy within the contemporary wooden toy genre. And it is the blurry nature of this boundary, as exemplified by public outcry regarding a wooden vlogger set that had a ringlight, which is the subject of this article.
Details
- Title
- "My Little Influencer": A Toy Ringlight as Proxy to Media Practices and Technopanics
- Creators
- Aleesha Rodriguez - Queensland University of TechnologyAmanda Levido - Queensland University of Technology
- Publication Details
- M/C journal, Vol.26(2)
- Publisher
- Queensland University of Technology
- Identifiers
- 991013201613502368
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2023 Aleesha Rodriguez, Amanda Levido. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article