Performing Contemporary Childhoods - Being and Becoming a Viral Child

The book examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by examining how children's and young people's digital media create new ideas about youth agency.
This book is ideal for students and scholars of childhood studies, performance studies, social and cultural history and visual and digital culture.

List of contents

List of figures
Acknowledgements
1 Performing the child in-formation
2 Minor visions: Staging the child in future tens
3 Minor moves: Embodying the truncated times of girled childhood
4 Minor texts: Tweeting the child in the time of her making
5 Minor affects: Voicing the child who recrafts the future
6 Minor spaces: Apprehending childhood's ghostly times
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Bryoni Trezise is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of New South Wales. Her major publications develop interdisciplinary conversations between performance aesthetics, pedagogies and cultures and have been published in books and journals including Performance Research, Research in Drama Education and Convergence. Bryoni's research won the 2019 Essay Prize in Forum for Modern Languages and the 2013 Marlis Thiersch Award for excellence in scholarship. In 2021, Bryoni was awarded the Children's Book Council Australia Charlotte Waring Barton Award for her unpublished middle-grade novel.

Summary

The book examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by examining how children’s and young people’s digital media create new ideas about youth agency. This book is ideal for students and scholars of childhood studies, performance studies, social and cultural history and visual and digital culture.

Product details

• Authors: Bryoni Trezise, Bryoni (Unsw Trezise, Trezise Bryoni
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032267395
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3226739-5
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Anthropology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, ART / Performance, Theatre Studies, Social issues & processes, Communication Studies, Social and cultural history, Performance Art, Social and ethical issues