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.

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 In 2021, Bryoni was awarded the Children’s Book Council Australia Charlotte Waring Barton Award for her unpublished middle-grade novel.