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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Performing the child in-formation -- 2. Minor visions: Staging the child in future tense -- 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.

This article works toward an expanded reading of the viral child by beginning with the "origin" example of the 2007 viral video known as "Charlie Bit My Finger—Again!" In drawing on theatrical as well as sociological histories of the "priceless" child, it thinks through the evolution of the scriptive, performative, and economic dimensions of children and young people's material and digital media cultures. It argues that the kinds of capital produced by the digital circulation of images of children and young people, as well as the kinds of labour—immaterial, affective, temporal—that those images exploit, reproduce, and transgress both hyperbolize and trouble the increasingly economized cultures of subjectivity and temporality that are experienced by children today.

This article examines the performativity of textual remnants and oral histories in constituting the cultural identity of migrants in Australia, specifically the "non-British" New Australian migrant, circa 1950. It specifically analyses the rhetorical construction of New Australians in one oral history collection held within the State Library of New South Wales, to argue that migrants to Australia become caught within an impossible politics of discursive belonging. In this, the migrant must rely upon culturally acceptable narratives of survival in order to access representational visibility, at the same time as they attempt the survival of these normative narratives themselves. I use a performative writing methodology to restage the contingency of what can be understood as a national history of migrant identity in Australia.