What is BookTok, and how is it influencing what Australian teenagers read?
- Written by: Katya Johanson, Professor of Audience Research, Deakin University
@hibas.library, @luzlovesbooks, @kelibrary, @londonapples/TikTokVideo-sharing app TikTok has been credited with making reading “cool again” among teenagers, through the hashtag #BookTok.
Most BookTok posts are playful short videos, no longer than a minute, that match book images to popular soundtracks.
For example, in the ten-second...
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