QUT Digital Media Research Centre’s Post

I argue, with co-author Amy Schoonens that TikTok makes learning about books and reading available to teens on an unprecedented scale. Our new article in Social Media and Society is available to anyone via open access now. We extend the well established idea of media pedagogies to include ‘peer pedagogies’ and demonstrate how three #BookTok creators undertake considerable labour to ‘teach’ about books and reading in more and less formal ways.