BOOKTUBERS MOVEMENT: EMERGING PRACTICES OF READING MEDIATION

• Main Authors: Claudia Souza Teixeira, Andressa Abraão Costa
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 2016-12-01
• Series: Texto Livre: Linguagem e Tecnologia
• Subjects: booktubers; literature vlogs; reading mediation; virtual communities
• Online Access: http://www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/textolivre/article/view/10974/9806

This paper intents to investigate reading mediation practices develop by the booktubers, young people that use the YouTube in order to share information about books and to interact with other readers. We begin presenting some concepts related to reading and mediation activities, and then, talk about some aspects of cyberspace, the formation of virtual communities and the Booktubers phenomena. At last, as a result of a documental analysis of 100 videos posted by booktubers, we show the characteristics of these emerging mediation reading practices and the types of books that are more commented by them. We conclude that the conventional practices of reading mediation are the bases for the booktubers’ actuation, but they are adapted to the new kinds of elaboration, creation and organization enabled by the Internet.