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PODCAST WITH BOOKTUBE SENSATION GAVIN HETHERINGTON

BookTuber Gavin Hetherington joins the ReadsbetweenTheTyne podcast to discuss the growth of bookish social media during and post pandemic. https://soundcloud.com/grace-boyle-354994390/growth-of-bookish-social-media-during-the-pandemic?si=8b4832eb32434b1589e239f52755e575&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Gavin is a local booktuber based in Gateshead with over 78 000 subscribers on his platform. "Having the real life of the bookseller mixed with an online life of a booktuber are two worlds that beautifully met."- Gavin Hetherington In this podcast, Gavin and I discuss how book social media in the pandemic grew drastically on TikTok and how this has changed and impacted books, readers, authors and the industry. Delving into topics such...
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Welcome to my page

My name is Grace and I am a student at Newcastle University studying Journalism, Media and culture and I have created this page as a part of my Journalism Practice for Digital Audiences module. https://youtu.be/6Kn_hP_JLtg?si=TjYFamTN6u-RHy5w A bit about me is that I am from Cambridge, and I moved up here to the North-East over a year ago. Alongside my degree I am a writer for Newcastle University’s paper The Courier and I run the Media and Journalism society I co-founded. Away from University I love to go to the market, try out new coffee shops, go for day trips to nearby towns and I also LOVE to read! Reading has been a big hobby of mine for the last couple years after rediscovering it during lockdown. My personal tastes are more fiction and my go to genre is currently dark...
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