Mark Lashley notes the rise of fan podcasts within the comedy community by discussing Adam Scott and Scott Aukerman's U Talkin' U2 To Me, and the ways in which performances of fandom are complicated by the hosts' celebrity and industry connections.
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“We Know More About You Than You’d Like”: Podcasts and High-Status Fandom
Moving Into a Fuller House: Television Reboots, Nostalgia, and Time
Mark Lashley discusses "Fuller House" and the current trend of resurrected television nostalgia, and how the notion of television as an ephemeral or disposable media form is diminishing.
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On Radio: The Influence of Comedy Podcasts on TV Narrative, Production, and Cross-Promotion
The influence and overlap between the worlds of podcasting and television (and live comedy) is expanding as visual and audio media continue to fragment, making issues of narrative construction and narrative influence ripe for questioning,
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