Hello and welcome to the second episode of Reading Into Fanfiction. In this episode, we will be discussing chapters 29, 48, and 52.

Content Warning Time Stamps:

Brief mentions of sexual situations: 3:32 - 3: 35, 4:34 - 4:40, 16:33 - 16:42

This podcast episode contains questions based on the Uses and Gratifications theory specifically in regard to articles by Juliann Cortese & Alan M. Rubin and Changho Lee. Uses and Gratifications seeks to understand why individuals seek out the media they do and what they get from that media.

Cortese, J., & Rubin, A. M. (2010). Uses and gratifications of Television Home Shopping. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 18(2), 89–109. https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870903554924

Lee, C. (2021). News podcast usage in promoting political participation in Korea. Athens Journals of Mass Media and Communications, 7(2), pp. 107–120. https://doi.org/10.30958/ajmmc.7-2-2