Professor Amanda Lotz
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Biography
Amanda D. Lotz is a professor and leader of the Transforming Media Industries research program in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of ten books that explore television and media industries including We Now Disrupt This Broadcast: How Cable Transformed Television and the Internet Revolutionized It All,The Television Will Be Revolutionized and Portals: A Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television. Her most recent book, Media Disrupted: Surviving Cannibals, Pirates and Streaming Wars (MIT Press, October 2021), tells the story of how the internet and digital technologies disrupted the recorded music, newspaper, film, and television industries. Her most recent books explore the connections between internet-distributed services such as Netflix and the legacy television industry, as well as the business strategies and revenue models that differ. Her award-winning book, The Television Will Be Revolutionized, now in its second edition, has been translated into Mandarin, Korean, Italian, and Polish. She is frequently interviewed by NPR’s Marketplace, has appeared on BBC, CNN's The Nineties, HuffPost Live, and ZDF (German television network) and been interviewed for articles in the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Christian Science Monitor, the Associated Press, Wired, and Men’s Health among many others. She publishes articles about the business of television at Quartz, Salon, The New Republic, hosts the Media Business Matters podcast, and tweets about television and media @DrTVLotz. For more, see amandalotz.com
Personal details
Positions
- Professor of Digital Media and Communication
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Texas at Austin)
Professional memberships and associations
International Communication Association
Experience
Amanda's articles about the business of television have appeared in Fortune, International Business Times, Business Insider, Salon, and The New Republic, an up-to-date list of links can be found at amandalotz.com. She hosted the Media Business Matters podcast from 2016-2018 (archived at amandalotz.com and in Apple's iTunes and Google Play), and tweets about television and media @DrTVLotz. She has been invited to speak to or worked with a variety of media organizations on topics related to television's post-network era, digital distribution, and changing media business models. Select projects/talks include: NBC Station Group, IFC, Detroit Public Television, Samsung, Google, Estonian National Public Broadcasting Council, Warner Bros., Red Line Editorial, CNN's "The Nineties," and the Convergence Cultures Consortium.
Publications
- Lotz, A., (2018). We now disrupt this broadcast: How cable transformed television and the internet revolutionized it all. The MIT Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/215472
- Lotz, A., (2017). Portals: A treatise on internet-distributed television. Maize Books. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/126135
- Lotz, A., (2014). The television will be revolutionized [Second Edition]. New York University Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/126136
- Lotz, A., (2014). Cable guys: Television and masculinities in the twenty-first century. New York University Press. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/126137
- Havens, T. & Lotz, A. (2017). Understanding media industries (Second Edition). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/126480
- Lotz, A. & Gray, J. (2019). Television studies [2nd Edition] (Short Introductions). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/126469
- Lotz, A., (2019). Teasing apart television industry disruption: consequences of meso-level financing practices before and after the US multiplatform era. Media, Culture and Society, 41(7), 923–938. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/132332
- Herbert, D., Lotz, A. & Marshall, L. (2019). Approaching media industries comparatively: A case study of streaming. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 22(3), 349–366. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/125190
- Lotz, A., Lobato, R. & Thomas, J. (2018). Internet-distributed television research: A provocation. Media Industries, 5(2), 35–47. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/129151
- Lotz, A., (2017). Linking industrial and creative change in 21st-century US television. Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy, 164(1), 10–20. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/128745
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Amanda, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Selected research projects
- Title
- Internet-Distributed Television: Cultural, Industrial and Policy Dynamics
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP190100978
- Start year
- 2019
- Keywords
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.