Amanda Lotz | |
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Known for | Research in Media Industries, Disruption of Television, The Future of Television, Economics of Television, Net Neutrality, Television Studies and Gender and the Media |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | DePauw University (B.A., 1996) Indiana University Bloomington (M.A., 1997) University of Texas (Ph.D., 2000) |
Doctoral advisor | Horace Newcomb |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Television studies;media studies;Media Industries;Future of Television;Media economics |
Institutions | Queensland University of Technology, University of Michigan, Denison University, Washington University in St. Louis |
Amanda D. Lotz is an American-Australian educator,television scholar,and media scholar based in Australia since 2019. She is known for her research in television studies,digital disruption,the economics of television and media companies,and also popularizing the terms network era,post-network era,and the multi-channel transition describing the television industry's transition to cable and to internet video distribution. [1]
Lotz is Professor at Queensland University of Technology and program leader of the Transforming Media Industries research program in QUT's Digital Media Research Centre. Prior to joining QUT,she was a Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan,an assistant professor at Denison University and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis.
Her area of research focuses on the intersection of media business and media culture,which she has developed through detailed examination of and by developing (with Tim Havens) a framework for investigating media industries. Her work also spans the economics of the television/cable industry,broadband distributed media,television studies,and gender and the media.
She holds a B.A. in communication from DePauw University,an M.A. in Telecommunication from Indiana University Bloomington,and a Ph.D. in Radio,Television and Film from University of Texas. [2]
Lotz co-hosted the Media Business Matters Podcast,which focuses on recent stories in media and why they matter from 2016 to 2018. [3] She was a Fellow at the Peabody Media Center and was named as a Fellow of the International Communication Association in 2020.
Lotz has authored,co-authored or edited twelve books in addition to many refereed journal articles,book chapters,and conference presentations. [4] [5]
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The George Foster Peabody Awards program,named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody,honor what are described as the most powerful,enlightening,and invigorating stories in all of television,radio,and online media. Because of their academic affiliation and reputation for discernment,the awards are held in high esteem within the media industry. The awards were conceived by the National Association of Broadcasters in 1938 as the radio industry's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes. Programs are recognized in seven categories:news,entertainment,documentaries,children's programming,education,interactive programming,and public service. Peabody Award winners include radio and television stations,networks,online media,producing organizations,and individuals from around the world.
Media economics embodies economic theoretical and practical economic questions specific to media of all types. Of particular concern to media economics are the economic policies and practices of media companies and disciplines including journalism and the news industry,film production,entertainment programs,print,broadcast,mobile communications,Internet,advertising and public relations. Deregulation of media,media ownership and concentration,market share,intellectual property rights,competitive economic strategies,company economics,"media tax" and other issues are considered parts of the field. Media economics has social,cultural,and economic implications. Regular study of media economic issues began in the 1970s but flourished in the 1980s with the addition of classes on the subject at U.S. and European universities. The Journal of Media Economics began publishing in 1988,edited by Robert G. Picard,one of the founding fathers of the discipline. Since that time the field of inquiry has flourished and there are now hundreds of universities offering courses and programs in media economics. Other significant figures in the field have included Steven S. Wildman,Alan Albarran,Bruce M. Owen,Ben Compaine,Ghislain Deslandes,Stuart McFadyen,Gillian Doyle,Karl Erik Gustafsson,Lucy Küng,Gregory Ferrell Lowe,Nadine Toussaint Desmoulins,Achour Fenni,Amanda D. Lotz,and Stephen Lacy.
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According to Amanda D. Lotz,the multi-channel transition began in the mid-1980s and ended in the late 1990s. During this era,multichannel television became popular in the United States,leading to the breakdown of the network era which had been dominated by the Big Three broadcast networks. Many changes happened during this transition,such as the invention of the remote control,the video cassette player,and analog cable systems expanding viewers' choice and control. This era gave viewers more choice and control over what and when they wanted to view a program. Viewers were able to defy the networks' schedules,because they could record the program and watch it whenever they wanted,using the VCR and later the DVR. Producers adjusted to the government regulations and networks were forced to give up some of the control they had over program creation. Subscription channels emerged with no advertisements and the method for measuring audiences grew with the Nielsen People Meter. The multi-channel transition was followed by the post-network era and Second Golden Age of Television.
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The post-network era,also known as the post-broadcast era,is a concept in U.S. television that was popularized by Amanda D. Lotz. It denotes the period that followed an earlier network era,the nation's first institutional phase that started in the 1950s and ran through to the mid-1980s,and television's later multi-channel transition. It describes a period that saw the deterioration of the dominance of the Big Three television networks:ABC,CBS and NBC in the United States,and follows the creation of a wide variety of cable television channels that catered specifically to niche groups. The post-network era saw the development of networks that deliver a wider diversity of programming choice,less constraints on a consumers choice of medium,decentralization of the location of viewing,and freedom of choice over time of viewing. It is concurrent with the Second Golden Age of Television.
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