Amanda D. Lotz

Amanda D. Lotz (born 1974) 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.

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 began an agenda of audience/user research in 2025.

Career

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.

Lotz co-hosted the Media Business Matters Podcast, which focuses on recent stories in media and why they matter from 2016 to 2018. She was a Fellow at the Peabody Media Center and was named as a Fellow of the International Communication Association in 2020.

Awards and honors

• International Communication Association Fellow
• Peabody Fellow Scholar
• Faculty Fellow National Association of Television Program Executives
• Faculty Development Grant National Association of Television Program Executives
• Coltrin Professor of the Year, International Radio and Television Society
• Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Faculty Seminar
• Phi Beta Kappa (DePauw University)

Publications

Lotz has authored, co-authored or edited fourteen books in addition to many refereed journal articles, book chapters, and conference presentations.

Lotz is the author of:

• After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century (New York University Press, 2025)
• Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-funded Video on Demand (Polity, 2022)
• Media Disrupted: Surviving Pirates, Cannibals and Streaming Wars (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2021).
• We Now Disrupt This Broadcast: How Cable Transformed Television and the Internet Revolutionized It All (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2018).
• Portals: A Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Library, 2017).
• Cable Guys: Television and American Masculinities in the 21st Century (New York University Press, 2014)
• The Television Will Be Revolutionized (New York University Press, 2007) A revised, second edition was published in 2014.
• Redesigning Women: Television After the Network Era (University of Illinois Press, 2006)

Lotz is the co-author of:

• Media Industries in the Digital Age with Timothy Havens (Polity, 2024)
• Media Industry Studies (with Daniel Herbert and Aswin Punathambekar, Polity, 2020)
• Understanding Media Industries (with Timothy Havens, Oxford University Press, 2011). A revised, second edition was published in 2016.
• Television Studies (with Jonathan Gray, Polity, 2011). A revised, second edition published in 2018.

And editor of:

• Streaming Video: Storytelling Across Borders (co-edited with Ramon Lobato) (New York University Press, 2023)
• Beyond Prime Time: Television Programming in the Post-Network Era (Routledge, 2009)

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