What do you imagine I’ve done if I told you I spent two hours on social media?
You’ll be amazed at how varied the results if you ask 40 adults at random what two hours of social media use looks like for them.
Amanda Lotz
Media 2025 Explainer
Announcing Media 2025 – an experiment in digital-era publishing that is a cross-between a limited newsletter and a short book. It's 11 posts (10 paywalled – nearly 20,000 words) that provide state-of-the-moment thinking. Details and table of contents here.
After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-first Century
After Mass Media explores how developments of the last 20 years challenge the role of audiovisual dramas - fictional series and movies - in constituting societies.
Media Industries in the Digital Age: How Media Businesses Work Today
Media Industries in the Digital Age reframes our understanding of media businesses in the light of the substantial changes of digital technologies and internet distribution.
Streaming Video: Storytelling Across Borders
Streaming Video maps the international production boom that emerged from global streaming services and what it means for producers, audiences, and storytellers.
Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-funded Video on Demand
Netflix and Streaming Video is the first book to provide a comprehensive foundation for understanding the business of subscriber-funded streaming video and its implications for the role of these services in culture.
Media Disrupted: Surviving Pirates, Cannibals and Streaming Wars
Media Disrupted looks at what really happened when the recorded music, newspaper, film, and television industries were the ground zero of digital disruption. It's not that digital technologies introduced "new media," rather, they offered existing media new tools for reaching people.