21st Century Media Uses Project Explainer
Updates and preliminary work from our 4-year investigation of how people use media now
Amanda Lotz
Micro media is normal
Reposted from Linked In January 28, 2025
January is a thinking month, a glorious time of light email and more capacity for my preferred parts of the job. I’ve spent much of the month sorting findings from 40, hour-long, in-depth interviews with an indicative mix of Australians
Modes of Industrial Practice
Reposted from Linked In (supporting launch of Critical Studies in Television article) March 17, 2025
If you want to get nerdy... a new academic journal article linked here develops in greater detail the idea used in After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century (avail April 15)
Why 'After Mass Media'?
Reposted from Linked In April 17, 2025
After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-first Century explores how the changes in the business of television over the last 30 years tie to changes in the content made. The book expands on 40+ years of academic conversations about the
Media Industries in the Digital Age Preface
This preface (Media Industries in the Digital Age) is intended for prior readers of our book Understanding Media Industries who are wondering how this book compares. For readers unfamiliar with that volume, we recommend that you skip this preface and start reading with the Introduction.
At a 2003 press conference
Streaming and Moving Beyond the US: Lotz Research Agenda, 2018–2024
In my mind, I’ve completed a journey. The coming publication of After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the 21st Century is the long-intended outcome of exploring industry change that began with The Television Will Be Revolutionized (2007). After Mass Media is the ‘so what’ to a lot
We Need to Talk About Trade Press
Trade press, and even plain press coverage of the industries we study has long provided crucial information. Of course they have always required critical reading, but the demise of general journalism has hit the trade space. Actual journalism from sources without paywalls has become rare. I find a lot increasingly