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Pre 2025 posts

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 18+ completed

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) that

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 role

Media Industries in the Digital Age Preface

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 of

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

Netflix as a multinational SVOD: Some charts and explanation

First, some things that I could regularly reply tweet, but don’t because I’d be really annoying: Not all video services (internet distributed or otherwise) are directly competing. We need some better words for describing related services that are more complementary than substitutable. An analogy: not all forms of