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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

Answers for Infobae

Pablo Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein recently invited me to answer some questions to be translated for an article in their Digital Life column in Infobae. Here's the English version: 1. What has been the role of cable television in the transformation of televised entertainment over the past twenty

Presentation at Media Industries Studies Conference, Kings College London

I mostly study “television.” While digital technologies have had wide ranging affects on the television industry, in the brief time available today, I’m going to focus on distribution. I’ve argued that services such as Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Video—services offering industrially produced content that matches familiar expectations

Following Television to the Internet: Lotz Research Agenda, 2014-2017

Following Television to the Internet: Lotz Research Agenda, 2014-2017

Over the last eighteen months, I’ve published work that is interconnected and occasionally traverses similar terrain but aims to speak to different audiences. I’ve been writing about a moving object, and my perspectives have evolved over the course of writing and thinking. This is the story behind the

The Publishing Experiment of Portals

Updated Jan 2018 My 2017 short book, Portals: A Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television, was a publishing experiment in a couple of ways. First, it was—more or less—self-published. Second, I released a digital, open access format as well as version for sale in paperback or ebook. Self-publishing and open