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Amanda D. Lotz
American television scholar

Amanda D. Lotz

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American television scholar
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Amanda Lotz
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Amanda D. Lotz is an American educator, television scholar, and media scholar. She is known for her research in television studies, 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.
Lotz is Professor of Communication Studies and Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the Communication Studies department at Michigan, she was an Assistant Professor at Denison University and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis.
Her areas of research are media industries, the economics of the television/cable industry, broadband distributed media, television studies, and gender and the media.
She holds a B.A. (Communication) from DePauw University, an M.A. (Telecommunication) from Indiana University, and a Ph.D. in Radio, Television and Film from University of Texas.
Lotz co-hosts the Media Business Matters Podcast, which focuses on recent stories in media and why they matter.

Publications

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

Lotz is the author of:

  • 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:

  • 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).

And editor of:

  • Beyond Prime Time: Television Programming in the Post-Network Era (Routledge, 2009)

Awards and Honors

  • 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)

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