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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This was so much fun! @sabrinacruz.bsky.social is a next-level interviewer. Her enthusiasm and curiosity is contagious. Also, the bit in here about broadcast technology will find its way into a lecture soon! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPw-...

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It's about the money. It's not like other internet things that scale. Marginal costs are real, they've just been invisible to consumer. Very teachable video

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/06/2026

It’s been so inspiring to see the growth of data center opposition across the US and the wider world. Taking on the tech industry is bringing communities together — which seems like exactly what we need right now.

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The first academic publication from our 21st Century Media Uses Project is now available from Convergence (with @glunardi.bsky.social) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... A little bit more about it here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-d...

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I'm so confused by Australia's embrace of data centres. A long read by @news.abc.net.au last week noted no downside, gov't is treating the opportunity to build them as a gift? Meanwhile opposition, mostly due to toxic effects in communities with them, has managed to UNITE folks in the US.

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Such a rich conversation; @tressiemcphd.bsky.social raising the need to talk about and acknowledge societal grief and the effects of not dealing with it (~30min) is really powerful

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I feel seen. I'm not sure reading these replies makes me feel better, but it does help explain the consistent muttering of FFS and JFC. Also, this video is genius www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Or maybe it is time to look back at what decades of media studies research says about watching video? Pretty big body of work would counter the framing of this as passive. Maybe a lot of 'social media' use was never 'social'? Maybe a lot is driven by our interests rather than imagined community?

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

We learned by the mid '00s that there not are piles of new ad dollars for every new company building a business model on it. This $102B would have to come from somewhere, most likely Google Search. $102B is about half of Google's 2025 search revenue ($225B) t.co/HpTDq9FMpE

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https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-forecasts-advertising-hit-102-billion-2030

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QUT Digital Media Research Centre @qutdmrc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

A QUT Digital Media Research Centre study led by Professor Amanda Lotz has found Australians’ social media use is far more private, varied, and personalised than thought, and that YouTube now functions less like social media and more like a vast “video encyclopedia”. www.qut.edu.au/news?id=203994

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

New report drawing from our interview and survey research about social media and YouTube use with @glunardi.bsky.social eprints.qut.edu.au/264446/1/Aus...

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I can’t remember when I last so devoured a book. @superwuster.bsky.social's account of the economic and social problems created by ’tech companies’ is daunting but offers evidence of recovery from corporate capture and wealth gaps that leaves needed hope. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691177...

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The Age of Extraction by Tim Wu: 9780593321249 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2025 • Tech platforms manipulate attention, extract wealth, and deepen inequality. In this new book, Tim Wu (The Attention Merchants) explains how we can reclaim control...

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Audio from a presentation of preliminary findings from interviews part of our Media Uses in the 21st Century research. I promise we are writing, sooooo much data! @glunardi.bsky.social

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Aca-Media @aca-media.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

New episode! (Finally!) @meesk.bsky.social and @drtvlotz.bsky.social chat about Lotz’s 2025 book After Mass Media, which explores how industrial shifts and technological changes have reshaped the entertainment landscape, as well as academic approaches to the media industries. aca-media.org/episode82

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Ep. 82: After Mass Media with Melanie Kohnen and Amanda Lotz — Aca-Media

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Media and technology criticism masterclass here. Great teaching tool

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

In testimony last week, Sarandos reported 86 million US Netflix subscribers. At 86m US subs, Netflix reaches 69% of US households – a lot relative to other services. But per the recent Netflix global subs numbers, that also means the US accounts for only 28% of Netflix’s subscriber base. 1/2

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International Journal of Cultural Studies @ijcs-journal.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

This article draws from studies of contemporary watching to reframe screen audience studies to manage the behaviours, modes, and motives of watching that transcend television, streaming, and social media. Read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @drtvlotz.bsky.social

Rethinking watching: A viewer-centred approach to understanding the changing audience experience. Amanda D. Lotz (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), Catherine Johnson (University of Leeds, UK), Jonathan Gray (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

This is becoming very true of broadcast television as well (though difficult to show b/c of consolidated financial reporting).

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Thanks to Leslie Kreiner Wilson for the chance to talk about why I wrote After Mass Media and the challenges being 'after' mass media has for understanding media’s still important role in society. americanpopularculture.com/journal/arti... @nyupress.bsky.social

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Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Senator Ruben Gallego has introduced Senate legislation to outlaw surveillance pricing. Surveillance pricing is yet another way for corporations to pull one over on you. Watch former FTC Chair Lina Khan explain the dangers of this shady practice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cbtUYshYM8

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The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Yep, that’s my 2025. Very grateful (so, so grateful) to the voices/minds behind thes pods; I’ve learned so much and they get me through the torturous gym sessions required to keep this body moving. 🙏 @edzitron.com @hcrichardson.bsky.social @eshap.bsky.social @pkafka.bsky.social

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Shows that stay with me is probably my favorite category, and yes, Hal and Harper leads that list this year. A good read

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

An extraordinary loss of a generous and bold thinker

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Victor Shi @victorshi.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

And if you've never watched Lina Khan, I'd encourage you to check out @hcrichardson.bsky.social's interview with her last week. She's refreshing, whip-smart, and everything we need more of as a party: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydxk...

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A Conversation with Lina Khan, Former Commissioner of the FTC

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Douglas Farrar @douglasfarrar.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Lina Khan in conversation with @hcrichardson.bsky.social about the history of antitrust and the future of the Democrats. Watch! 📺 substack.com/@linamkhan/n...

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Live with Heather Cox Richardson

A recording from Lina Khan and Heather Cox Richardson's live video

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

This new article brings the current dynamics of the ‘creator economy’ (hosted distribution) into conversation with decades of explaining how creative autonomy is constrained in commercial mediamaking. This lets us explore how the ‘creator’ sector encompasses journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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On hosted media, simple-professional cultural production, and micro media logics in anglophone video - Amanda D. Lotz, 2025

The media sector has expanded in the 21st century to encompass a ‘hosted model’ of circulation and ‘simple-professional’ dynamic of cultural production that coe...

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

This too at the core media crisis where major services (YouTube) take share of revenue that prevents wider sustainability or options for makers beyond chasing brand deals. Can't wait for the book, eager to read more about precedent for limiting rent taking.

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The doco lineup on Dis+ is well curated for some needed 90s nostalgia. The Lilith Fair doc is fantastic and In Vogue surprisingly enthralling (not so much a fashionista). Bio docs on Brooke Shields and Barbara Walters also compelling and complicated. variety.com/2025/streami...

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How to Watch ‘Lilith Fair: Making a Mystery’ Online

Stream "Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery" documentary on Hulu. Ally Pankiw's doc the story of the all-female music festival created by Sarah Mclachlan.

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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Since President Trump resurfaced talk of a "100% tariff" on foreign made movies - once again, without details on stuff like who would pay - I'm resurfacing what I wrote in May when he first posted about it. Media must curb hyping his vague announcements: loom.ly/_nTJx-E

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Trump, movie tariffs and the news media: Why do we keep falling for this?

Journalists should resist rampant speculation when it's not attached to a tangible policy

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Enjoyed talking with Gareth King for his podcast series digging into the internet's role in how we live now. Love the podcast form for being able to talk through things that don't have easy answers. Has the internet ruined Broadcast Television? www.ruinedbytheinternet.com/has-the-inte...

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Has the internet ruined Broadcast Television? - Amanda Lotz

Has the internet ruined Broadcast Television? By replacing linear, scheduled programming with huge libraries of on-demand content, have the business models and powe…

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I can't overstate how important this article was to my academic start. It will continue to stand as a crucial part of the foundation of television studies and feminist media studies. Go with our great gratitude Lauren www.jstor.org/stable/1225298

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Sitcoms and Single Moms: Representations of Feminism on American TV on JSTOR

Lauren Rabinovitz, Sitcoms and Single Moms: Representations of Feminism on American TV, Cinema Journal, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Autumn, 1989), pp. 3-19

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Michael Socolow @michaelsocolow.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

It's amazing that you never read a profile of America's most powerful + influential TV journalist [by viewership] or his TV show. Media critics love to write about Fox News, CNN, anything but the show most American TV news consumers are watching. That's odd, when you think about it.

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Leon Barillaro is UNIONIZING @barilleon.com · 01/09/2025

When you're working on a solo project and you lose so much momentum that everything grinds to a screeching halt, what you are suffering from is a lack-of-feedback loop. It's time to show what you have to someone who is not you. Is what I'm doing worth it? Is it good? Entertaining? GO FIND OUT!

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Pleased to have a collaboration with Jonathan Gray and Catherine Johnson now in print. A conceptual article drawn from conversations since 2020ish as we each investigated television/video (defined broadly) in US, UK, and Australia respectively. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Rethinking watching: A viewer-centred approach to understanding the changing audience experience - Amanda D. Lotz, Catherine Johnson, Jonathan Gray, 2025

Audience research is widely regarded as a crucial area of media scholarship and needed to understand the role of media in society. Significant changes in how an...

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

@hcrichardson.bsky.social offers a masterclass here; 100+ yrs of US history to explain the current moment in 13 min. Her daily missives have become core to my media diet. A gift to sanity and the fight for democracy. Strongly recommend! open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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August 20, 2025

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

US TV friends-I think Hal and Harper may only be on Mubi for you, but it offers some of the most beautiful & haunting character study. Risky choices and rewarding; strongly recommend finding. (Great no matter where you are, just unusual I find a US show before my US feed) #tv #streaming

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Have just devoured Jill Lepore's If Then – an amazing book and so well suited to the current moment. So many easter eggs for media/comm folks and an era of the academy now truly unimaginable. So envious of the bookcraft! Thanks @adrishaw.bsky.social for recommending wwnorton.com/books/978163...

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If Then

From the best-selling author of <em>These Truths</em>, an “exhilarating” (<em>New York Times Book Review</em>) account of the Cold War origins of our data-mad era., If Then, How the Simulm...

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The 1st section of Media 2025 highlights 4 developments that most adjusted media’s cultural role and industrial operation. They introduced exceptionally more choice and control that eradicated SCARCITY - the unacknowledged foundation of predigital media strategy. www.amandalotz.com/media-2025-2/

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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-...

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Just dropped Media 2025, a mini book/limited newsletter publishing experiment hosted on my relaunched site. Media 2025 offers 11 posts (nearly 20,000 words) with state-of-the-moment thinking (behind a one-time charge paywall). I welcome conversation about its ideas! www.amandalotz.com/media-2025-2/

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Media 2025 Explainer

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The Spotify gods smiled on me and offered up a song I haven't heard in a decade that instantly made me 17 again. Such visceral joy for a few minutes. Music can be amazing.

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Fascinating if horrifying research and analysis of the ideas behind the tech $B's challenge to American ideals. Also reminded of the value my #DePauw education continues to deliver and unexpected relevance of PoliSci101. So grateful to have learned much I never expected would be so relevant.

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Thinking about #YouTube evokes the parable of the blind men and the elephant. The entity is vast and varied: how do we understand the whole or the parts in relation to the whole? This study provides needed insight…my thoughts on what it offers www.linkedin.com/pulse/youtub...

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YouTube v 'Commercial YouTube'

I’ve been on the look for research like this for awhile – something aimed at comprehending YouTube as a whole. I’ve been frustrated for some time by the inability to appreciate YouTube at scale or its...

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Amanda Lotz @drtvlotz.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

A great discussion including good spirited disagreement. I learn something every time I listen

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