Lotts Amanda

Amanda D. Lotz (born 1974) is an American-Australian educator and scholar in television and media studies who has lived in Australia since 2019. She is known for her research on television, the digital revolution, the economics of television and media companies, and for popularizing the terms “network era,” “post-network era,” and “multichannel transition,” which describe the television industry’s shift to cable television and the distribution of video over the Internet. Lotz is a professor at the Queensland University of Technology and director of the research program “Media Industry Transformation” at the QUT Digital Media Research Centre. Before joining QUT, she was a professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan, an associate professor at Denison University, and a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on the intersection of media business and media culture, which she developed through a detailed study and the creation, together with Tim Havens, of a framework for studying the media industries. Her work also covers the economics of the television/cable industry, broadband distributed media, television studies, gender, and media.