A great conversation! open.spotify.com/episode/6aGq...

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...

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

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/...

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.

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...

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: https://loom.ly/_nTJx-E

Deeply fascinating exploration of how Angel is doing the business of movie and series making in radically different ways. themediaodyssey.transistor.fm/episodes/how...

LOL--my kind of quiz! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

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...

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

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.

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!

Well, that's a cost www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

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/...

@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...

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

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...

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/

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/

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.

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.

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...

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

“We have lost sight of the real purpose of education…[it] provides a framework for disciplined thinking – developing a capacity to think through an issue, to initiate, marshal and research evidence to move towards and even challenge the frontiers of the fields of knowledge.” 🔥🔥🔥

"An education is not something that can just be “delivered”, like a pizza. It is the product of complex and contingent relationships between the student, the teacher, the medium of instruction, the institution, an evolving body of knowledge, and the society." www.afr.com/policy/healt...

Looking to fill 2 PhD scholarships…

Ed Tech is a Trojan horse for tech elite capture of public resources. Every time.

after enshittifying their services piracy will soar at which point overpaid execs will blame everything and everyone but themselves

I listened to approximately one million hours of Pop Culture Hour on a drive this week. I would get hype and talk back to the show. My memos transcribed this. It always sounds smarter when I’m talking alone in the car 😂😂

It is a really great book, compelling blend of industry story and engagement with the programming that resulted

New Media & Society article! The first of research in collaboration w @glunardi.bsky.social aimed at understanding how people use media. Draws on interviews w recruited panel 18 to 80. Overview (non-academic) www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-ar... Article link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My first *video podcast*! Many thanks to @julieeckersley.bsky.social for inviting me along and asking questions that let me talk through some of my more recent thinking.

*Podcast episode* So much gratitude to @petecant.bsky.social at the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for inviting me to discuss the thinking that led to After Mass Media from @nyupress.bsky.social #NYUPress #television #stories newbooksnetwork.com/amanda-d-lot...

Fascinating conversation about new YouTube Short measure of view as a ‘vanity’ metric and smart discussion of its meaninglessness. As if our metrics weren’t troubled enough… open.spotify.com/episode/51N9...

My latest book, After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-first Century is now available from NYU Press. Some thoughts here on why I wrote it and what I’m up to. www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-af...

For Aussie BlueSky and media policy interested 360info.org/australians-...

Live from New York... Join me for a conversation with Evan Shapiro about the just launched After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the 21st C and all other matters of 'television's' present and future. April 10, 4p, NYU Stern (44 W 4th St). RSVPs a must after-mass-media.eventbrite.com

Pamela Adlon is the best! As much as I'd love many more seasons of Better Things, I'm so thankful for the journey we have. Stories aren't meant to go forever; Sam and girls live on in my imagination. variety.com/2025/tv/glob...

Gasps! It's real! (and still journeying to Australia); digital bits here www.book2look.com/book/zt1ICmE... Honored to be in the series, Adrienne!

A new Critical Studies in TV article developing 'modes of industrial practice' as a tool for categorizing today's varied series environment that connects industry practice and content features journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... LinkedIn post about it here www.linkedin.com/pulse/modes-...

I keep thinking, what would Ed Murrow do? Personal stories, I think. I can't find a clip of See it Now's The Case of Lt. Milo Radulovich but remember its power. Here's a part of team talking about finding the 'little picture' www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEBN... We have these tools in our hands 1/2

Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

It is also a convoluted ‘business’. Once, getting an education and credential were one and the same; increasingly students manage to earn a credential without getting an education. Employers, not students, are the ones who are best suited to gauge that gap, and there isn’t a good feedback loop to 1/

May be of interest to: @scmstudies.bsky.social, @aoir.bsky.social, @icahdq.bsky.social, @sonnybunch.bsky.social, @jmittell.bsky.social

Now available everywhere – Media Industries in the Digital Age w/Tim Havens The linked post explains a lot of what the book is up to, happy to answer questions in replies #disruption #media www.politybooks.com/blog-detail/... Also links to the Preface and Teaching resource in next ...

Everything that Courtney said! I grow more and more grateful for the path she charted and for helping us start a bit further along it than she had to with every new stage of this career.

Australia’s drama dilemma: how taxpayers foot the bill for content that ends up locked behind paywalls theconversation.com/australias-d...

What if most media diets are now mostly based on content consumed by less than 1% of the population? Early thoughts from new work... www.linkedin.com/pulse/micro-...

For the Aussies who've asked me to explain the US election: a data driven account that includes who didn't vote, especially notable in contrast to what would have happened with compulsory voting. (Yes, everyone has to vote in Oz) How Trump “Won” www.weekendreading.net/p/how-trump-...