Amanda Lotz
Amanda Lotz is a media scholar, professor, and industry consultant. Her expertise includes media industries, digital distribution, the future of television, the business of media, and net neutrality. Professor Lotz leads the Transforming Media Industries research program in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of twelve books that explore television and media industries including Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-funded Video on Demand, Media Disrupted: Surviving Cannibals, Pirates and Streaming Wars, We Now Disrupt This Broadcast: How Cable Transformed Television and the Internet Revolutionized It All, The Television Will Be Revolutionized, and Portals: A Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television.
Her most recent books explore the connections between internet-distributed services such as Netflix and the legacy television industry, as well as the business strategies and revenue models that differ. Her books have been translated into Mandarin, Korean, Italian, Russian, and Polish.
Her consulting work spans projects for the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications (Australian Government), NBC Station Group, IFC, Detroit Public Television, Samsung, Google, the Estonian National Public Broadcasting Council, Warner Bros., Red Line Editorial, CNN's "The Nineties," and the Convergence Cultures Consortium. She is frequently interviewed by international press outlets, hosted the Media Business Matters podcast, and tweets about television and media @DrTVLotz. For more see amandalotz.com.