GDS Talk: Rethinking Watching

This talk draws from and connects a recent collaboration with Jonathan Gray and Cathy Johnson to ongoing empirical and conceptual work in response to the challenges of studying ‘video audiences’ in the contemporary media ecosystem. The broader agenda of work (very much in process) investigates ‘watching’ across media (television, streaming, social and hosted) and focuses on human-level data and experience. The talk presents evidence from initial inductive interview fieldwork exploring media ‘diets’.

Amanda D. Lotz

Amanda D. Lotz is a media scholar, author, and consultant who has been exploring how digital technologies have changed how media industries operate, what they make, and their role in culture for more than two decades. Based at Queensland University of Technology where she leads the Transforming Media Industries and Cultures research program in the Digital Media Research Centre, her research focuses on understanding the implications of internet distribution for media industries and society. She is now leading research mapping how people construct media diets from today's abundant choice and exploring questions about the cultural roles of micro media.