Authors@Google: Amanda Lotz

The Authors@Google program welcomed Amanda Lotz to Google's Ann Arbor office to discuss her book, "The Television Will be Revolutionized"

manda D. Lotz is associate professor of Communication Studies at the
University of Michigan. She is the author of *The Television Will Be
Revolutionized* (New York University Press, 2007), which explores changes in
the U.S. television industry since the 1980s and their consequences on the
medium's role in society. Her first book, *Redesigning Women: Television
After the Network Era* (University of Illinois Press, 2006), examines the
rise of female-centered dramas and cable networks targeted toward women in
the late 1990s as they relate to changes in the U.S. television industry. She
earned a Ph.D. in Radio-Television-Film and certificate in women's studies
from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000, and was named the Coltrin
Professor of the Year by the International Radio and Television Society in
2004 for her case study exploring the redefinition of television.

This event took place on August 12, 2008.

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• revolutionized
• post-network
• era