digitization

The Future of the Film Industry -- A Talk by Dan Herbert

This is the last of four special episodes recorded at the Future of Digital Media Businesses Symposium hosted by the University of Michigan. In this episode, Dan Herbert, Associate Professor in the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan explores how digitization has affected the film industry.

The Future of the Book Publishing Industry--A Talk by John B. Thompson

This is the second of four special episodes recorded at the Future of Digital Media Businesses Symposium hosted by the University of Michigan. In this episode, John B. Thompson, Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, explores how digitization has affected the book publishing industry.

Media Business Matters Podcast

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The podcast that explores why recent news in the media business matters to people who love media

You’ve already heard what happened this week, but we take the next steps of explaining why it matters and why you should care. This isn’t a place of pontificating and empty predictions, but of getting to the meat of what is going on in media today and the implications for media businesses and media consumers. Knowledgeable outsiders, Alex, a journalist, and Amanda, a professor, consider emerging changes without a stake in the disruptions to explore why the transformative shifts experienced by media today matter to you.

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About Amanda and Alex

Amanda Lotz is a professor of media studies at the University of Michigan and author of several books about media and media industries including The Television Will Be Revolutionized  and Portals: A Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television.

Alex Intner is a journalist who specializes in reporting on the arts and media industries. You can find his writing in The Michigan Daily, where he was an arts writer and web developer.