Jennifer Holt

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Jennifer Holt specializes in the areas of media industry studies, film and television history, and media policy. Her courses include Media Historiography, Media Industries and Television History. Her current research looks at regulation and policy in the era of digitization and convergence. She has published articles in various journals and anthologies including Film Quarterly, Quality Popular Television, and Media Ownership: Research and Regulation. She is the co-editor of Media Industries: History, Theory, and Method (Blackwell, 2009) and author of Empires of Entertainment (Rutgers UP, 2011), which examines deregulation and media conglomeration from 1980-1996. She is also the Co-Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center's Media Industries Project.