Office Hours
By appointment only – Fall, 2020
Biography
Jennifer Holt is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and a Fellow with the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington, D.C. Her courses at UCSB include Media Criticism, Media Historiography, Television History, Media Industries, and The Future of Media.
She is the author of Empires of Entertainment and the co-editor of Distribution Revolution; Connected Viewing: Selling, Streaming & Sharing Media in the Digital Age; and Media Industries: History, Theory, Method. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including Cinema Journal, Journal of Information Policy, Moving Data, and Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures. She is also a co-founder of the Media Industries journal.
Jennifer has consulted for Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and presented research to the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C. She has lectured widely on topics related to digital media and policy across the US, as well as in Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Italy, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Turkey. Her current book project, Cloud Policy: Regulating Digital Freedom is a legal and cultural history of infrastructure policies related to digital media distribution, storage, and access.
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