Office Hours
By appointment only – Fall, 2020
Biography
Jennifer Holt is Professor and Chair of Film and Media Studies and a former 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. Her current research focuses on digital media policy and cloud infrastructures.
She is the author of Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data (MIT Press, 2024) and Empires of Entertainment (Rutgers, 2011). Holt is also 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 open-access 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.
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