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Ramon Lobato is an author, researcher, and professor of media and communication at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.[1] [2][better source needed] He serves as a Senior Research Fellow with the Technology, Communication, and Policy Lab at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University.[3] Lobato's research includes media markets, accessibility to streaming services, distribution of digital content, piracy, and media infrastructures.[1][4][better source needed]

Education

Lobato earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Film/Cinema/Video Studies from the University of Melbourne.[1][4][better source needed] After graduating from the Honors program in 2006, Lobato received his Doctor of Philosophy in Communication and Media Studies from the University of Melbourne in 2010.[1][4][better source needed] His PhD thesis "Subcinema: Mapping Informal Film Distribution" researched the distribution of movies on an international scale.[5][better source needed]

In 2013, he obtained his Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching from Swinburne University.[1][better source needed]

Career

Before his career in research Lobato worked for Beat Magazine as a music reporter and Sensis as an associate editor. After receiving his PhD in 2010 Lobato began working at the Swinburne University of Technology as a senior research fellow in the Institute for Social Research, where he was involved in several projects pertaining to media policies and technologies. During this time he also taught in the university's cinema and screen studies program, where he developed classes for both the program and the School of Arts, Social Science and Humanities. In 2017, Lobato became a Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University.[1][4][better source needed]

Alongside Amanda Lotz Lobato co-founded the Global Internet TV Consortium, which focuses on gathering and analyzing studies from various media scholars based on the effects of television and movie streaming services, such as Netflix, on a global scale.[6] In addition, Lobato works as an editor for the Media Industries Journal and serves on the editorial board for the International Journal of Cultural Studies.[7]

Bibliography

Books

  • Shadow Economies of Cinema: Mapping Informal Film Distribution (British Film Institute, 2012)[8][9]
  • The Informal Media Economy (with Julian Thomas, Polity, 2015)[10][11]
  • Netflix Nations (New York University Press, 2019)[12][13][14]

Edited collections

  • Amateur Media: Social, Cultural, and Legal Perspectives (with Dan Hunter, Megan Richardson, and Julian Thomas, Routledge, 2013)[15]
  • Geoblocking and Global Video Culture (with James Meese, Institute of Network Cultures, 2016)[16]

Select journal articles

  • "Creative Industries and Informal Economies: Lessons from Nollywood" (International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2010)[17]
  • "Histories of User-Generated Content: Between Formal and Informal Media Economies" (with Julian Thomas and Dan Hunter, International Journal of Communications, 2015)[18]
  • "The Cultural Logic of Digital Intermediaries: YouTube Multichannel Networks (MCNs)" (Convergence, 2016)[19]

Accolades

Lobato has earned several awards and grants for his work throughout the years. He has also received two fellowships through the Australian Research Council from 2011-2014 and 2015-2017.[1][better source needed]

2011

  • Australian Research Council Discovery Project and Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship, "Informal Economies and Audiovisual Industries" (2011-2014, with Thomas, Cunningham, Hunter)[20]

2013

  • Best International Film Studies from the Udine Film Forum for Shadow Economies of Cinema: Mapping Informal Film Distribution[21][better source needed]

2014

2015

  • Faculty ECR Award for Research Excellence from Swinburne University[1][better source needed]
  • Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Fellowship, "Geoblocking, circumvention, and the organisation of digital media markets"[1][better source needed]

2016

  • Outstanding Young Scholar award from the International Communication Association Popular Communication Division[1][better source needed]
  • Australian Research Council Linkage Project, "Music Usage Metrics and the Future of the Australian Music Industry" (with Wikstrom et al, 2016-2018)[1][22][better source needed]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Dr Ramon Lobato". RMIT University. Retrieved September 19, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ Lobato, Ramon (2019). "About the Author". Netflix Nations. The Geography of Digital Distribution. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-1-479-84151-6.
  3. ^ "Ramon Lobato". Digital Ethnography Research Centre. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  4. ^ a b c d "Ramon Lobato". LinkedIn. Retrieved October 14, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ Lobato, Ramon (2009). "Subcinema: mapping informal film distribution". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^ "Global Internet TV Consortium – Academic research network on Netflix and other television streaming services". Global Internet TV Consortium. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  7. ^ "Media Industries Journal". www.mediaindustriesjournal.org. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  8. ^ Trowbridge, Hayley (2013-06-01). "Contemporary film distribution and exhibition: a review of recent studies". New Review of Film and Television Studies. 11 (2): 224–234. doi:10.1080/17400309.2013.766835. ISSN 1740-0309.
  9. ^ Garavelli, Clara (2012). "Shadow Economies of Cinema: Mapping Informal Film Distribution. Ramón Lobato". Sequences/Secuencias. 36: 148–150.
  10. ^ Evens, Tom (2015). "The Informal Media Economy". European Journal of Communication. 30 (5): 613–615. doi:10.1177/0267323115600603b. ISSN 0267-3231.
  11. ^ Sigismondi, Paolo (2018). "Ramon Lobato and Julian Thomas, The Informal Media Economy, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2015, 224 pp., $69.95 (hardcover), $24.95 (paperback)". International Journal of Communication. 12: 253–255.
  12. ^ Li, Luzhou (2019). "Book review: Netflix Nation: The Geography of Digital Distribution". Global Media and Communication. 15 (2): 271–272. doi:10.1177/1742766519838165. ISSN 1742-7665.
  13. ^ Pérez Fragua, Alonso (2019-12-06). "Netflix Nations. The Geography of digital distribution: by Ramon Lobato, New York, New York University Press, 2019,235 p.,$25.00 (Paperback), $89 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-479-84151-6". Information, Communication & Society: 1–3. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2019.1697342. ISSN 1369-118X.
  14. ^ Ash, James (2019-10-16). "book review: Netflix Nations: The Geography of Digital Distribution". cultural geographies: 147447401988199. doi:10.1177/1474474019881998. ISSN 1474-4740.
  15. ^ Amateur media : social, cultural, and legal perspectives / edited by Dan Hunter, Ramon Lobato, Megan Richardson, Julian Thomas. New York: Routledge. 2013. ISBN 9781136280801.
  16. ^ Lobato, Ramon; Meese, James (2016). Geoblocking and Global Video Culture (PDF). Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. p. 10. ISBN 978-94-92302-03-8.
  17. ^ Lobato, Ramon (2010). "Creative industries and informal economies". International Journal of Cultural Studies. 13 (4): 337–354. doi:10.1177/1367877910369971. ISSN 1367-8779.
  18. ^ Lobato, R.; Thomas, J.; Hunter, D. (2011). "Histories of user-generated content: between formal and informal media economies". International Journal of Communications. 5: 899–914. ISSN 1932-8036.
  19. ^ Lobato, R. (2016). "The cultural logic of digital intermediaries: YouTube multichannel networks". Convergence. 22 (4): 348–360. ISSN 1354-8565.
  20. ^ "Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (APD), Australian Research Council (ARC) - The University of Melbourne". findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  21. ^ "Ramon Lobato". Media and Communications at Swinburne. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  22. ^ Wikstrom, Patrik; Bruns, Axel; Hunter, Daniel; Lobato, Ramon; Watters, Stuart; Green, Stephen; Harris, Andrew. "Music usage metrics and the future of the Australian music industry". Queensland University of Technology Digtial Media Research Centre. Retrieved 2019-11-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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