Ramon Lobato

Ramon Lobato is an author, researcher, and professor of media and communication at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.[1] [2] 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]

Education

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

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

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]

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.[5] 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.[6]

In 2019 Lobato received an ARC Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council for his research project "[investigating] the cultural impacts of smart TVs in Australia."[7] Previously Lobato had received their ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award in 2015.[8]

Bibliography

Books
  • Shadow Economies of Cinema: Mapping Informal Film Distribution (British Film Institute, 2012)[9][10]
  • The Informal Media Economy (with Julian Thomas, Polity, 2015)[11][12]
  • Netflix Nations (New York University Press, 2019)[13][14][15]

Edited collections
  • Amateur Media: Social, Cultural, and Legal Perspectives (with Dan Hunter, Megan Richardson, and Julian Thomas, Routledge, 2013)[16]
  • Geoblocking and Global Video Culture (with James Meese, Institute of Network Cultures, 2016)[17]

Select journal articles
  • "Creative Industries and Informal Economies: Lessons from Nollywood" (International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2010)[18]
  • "Histories of User-Generated Content: Between Formal and Informal Media Economies" (with Julian Thomas and Dan Hunter, International Journal of Communication, 2015)[19]
  • "The Cultural Logic of Digital Intermediaries: YouTube Multichannel Networks (MCNs)" (Convergence, 2016)[20]

References
  1. "Dr Ramon Lobato". RMIT University. Retrieved September 19, 2019.
  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. Lobato, Ramon (2009). Subcinema: mapping informal film distribution (Thesis).
  5. "Global Internet TV Consortium – Academic research network on Netflix and other television streaming services". Global Internet TV Consortium. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  6. "Media Industries Journal". www.mediaindustriesjournal.org. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  7. "Funded Projects - ARC Future Fellowships 2019 round 1". Australian Research Council. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  8. "Australian Government Fellows". RMIT University. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  9. 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.
  10. Garavelli, Clara (2012). "Shadow Economies of Cinema: Mapping Informal Film Distribution. Ramón Lobato". Sequences/Secuencias. 36: 148–150.
  11. Evens, Tom (2015). "The Informal Media Economy". European Journal of Communication. 30 (5): 613–615. doi:10.1177/0267323115600603b. ISSN 0267-3231.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Ash, James (2019-10-16). "book review: Netflix Nations: The Geography of Digital Distribution". Cultural Geographies: 147447401988199. doi:10.1177/1474474019881998. ISSN 1474-4740.
  16. Amateur media : social, cultural, and legal perspectives / edited by Dan Hunter, Ramon Lobato, Megan Richardson, Julian Thomas. New York: Routledge. 2013. ISBN 9781136280801.
  17. Lobato, Ramon; Meese, James (2016). Geoblocking and Global Video Culture (PDF). Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. p. 10. ISBN 978-94-92302-03-8.
  18. Lobato, Ramon (2010). "Creative industries and informal economies". International Journal of Cultural Studies. 13 (4): 337–354. doi:10.1177/1367877910369971. hdl:1959.3/72664. ISSN 1367-8779.
  19. Lobato, R.; Thomas, J.; Hunter, D. (2011). "Histories of user-generated content: between formal and informal media economies". International Journal of Communication. 5: 899–914. ISSN 1932-8036.
  20. Lobato, R. (2016). "The cultural logic of digital intermediaries: YouTube multichannel networks". Convergence. 22 (4): 348–360. doi:10.1177/1354856516641628. hdl:1959.3/409624. ISSN 1354-8565.
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