Ramon Lobato


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

Education

Lobato earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Film/Cinema/Video Studies from the University of Melbourne. 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. His PhD thesis "Subcinema: Mapping Informal Film Distribution" researched the distribution of movies on an international scale.
In 2013, he obtained his Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching from Swinburne University.

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

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