Paul Booth (media scholar)
Paul Booth is an American media scholar and a professor of Digital Communication and Media Arts at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois.[1] He serves on the editorial board of a number of journals, including Transformative Works and Cultures[2] and the Journal of Fandom Studies.[3]
Paul Booth | |
|---|---|
| Education | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Ph.D.) Northern Illinois University (M.A.) University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (B.A.) |
| Occupation | University Professor |
| Employer | DePaul University |
| Title | Professor, Graduate Program Director |
Early life and education
Booth earned a bachelor's degree in English Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (where he performed in the improv comedy troupe Spicy Clamato),[4] before earning a master's degree in Communication from Northern Illinois University and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.[5]
Books
Authored
- Digital Fandom: New Media Studies (2010, Peter Lang Publishing)
- Time on TV: Temporal Displacement and Mashup Television (2012, Peter Lang Publishing)
- Playing Fans: Negotiating Fandom and Media in the Digital Age (2015, University of Iowa Press)
- Game Play: Paratextuality in Contemporary Board Games (2015, Bloomsbury Publishing)
- Digital Fandom 2.0: New Media Studies (2016, Peter Lang Publishing)
- Crossing Fandoms: SuperWhoLock and the Contemporary Fan Audience (2017, Palgrave)
- Poaching Politics: Online Communication During the 2016 Presidential Election (2018, Peter Lang Publishing), with Amber Davisson, Aaron Hess, and Ashley Hinck
- Watching Doctor Who: Fan Reception and Evaluation (2020, Bloomsbury Publishing), with Craig Owen Jones
Edited or co-edited
- Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who (2013, Intellect Books)
- Controversies in Digital Ethics (2016, Bloomsbury Publishing), edited with Amber Davisson
- Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture (2016, Bloomsbury), edited with Lucy Bennett
- Wiley Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (2018, Blackwell Publishing)
References
- "Paul Booth". DePaul University. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- "Editorial Board". Transformative Works and Cultures. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- "Journal of Fandom Studies | Editorial & Advisory Boards". Intellect Ltd. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
- "Paul Booth Profile | University of Illinois 150 Years". uofi150.news-gazette.com. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
- "Interview with Paul Booth, Ph.D. - Graduate Director of the Digital Communication and Media Arts (DCMA) Program at DePaul University". Masters in Communication. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
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