Biography
Pablo J. Boczkowski (he / él) is Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He is Founder and Director of the Center for Latinx Digital Media, and Faculty Director of the Master of Science in Leadership for Creative Enterprises program, both at Northwestern, and Co-Founder and Co- Director of the Center for the Study of Media and Society in Argentina, a joint initiative between Northwestern and Universidad de San Andrés, in Buenos Aires. He is Fellow of the International Communication Association. His research program examines the dynamics of digital culture from a comparative perspective. He is the author of six books, four edited volumes, and more than sixty journal articles. Three of his books were published in 2021: Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty (Oxford University Press), The Digital Environment: How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now (with Eugenia Mitchelstein, MIT Press) and The Journalism Manifesto (with Barbie Zelizer and Chris Anderson, Polity). In 2022 he received the Best Book Award from the Ethnography Division of the National Communication for Abundance; was named co-winner of the Public Sociology Award from the Communication, Information Technologies and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association for The Digital Environment and the related articles on Infobae; and was elected Chair of the Fellows of the International Communication Association. New books forthcoming in 2023 include To Know Is To Compare: Studying Social Media Across Nations, Media and Platforms (with Mora Matassi,, MIT Press), and Digital Journalism in Latin America (with Eugenia Mitchelstein, Routledge). He is currently writing The Patina of Distrust: Misinformation in a Context of Generalized Skepticism (with Eugenia Mitchelstein, Facundo Suenzo, and María Celeste Wagner). He writes regularly for Infobae América, and Revista Anfibia . Last but not least, he is an unfailing —and often heartbroken—supporter of San Lorenzo de Almagro
