Biography
Pablo J. Boczkowski (he/him/his) 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; 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; and Senior Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Germany. In 2020 he was named Fellow of the International Communication Association. His research programs examines the dynamics of digital culture from a comparative perspective. He is the author of three books, four edited volumes, and over forty journal articles. His current projects include four book manuscripts-in-progress: Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty (forthcoming, Oxford University Press); The Digital Environment (joint with Eugenia Mitchelstein, forthcoming, MIT Press); The Journalism Manifesto (joint with Chris Anderson and Barbie Zelizer, under contract with Polity); and Social Media Studies: Comparative Perspectives (joint with Mora Matassi). He writes regularly for Infobae América, and is an unfailing —and often heartbroken—supporter of San Lorenzo de Almagro.
