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 program examines the dynamics of digital culture from a comparative perspective. He is the author of five books, four edited volumes, and over fifty journal articles. He has two new books forthcoming: Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty (in production, Oxford University Press) and The Digital Environment: How We Live, Learn, Work, Play and Socialize Now (with Eugenia Mitchelstein, in production, MIT Press). He also has two new book manuscripts-in-progress:The Journalism Manifesto (with Barbie Zelizer and Chris Anderson, under contract with Polity); and Social Media Studies: Comparative Perspectives (with Mora Matassi, under contract with MIT Press). His current research projects include: The Mediated Construction of Moral Panics, Argentina 1988-2018 (with Eugenia Mitchelstein); The Reception of Misinformation in the 2019 Argentine Presidential Election (with Eugenia Mitchelstein, Facundo Suenzo, Celeste Wagner and Claire Wardle); and Social Media, Beauty Ideals and Eating Disorders among Latinas in Mexico and the United States (with Amy Ross Arguedas). He writes regularly for Infobae América, and is an unfailing —and often heartbroken—supporter of San Lorenzo de Almagro.
