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, and Chair of the Fellows for 2022-23. His research program examines the dynamics of digital culture from a comparative perspective. He is the author of seven books, five edited volumes, and more than sixty journal articles. He has two new books in 2023: 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). Recent awards include the 2022 Best Book Award from the Ethnography Division of the National Communication; the 2022 Public Sociology Award from the Communication, Information Technologies and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association; and the 2023 Digital Journalism Outstanding Article of the Year Award. 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 will spend academic year 2023-24 as a Member of the School of Social Science of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. 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
