Biography
Pablo J. Boczkowski has doctorates in Clinical Psychology (Universidad de Belgrano, 1994) and Science and Technology Studies (Cornell University, 2001). He completed a four-year interdisciplinary residency in mental health at the Alvear Hospital Buenos Aires, Argentina, before moving to the United States to retrain in S&TS. He was an assistant professor at MIT from 2001 until 2005, and since then has been at Northwestern University, with a primary appointment in the Department of Communication Studies. His research program examines digital culture from a comparative perspective, with a special focus on Latin America and Latinx USA. Boczkowski is the author of seven books, including Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers, which is the only book in the history of the International Communication Association to receive both the Outstanding Book Award (in 2005), for the best book published in the previous two years, and the Fellows Book Award (in 2023), for making a “substantial contribution to the scholarship of the communication field as well as the broader rubric of the social sciences and have stood some test of time.” He has also co-edited five volumes and written over sixty journal articles. His most recent book, co-authored with Northwestern graduate student Mora Matassi, To Know Is to Compare: Studying Social Media Across Nations, Media and Platforms (MIT Press, 2023), received the 2024 Global Communication and Social Change Award from the International Communication Association. Boczkowski’s current research centers on the digitization of mental health work. He was a Member (2023-2024) of the School of Social Science of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and serves on the Board of Trustees (2025-28) of the Association of Members of the Institute of Advanced Study. In recognition of his career contributions, Boczkowski was elected Fellow of the International Communication Association in 2020, and Chair of the Fellows for 2022-23; and received the 2024 Distinguished Career Award from the Communication, Information Technologies and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, and the 2025 C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy from the Philosophy, Theory and Critique Division of the International Communication Association.
