Paul Booth (media scholar)

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Paul Booth
EducationRensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Ph.D.)
Northern Illinois University (M.A.)
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (B.A.)
OccupationUniversity Professor
EmployerDePaul University
TitleProfessor, Graduate Program Director

Paul Booth is an American media scholar and a professor of Digital Communication and Media Arts at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois.[1] He serves on the editorial board of a number of journals, including Transformative Works and Cultures[2] and the Journal of Fandom Studies.[3] He also oversees the annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference.[4]

Early life and education[]

Booth earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (where he performed in the improv comedy troupe Spicy Clamato),[5] before earning a master's degree in communication from Northern Illinois University and a Ph.D. in rhetoric and communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.[6]

Books[]

Authored[]

  • Digital Fandom: New Media Studies (2010, Peter Lang Publishing)
  • Time on TV: Temporal Displacement and Mashup Television (2012, Peter Lang Publishing)
  • Playing Fans: Negotiating Fandom and Media in the Digital Age (2015, University of Iowa Press)
  • Game Play: Paratextuality in Contemporary Board Games (2015, Bloomsbury Publishing)
  • Digital Fandom 2.0: New Media Studies (2016, Peter Lang Publishing)
  • Crossing Fandoms: SuperWhoLock and the Contemporary Fan Audience (2017, Palgrave)
  • Poaching Politics: Online Communication During the 2016 Presidential Election (2018, Peter Lang Publishing), with Amber Davisson, Aaron Hess, and Ashley Hinck
  • Watching Doctor Who: Fan Reception and Evaluation (2020, Bloomsbury Publishing), with Craig Owen Jones
  • Board Games as Media (2021, Bloomsbury Publishing)

Edited or co-edited[]

  • Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who (2013, Intellect Books)
  • Controversies in Digital Ethics (2016, Bloomsbury Publishing), edited with Amber Davisson
  • Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture (2016, Bloomsbury), edited with Lucy Bennett
  • Wiley Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (2018, Blackwell Publishing)
  • A Fan Studies Primer (2021, University of Iowa Press), edited with Rebecca Williams

References[]

  1. ^ "Paul Booth". DePaul University. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
  2. ^ "Editorial Board". Transformative Works and Cultures. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
  3. ^ "Journal of Fandom Studies | Editorial & Advisory Boards". Intellect Ltd. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
  4. ^ "DePaul Pop Culture Conference". 2021. Retrieved April 8, 2021.
  5. ^ "Paul Booth Profile | University of Illinois 150 Years". uofi150.news-gazette.com. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
  6. ^ "Interview with Paul Booth, Ph.D. - Graduate Director of the Digital Communication and Media Arts (DCMA) Program at DePaul University". Masters in Communication. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
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