Paul Booth (media scholar)

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]

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

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),[4] before earning a master's degree in Communication from Northern Illinois University and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.[5]

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

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)
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References

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