Paul Booth is an American

media scholar Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media. Media Studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly ...

and a professor of Digital Communication and Media Arts at

DePaul University DePaul University is a private university, private, Catholic higher education, Catholic research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by the Congregation of the Mission, Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th-centu ...

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. He serves on the

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of a number of journals, including ''

Transformative Works and Cultures ''Transformative Works and Cultures'' is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works. The journal collects essays, articles, book reviews, and shorter pieces that concern fandom, fanworks, an ...

'' and the ''Journal of Fandom Studies''. He also oversees the annual DePaul Pop Culture Conference.

Early life and education

Booth earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from the

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Universit ...

(where he performed in the improv comedy troupe Spicy Clamato), before earning a

master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

in communication from

Northern Illinois University Northern Illinois University (NIU) is a public research university in DeKalb, Illinois. It was founded as Northern Illinois State Normal School on May 22, 1895, by Illinois Governor John P. Altgeld as part of an expansion of the state's system ...

and a

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is a ...

in rhetoric and communication from

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute () (RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, with an additional campus in Hartford, Connecticut. A third campus in Groton, Connecticut closed in 2018. RPI was established in 1824 by Stephen Van ...

Books

Authored

* ''Digital Fandom: New Media Studies'' (2010,

Peter Lang Publishing Peter Lang is an academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences. It has its headquarters in Pieterlen and Bern, Switzerland, with offices in Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, New York City, Dublin, Oxford, Vienna, and Warsaw. ...

) * ''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 The University of Iowa Press is a university press that is part of the University of Iowa. Established in 1969, thUniversity of Iowa Pressis an academic publisher of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. The UI Press is the only universit ...

) * ''Game Play: Paratextuality in Contemporary Board Games'' (2015,

Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction. It is a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index. Bloomsbury's head office is located in Bloomsbury, an area of the London Borough of Camden. It has a U ...

) * ''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,

), 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 Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley & Sons Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publish ...

) * ''A Fan Studies Primer'' (2021, University of Iowa Press), edited with Rebecca Williams

References

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