Paul Booth

Paul Booth is an American media scholar and a professor of Digital Communication and Media Arts at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. He serves on the editorial board of a number of journals, including Transformative Works and Cultures and the Journal of Fandom Studies.

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

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

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)