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. He serves on the editorial board of a number of journals, including Transformative Works and Cultures 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, before earning a master's degree in communication from Northern Illinois University and a Ph.D. in rhetoric and communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His dissertation was entitled Fandom Studies: Fan studies Re-written, Re-read, Re-produced.

2010. Digital Fandom: New Media Studies. New York City: Peter Lang.
2012. Time on TV: Temporal Displacement and Mashup Television. New York City: Peter Lang.
2015. Playing Fans: Negotiating Fandom and Media in the Digital Age. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
2015. Game Play: Paratextuality in Contemporary Board Games. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
2016. Digital Fandom 2.0: New Media Studies. New York City: Peter Lang.
2017. Crossing Fandoms: SuperWhoLock and the Contemporary Fan Audience. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
2018. Poaching Politics: Online Communication During the 2016 Presidential Election. New York City: Peter Lang.
2020. Watching Doctor Who: Fan Reception and Evaluation. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
2021. Board Games as Media. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

2013. Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who. Bristol, UK: Intellect Books.
2016. Controversies in Digital Ethics. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
2016. Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
2018. Wiley Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies. Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell Publishing.
2021. A Fan Studies Primer. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
2023. . London: Bloomsbury Academic.