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 (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. His dissertation was entitled Fandom Studies: Fan studies Re-written, Re-read, Re-produced (2009).

Authored

 * 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 (with Amber Davisson, Aaron Hess, and Ashley Hinck). New York City: Peter Lang.
 * 2020. Watching Doctor Who: Fan Reception and Evaluation (with Craig Owen Jones). London: Bloomsbury Academic.
 * 2021. Board Games as Media. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Edited

 * 2013. Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who. Bristol, UK: Intellect Books.
 * 2016. Controversies in Digital Ethics (edited with Amber Davisson). London: Bloomsbury Academic.
 * 2016. Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture (edited with Lucy Bennett). London: Bloomsbury Academic.
 * 2018. Wiley Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies. Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell Publishing.
 * 2021. A Fan Studies Primer (edited with Rebecca Williams). Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
 * 2023. Adventures Across Space and Time (edited with Matt Hills, Joy Piedmont, and Tansy Rayner Roberts). London: Bloomsbury Academic.