Pablo J. Boczkowski has doctorates in Clinical Psychology (Universidad de Belgrano, 1994) and Science and Technology Studies (Cornell University, 2001). He completed a four-year interdisciplinary residency in mental health at the Alvear Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina, before moving to the United States to retrain in S&TS. Boczkowski was an Assistant Professor at MIT from 2001 until 2005, and since then has been at Northwestern University, where he is Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication Studies. He is the author of eight books, including Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers, which is the only book in the history of the International Communication Association to receive both the Outstanding Book Award (in 2005), for the best book published in the previous two years, and the Fellows Book Award (in 2023), for making a “substantial contribution to the scholarship of the communication field as well as the broader rubric of the social sciences and have stood some test of time.” He has also co-edited five volumes and written over sixty journal articles. Boczkowski’s current research centers on the digitization of mental health work. He was a Member (2023-2024) of the School of Social Science of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and serves on the Board of Trustees (2025-28) of the Association of Members of the Institute of Advanced Study. His publications have received many awards. In recognition of his career contributions, Boczkowski was elected Fellow of the International Communication Association in 2020, and Chair of the Fellows for 2022-23; and obtained the 2024 Distinguished Career Award from the Communication, Information Technologies and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, and the 2025 C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy from the Philosophy, Theory and Critique Division of the International Communication Association. The Argentine Secretary of Innovation, Science and Technology awarded him the 2025 Premio RAICES in Social Sciences and Humanities to recognize "his important work in strengthening [Argentina’s] scientific and technological system, and its connection with that of the United States of America.”
Education
- PhD, Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
- MA, Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University,
- Doctor, Psychology, University of Belgrano, Argentina, Licenciado (5-year undergraduate degree), Psychology, University of Buenos Aires
Selected Publications
- Boczkowski, P. & Mitchelstein, E. (2013). The news gap: When the information preferences of the media and the public diverge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Boczkowski, P. (2010). News at work: Imitation in an age of information abundance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Boczkowski, P. (2004). Digitizing the news: Innovation in online newspapers. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Gillespie, T., Boczkowski, P., & Foot, K. (2014). Media technologies: Essays on
Selected Awards and Honors
- 2011 Best Book Award, Section on Communication and Information Technologies, American Sociological Association.
- 2005 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association.
- 2005 Outstanding Book Award, Critical and Cultural Studies Division, National Communication Association.
- 2004 Outstanding Book Award, Organizational Communication Division, National Communication Association.