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 Buenos Aires, Argentina, before moving to the United States to retrain in S&TS. He was an assistant professor at MIT from 2001 until 2005, and since then has been at Northwestern University, with a primary appointment in the Department of Communication Studies. His research program examines digital culture from a comparative perspective, with a special focus on Latin America and Latinx USA. Boczkowski is the author of eight books that which received a combined twelve awards, two honorable mentions and two finalist selections from six different international scholarly associations and the Argentine government. His first monograph, Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers, 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. 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 received 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 as well as the 2026 Frederick Williams Prize for Contributions to the Study of Communication Technology, both from 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. (2021). Abundance: On the experience of living in a world of information plenty. New York: Oxford University Press. (Spanish edition published by UNSAM Edita in 2022.)
- Boczkowski, P. & Mitchelstein, E. (2013). The news gap: When the information preferences of the media and the public diverge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Spanish edition published by Ediciones Manantial in 2015.)
- Boczkowski, P. (2010). News at work: Imitation in an age of information abundance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Chinese simplified character edition published by Peking University Press in 2020.)
- Boczkowski, P. (2004). Digitizing the news: Innovation in online newspapers. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Only book in the International Communication Association’s history to receive its two association-wide book awards; Spanish edition published by Ediciones Manantial in 2006; Chinese simplified character edition forthcoming with Shanghai Joint Publishing Company.)
Selected Awards and Honors
- 2026 Frederick Williams Prize for Contributions to the Study of Communication Technology, International Communication Association.
- 2025 Premio Raíces, Secretary of Innovation, Science and Technology, Argentina (“annual award destined to Argentine researchers overseas who have promoted the scientific and technology capacities of the country”).
- 2025 C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy, International Communication Association.
- 2024 Career Achievement Award, Communications, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section, American Sociological Association.