For more information, see Pablo Boczkowski’s personal site.

He has written three books, most recently The News Gap (co-authored with Eugenia Mitchelstein, MIT Press, 2013), and over twenty journal articles and fifty conference presentations. Boczkowski’s research examines the transformation of print culture in the digital age. He has lectured and published widely on subjects that include young people’s attention to instant messaging, interruptions in attention in seniors with chronic pain, and deception in text messaging. Jeremy Birnholtz’s research focuses on human-computer interaction issues, such as attention, information sharing, and collaboration through the use of technology. They received their PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California and their honors BA from the School of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University. In these roles, they established the Trans Equality Archive, the single largest collection of transgender political history in the United States. Billard previously served as Consortium on Media Policy Studies Fellow and, later, as Archival Fellow at the National Center for Transgender Equality. Their research has appeared in a number of prominent academic publications, including Communication Research Reports, Frontiers in Psychology, the International Journal of Communication, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Marketing Theory, Mass Communication and Society, Media, Culture & Society, and Politics, Groups, and Identities, as well as in venues such as the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics and the SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies. They are a political communication scholar whose research spans mainstream communication studies, the sociology of social movements, and transgender studies. Billard, PhD is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies. Benzecry’s book From Head to Toe: Everyday Globalization in a Creative Industry (University of Chicago Press) is currently under contract. He is author of The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession (University of Chicago Press, 2011) which earned several American Sociological Association awards and was declared one of ten major books in sociological theory by Contemporary Sociology.

Claudio Benzecryis an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies specializing in the sociology of culture.

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