Paul Mihailidis

Affiliation: School of Communication, Emerson College, Boston, MA, USA

Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Emerson College, where he teaches media literacy, civic media, and community activism. Founding director of the MA program in Civic Media: Art & Practice. Faculty Director of the Engagement Lab at Emerson College. His research focuses on media education, media literacy, and civic voices.

Key works

• Spreadable Spectacle in Digital Culture (with Samantha Viotty, 2017)
• Civic Agency (Routledge, 2018)
• Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice (with Eric Gordon, MIT Press, 2016)
• News Literacy: Global Perspectives for the Newsroom and the Classroom (Peter Lang, 2012)
• Media Literacy and the Emerging Citizen (Peter Lang, 2014)

Research interests

Media literacy pedagogy, civic engagement, participatory culture, digital citizenship, news literacy.