Paul Mihailidis
Interim Dean, School of Communication
Dr. Paul Mihailidis is founding program director of the MA in Media Design and faculty chair and director of the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change. He led the creation of two new interdisciplinary undergraduate degree programs in Media Psychology and Health & Social Change at Emerson.
Dr. Mihailidis has published eight books and more than 80 articles and book chapters on the intersection of media literacy, civic media, and engagement in digital culture. His work has been featured in The New York Times, the Washington Post, Scientific American, Slate Magazine, the Nieman Foundation, USA Today, NBC, Newsweek, and CNN. He has brought over $1.3 million in grants and awards to Emerson.
He has won multiple faculty awards at Emerson and the Researcher of the Year award by the National Association of Media Literacy Education in 2016. He holds a visiting professorship at Bournemouth University in England, and serves on the advisory board for NAMLE and iCivics.
Courses
- Master's Thesis
- Global Media Literacy: Information and Activism Across Borders Across Cultures Across Divides
- Topics in Profiles/In-Depth JR
- Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change
Academic Work
- Forthcoming 2027, Media Literacies of Belonging, with C. Harris & J. Cohen, NY: Routledge
- 2026, Equitable Media Literacy Practices for More Just Civic Futures, with S. Ramasubramanian, M. Tully, B. Foster, P. Johnson & S. Burth, NY: Routledge
- 2025, “Restoring Civic Health in a Culture of Distance,” American Behavioral Scientist, 0/0
- 2025, “Centering relation in media literacy practice,” with B. Foster, S. Burth, S. Ramasubramanian, M. Tully & P. Johnson, Journal of Media Literacy Education, 17(1), 134-149
- 2024, “Developing a Framework for Equitable Media Literacy Practice: Voices from the Field,” with P. Johnson, M. Tully, B. Foster, E. Riewestahl & S. Ramasubramanian, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
- 2024, “Mapping Media Literacy Impact in the United States: A Critical Review of Literature and Call for Equity,” with S. Burth, E. Riewestahl, S. Ramasubramanian, B. Foster, P. Johnson & M. Tully, Annals of the International Communication Association
- 2024, “Designing Equitable Media Literacy Interventions for Critical Youth Agency,” with B. Foster, P. Johnson, S. Burth, M. Tully, S. Ramasubramanian & E. Riewestahl, Global Studies in Childhood, 14(1) 1-15
- 2024, “Researching Social Media and Activism with Children and Youth: A Scoping Review,”with A.Neag & M. Supa, International Journal of Communication
- 2022, “Do media literacies approach equity and justice?” with S. Ramasubramanian, M. Tully, B. Foster, E. Riewestahl, P. Johnson & S. Angove, Journal of Media Literacy Education, 13(2), 1-14
- 2022, Transformative Media Pedagogies, with S. Shresthova & M. Fromm (Eds.), NY: Routledge
- 2019, The International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy, with R. Hobbs (Eds.), NY: Wiley
- 2018, Civic Media Literacies: Re-Imagining Human Connection in an Age of Digital Abundance, NY: Routledge
- 2017, International Handbook of Media Literacy Education, with B. De Abreu, A. Lee, J. Melki & J. McDougall (Eds.), NY: Routledge
- 2016, Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice with E. Gordon (Eds.), MIT Press
