Draft:Paul Alonso

Paul Alonso (born 1978 in Lima, Peru) is a journalist, author, and associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology (referred to as Georgia Tech). Alonso's writings are focused on alternative journalism, culture, and infotainment in Latin America and the United States. His nonfiction books, Satiric TV in the Americas: Critical Metatainment as Negotiated Dissent (2018) and Thirty Years of Entertainment and Politics in Peru (2022), center on the intersection between politics, entertainment, and satire in Latin America. He is also the author of three fiction books.

Alonso is the director of Polivision (a bilingual media outlet of Latin American cultures based in Atlanta, Georgia) and the Global Media Festival (an annual film festival focused on sustainability issues). Prior to his work at Georgia Tech, Alonso worked at the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas for over a decade and wrote for the Spanish newspaper El País, among other international publications.

Education
Alonso attended the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru for his Bachelors of Arts in the Liberal Arts and Humanities (with a major in Literature and Linguistics), graduating in 2002. He then moved to the University of Texas at Austin for further studies and received a M.A. in Journalism and Latin American Studies in 2007, followed by a Ph.D. in Journalism from the same university in 2012.

Nonfiction books

 * Satiric TV in the Americas: Critical Metatainment as Negotiated Dissent (Oxford University Press, 2018).
 * Thirty Years of Entertainment and Politics in Peru (Editorial Planeta, 2022).

Journal articles

 * The Clinic: La nueva prensa satírica de Chile (2005, Chasqui: Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación).
 * Prensa cosmopolita: Etiqueta Negra y el Malpensante (2007, Chasqui: Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación).
 * Barcelona: la ácida prensa argentina (2007, Chasqui: Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación).
 * The Impact of Media Spectacle on Peruvian Politics: The Case of Jaime Bayly’s El Francotirador (2015, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies).
 * Satiric Infotainment in Mexico: The case of Brozo, el Payaso Tenebroso (2015, Cuadernos.Info).
 * Sacha Baron Cohen and Da Ali G Show: A Critique on Identity in Times of Satiric Infotainment (2016, Journal of Popular Culture).
 * Peruvian Infotainment: From Fujimori’s media dictatorship to democracy’s satire (2016, Bulletin of Latin American Research).
 * Satiric Magazines as Hybrid Alternative Media in Latin America (2019, Latin American Research Review).
 * Hybrid Alternative Digital-Native Media in Latin America during the Pandemic: Two Peruvian Cases of Entrepreneurial Journalism Hosted from Spain (2022, Journal of Latin American Communication Research).

Chapters in books

 * Infotainment and Alternative Press (2010, The Future of News: An Agenda of Perspectives).
 * Carnival, Hybridity, and Latin American Digital Humor: The Ecuadorian case of Enchufe.tv (2020, Digital Humanities in Latin America).
 * Digital Humor as Cultural Globalization in Latin America (2024, Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin/x America).

Fiction books

 * Por las muertes que cargamos (2001, Editorial San Marcos)
 * El primer invierno de Diana Frenzy (2006, Editorial La Toronja Hidráulica)
 * Me persiguen (relatos de escape) (2009, Matalamanga)