Satiric TV as Critical Metatainment in Latin America

Paul Alonso, Associate Professor in the School of Modern Languages at the Georgia Tech, holds a PhD in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. His book Satiric TV in the Americas (Oxford University Press, 2018) is a pioneer study on the convergence of journalism, entertainment, satire, politics, and popular culture in Latin America. He has also published Thirty Years of Entertainment and Politics in Peru (Editorial Planeta, 2022), and his research has appeared in journals such as the Latin American Research Review, The Journal of Popular Culture, Bulletin of Latin American Research, The Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, and included in edited collections. A Peruvian journalist and author of three books of fiction, Alonso was also a staff member of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. He is currently the director of Polivision, a bilingual and multimedia outlet based in Atlanta that covers Latin(o) American and global cultures.