Media, Democracy, and Technology

Presented on October 16, 2015 in the Stephen C. Hall building, room 102 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.Paul Alonso is an Assistant Professor in the School of Modern Languages. He is a Peruvian journalist and author. He began working as a journalist at age 18 in a Peruvian national newspaper, and edited his own liberal arts magazine at age 20. Alonso has since published in some of the most prestigious newspapers in Spanish (such as El País from Spain and El Nuevo Herald from Miami), and in diverse international magazines. His academic research focuses on the convergence of journalism, entertainment, satire, politics and popular culture.Juan Carlos Rodriguez is an Associate Professor of Spanish in the School of Modern Languages. His research and teaching areas are cinema, documentary, urban culture, and literature from Latin America and the Hispanic Caribbean.Jin Liu is an Associate Professor of Chinese in the School of Modern Languages. Dr. Liu's interdisciplinary research studies contemporary Chinese popular culture from the perspective of language, sound, voice, and music.Nihad M. Farooq is an Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. She works at the intersection of anthropology and literature to examine the role of the senses in scientific and cultural encounter at the turn of the last century.Runtime: 83:28 minute