Abstract

GOMEZ, Hernán E.. Newspapers As Public Spaces: La Prensa In The Social Life Of Buenos Aires In The Early Twentieth Century. Intersecciones antropol. [online]. 2008, n.9, pp.261-274. ISSN 1850-373X.

At the turn of the twentieth century in Argentina the grandes diarios were a journalistic and social phenomenon. Localized in the core of the city, many of them opened their doors to the public, thus becoming a place for meetings, parties, and conferences. An exemplary case was La Prensa; the study of which enables both a critical discussion of representations of newspapers as the print supporter of the public sphere (one of the bases of Jürgen Habermas' model) and their analysis not only as the locus of a group of specialised human relations (those involved in newspaper production) but also as public places.

Keywords : Press institutions; Public space; Public sphere; Buenos Aires; XX Century.

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