Yesterday and today of reading interventions in the Argentine press

Abstract

The letters of readers have been par excellence with the direct intervention of the reading public in the press. A non-journalistic space that challenges specific problems and represents popular concerns. Currently, online comments in the periodicals fulfill this function in some way, but the forms of access have changed substantially in relation to those of yesteryear, as well as the ways of circulation of the press have varied. The proposal is to carry out an analytical approach of those interventions in periodical publications of rural towns in Argentina during the first half of the twentieth century in rural areas, in order to compare them with the current dynamics of the digital era. It is then an exploratory work, which aims – through case studies – to carry out a comparative analysis of current and past reading intervention practices.

Keywords
Press; Rural; Argentina