Resumen

AGESTA, María de las Nieves. Conflicts and Harmonies of Cultural Modernization in a Local Space. The Professionalization of Journalism During the Early Decades of the 20th Century in Bahía Blanca (Argentina). Secuencia [online]. 2019, n.104, e1369.  Epub 02-Abr-2019. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i104.1369.

This article analyzes the process of professionalizing journalism in Bahía Blanca, a medium-sized Argentinian city, based on the reconstruction of the organizational experiences of press workers during the first three decades of the 20th century. The failure of successive projects and their short-lived existence shows that these institutionalization attempts were marked by several contradictions relating to the conditions imposed by the geographical distance and the dimensions of a constrained and incipient cultural field. Thus, tensions between the modern and aristocratic representations of the writing exercise, and the real possibilities of the local cultural market and the horizon of expectations defined by authors, conspired against the consolidation of a stable guild organization that would express journalists’ demands.

Palabras llave : press; professionalization; associations; modernizations; Bahía Blanca.

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