Versions of the essay in digital journals in Argentina. Circumstances, writings, experiences

Authors

  • Diego Germán Vigna Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i17p191-222

Keywords:

Digital media, Writers’ essays, Cultural and literary magazines, Argentine literary field

Abstract

This article focuses on textual forms, which are considered as essays and distinguished, in their condition of digital publications, by dissimilar objectives, inquiries and aesthetics. This differences forces us to revise the tradition of the essay, constructed around printed culture. The present analysis does not originate from the texts, nor from their authors, neither from the topics that they address, although it ends up on these aspects. The approach starts from the consideration on digital media and web publication formats, starting from the specific recognition gave to the cultural and literary magazine. These are considered as mediating artifact which have given dynamism to the essay production in Argentina. The objective of this work is to show essays signed by writers that are published in digital cultural and literary magazines, accounting for the current work of institutions, groups and agents from the national literary field.

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Author Biography

  • Diego Germán Vigna, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad

    Diego Vigna es Doctor en Estudios Sociales de América Latina por la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Es Investigador del Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad (CIECS-CONICET) y docente del Centro de Estudios Avanzados (FCS-UNC). Su último libro es Los Desvalidos. Fotografías, textos periodísticos y ficciones de Daniel Moyano (CRLA-Archivos, 2017).

References

Published

2019-06-19

How to Cite

VIGNA, Diego Germán. Versions of the essay in digital journals in Argentina. Circumstances, writings, experiences. Caracol, São Paulo, Brasil, n. 17, p. 191–222, 2019. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i17p191-222. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/caracol/article/view/159124. Acesso em: 6 feb. 2026.