En torno a las representaciones de la venta de periódicos en España, 1836-1936

Abstract

The representations of newspaper vendors are analyzed here through the contents of the press and other printed matter. Socially disadvantaged, these workers are often represented negatively, either because of their poverty, their insignificance or the lack of scruples when it comes to survival. The image that is disseminated contrasts with the central place they occupy in the information system, coming to act as a form of parallel or complementary communication to the written contents of the press. In a way, sellers are heralds of a new era in which periodic information and public opinion play an essential role. Considered in these pages as cultural mediators, their public image is raised here as a result of the tension between the spaces in which the contents of the press are produced on the one hand, and on the other the public in which they influence daily.