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As the newspaper continues to lose ground to a multitude of internet discourses, the role of intellectuals as a voice of opposition to hegemonic sources receives ever more intense scrutiny. In particular, the novel "Plata quemada" (1997) by the Argentine novelist Ricardo Piglia presents this intellectual dilemma and its newfound opportunities in fictional terms. Indeed, Piglia's text underlines a formidable critical agency in the consumers of this criminal discourse by way of the seemingly innocent parenthetical form. My essay proposes that these designated breathers in Piglia's novel succeed in preserving a key discursive site for readers to conceal themselves metaphorically as well as contest the book's shared journalistic "truths." Moreover, "Plata quemada" affirms that intellectuals are obliged to transform themselves into veritable urban chroniclers to fit within their increasingly debated role in Latin America's "lettered city." (Contains 15 notes.)

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This paper focuses the silencing of voices in news production in Posadas, Argentina (Primera Edición and Territorio Digital) and Porto Alegre, Brazil, (Zero Hora and Correio do Povo), and investigates the media coverage of 2003 until 2014, in relation to the construction of two hydroelectric plants on the border between both countries, Brazil and Argentina, on the Uruguay river. The analysis indicates the absence of the riverside dwellers' voices, who are affected by the project. Finally, the article stand up for the idea journalism makes a great contribution to the discussion of environmental complexity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article looks into the behavior of Web resource Twitter users in Argentina, both corporate ones and personal ones (journalists). The aim is to establish the tendency of the first group to work under the traditional ways of communication. It discusses the two group's innovative ways to express themselves through conversational, symmetrical, personalized, balancing the act of saying and listening.