A reading of the journal Atenea first years: sections, clippings, and typology (1924-1935)

Abstract

Based on a sample of its first 10 years, this article argues that Atenea is as both an academic and cultural journal, in which the humanities and social sciences are cultivated. At the same time, it would expose some features that belong to the magazine
genre through the publication of sections or contents that I call secondary because they deal with current affairs and with subjects not appropriate for the other sections of the journal. All its sections are nurtured with the practice of “clipping and digestion technology”, which makes it a participant in the globalization of culture. Almost all its sections apply this technology with uneven intensity, and makes Atenea a space for professionalization and, also, a journal not only for scholars but the middle sectors.