“Following Benjamin’s criticism, one has to admit that this type of online publishing must also be included as part of the history of Literature, if one expects to understand what Literature is today. But some questions arise with this latest manifestation: how does this type of online publishing relate to culture today as opposed to Benjamin’s time? What is the actual cultural agency that blogging has today vs. the early days of the newspaper, when the reader mainly had influence as an active audience? And most importantly, what does it mean to be a “contributor” in the age of the Internet and the World Wide Web?”
Eduardo Navas, “FEATURE: The Blogger as Producer“