A revolt of the wealthy people? News, media, social classes and storytelling in a context of economic crisis and inequality: An essay on the role of the press in the Catalan pro-independence process (2009-2017)

Abstract

This essay aims to be an insight on a case study to exemplify the complex relations woven in the media industry, especially newspapers in a context of hybridisation of communication processes, a declining financing of the process as we knew it, and the major changes occurred in economics and politics after the strong crisis of 2008 onwards. We focus on news and media, social classes and storytelling in a context of inequality and crisis, concentrating in a well-known and close example: Catalonia and the pro-independence process (2009-2017). In this essay we try to consciously provide a personal, and documented, point of view.