Journalism and history in a change of era

The effects of the digital technologies and the Internet on the social media
system offer a change of perspective on the history of journalism, which is now
at the end of an evolutionary era. After four centuries, the press and
journalism have been replaced in their role as drivers of the media industry by
the increasingly dominant audiovisual media, websites and social networks.
Consequently, researchers are faced with a new dimension of historical time
that affects our most recent past. This study suggests several factors to be
considered in connection with the crisis in journalism, the nature of the media
and the specific era of Catalan journalism today.